Leave winter behind for this humdinger of a deal and jet your way to the Down Under and South Pacific where you'll get hotels and a car for a week in New Zealand and two extra nights in Tahiti starting from $1,199.
Naturally, the cost is per person sharing a double room. You fly from Los Angeles on Air Tahiti Nui, get your Tahiti stopover of two nights, then fly on to New Zealand, where you get a 7-night voucher to use in any of that country's Golden Chain Motel system. You also pick up a rental car to use for 7 days there. Departures from LAX are on Tuesday evenings from January 1 through February 28, 2003.
More than 90 motels are in the Golden Chain franchise, each a self-catering property, and most having a fully-equipped kitchen in its units. All properties feature private baths attached to the rooms, and all afford access to a guest laundry on the premises.
New Zealand is a marvelous place, with more sheep than people (3 million of the latter), in an area the same size as the state of California. Magnificent mountains, grand forests and white sandy beaches, plus lakes and geysers, will make this summer vacation a real treat (remember, our winter is their summer below the Equator).
Tahiti Vacations, the sponsor of this trip, has many other vacations available if you aren't keen on this one. Other New Zealand packages include Moorea as well as Tahiti, a 10-day fly/drive package plus 5 days in Moorea and Tahiti starting from $1409. Their cheapest package at the moment is 7 nights at the Hotel Kaveka in Moorea, including air from Los Angeles, for $699, per person sharing a double room, plus about $64 in airport taxes and fees.
Prices for the New Zealand deal do not include approximately $83 in airport taxes and fees. The reference code for this trip is ATN2208AM.
For more information or to make reservations, contact Tahiti Vacations at www.tahitivacations.net or call 800-553-3477.
