Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2004

Heaven and Earth Travel Package. See the world on a guided tour from the comfort of a private jet. TCS Expeditions offers a journey they call Heaven and Earth. In 24 days they travel to a variety of remote locations including the Taj Majal, Machu Pichu, Easter Island, and Malta. The tour package includes a team of experts and local guides to give you insight into the traditions and histories of these mystical places. Author Nicholas Sparks took this trip and turned it into a bestselling memoir called Three Weeks With My Brother. [Luxist] 11:00:54 AM    comment []

Club at Hammock Beach Florida Fantasy Football Weekend. This may well be one of the most ultimate luxury football vacation trips ever thought of. For $50,000, the Club at Hammock Beach will fly two people from anywhere within the continental U.S. to Palm Coast, Florida from February 4-7, 2005. Participants of the [base "]Florida Fantasy Football Weekend[per thou] package will be shuttled via private limo to the club[base ']s luxury resort for a stay in a 2,000 square foot, three bedroom oceanfront suite. Amenities available will include, among other things, 24 hour butler service, dinner for two aboard a luxury yacht, daily 80 minute massages, daily champagne breakfast in bed and two tickets to the 2005 Super Bowl in nearby Jacksonville with included limo service and an in car lobster and Cristal luncheon. [Luxist] 10:49:52 AM    comment []

Tropical paradise in a zeppelin hangar. Near Berlin, a former zeppelin hangar has been transformed into Europe's largest covered leisure resort (five million cubic metres). Tropical Islands offers 850 sun-loungers on its two beaches, waterfalls tumbling into tranquil lagoons, a rainforest, sunrise projected on to a 450ft long screen, speakers disguised as boulders broadcasting bird song and insect noises appropriate to the time of year and day ... and best of all, workers trained to "use smiles to enthuse stressed and winter-wearied Europeans". Price is o20 for four hours, plus o1 for every hour over that. It is hoped that Tropical Islands will boost the local economy in the former communist east, where unemployment is around 20 per cent. Could this sun-kissed leisure at home be the future of tourism? Via Archinect < The Telegraph and The Guardian. [we make money not art] 10:43:34 AM    comment []