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More Black Friday Deals Roll In: Mediterranean Cruises + Toronto Hotel

More Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are rolling in for travellers.

Celestyal, the award-winning, number one choice for travelers to the Greek Islands and the Eastern Mediterranean, is making the experience of a multi-destination Greek Island vacation less expensive this holiday season with its just announced “Big Blue Day” holiday sale, featuring 23 days of cruise and value-add upgrade savings.

Recently, Celestyal launched a new, two-tiered pricing structure to provide more choice and value. The entry-level, “inclusive” fare offers complimentary dining and select drinks with meals, entertainment, daily activities, port charges and gratuities. This entry level fare also comes with a pre-bookable shore excursion discount of $80, per person.

For those wishing to upgrade their experience, Celestyal offers an “enhanced” fare with an unlimited premium drinks package, daily hour of complimentary Wi-Fi, 25 percent discount on Specialty Dining and a pre-bookable shore excursion discount of $160, per person. From now until December 6th, travelers can save even more when upgrading to the all-inclusive “enhanced” fare, which is normally priced at $140 per person supplement on the ‘inclusive’ fare, for just $70 (a savings of 50 percent).

Among the 94 sailings included in the “Big Blue Day” sales event, is the popular seven-night “Idyllic Aegean” itinerary with “inclusive” fares starting at $889, per person based on double occupancy, (originally $1,650), beginning in Athens and calling upon Thessaloniki, Crete (Heraklion), Santorini, Milos and Mykonos in Greece as well as Kusadasi, Turkey.

For more information visit https://celestyal.com/us/, contact your travel agent or call +1.877.222.7405.

A room at the Chelsea Hotel Toronto. Photo courtesy Chelsea Hotel Toronto.

CHELSEA HOTEL TORONTO BLACK FRIDAY DEAL

The Chelsea Hotel Toronto announces its 4-day Black Friday/Cyber Sale. For those booking for stays in December, the hotel is giving the Daily Bread Food Bank $1.00 per stay!

4-DAY BLACK FRIDAY/CYBER SALE
NOV 24 – NOV 28, 2022

4 DAYS ONLY! SAVE ON YOUR NEXT STAY IN TORONTO FOR STAYS INTO MARCH 2023
THE LOWEST RATE OF THE YEAR IS HERE
BOOK NOW FROM $169/NIGHT

The Chelsea Hotel Toronto is a great gift for family, friends or yourself. Give the gift of comfort and fun with a weekend getaway, a March Break holiday or midweek jaunt!

Terms and Conditions
-For reservations made between November 24, 2022 and March 31, 2023
-Reservations are fully pre-paid, no refunds and no cancellations
-$169 rate is based on double occupancy in a Chelsea single-bedded room accommodation
-Blackout dates apply
-Payment credit card used to make reservation must be presented at check-in with valid photo ID. Failure to do so will void the reservation and rate will change to our non-discounted Best Available Rate for that day.

An idyllic bit of coastline in Puerto Rico. Jonathan Lampel/Unsplash Photo

DIRECT FLIGHTS CANADA TO PUERTO RICO

Canada’s two major airlines are flying regularly to Puerto Rico this winter.

WestJet tells me that flights to San Juan, Puerto Rico have returned to their schedule and are operating between Toronto and San Juan once weekly (Saturdays) through to April of 2023.

Air Canada said in an email that their schedule includes three flights per week from Toronto (started on November 5) and two flights per week from Montreal (as of December 3). The flights are on mainliine Airbus A220 or Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, officials said, and service will continue until April 30, 2023.

The fabled old course at St. Andrews, Scotland.

SCOTLAND NAMED WORLD’S TOP GOLF DESTINATION

For the first time in the 9-year history of the World Golf Awards, Scotland has been awarded the ultimate accolade of ‘Best Golf Destination in the World.’

Around 200 guests from golfing destinations across the globe, attended the prestigious annual World Golf Award gala ceremony in Abu Dhabi this week (14-16 November 2022).

The World Golf Awards, which is part of The World Travel Awards, serves to celebrate and reward excellence in golf tourism with winners chosen by tour operators, media and golf fans from across the world.

Scotland’s first win of the night came during the Best Golf Destination in Europe category followed by the top recognition of Best Golf Destination in the World.

Both awards acknowledge and celebrate the quality of Scotland as a golfing destination and, as the industry continues to recover from the pandemic, everything Scotland has to offer to golf fans.

Widely regarded as the ‘Home of Golf’, Scotland has over 550 courses to play, including multiple championship venues and resorts, links courses, parkland courses and 9-hole courses.

The award wins follow on the back of a momentous year for the Scottish golf industry which saw a number of the world’s biggest and most prestigious golf tournaments return home to Scotland to be played over an action packed five consecutive weeks. Headlined by the historic 150th Open at St Andrews, Scotland also provided the perfect stage for The Genesis Scottish Open, The Senior Open Presented by Rolex, Trust Golf Women’s Scottish Open, AIG Women’s Open and the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.