America For You
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Hotel accommodation for as little as 5A5.30 in any one of 26 cities across the United States of America and Canada is available through British Airways’ “North America for You” programme.
This new way of visiting America is based on the same principle that produced the travel explosion in the 60s: the use of mass purchasing to provide simple—yet exciting to enjoy—city packages at a low uniform price.
The offer is based on two people travelling together and sharing a double room, but single rooms can be booked for an extra 5A3.00 per day.
The hotels are large tourist class establishments (200 to 800 rooms) with restaurant, cocktail and coffee lounges.
All rooms are with private bath and in some cases a television set.
First class hotels are available at SAB.BO per day with an additional charge of 5A3.90 for single rooms.
Admission to a museum or other sightseeing attraction every three days is included and discounted transport between cities is available. Grey hound bus costs 5A70.00 per person for unlimited travel within the USA and Canada for 15 days and self-drive cars are available for 5A78.00 per week per car with unlimited mileage.
For passengers stopping over in Los Angeles, there is a city package which includes four days (three nights) accommodation, with some sightsee ing, for only SA 15.20 per person.
Passengers from Nadi can use the programme as the fast way to Europe —with a break. Leaving Nadi by British Airways’ VC 10 on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday or Sun day you arrive in Los Angeles (be cause of the international date line) the day before.
You can then rejoin the same flight (8A594) on Tuesday, Thursday, Fri day, Saturday or Sunday or take British Airways’ Boeing 707 Polar flight on Monday, Wednesday or Fri day non-stop to London arriving ten and a half hours later at 3 pm on Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday.
If you decide to spend some time touring, you can fly on with British Airways from nine cities in the USA and Canada—Chicago, Detroit Wash ington, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Toronto, Montreal or Miami.