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Orion Expedition Cruises releases 2013 season voyages
Celebrity Cruises presents a circuit of sensory experiences with exotic AquaSpa Indulge in Vancouver’s luxury hotel packages Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts wants to buy you breakfast
Orion Expedition Cruises, Antartica
Editor’s Note
Orion in Kimberley
Whether you’re looking for an adventurous trip out to the sea, or to indulge and relax in new spa concepts and luxury hotels, this week’s issue has what you’re looking for. Take a sea voyage out to somewhere exotic and experience the out-of-ordinary with Orion’s 33 different voyages that is bound to surprise, or explore Vancouver in a different way imagined. Rejuvenate and relax with Celebrity Cruises’ new Celebrity Reflection’s new experience with AquaSpa, or let Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts pamper you with free breakfast. Read on to find out more!
James Chen Editor, Asia Travel Exclusives james.chen@asiaxclusives.com
Contents Celebrity Cruises presents a circuit of sensory experiences with exotic AquaSpa
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Publisher Raymond Wong • raymond.wong@asiaxclusives.com
Orion Expedition Cruises releases 2013 season voyages
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Editorial James Chen • james.chen@asiaxclusives.com Francesca Tay • francesca.tay@asiaxclusives.com
Indulge in Vancouver’s luxury hotel packages
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Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts wants to buy you breakfast
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Persian Garden, Celebrity Cruises
“Couples Night”
Celebrity Cruises presents a circuit of sensory experiences with exotic AquaSpa Experience both hot and cold at the exotic AquaSpa aboard Celebrity Cruises’ new Celebrity Reflection.
Step aboard the epitome of modern luxury with the newly enhanced AquaSpa by Elemis, presented by Celebrity Cruises’ new Celebrity Reflection. Guests can move from room to room through the enhanced AquaSpa to experience hot and cold, wet and dry with peace and tranquility throughout the entire spa experience. The expanded AquaSpa also has a 883-square-foot Persian Garden that includes six more curved heated tile beds with relaxing seaview, and six brand new experiences. The Hammam, a modern twist on traditional experience, is a cool and peaceful space that is designed to help loosen muscles and joints while lounging on a heated stone slab. This soothing and regenerating experience can be further enhanced with a massage or custom salt scrub. Another addition is the Infrared Sauna, which uses infrared heat instead of the traditional steam heat saunas. The use of infrared has many advantages over the traditional saunas, with more health benefits of the natural
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sunlight, decreasing the harmful effects of solar radiation. The infrared sauna can help to increase blood flow, reduce inflammation and decrease pain versus purely heat the skin, as in a traditional sauna. For aromatherapy lovers, check out the Aromatic Steam Room, which features warm steam and aromatherapy combined to melt away muscle tension and toxins, relax the mind, and leave the entire body feeling rejuvenated and refreshed. Guests can also choose to ‘chill out’ – literally – in the Cold Room, a space designed with ice cold seats, walls and floor (52 F) to help tighten pores, best experienced after the Aromatic Steam Room. After opening and cleansing the pores from the steam room, step into the cold room to tighten them up. Indulge in the DIY Scrub and Salt Bar, a new do-it-yourself bar that allows guests to create custom “body cocktails,” or scrubs. Guests can choose from an extensive selection of salts, sugar and herbs. The scrubs can be individually purchased or as a package of five scrubs for only $45. Complete the spa experience with the Sensory Showers, through the Persian Garden by selecting between either warm, tropical rain infused with mild, fruity fragrances, or an icy cool mist that has been infused with eucalyptus essences. In addition, creative applications of soothing sound, scent and light can further help to tantalize the senses to
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leave guests rejuvenated and refreshed. Guests can experience the Persian Garden complimentary as long as they are booked in Celebrity’s spa-inspired AquaClass accommodations. A one-day pass for other guests will cost only $35. Also, AquaSpa introduces “Girlz Night,” which is a social spa night for women, with access to the Persian Garden, as well as “Couples Night,” offering couples an intimate evening in the Persian Garden. Adding on the array of treatments available on menu, a new therapy “Rhythm and Bliss,” is also a good choice for those who want to relax and indulge. A rhythmic rubdown created and choreographed by the New York brand, bliss®, is designed to give guests’ tense spots a ‘tune-up,’ while they ‘tune out’ with noise-canceling headphones. With its focus on wellness and life balance, “Acupuncture: The Point of Well-Being,” is an integrated solution for chronic symptoms ranging from severe muscle and joint pain to insomnia, in addition to Botox® and Dysport® injectables, and Restylane® and Perlane® dermal fillers. The AquaSpa salon also introduces a new service, introducing the popular Keratin Complex hair smoothing therapy. Visit http://celebritycruises.tumblr.com/ for more information and a preview of AquaSpa.
Orion Expedition Cruises releases 2013 season voyages Releasing its 2013 season brochure, we take a look at Orion’s 33 voyages to up to 94 destinations.
With eight years of operational experience, Orion Expedition Cruises has now released their 2013 itineraries, detailing 33 voyages totalling up to 94 destinations.
