Grenada’s resorts offer summer and fall specials
The Grenada Board of Tourism is offering discounts this summer and fall at hotels and resorts in the Caribbean country that includes the islands of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
You can stay at the Blue Horizons Garden Resort, where the Super Summer Value Pack includes seven nights for $590 U.S. a person (based on double occupancy) or $1,038 U.S. (single) now through Dec. 15.
This package also includes breakfast, welcome drinks, round-trip transfers to the airport, scuba diving lessons, a three-hour sightseeing tour and yoga classes. The price also covers fees and taxes.
Or you can get 30 per cent off when you book three nights or more with the Summer and Fall Special at the True Blue Bay resort. Their discounted rates start at $112 U.S. per room, per night (the 10 per cent tax and 10 per cent service charge are extra, however) and apply to stays now through July 31, Sept. 15 to 30 and during all of October. On Carriacou, you could stay at the Bayaleau Point Cottages at Windward Bay for prices starting at $65 per cottage, per night. For more information, contact the Grenada Board of Tourism at 416-595-1339, tourism@grenadaconsulate.com or visit grenadagrenadines.com.
For other tips on where to stay and what to do in Grenada, visit grenadaexplorer.com. British Airways, after the Olympic Games
British Airways is selling seats during what it says is the time of year with its lowest return-trip adult fares between several Canadian cities and London. The cheapest months to fly are October through March, when you can get a Montreal-to-London round-trip fare of $400 (taxes, fees, charges and surcharges will add approximately $627 to $674 per adult ticket, however).
Although BA usually has a special around the Christmas holidays, these low fares cover a longer period. The hitch is that to get these prices, you should reserve early. BA’s cheapest fares are subject to change and are limited to a certain number of seats per flight. Check out what’s available at britishairways.com/ travel/cheap-flights/public/ en_ca Catskills summer fun Greene County Tourism is promoting the Catskills area, located about five hours south of Montreal. The agency’s website features a host of family-owned properties that are having summer specials.
For example, you could book the Nature Package at the Kaatskill Mountain Club and Leftside Village condos at Hunter Mountain starting at $89 U.S. per person, per night. The special includes your accommodations, a hiking itinerary, a gas card and a pack for your journey that includes a snack and beverage. While you’re there, you could also zipline across the mountain top – in what is billed as the longest and highest zipline canopy tour in North America – for rates starting at $89 U.S.
Or hop the Hunter Mountain Skyride, a six-person chairlift, for $10 U.S. each.
For more infor mation about Hunter Mountain activities, visit huntermtn. com.
The Catskills also include more than 1,000 designated campsites, if you prefer to sleep under the stars. For more information about lodging and activity pack- ages in the Catskills, visit greatnortherncatskills.com. All aboard in Townships
The Orford Express tourist train has added an outing on Fridays this summer between Sherbrooke and the Coaticook Valley. The nearly four-hour rail excursion includes a gourmet threecourse meal and a 40-minute stop with admission to the Beaulne Museum at the Château Arthur-Osmore Norton in Coaticook, dedicated to a philanthropist who made his fortune manufacturing a jack for the railway industry.
Tickets for the train trip range from $68 per adult in the main car to $83 per adult in the lounge car (children 12 and under ride for $58 in the main car, $73 in the lounge car). These prices do not include taxes or gratuities, wine or alcoholic drinks. According to the train promoter’s website, the culinary train takes passengers through some of the loveliest countrysides in the Eastern Townships. “You will be enraptured by the scenery (and) conquered by the flavours and odours.”
The Orford Express also offers brunch trips starting at $84 per adult and overnight packages that include the train trip, a choice of brunch, lunch or dinner and a hotel stay in either Sherbrooke or Orford-Magog and breakfast starting at $105 per person (based on double occupancy). Trains leave and return to the Marché de la gare in Sherbrooke. For more information about the train, visit orfordexpress.com On the ranch in B.C.
British Columbia’s tourism agency has a special offers page with a wide range of discounted family vacation packages in the province. For example, you could book the three-night Summer Chalet Special at the Hills Guest Ranch deep in the B.C. interior, along the old Gold Rush Trail in the Cariboo region, for $599 per chalet (down from the regular $725) now through July 25.
The package includes a chalet with three bedrooms, a full kitchen, living room and fireplace and one-hour horseback rides for everyone in your party, one full-body massage, a 7:30 a.m. guided walk and full use of the 26-room resort’s pools, hot tubs, saunas, fitness centre and 100 kilometres of hiking trails.
The ranch, about 485 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, also offers bed and breakfast rates of $59 per person (based on double occupancy), or $49 per person for a party of three, and $41 each for a group of four. Horseback riding (one-hour rides cost $33 per person, $32 for a couple) and spa services are extra.
For more details, visit hills guestranch.com. For more B.C. vacation ideas visit hellobc.com or 100bc moments.com