Live Like a Rockstar with Vibe Hotels

Last month, Vibe Hotels announced their continuing affiliation with music by presenting the Vibe Songwriting Suite. Now, to celebrate the launch of the Vibe Songwriting Suite, Vibe Hotels are giving everyone the chance to live like a Rockstar for a day, with the announcement of the Vibe Rockstar Package!

The Vibe Rockstar Package* includes:

· Two days accommodation in a Vibe-rant room (Rockstars sleep during the day)
· Limo transfers to the Vibe Songwriting Suite
· One day of song writing at the Vibe Songwriting Suite
· A Rockstar dinner at curve cafe
· Unlimited use minibar
· A delicious full buffet breakfast for two each day at curve cafe
· Late check-out at 4.00pm

The Vibe Rockstar Package is available from $10,000 to book at any of the three Vibe Hotels located across Sydney: Vibe Hotel Sydney, Vibe Hotel Rushcutters Bay and Vibe Hotel North Sydney.

Robert Conley, Vibe Hotels’ Music Director, said: “It's a privilege for me to be able to continue my work with Vibe Hotels - a brand that really gets music and musicians. Travel plays a huge role in all musicians' lives, including my own.”

Vibe Hotels are synonymous with music, having released four chart-topping albums, including last year’s The Vibe CD: The Chillout Suite - which ranked sixth on the Official ARIA Charts. This latest collaboration takes the brand’s dedication to music a step further.

The appointment of Conley as Music Director for Vibe Hotels was an Australian first in 2011 and remains an Australian exclusive. He is a prominent Songwriter/Producer who has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry such as: KISS, Beyoncé, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Carlos Santana and Darren Hayes.

For more information about Vibe Hotels and the Vibe Rockstar Package, visit: vibehotels.com.au or call 13 VIBE (8423)

*Bookings for The Vibe Songwriting Suite require advance booking. Subject to availability. Package priced at $10,000 for two adults. Package includes overnight accommodation for two adults in a guest room, limo transfers to the Vibe Songwriting Suite in Redfern, one dinner for two people to the maximum value of $200 only, mini bar to the maximum value of $250 per night only, full buffet breakfast for two people each day, late check-out at 4pm.
 
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Sydney Airport $20 parking deal

• Park for up to three hours at the international terminal for $20 and get two coffees, a $10 duty free shopping voucher and a copy of The Daily Telegraph – more than $20 worth of value – until 30 November.
• New parking offer for the meeter-greeter, fareweller market
• 2,300 additional car parking spaces at international terminal now available

Under a new, great value parking deal, customers can park for up to three hours at Sydney Airport’s International terminal for $20 and get two free cups of coffee, a duty free shopping voucher and a copy of The Daily Telegraph until 30 November.

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Five-star Christmas at sea aboard Oceania Marina

FORGET THE APRON, SIT DOWN TO A 5-STAR CHRISTMAS AT SEA

TOSS away the apron and let the chefs of Oceania Cruises indulge you in a Christmas Day this year like no other, and allowing you to soak-up seventeen luxury nights from Rio de Janeiro to Santiago's port of Valparaiso aboard the mid-size MS Marina – a vessel that Berlitz has elevated into its elite "Five-Star Club."

And before you join Marina on December 12 you'll enjoy two nights at the beachfront Caesar Park Ipanema Hotel in Rio with breakfasts and airport, hotel and port transfers, then a night and a day aboard ship still in Rio, and at the end of your cruise a full day and a night aboard in Valparaiso followed by a night at the San Cristobel Tower Hotel in Santiago – again with breakfast, port, hotel and airport transfers.

And book through Cruiseco and you can start celebrating Christmas from the moment you go aboard: they're throwing in a US$500 per stateroom onboard spending credit for bookings that have to be made by September 30 2012.

Marina that has just 630 cabins will visit Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Ushuaia, cruise the Chilean Fjords for two days, visit Puerto Chacabuco and Puerto Montt, and have six days cruising the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans – including Christmas Day at sea and Boxing Day in port in Valparaiso.

Prices start from $7785pp twin-share including return economy air travel from Sydney, port charges, government fees and air taxes*. For full details and the name of your nearest Cruiseco cruise specialist travel agency visit www.cruising.com.au. *Air taxes can change without notice.

Marina is classed as one of the world's Top Ten mid-size ships, delivering unparalleled onboard experiences with no fewer than nine restaurants, five bars and lounges, classic Afternoon Teas, premium wine, martini and food tastings, a casino and live stage productions.

