In an offer available now to Sydneysiders, a 15-night trans-Pacific cruise from Los Angeles to Sydney aboard the grand liner in February NEXT year will include two nights in Hollywood before you actually set sail.
The earlybird offer, just released by Creative Cruising, has an attractive price tag from $6299pp twin-share - and that includes your airfare and taxes to Los Angeles as well as the Hollywood break.
QM2 is scheduled to sail from Los Angeles on February 10, 2009, heading first to Honolulu, then Pago Pago in American Samoa, Auckland and Sydney.
All onboard meals, Cunard-class showroom and other entertainment, sporting and social activities, and port charges are also included.
You have to book, however, by February 29 THIS year. Just call 1300 362 599 or visit www.creativecruising.com.au
QM2 caused quite a stir on her inaugural visit to Sydney Harbour (picture). She has ten restaurants ranging from silver service to Asian and Italian specialists, casual poolside dining and the largest seaborne kitchen ... oops, galley … which serves 16,000 meals a day including freshly-baked scones for the inevitable English afternoon tea. There are 13 bars and lounges, an English pub, a two-deck health spa, indoor and outdoor pools, a sports centre, golf simulator, the showroom, cinema, a planetarium in which its possible to take a virtual ride into space, a 500-seat lecture hall and a museum documenting the golden era of trans-Atlantic cruising. Is it a plane … No, it’s a train
Air Tahiti Nui has joined forces with the French high-speed rail service, TGV (pictured) to provide fast links from Paris to 16 major destinations throughout France.
The rail link, known as TGVair, combines flight and train tickets to make travelling to other major region cities in France more convenient.
Fares from Sydney to Paris aboard Air Tahiti Nui start from $2599 plus taxes.
Onward TGV roundtrip journeys departing from Charles de Gaulle Airport are priced, for example, at an attractive $220 per person to Lyon; $254 to Bordeaux; and $284 to Marseille.
Air Tahiti Nui's Craig Lee said the alliance with the TGV provided a vast and easy range of travel options for visitors to Europe. ``Our two-stop service to Paris, via idyllic Tahiti and Los Angeles, can now go even further with the TGV alliance, which offers travellers a convenient and easy way to discover France,'' he said.
The service also allows travellers to transfer from plane to train without having top buy a ticket or collect baggage.
The TGV averages 300 kmh but can go up to 500 kmh on some stretches.
For more information call Air Tahiti Nui on 1300 732 415. | 
