A Special For The Junior Set
Sun Herald
Saturday June 14, 1997
WITH schools breaking up at the end of the month the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Terrigal is offering stress-free family holidays.
Packages are available until August 31 in which guests can stay from $145 a night. You must stay two nights between Sunday and Thursday.
There is a children's club to give parents a break, with children from 5 to 12 minded from 10am until 4pm. Activities for kids include shell collecting, plaster painting, jewellery making, craft and cooking.
The Chocolate Festival will also be held in the holidays, with demonstrations and tastings. Phone (043) 84 9111 for details.
PHILIPPINE BUST
FEEL like an exotic holiday for under $1,000? Then drop into STA Travel.
Boracay Island, part of the Central Visayas group of the Philippines, is one of the agency's options and includes five nights' accommodation from $979. This island has magnificent scenery with dramatic landscapes, historic gardens and quaint churches.
For sun lovers there is room to relax and Boracay Island's beaches are among the best in the world. Price per person includes return air fare, twin-share accommodation and return airport transfers. Phone STA Travel on 131 776.
NZ ON THE CHEAP
KIWI airline Freedom Air International has released what it terms "rock-bottom" air fares to New Zealand. Until March 1998 skiers and other travellers can fly to New Zealand for $419 return.
The fare rises to $649 return ex-Sydney only during the Christmas high season.
Flights leave Sydney five times a week and passengers can go to Hamilton and Palmerston North on the North Island or to Dunedin on the South Island. Phone 1800 122 000 or contact your travel agent.
CULTURE PACKAGE
MELBOURNE is renowned for magnificent musicals and this October will be no exception when Jekyll & Hyde opens at Her Majesty's Theatre on October 25.
If you're in Melbourne at this time - and why not, it's at the height of the Spring Racing Carnival - take in the package offered by The Windsor Hotel.
For $436, guests get overnight accommodation, two Gold Circle tickets, champagne and a buffet breakfast. For booking details phone (03) 9633 6002.
THAR THEY BLOW
IF you've never seen the magnificent humpback and southern right whales making their way up the coast, make sure you do it this year.
Every winter up to 3,000 whales make their way up the coast to breeding grounds at Hervey Bay in Queensland.
Port Stephens is a great area to witness this journey and in June and July Peppers Anchorage Port Stephens is offering its Whale Watching Escape package.
Prices, from $154 per person twin-share from Sunday to Thursday, include one night's accommodation, buffet breakfasts, a four-hour whale watching cruise and a picnic lunch for two. Phone (049) 84 2555 or 1800 809 142.
© 1997 Sun Herald
