First time to New York?

Here are the Top Ten All-Tine Favorite Attractions (Courtesy of the New York Tourist Authority):

Empire State Building

World Trade Center Site

Intrepid Museum

South Street Seaport

United Nations

Statue of Liberty

Central Park

Rockefeller Center

FAO Schwarz

Metropolitan Museum

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Chris Jacobs with James TravelPOINTS  just recently visited New York. As I have traveled to NY on numerous ocassions I wanted to do something different this time. On this trip my companions and I went on the Sex and the City Tour. What a fun time we had. It started out by being picked up by coach bus in front of the Plaza Hotel on 5th Ave. We met our tour guide and off we went passing by many locations from the TV show.  You will see where the character’s from the show worked, shopped and gossiped along the way. The tour guide was very informative and kept us entertained with questions and answers as well as showing clips from the show on TV’s set up throughout the bus. You will make three stops where you can get out and explore. The first was at the bar that Steve and Aidan owned, where you will have a cosmo cocktail (extra cost). You will also stop at the Pleasure Chest store where Charlotte bought the rabbit. And lastly, you will get to taste the wonderful cupcakes at the bakery and will walk around and check out the Manolo Blanik shoe store and others. The tour is appoximately 3 1/2 hours, there are mostly females on the tour, but you will get a brave male or two.  If you have enjoyed the TV show or even if you were an ocassional watcher you will have a blast. Oh, and before it is over you will get a little goody bag to take home.  If you are planning to visit NY please call me at 1-800-274-0436 x228, www.travelpoints.com.   

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Mauna Lani Bay is a luxury resort located on the Big Island in Hawaii.

The Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows are a mecca for golfers, a treat for the gourmets and wonderful hideaway to relax and a nature preserve for rare green sea turtles.  The Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows is an oceanfront paradise on the Big Island’s sunny Kohala Coast that has a list of accolades as long as its white-sand shoreline. 

This AAA Five Diamond-rated property on the Big Island of Hawaii, is an award-winning combination of sophisticated luxury and Hawaiian style hospitality.  Guestrooms are spacious and tastefully furnished all feature private lanais.  Ninety percent of the rooms have magnificent ocean views, the other overlook lush tropical garden’s.  The resort’s five restaurants include the widely hailed Canoe House.  Its Pacific Rim fare has received recognition in such prestigious publications as Gourmet, GQ, Esquire, Bon Appetite and Departures. 

Seafood specialties include Nor9-Wrapped Tempura Ahi with tomato-Ginger Relish and Fresh Seared Mahi Mahi with Chinese Black Bean Sauce.  The resort is renowned for its cuisine.  The Mauna Lani tradition of fine food began centuries ago when Hawaiian Ali’i (royalty) first settled on the Kohala Coast, creating the fishponds that are now the heart of this luxury destination. 

If you’re seeking up to the minute, non-stop activity, you will find that the Mauna Lani features the award winning Tennis Garden and Racquet Club, a comprehensive sports center, a wide range of watersports and a picture-perfect 36 hole championship golf course.  In 1991, golf course architects Nelson and Haworth reconfigured the 18-hole Francis H. I’I Brown Golf Course, doubling the number of holes and creating Mauna Lani’s now-famous North and South.  The recipients of six “Golf Medal Awards” from Golf Magazine.

The North Course is built on an older and smoother pahoehoe lava bed.  It features rolling terrain and kiawe tree forests.  A 230-acre protected archaeological district lies on the northern boundary; consequently, herds of feral goats frequent the entire North Course, providing a unique neutral hazard.  James TravelPOINTS 1-800-538-7461, www.travelpoints.com has the expertise to help you plan your next vacation to the Hawaiian islands. Give us a call, we look forward to helping you create the custom vacation to fit your needs.

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Rediscover the American West; Follow the route of Lewis and Clark on the Columbia and Snake River.

Experience the rich and colorful history of the American West on a fascinating weeklong voyage.  Sailing on one of four intimate cruise vessels, explore the entire navigable length of the Columbia and Snake rivers, from the crashing waves of the Columbia River Bar on the Pacific Ocean all the way to the jagged cliffs of Hells Canyon on the borders of Oregon and Idaho.  Along the way you’ll discover traces of earlier inhabitants; centuries-old petroglyphs carved on canyon walls and cavalry forts built in the frontier day of the 1800’s.

This 1,000-mile adventure begins and ends in Portland, Oregon.  On the first evening, you’ll cruise up the Willamette River toward Oregon City, the original end of the Oregon Trail.  You’ll also get your first taste of the outstanding cuisine, which takes full advantage of the Pacific Northwest’s best fresh specialties.

The next morning you’ll awake to the splendor of the Columbia River Gorge, a national scenic area that slices through the Cascade Mountains.  You’ll transit the locks of eight different dams, stopping to tour the Bonneville Dam.

After a leisurely day of river cruising under the bluffs of the Snake River and the rolling Palouse, you’ll board a large jet boat for an exhilarating excursion into Hells Canyon, the deepest gorge in North America.  This is the real Wild West— complete with spectacular whitewater rapids, Nez Perce Indian trails and historic ranch sites.

Other tour highlights include the historic Whitman Mission, site of an 1847 massacre on the Oregon Trail, a rail excursion through the lush apple and pear orchards below snowcapped Mt. Hood, a stop in cannon Beach, a winery tour and a visit to the maritime community of Astoria.

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