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FLYING HIGHS Airlines Reveal This Year’S Top Trips and Trends ESCAPE.COM.AU . SUNDAY MARCH 5 . 2017 ESCAPE01 MARCH 5 2017 CABIN FEVER FLYING HIGHS Airlines reveal this year’s top trips and trends V1 - SDTE01Z01ES 1300 729 065 On Sale 8am DEALS OF THE WEEK Tuesday! THE SPANISH PASSAGE SYDNEY TO LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES TO SANTIAGO FLYCRUISE PORTS: Sydney, Wellington, Napier, PORTS: Barcelona, Valencia, Cartagena, Tauranga, Auckland, Pago Pago, Gibraltar, Seville (Cadiz), Santa Cruz De Bora Bora, Tahiti (Papeete), Moorea, Tenerife, Lanzarote (Arrecife), Ft. Lauderdale Hilo, Honolulu, Los Angeles INCLUSIONS: • Airfare from Perth to Barcelona INCLUSIONS: PORTS: Los Angeles, Cabo San Lucas, & New York to Perth Puntarenas, Lima (Overnight), Pisco, • 2 nights at a 4 star Barcelona hotel • Airfare from Perth to Sydney La Serena, Santiago • Barcelona in a Day Guided Tour • 29 nights onboard Emerald Princess • 15 nights onboard Royal Princess • All meals, entertainment and INCLUSIONS: • All meals, entertainment & port taxes whilst cruising port taxes whilst cruising • Airfare from Perth to Los Angeles • Airfare from Fort Lauderdale to New York • 2 nights at a 4 star Los Angeles, • 2 nights at a 4 star Los Angeles Hotel • 4 nights at a 4 star New York hotel Hollywood hotel • 17 nights onboard Emerald Princess • New York City Pass • Airfare from Los Angeles to Perth • All Meals, entertainment & taxes onboard • All private transfers between • 2 nights at a 4 star Santiago Hotel airports-ports-hotels • Airfare from Santiago to Perth from $5279 from $6499 from $4849 TREASURES OF SOUTH EAST ASIA INDONESIAN ESCAPE NORTHERN EXPLORER SINGAPORE TO FREMANTLE PORTS: Fremantle, Bali, Kuala Lumpur, PORTS: Fremantle, Komodo Island, PORTS: Fremantle, Broome, Kimberley PORTS: Singapore, Phuket, Langkawi, Penang, Langkawi, Phuket, Singapore Ujung Pandang, Semarang, Probolinggo, Coast, Darwin, Port Douglas, Cairns, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Bali, Fremantle INCLUSIONS: Bali, Lombok, Fremantle Alotau (Papua New Guinea), Brisbane INCLUSIONS: • 12 nights onboard Dawn Princess INCLUSIONS: • Airfare from Perth to Singapore • All meals, daily entertainment & INCLUSIONS: with Singapore Airlines • 15 nights onboard Sea Princess • 15 nights onboard Sun Princess port taxes whilst onboard cruise • All meals, daily entertainment & • 2 nights at a 4 Star Singapore Hotel • BONUS up to $85 onboard • All meals, daily entertainment • 12 nights onboard Sea Princess port taxes whilst onboard cruise & port taxes onboard • All meals, daily entertainment credit per cabin • BONUS up to $85 onboard • 2 nights at a 4 star Singapore Hotel • BONUS up to $85 onboard credit per cabin & port taxes onboard credit per cabin • Airfare from • Airfare from Singapore from from from from back to Perth $1999 $1799 Brisbane to Perth $2499 $2049 FREMANTLE TO SINGAPORE ASIA TO AUSTRALIA FLYCRUISE JAPAN & RUSSIA FLYCRUISE JAPAN, CHINA & VIETNAM PORTS: Fremantle, Bali, Kuala Lumpur, PORTS: Tokyo, Shimizu, Hong Kong, PORTS: Tokyo, Kushiro, Shiretoko PORTS: Tokyo, Kagoshima, Da Nang, Penang, Langkawi, Phuket, Singapore Nha Trang, Ho Chi Minh, Singapore, Bali, Peninsula (Scenic Cruising), Korsakov Hong Kong (overnight), Kaohsiung, Taipei, INCLUSIONS: Darwin, Sydney (Russia), Otaru, Hakodate, Tokyo Okinawa, Tokyo • 12 nights onboard Sea Princess INCLUSIONS: INCLUSIONS: • All meals, daily entertainment • Airfare from Perth to Tokyo INCLUSIONS: • Return airfares to Tokyo & port taxes onboard • 2 nights at 4 star Tokyo Hotel • Return airfares from Perth to Tokyo • 2 nights at a 4 star Tokyo hotel • BONUS up to $85 onboard • 22 nights onboard Diamond Princess • 2 nights at a 4 star Tokyo hotel • 15 nights onboard Diamond Princess credit per cabin • All meals, daily entertainment • 8 nights onboard Diamond Princess • All meals, daily entertainment • 2 nights at a 4 Star Singapore Hotel & port taxes onboard • All meals, daily entertainment & port & port taxes onboard • Airfare from taxes onboard • Airfare from from from from from Singapore to Perth $1899 Sydney to Perth $3679 $2399 $2799 SCANDINAVIA & RUSSIA GREEK ISLES IRELAND & SCOTLAND WITH EDINBURGH MILITARY TATTOO GRAND MEDITERRANEAN FLYCRUISE PORTS: