Combining active travel and luxurious accommodations these adventurous offers are sure to indulge and engage!

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Alpine Adventures

Global Ski and Adventure Travel Specialists

Alpine Adventures is a specialty tour operator arranging luxury ski and mountain vacations to several worldwide destinations -- from A (Aspen) to Z (Zermatt). The team, recognized as one of the world’s top travel specialists by Condé Nast Traveler magazine, crafts winter and ski vacations to Europe, North America and South America with great enthusiasm. After all, they are themselves skiers and snowboarders (and rafting guides, climbers, cyclists and all-around adventurers). They love what they do, and, if you are a skier, you’ll love what they do, too.

Summer Skiing in Portillo (Chile)
Ski Bariloche in Summer 2008
Winter Skiing in Zermatt (Switzerland)

7 Nights • Available June 20 -
October 4, 2008

Experience Includes:
  • Roundtrip Transfers from Santiago Airport to Portillo
  • Seven nights accommodation in a double standard room at the Hotel Portillo
  • Seven days, unlimited access to ski lifts
  • Four meals daily (breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner)
  • Complimentary use of pool, Jacuzzi, fitness center, gymnasium, aerobics and yoga classes, cinema, game room, children’s activities, daycare center (three to seven years old), disco, piano bar, ski check, boot check and timed race courses.
  • Complimentary day care for children ages three to seven.

7 Nights • Available June 20 -
August 30, 2008

Experience Includes:
  • Roundtrip Transfers from Bariloche Airport to the ski resort
  • Seven nights accommodation at the deluxe Hotel Pire Hue
  • Seven days unlimited ski lift tickets
  • Breakfast daily at the hotel
  • Use of the spa: in-out heated pool, Jacuzzi, Sauna, Turkish bath, relax room, fitness room

7 Nights • Available Ski Season
2008 & 2009

Experience Includes:
  • Roundtrip first class Swiss rail transfers
  • Seven nights accommodation at the five-star Grand Hotel Zermatterhof (deluxe room)
  • Breakfast and gourmet dinner daily at the hotel
  • Five day adult Zermatt lift pass
VIRTUOSO FARES FROM:
Double Occupancy: $2,350 per person
Single Occupancy: $3,020 per person
VIRTUOSO FARES FROM:
Double Occupancy: $2,450 per person
Single Occupancy: $4,571
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Double Occupancy: $3,190 per person
Single Occupancy: $4,540 per person

explora Lodges of Chile

A Feast for the Senses

explora specializes in such luxurious experiences. In Patagonia, the Atacama Desert, and now on Easter Island, explora offers lodge-based travel programs which include horseback riding, hiking, walking, biking or recharging the soul. The lodges themselves rank among the top ten hotels in South America – but how can one stay inside when there is so much to discover? Come discover the fascinating world of luxury at the end of the earth with explora.

explora en patagonia
explora en aTaCaMa
explora en Easter Island

4 & 8 Nights • Available Year Round

Hotel Salto Chico on the shores of Lago Pehoé, faces a breathtaking panoramic view of Macizo del Paine. Conceived as a base for explorations, the (all-inclusive) Hotel Salto Chico features every amenity for guests to relax, complete with equipment necessary to head out and explore Patagonia in comfort and luxury.

Experience Includes:
  • Deluxe accommodations
  • Transfers to/from Punta Arenas, Chile
  • Full board
  • Complimentary wines and bar
  • Fully guided explorations (classified according to the level of difficulty and guests’ desires)

3 Nights • Available Year Round

Built on the Ayllú deLarache in San Pedro de Atacama, the hotel’s architecture evokes, from the materials used in its construction together with its form, the suggestions made by the nature and cultures of the area. More than a home, the all-inclusive hotel is an experience, an open balcony towards the surrounding beauty.

Experience Includes:
  • Deluxe accommodations
  • Transfers to/from Calama, Chile
  • Full board
  • Complimentary wines and bar
  • Fully guided explorations (classified according to the level of difficulty and guests’ desires)

3 – 7 Nights • Available Year Round

Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and home to a culture whose origins are still unknown, Easter Island is a place of magnetism and mystery. An agreeable climate year round allows travelers to walk along its coastline and visit the numerous “ahus” that contain the gigantic “moai” sculptures. Walks are combined with picnics and explora-style meals on the rocks or on the sea shore.