Admiral Yamamoto’s headquarters in Rabaul, to historic explorer’s huts in Antarctica. The luxurious cruise also provides relaxing and pampering accommodation options from the Staterooms and Suites, through to Owner’s Suites. Facilities aboard include their very own boutique, massage, spa and lounges, topped with the award winning cuisine from Serge Dansereau.
Highlights for 2013’s expedition voyages include a South Pacific Splendour voyage that encompasses the Bay of Islands and Norfolk Island, Kimberley voyage that includes Crocodile Creek, Hunter River, Raft Point, King George Falls and inclusive Bungle Bungle flight, and a Melanesian Discovery that explores Utupua, Ngella and Marovo Lagoon. For guests who wish to experience something
The highly acclaimed expedition ship cruises across Orion and is one of the more luxurious standard cruise ships in the world. Reflecting across the range of bespoke 5 to 20 nights itineraries, Orion is prepared to venture to exotic destinations including Borneo and Sulawesi, Australia’s Kimberley coast and Arnhem Land, the Great Barrier Reef, the Islands of Melanesia, New Zealand and the sub Antarctic Islands, the Forgotten Islands of Sunda, Antarctica and Papua New Guinea. Guests can expect to explore places such as
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Orion at sea
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Orion Expedition voyages
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different, check out the Papua New Guinea Cultural Highlights that brings you through Watam Village (Sepik River), Tufi and Kitava, or a 18-night expedition Mawson’s Antarctica tour that passes through sub Antarctic Islands In addition, the new expansive, full colour brochure includes details of voyage summaries, typical cultural, historical and wildlife experiences that can be encountered on one of such trips. The brochures
Sea activities for guests aboard Orion
Persian Garden, Celebrity Cruises
Delphinus Outdoor Cafe
also serve as useful reference for potential expedition globetrotters that are seeking for rewarding cultural interaction and intellectual stimulation, very much unknown in mainstream cruising. Guests who purchase early are able to enjoy generous advance purchase options that guarantees savings of up to 40% off published prices and additional incentives are offered for back to back voyages. An electronic version of the Orion 2013 brochure can be downloaded from www.orionexpeditions. com/ebrochure. For reservations, or to obtain more information call Orion Expedition Cruises: 61-2 9033 8777 (Sydney callers) 1300 361 012 (regional and interstate) / 0800 444 462 (New Zealand) or see your travel agent. Scenic Zodiac Cruising
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Indulge in Vancouver’s luxury hotel packages packages ranging in price from $799 to $2,699 CAD (plus tax), based on double occupancy.
Whether you’re looking for a romantic getaway, a quick urban retreat or simply to explore, Vancouver offers a wide array of activities and experiences that are bound to please.
Some of the offers and packages that the hotels are conducting include the Fairmont Waterfront’s Uniquely Vancouver package, which features a exhilarating helicopter sightseeing tour, mountain-top picnic lunch at Grouse Mountain, as well as a tour of the hotel’s rooftop honeybee apiary.
Until December 31, 17 Vancouver hotels are offering these packages, with three-night
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If you wondering where is the destination to be for a unique city experience, why not check out Vancouver? Located in Canada, Vancouver hotels have came up with one-of-a-kind getaway tour packages that feature the best in the
country’s culinary, cultural, spa and adventure experiences.
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Planning for your year-end trip to be something special? Look no further, Vancouver’s unique tour packages are bound to wow.
Starting at $2,399, guests under this package can also enjoy complimentary use of the hotels BMW bikes to cycle and explore the famous Stanley Park seawall. There are also various dining opportunities in the hotel restaurant. Starting at $999, The Listel Hotel’s Cultivate, Gawk, Gather, Graze package features accommodation in a BC or Artist Series suite as well as private tours of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Bill Reid Gallery and Museum of Anthropology. Helicopter Tour
Lastly, the Opus Hotel Vancouver’s Close Encounters package features a beluga encounter at the Vancouver Aquarium, a private kayak tour of Granville Island and five-course meal for $1,317 onwards. For booking and more details, visit: www. indulgeinvancouver.com.
Opus Hotel, Vancouver
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Top 5 MustDos in Singapore Swiss么tel Hotels & Resorts wants to buy you breakfast 29 August 2012
With the launch of a more engaging and userfriendly website, Swiss么tel Hotels & Resorts wants to treat their guests to breakfast as a form of celebration. Launching a fresh, modern, engaging and more user-friendly website with the new redesign on www.swissotel.com, the international hospitality hotel group is out to impress with its much improved navigation and new functionality.
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Changing the outlook of their site completely from black to cream, giving a lighter and fresher look to its site, the hotel is now having a special offer that offers free breakfast with accommodation booked to celebrate the website launch.
Google Maps has also been added on for guests to find their way to the hotels easily with details. An integrated booking process and login access to the Swiss么tel Circle loyalty programme is also available to cater to Swiss么tel guests.
Users can now navigate through the site easily and efficiently, with larger eye-catching images and an extensive selection of virtual tours and videos.
For online bookers, enjoy the offer of all bookings made between 16 - 31 August 2012 via www. swissotel.com at the Fully Flexible Rate, accommodation includes breakfast for those staying between 16th August and 31st December 2012.
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All detailed information about the deluxe hotels within the group are presented in depth, and even travel tips for each destination.