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An Easter Basket of Holiday Savings

March 5, 2004 -- Unlike Europe, where the four-day Easter weekend is a big deal (they get off work on Good Friday as well as Easter Monday), there aren't many specials around in the USA, where Spring Break is the key phrase for the travel industry this time of year. A few brave ventures have peeked up through the snow to vie with flowers trying to bloom, however, and we give you some samples herewith:

Our friends at OffPeakTraveler.com have three Easter specials, each involving seven nights in the Caribbean, and ranging from $649 per person (double occupancy) and up.

Least expensive is the seven-night Cancun package, from $649, with roundtrip air from Ft. Lauderdale on Spirit Airlines, departing on April 3, 2004 (the day before Palm Sunday). You get your seven nights at the Omni Cancun Hotel & Villas. There's an additional $195 required for service charges and taxes.

A second package to Cancun for seven nights starts from $859, with same air departure date and gateway. The difference is that you will be at the all-inclusive Oasis Cancun, where meals, drinks, snacks and activities day and evening will be included. There's an additional $195 for service charges and taxes, too.

OPT's third package is for seven nights, all inclusive, at the Montego Beach Resort in Jamaica, costing $889 per person. You depart Ft. Lauderdale on Spirit Airlines on either April 11 (Easter) or April 17, 2004. All-inclusive means all meals, drinks, snacks, daytime and evening activities. There's an extra $195 for service charges and taxes.

Contact OffPeakTraveler at www.offpeaktraveler.com.

The Red Carnation chain, with hotels in London, Cape Town and Palm Beach, have an Easter Chocolate package for everyone. It means a two-night deal, with welcome chocolate cocktail and an Easter Egg Hunt in your room, a bottle of champagne as the treasure. Each child also gets an Easter Egg Basket. In addition, each guest gets to decorate a hard boiled egg, which is then exhibited in the lobby. (The contest for best egg gets the winner a free dinner for two persons.) Your package price for two persons starts from $478 and includes the room, full breakfast for two daily, and an Easter three-course lunch for two including bottle of wine. If you bring children, add $73 per child per night. The price is exclusive of taxes. Packages are available from April 9 through April 11, 2004 at the group's three London hotels (The Chesterfield Mayfair, The Rubens at the Palace, and The Montague in the Gardens), as well as at The Twelve Apostles in Cape Town (South Africa) and at The Chesterfield Hotel in Palm Beach FL. For more information, go to www.redcarnationhotels.com or contact the hotels directly. London central reservations phone number is 20 958 7741, Cape Town 437-9000, Palm Beach 800/243-7871.


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