Archive for the ‘Falkland Islands’ Category
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Destination Antarctica: A Rare Combination for Oceania Cruises Aficionados
Crown Cruise Collection highly recommends this sailing for Oceania Cruises aficionados and is offering spectacular savings along with complimentary travel insurance and $250 per cabin shipboard credit. With air included from the major gateways, a category B2 balcony stateroom is $8099, which ...
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Fantastic twin-centre packages to the Falklands, South America and Antarctica.
Situated 400 miles off the south eastern tip of South America and comprising over 740 islands, the Falkland Islands are an increasingly popular addition to South America or Antarctica itineraries for intrepid independent travellers and cruise passengers.
Whether you’re attracted by its ...
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Friday, May 28th, 2010
Falkland Islands land-based receptive tourist operators estimate that this season there was a 10% contraction in in-bound numbers compared with 2008/09. However bookings for 2010/2011 are back at good season levels, according to a report in the latest edition of the Islands weekly Penguin News.
Although the land-based tourist season is ...
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
The Falkland Islands Tourist Board this week launched a comprehensive new accommodation guide, as part of an ongoing strategy to develop and grow the land-based sector of the Falkland Islands tourism industry.
The 15-page accommodation guide includes details on pricing and facilities at self-catering establishments, B&Bs, lodges and hotels across the ...
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
WITH the global tourism outlook improving, overall tourist arrivals in the Falklands are forecast to increase by 17% in 2010.
New research unveiled by the Tourist Board this week highlights how challenging Falkland Islands tourism was in 2009. In what is likely to be remembered as one of the ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Last week, an e-mail friend sent me the most awesome picture of the icebergs of the Antarctic. These massive chunks of ice looked as if they had been created during a chef-gone-mad reality show.
If you can imagine the most perfectly created wedding cake — all white and stunning — but ...
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
As the war of words between Argentina and Britain continues, it's business as usual for the cruise ships naviagating the South Atlantic waters.
Her decks boast sun loungers and golf simulators rather than machine guns and torpedoes, while those on board are more likely to be sipping G&Ts than rehearsing military ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Replacement Flyglobespan flights arranged for Falklands military
MILITARY personnel were assured today that they would not be stranded in the Falklands despite the collapse of the only airline that flies direct to the islands from the UK.
Flyglobespan had the Ministry of Defence contract to operate flights in and out of the ...
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
This remote wilderness is like nowhere else on Earth, which makes a voyage there all the more rewarding, says Simon Calder
To the bitter end of the world. Why?
To discover a part of the planet reduced to its raw elements. "The Antarctic is to the rest of the world as ...
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Luxury Antarctica
Abercrombie & Kent has chartered what it is claiming to be the most environmentally friendly ship for the 2010-11 Antarctic season.
Le Boreal will only be launched in May and in contrast to many ice-breakers that sail to the Antarctic it is luxury all the way, with an outdoor heated ...
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