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The perfect getaway: Golf, spa treatments ... and Segway tours? What’s in a Segway tour? with very little threat of injury.” The Segway, first introduced a decade ago as an alternative • Cost. Prices generally mode of personal transportarange from $60 to $125 tion, is getting a new life at per person. a growing number of resorts around the world. For those not • Requirements. Several familiar with the two-wheeled resorts have minimum electric vehicle, it works like age requirements and this: Lean forward to move foronly allow guests beward. Lean backward to go in tween a certain weight, Some couples celebrate their reverse. Move the handlebars, generally 100 to 260 anniversary with a horse-drawn and it turns left or right. pounds. The device never quite took carriage ride. Others rent a romantic cabin in the woods. A off as an everyday way to get few even jet off to Las Vegas around, but it has found a niche and renew their vows in front replacing city walking tours in West Virginia. She and her husband and helping security guards of Elvis. Lori Kelly and her husband patrol local shopping malls. travelled in mid-September Gene recently marked their And now hotels with sprawling from their home in Shepsecond anniversary by touring grounds are finding the Seg- herdstown, W.Va. to Pennsylthe woods of the Omni Bedford way to be a great way to show vania resort for a two-night Springs Resort & Spa in Bed- guests around their properties. getaway. They shopped, sat Plus, the devices are still quirky by the hotel’s fire pits, played ford, Penn. on a Segway. horseshoes andMetro, had a romanto beMetro, an attraction in Metro, “It was absolutely Publication: CalgaryfantasMetro, enough Edmonton Halifax London tic anniversary dinner. their own right. tic. It is really the ultimately Ottawa Metro, Regina Metro, Saskatoon Metro, Toronto Metro, But what really made the “You don’t need any special unique experience especially Vancouver Metro, Winnipeg skills to navigate around on it,” trip unique was the 90-minute, for people my age,” said Kelly, Metro Material Deadline: 2012 Kelly, the executive direc- off-road Segway tour for $90. 59. Her husband is 64. “ItSeptember gives said 24, Insertion Dates: Sept 26, Oct JanAmerican 2, Jan 30, 27, Mar 27, AprPress 24, May 22 tor10, of the RedFeb Cross you the flavour of adventure The Associated
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