Copenhagen, Oslo, Tallinn, PORTS: Rome, Messina, Kotor, Corfu, PORTS: London, St Helier, Waterford, PORTS: Rome, Messina, Kotor, Corfu, Crete, St Petersburg (overnight), Helsinki, Crete, Mykonos, Athens, Katakolon, Dublin, Edinburgh (overnight), London Athens, Katakolon, Kotor, Mykonos, Rhodes, Stockholm, Copenhagen Kotor, Mykonos, Rhodes, Khios, Athens Khios, Athens, Santorini, Kotor, Messina, INCLUSIONS: Naples, Barcelona INCLUSIONS: INCLUSIONS: INCLUSIONS: • Return airfares to London • Airfares from Perth to Rome • 2 nights at a 4 Star London Hotel • Airfare from Perth to Rome • Return airfares from Perth & Barcelona to Perth to Copenhagen & Athens to Perth • 8 nights onboard Pacifi c Princess • 2 nights at a 4 Star Room • 2 nights at a 4 Star Copenhagen Hotel • 2 nights at a 4 Star Rome Hotel • All meals, daily entertainment Hotel with breakfast • 11 nights onboard Regal Princess • 14 nights onboard Royal Princess & port taxes onboard • 21 nights onboard Royal Princess • All meals, daily entertainment • All meals, daily entertainment & port • Tickets to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo • All meals, daily entertainment & port taxes onboard taxes onboard credit per cabin & taxes onboard • 2 nights at a 4 Star • 2 nights at a 4 Star from Athens Hotels from from Barcelona Hotel with from $3999 $3999 $4299 breakfast $5499 Prices correct as at 2 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Prices are per person, based on lead in categories available at time of publication. Prices subject to change. Onboard Credit amounts are per cabin and are not applicable to all cabin types or departures. *Some cabins will have obstructed views. #Stateroom location upgrades are only valid on selected bookings and are allocated at ship’s discretion. ^Wine and dine promotion receive a dinner for two in one of the specialty restaurants and a bottle of wine as assigned by Princess Cruises. +FREE Gratuities to the value of US$13.50 per person per day for Grill Suite guests and US$11.50 per person per day for Britannia stateroom guests. Additional restrictions may apply. All advertised fares, savings, off ers, programmes and itineraries are correct at time of printing, are subject to availability and may change at any time. Additional restrictions may apply. Payment by credit/ debit card will incur a fee. Conditions apply. AFTA 03350. ATAS A11328. ESCAPE.COM.AU . SUNDAY MARCH 5 . 2017 ESCAPE03 WELCOME UP, UP AND AWAY e all have our favourite sleep? Yes, I got a few solid hours quotes from the between Abu Dhabi and Sydney. Australian movie Watch any good shows? classic The Castle. The airline’s entertainment Mine come when Con offering is one of the major and Tracey return differences between now and 20 years Wfrom their honeymoon and the rest of ago, when we were first introduced to the Kerrigan family quiz them, not Darryl and Sal and their conveniently just on the destination – Thailand – located home (because when the but the plane journey itself. taxi queue at the airport is so long The newlyweds speak of the who wouldn’t want to wheel movies they watched and the in-flight one’s suitcase straight home). meal, a choice between fish and beef Rather than waiting wellington, which Con declares “an patiently for one movie – two absolute credit to the airline”. if you were flying long-haul He then explains: “And they had – most international airlines these masks which you put over have games, music, books, your eyes when you’re sleeping, podcasts, and every genre and you can’t see anything. And they in film and television, to were complimentary. Yeah, they were keep you occupied. for free.” So the last time I was Tracey adds: “It was so dry on the on a 13-hour flight, I plane that your hair actually watched a total of eight CLOUDSCAPE, ETIHAD FLIGHT 450X dehydrates, doesn’t it Con? Yeah, it hours of entertainment. loses its moisture.” Time flies... I love it because it’s the same line of Taking photos while flying above, below and through the clouds is a lovely questioning I get from my children JANA FRAWLEY, way to pass the time when you’re up in the air. I took this sunrise shot on a flight home last year. when I get back from a trip. How was NATIONAL TRAVEL the food? Very good, actually. 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