Expedia.com Lets Travelers Escape into the Movies This Awards Season
BELLEVUE, Wash. ? Feb. 14, 200 ? Expedia.com®, the world?s leading online travel agency, is inviting travelers to
experience life – just like how you see it in the movies – with new cinematic getaways that will whisk you away from your
day-to-day reality. Celebrate this year?s crop of notable films with a trip that?s worthy of the red carpet: try daredevil
flying in San Diego, drinking anything but merlot in Napa Valley or channeling Peter Pan in London?s Kensington Gardens.
These award-winning trips are available at http://www.expedia.com/movies.
For the stars in all of us, who still haven?t managed to get personal assistants, you can easily book everything for your
next trip – from the flight and hotel to the destination activities – at Expedia.com.
The Aviator – Soar above the seaside in San Diego
Recapture the high-flying feeling of days gone by. Just north of San Diego, check into the La Valencia Hotel (4 stars) where
Hollywood stars and eccentric business moguls frolicked in the 1920s. Explore the area?s aviation museums then take to the
skies in an open-air biplane! Air from San Francisco + three nights at La Valencia from $548. Add an Open Cockpit Biplane
Ride from $230.
Sideways – Savor the sights of the Wine Country
Whether you?re searching for the perfect Pinot or satisfied with supermarket Chablis, you can?t deny the beauty of
California?s Wine Country. Get into the mood at your vineyard-themed boutique hotel in San Francisco, the Executive Hotel
Vintage Court (3 stars) then let a designated driver whisk you to Napa and Sonoma?s famed wineries. Air from Los Angeles +
three nights at the Executive Hotel Vintage Court from $265. Add a Napa and Sonoma Wine Tour from $57.
Finding Neverland – Dream of London?s posh past
In tony Kensington, The Kensington Close Hotel & Health Spa (3 stars) radiates vintage English charm. Stroll across the
street to Kensington Gardens, where writer J.M. Barrie met the children who inspired Peter Pan. In the evening, head to the
West End theatre district, which is where Barrie?s plays were often produced. Air from Los Angeles + four nights at the
Kensington Close Hotel from $736.
Ray – Lose your blues in New Orleans
Devise your own ?Ray Tour? in the Big Easy: Make your home at the elegant hotel used in the film – The Fairmont Hotel New
Orleans (4 stars) – then walk by the historic Saenger Theatre where “Brother Ray” performed and scenes from the movie were
also filmed. Finish it off with a toe-tappin? evening of Southern food and music. Air from Atlanta + three nights at the
Fairmont Hotel New Orleans from $541 Add a Cajun dinner and live music at Michaul?s from $35.
The Motorcycle Diaries – Cruise South America by ship
Before he became a revolutionist icon, Ernesto ?Che? Guevara explored South America on a rickety Norton motorbike. For a less
bumpy journey, take a 17-night leisurely cruise from Holland America?s Amsterdam (4 ½ stars) along the continent?s West Coast
– though it?s doubtful Che would approve of such bourgeois comfort. 17-night South America cruise (Valparaiso, Chile to San
Diego) from $2,089.
House of Flying Daggers – Invoke the echoes of ancient China
Be transported back to the Tang Dynasty in Beijing by losing yourself in The Great Wall Sheraton Hotel?s (4 stars) Chinese
garden, amid lanterns and figurines. Then, enjoy an evening of timeless delights: a traditional Peking duck banquet followed
by a display of Chinese acrobatics, a 3,000-year-old art form. Air from New York + four nights at The Great Wall Sheraton
Hotel from $1,044. Add a Beijing evening dinner and show from $55.
Shark Tale – Sleep with the fishes in the Bahamas
You?ll feel like the ?Godfather? of the reef at your beachfront resort – the Radisson Cable Beach (3 ½ stars). Relax beside
one of three pools or explore a tri-level waterscape, complete with waterfalls, rapids, and a grotto. You can even arrange to
swim with the sharks – and that?s no fish story. Air from Miami + four nights at the Radisson Cable Beach from $718. Add a
Stuart Cove?s Shark Adventure from $125.
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