Experience Includes:
  • Deluxe accommodations
  • Transfers to/from Mataveri airport in Easter Island, Chile
  • Full board
  • Complimentary wines and bar
  • Fully guided explorations (classified according to the level of difficulty and guests’ desires)
VIRTUOSO FARES FROM:
Double Occupancy $4,340 per couple
Single Occupancy $3,060 per person
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Double Occupancy $3,284 per couple
Single Occupancy $2,355 per person
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Double Occupancy $ 3,588 per couple
Single Occupancy $ 2,634 per person

Premiere Sports Travel

Once in a Lifetime Experiences

The Derby. The Masters. The Final Four. The Beijing Olympics. The pro team at Premiere Sports Travel is as passionate about sports as you are … and they have the tickets. To those, they add accommodations; meals plans; air transportation if you like; the intangible (but essential to the quality of your experience) value of the relationships Premiere Sport Travel has build around the world, and top-notch customer service. The line up includes boxing packages, the MLB, NASCAR, the NBA, the NFL, the NHL, soccer, tennis and more.

Final Four 2008

4 Nights • Available April 4, 2008

Experience Includes:
  • Four nights deluxe accommodations
  • Pre-Game Cocktail party with open bar, hor d’oeurves and a special guest speaker
  • Transfers between hotel and Alamodome
  • Transfers between airport and hotel
VIRTUOSO FARES FROM:
Double Occupancy: $2,125 per person
Single Occupancy: $1,065 per person
The Masters 2008

4 Nights • Available April 8, 2008

Experience Includes:
  • Four nights deluxe accommodations at The Partridge Inn
  • All day shuttle service between hotel and Augusta National
  • Access to the Executive Club
  • Breakfast daily
VIRTUOSO FARES FROM:
Double Occupancy: $10,835 per person
Single Occupancy: $5,420 per person

The Resort at Paws Up

Luxurious Ranch Resort in the Rocky Mountains

The last best place: The Resort at Paws Up. The ranch resort on Montana’s winding Blackfoot River (see “A River Runs Through It”) features nineteen homes, six luxury tents and an average of 422 acres per guest. It’s time to cowboy up: explore the resorts “big backyard,” tens of thousands of wilderness acres, by horseback with a private wrangler. Cast a fly, or cast away on a float trip on the Blackfoot. Or shoot, mountain bike, even indulge in Spa Town. A massage under a tent, enhanced by the natural light, soothing sounds and indigenous aromas, offers the very best way to get lost in the woods.

The Last Best Family Vacation
Pawsitively Romantic
A River Runs Through It

4 Nights • Available March 1 -
December 30, 2008

Reinvigorate family bonds, build camaraderie and create memories to last a lifetime. The Resort at Paws Up offers a complete family vacation package.

Experience Includes:
  • Deluxe accommodations
  • Full American meal plan for two adults and two children
  • One family activity (choose either a 1.5 hour horseback ride, or 4 hour river float down the Blackfoot River
  • Two adult activities (choose either a 60 minute massage at Spa Town or a 60 minute Sporting Clay Adventure or a combination of the two)
  • Two full days of Kids Corp of Discovery
  • Four Paws Up t-shirts
  • Gratuities, taxes, airport transfers and on- property transportation.

3 Nights • Available March 1 -
December 30, 2008

The Resort at Paws Up has taken romance in The Rockies to new heights. Our starlit wagon rides, sumptuous spa treatments and gourmet dining will ignite passions and transform flames of love into a raging bonfire.

Experience Includes:
  • Deluxe accommodations
  • Full American meal plan for two adults
  • Couple’s Custom Music Massage
  • Fire and Fondue for two
  • Two authentic Paws Up fleece vests
  • Taxes, gratuities, airport transfers and on- property transportation

4 Nights • Available May 1 -
October 15, 2008

The ultimate fisherman’s getaway. We’ve thought of everything right down to the Montana fishing license.

Experience Includes:
  • Four nights’ accommodations for two adults
  • Full American meal plan for two adults
  • Two full days of Fly Fishing Adventures for two
  • One half-day Adventure Activity per person
  • One box of custom Paws Up fishing flies per person
  • A copy of “A River Runs Through It” book per person
  • One Montana State Fishing License per person
  • Taxes, gratuities, airport transfers and on-property transportation
VIRTUOSO EXCLUSIVE AMENITY:
VIRTUOSO EXCLUSIVE AMENITY:
VIRTUOSO EXCLUSIVE AMENITY:
$150 activity credit to be used once during stay
$150 activity credit to be used once during stay
$150 activity credit to be used once during stay
VIRTUOSO FARES FROM:
Meadow Home $5,488 four nights, two adults and two children
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Meadow Home $3,393 double occupancy
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Meadow Home $834 per person, per night