As well Master Chefs offer hands-on cooking instruction and artists-in-residence teach fine arts, while there's also a gym, Spa, internet centre and library.

                                      

Spring into New Zealand with Emirates

-Trans-Tasman airfares from $217 one way and $385 return-

Emirates has released special airfares to New Zealand for Australian travellers keen to experience the vibrancies of Auckland and Christchurch in Spring.

One way Economy fares to Auckland are from $219, and return from $386. For Business Class travel, fares to Auckland are from $729 one way and $1,406 return.

Special Spring Economy fares to Christchurch start at $217 one-way and $385 return. Business Class fares to Christchurch start at $732 one way and $1,415 return.

Spring travellers can enjoy the natural wonder of New Zealand at its best or take in some of the country's big events such as Fashion Week, Auckland Art Markets and gigs including Mumford & Sons, while athletic travellers can also partake in the ITU World Triathlon Series.

All Emirates' trans-Tasman services offer spacious seating for Economy Class travellers and luxurious massage seats in Business Class, which convert into fully lie-flat beds up to two metres long.

Emirates provides all classes award-winning inflight service from an international crew, including meals created by internationally renowned chefs and ice, the wide-screen inflight entertainment system with up to 1,400 channels.

Emirates also offers its passengers one of the most generous luggage allowances, offering Economy Class travellers a substantial 30kg of checked baggage and 40kg for Business Class travellers.

For flight information and bookings contact Emirates on 1300 303 777, visit your local travel agent or go to www.emirates.com/au. All bookings must be complete by 10 September 2012.


 

Best of Russia by luxury train, helicopter and river cruises

TWELVE nights covering 10,600km across Russia and into Mongolia in Gold Class berths aboard the luxury Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express is a highlight of an amazing 33-day escorted tour with Far Horizons from Vladivostok and Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, through Khabarovsk and the Siberian steppes to Moscow and St Petersburg departing 31st August 2013.

Guests will also fly by helicopter over steaming volcanoes, geysers, thermal lakes, herds of wild reindeer and ambling brown bears in Russia's so-called "Land of Fire and Ice," cruise regions of the Volga and Niva Rivers, see into the once-secret port of Vladivostok closed to all but Russian naval personnel and officials until recent times, venture by Zodiac boats into a nature reserve abounding with puffins, murres, cormorants, sea otters and harbour seals, and be entertained with stories, songs and dances by indigenous villagers in traditional reindeer-hide tents.

They'll dine on international cuisine aboard the Trans-Siberian Express, and by contrast share borscht (beetroot soup,) salmon, boiled potatoes and salads with local village families, learn something of the Russian language during lectures aboard the train, travel around the rim of Lake Baikal containing 20% of all the world's fresh water, see into the land once ruled by Genghis Khan and enjoy the best there is of the wonders of  Moscow and St Petersburg.

Numbers are limited to sixteen; price starts from $38,750pp twin-share including return airfares from Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane, best available hotels, Gold Class berth on luxury train, all transport, all meals, extensive sightseeing, local guides, Far Horizons escort throughout, taxes and gratuities. Details 1800 083 141, (02) 9955 0444 or info@farhorizons.com.au

ARCHITECTURALLY the tour embraces classic wooden structures, the world's largest opera house, the church where Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, Kazan's Kremlin Fortress, Moscow's Red Square, a picture gallery featuring 160,000 works by Russian artists, a ring of ancient towns that are now "open air museums," grand Orthodox churches and monasteries and St Petersburg's spectacular Palace of Catherine the Great and Hermitage Museum.

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Noahs Ark, Cleopatra, rare cats and the Caspian Sea

THE supposed resting place of Noah's Ark, the point where Cleopatra arrived in her gold and silver barge to meet Mark Anthony, a mosque that today seats 20,000 worshippers and a hippodrome that once drew crowds of 100,000 or more, camel markets and vast bazaars are just some of the many highlights of Far Horizon's 36-day journey from Muscat to Istanbul departing 25th March 2013.

There's also a twilight cruise by traditional wooden dhow and a drive through a desert oasis in Oman, a journey along a section of the ancient Silk Road, and visits to grand palaces, emperor's spectacular tombs, museums featuring everything from ancient glass and ceramics to carpets and priceless jewels, grand gardens contrasting with arid deserts and homes of hillside cave-dwellers, archaeological sites – and for animal lovers, the chance to see some of Turkey's legendary fluffy white Van cats which strangely have one blue eye and one green eye.

