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Only 14 days to go.
Students count the hours 'til spring break like they're waiting for
Christmas. And no wonder. The break has advantages the winter respite
doesn't include you're not expected to go home for the holidays, so you
can take off with fellow classmates for one last week of partying and sunning
before the studying and summer-job-hunting begins. The only concern is
getting away. And for most students, getting away means Fort Lauderdale,
Daytona, the Bahamas or Jamaica.
The March 3-10 holiday is such a lucrative time for Florida businesses
that by now, nearly all hotels in the favorite resort areas arc booked up. A
Small World travel agent, Ellen IJolcomb, says the only accommodations
left in Daytona are those without toll-free phone numbers and those not
listed in the hotel directory available at travel agencies.
"1 must have called 500 places in Daytona for this one girl," Ellen
Holcomb says. "Everything was full."
Another alternative for those who can't get hotel reservations, she says, is
to camp. Some campgrounds at Key West, for example operate on a
first-come, first-served basis, and do not accept reservations.
If you are lucky enough to get a room in Fort Lauderdale or Daytona,
count on spending anywhere from S15-S60 a night. "I'd rather camp than
stay at the real low-priced places," Holcomb says, but a double room at the
Holiday Inn averages $20-35 a night.
Most students prefer to drive to the resort areas. A round trip excursion
rate plane ticket is $141 to Miami, and a round trip Amtrak pass is around
$90.
For those who didn't make the month-in-advance plans for spring break
vacations, there are alternatives. Small World and Circle Tours are offering
tour packages to Nassau and Jamaica.
The Circle Tours Jamaica trip includes a flight March 6to Montego Bay,
five nights at the Montego Bay Club in condominium-style rooms and a
return flight to Raleigh-Durham airport on March 1 1. The cost ranges from
$299 to $329, depending on the kind of room requested. Of the 100
passengers on the tour, most are students, a Circle Tours spokesperson says.
The deadline for reservations is Sunday.
The Small World tour to Nassau costs $264 and includes a 4-day cruise on
the Leonardo da Vinci, leaving Fort Lauderdale March 6. The agency also
offers a $90 round trip rail pass to Fort Lauderdale. T here is space for about
25 more passengers on the cruise, a spokesperson says, and the deadline for
reservations is Friday, Feb. 24.
Spring break traditionally sends students south. But for those who have
not yet had enough of this record-breaking cold winter, there are ski tours to
Aspen, Vail, Taos and Winter Park available in connection with Piedmont
Airlines.
Tours offered by Delta Airlines include a two-day weekend with tennis
instruction at Hilton Head Island for $135-$ 150, a four-day golf and tennis
vacation on Kiawah Island for $92-$ 1 25 and various New Orleans tours
ranging from $53 to $185.
However few and far between they may be, here are a few suggestions for
the student for whom cost is no object:
1 nstead of staying in a hotel When you visit the islands, you can rent a
Jamaican Villa near the beach for only $740 a week.
In place of the ordinary cruise ship, why not spend a few extra bucks
and rent the 5.5. France for a mere $90,000 daily.
I f you'd rather let the fun come to you, the Clyde Beatty Circus out of
Florida can be booked for $15,000 a day.
Well, so much for suggestions.
Only 14 days to go. . .
SMALL WORLD TRAVEL'S
SPRING BREAK-A-WAY CRUISE
lei the Sirens of the Sun- Warmed Islands sweetly seduce you to
a 5 day4 night cruise to Nassau for only $264.00 round-trip
from Ft. Lauderdale aboard the LEONARDO DA VINCI
(All meals, taxes, lips included).
Leave March 6; Return March 10
If you are one of the first 30 people to sign up and pay,
you become eligible for a drawing in which the prize is
the above mentioned cruise absolutely free!
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