Covering the Caesar Park Ipanema Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Cheapoair.com's preferred deal with Tam Brazilian Airlines; the Newport Beachside Hotel and Resort in Miami, Florida; Breezes Bahamas amenities and recent $15 million renovation.

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Caesar Park Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is a hotel situated in front of famed Ipanema Beach adjacent to Copacabana Beach. The hotel is thirty years old and part of the famous Caesar Park brand. There are 221 rooms and deluxe suites with beautiful views of Ipanema Beach backed by mountains and highlands. Rio is famous for Carnival, fruit juices, the bean dish feijoada, and the national cocktail of caiprinha with cachaca.

For more information visit: www.caesar-park.com

Cheapoair.com has a preferred deal with Tam Brazilian Airlines which allows the company to provide customers with discount airfare to Brazil. From New York and Miami the average cost to fly to Rio de Janeiro is $600 USD. The Cheapoair.com website has a top 25 deals section updated weekly where the most expensive fares are under $1029 USD. An example of Cheapoair.com’s unbeatable discount airfare is a roundtrip ticket from California to Australia at $515 USD while other discounters offer the same ticket for hundreds more. In addition to having technology that searches for discount airfare online, Cheapoair.com has direct business relationships with forty five carriers around the world.

For more information visit: www.cheapoair.com

Newport Beachside Hotel and Resort is a premiere Miami resort destination. It offers world-class service, an ocean front setting and views of the famous Newport pier. On the property are 20 handmade tiki huts. The hotel is pet friendly and family oriented. There is a one time fee to bring a pet which includes pet related services.

For more information visit: www.newportbeachsideresort.com

Travel Tips

Buy your Euros now from any international bank or through American Express. Save the currency so if the dollar is not as strong you are still prepared for future trips.

Guests Include:

Philippe Godefroit, General Manager, Caesar Park Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
www.caesar-park.com

Sam Jain, CEO, Cheapoair.com.
www.cheapoair.com

Tammy Malamud, Catering Sales Manager, Newport Beachside Hotel and Resort.
www.newportbeachsideresort.com

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Many hotels and resorts will talk about having an all-inclusive package. While many amenities will be included in such offers customers will most likely face other costs once they arrive at the resort. Breezes Bahamas, and other SuperClubs resorts, offer a super-inclusive package. It is a one stop deal with a fully upfront price. Not some, but all drinks are included in the package and there is no limit in number. All restaurants and activities are included and the resort provides a large variety of options.

Breezes Bahamas recently underwent a 15 million dollar refurbishment during which all bathrooms were completely redone. Love seats, glass paneling, granite countertops and a 32 inch flat screen plasma television were added to each room. There is also a brand new air-conditioning system.

Water sports include windsurfing, sailing, kayaking, and waterskiing. Land sports include volleyball, basketball, tennis (with courts lit for night play), trapeze, trampoline and the first ever rock climbing wall in the Bahamas.  The resort has a spa and a fully equipped fitness center and sponsors other special activities like sumo wrestling, toga parade and pajama parties.

General Manager Jackson Weech is involved in a mentoring program for young people who want to get involved in the tourism industry. The economy of the Bahamas depends on tourism as the industry makes up two thirds of the gross domestic product. Weech is proud to help build the next cadre of hotel managers.

For more information visit www.breezes.com/resorts/breezes-bahamas or www.superclubs.com

Next week “Traveling Feet” will focus on Abraham Lincoln. There will be guests from Chesterwood which is the summer home of Daniel Chester French, sculptor of “Lincoln in the Chair” statue inside the Lincoln Memorial.

All roads lead to either Ireland or Berkshire County. Follow Route 2 from the Berkshires along the historic Mohawk Trail through the Pioneer Valley and you can travel to Boston. Stephanie reflected on the connections to Ireland and the Berkshires as she watched the inaugural ceremony. When Bono performed on the steps of the Lincoln memorial it brought to mind the Clarence Hotel on the River Liffey in Ireland, opened by U2 rockers Bono and the Edge. Yo-Yo Ma, another inaugural performer, has a home in the Berkshires.

For more information about the Clarence visit http://www.theclarence.ie/

Fun Facts:

One out of every nine people on the planet is employed in the travel industry.

Guests Include:

Jackson Weech, General Manager, SuperClubs Breezes Bahamas Resort.
www.breezes.com/resorts/breezes-bahamas