This fascinating tour begins in Muscat and travels through northern Oman to Dubai, Sharjah and Ajman in the United Arab Emirates, then by air to Shiraz for a 12-day coach journey through Iran visiting Persepolis, Isfahan, Tehran, the Caspian Sea and Tabriz. From Mt Ararat and Lake Van in eastern Turkey, the tour continues to Istanbul via the funerary tumulus at Nemrut Dagi, the ancient walled city of Diyarbakir, historic Gaziantep and the 'fairy chimney' houses of the Cappadocia Valley.

The tour price starts from $24,700pp twin-share including return airfares from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth, best available accommodation, all meals, extensive sightseeing, local guides and a Far Horizons escort throughout, all taxes and gratuities. Details 1800 083 141, (02) 9955 0444 or info@farhorizons.com.au

Iguazu Falls and 14 night luxury cruise in 20 night package

CRUISECO have a luxury 14 night cruise from Buenos Aires around legendary Cape Horn and by the spectacular Chilean Fjords to Valparaiso in March of next year – and for extra value have added 2 nights before the cruise in Buenos Aires, return economy flights from Buenos Aires to Iguazu, two nights at the Iguazu Grand, plus a full day touring the spectacular Iguazu Falls.

The 2 nights at the Hotel Madero in Buenos Aires include breakfasts and a half day sightseeing tour of the city, in Iguazu the 2 nights are at the Iguazu Grand Resort and Casino with breakfasts and a full day sightseeing the Brazilian and Argentinian sides of the Falls, and lunch is also included.

Guests fly back to Buenos Aires on March 3, 2013 to join Celebrity Cruises' 4.5-star Infinity for an afternoon and night aboard ship in port, followed by 14 nights to Valparaiso by way of six ports in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, a rounding of Cape Horn, a cruise of the Strait of Magellan and a sail-by of the Chilean Fjords.

On arrival in Valparaiso there are transfers to Santiago for 2 nights at the San Cristobal Tower with breakfasts, plus a half day city sightseeing and wine tasting.

Prices start from $6,820pp twin share including return air from Sydney, transfers between airports, hotels and Infinity, shipboard gratuities, port charges and government fees, hotel and air taxes*.

For full details and the name of your nearest Cruiseco cruise specialist travel agency visit www.cruising.com.au *Air taxes may vary.

ADDITIONAL CRUISE INFORMATION: Ports to be visited during Infinity's 14-night cruise include Montevideo, Punta Del Este, Puerto Madryn, Ushuaia, Punta Arenas and Puerto Montt.

Infinity has nine restaurants, cafés and bars, a live theatre, cinema, casino, pool, a Persian Garden, Spa, fitness centre and golf simulator; guests depart Australia on February 27 2013 for this 20 night package.

Perisher Extends Snow Season

After being the first Australian ski resort to open in 2012 on 2 June, donating all lift ticket proceeds to charities, Perisher, Australia's favourite alpine destination announces today that it will be extending its season until 5 October.

The 2012 snow season is being hailed as one of the best ever for consistency and snow quality! With the start of spring now with us, snow lovers are celebrating the best conditions in 12 years. Not since the extraordinary 2000 season has Perisher seen a snow base of more than 2 metres recorded on 1 September.

The official snow depth, measured by Snowy Hydro, has now reached 2.04 metres at Spencer's Creek just outside of Perisher. By all accounts, reaching over 2 metres at Spencers Creek at any time during a season is regarded as being excellent; to have 2 metres for the start of spring is outstanding.

"Thanks to consistent snowfalls that we have received since the start of winter, particularly in August, Perisher is experiencing some of the best skiing and snowboarding conditions that we've ever seen; you'd have to go back a long way to find so many epic powder days in one season." Said Peter Brulisauer, Perisher's CEO today. "With these fantastic conditions we are pleased to announce that we will be extending our snow season to the end of the NSW School Holidays on 5 October."

Accumulated natural snowfalls have exceeded 4 metres since the start of winter, so the foundation is well and truly laid for a magic spring. Weather forecasters are predicting even more snow to fall during September, so Perisher's visitors will be in for a fabulous end to the 2012 season.

Now is the time to plan a visit to Perisher, don't miss out! Great lift ticket and accommodation deals are still available. You may even be tempted to purchase Perisher's 2013 Freedom Pass so you can ski or board as much as you want, when you want in 2013 and pay just $199 deposit now with the balance in May next year. With a 2012 Freedom Pass you will enjoy a FREE day skiing or snowboarding for you and a friend from 10 September 2012 to season end.

Perisher
www.perisher.com.au

Vintage Aircraft Weekend Seattle

 
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