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[email protected] Tel 2565 2650 fax 2980 3140 Malaysia Airlines has a good deal for travel to Australia. Return fares are available for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin or Cairns at only HK$3,620. Passengers can fly in to any of these cities and make the return journey from any of the seven destinations. The ticket is valid for 14 days, and the outward journey must be made by June 25. Passengers must fly to Kuala Lumpur for connections. Contact Thomas Cook for details. Tel 2853 9933 Dragonair is giving away a return ticket every day until June 30 to any one of its 26 destinations in Asia in a lucky draw open to passengers who use its in-flight duty-free shopping service.
Professional Sports Divers (PSD) of Guam is offering PADI Advanced Open Water diving courses which can be completed over a long weekend. Fly out on a Friday evening with Continental Airlines to take the two-day course, which costs US$200 (HK$1,556) each if two or more divers book together. Hong Kong already provides more than 60 per cent of PSD's business, with an average of 40 divers from the SAR taking the plunge each month.
Interested? Call the Guam Visitors Bureau Hong Kong at 2522 1386, or fax 2522 0772.
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www.visitguam.org Soccer fans will know that Wembley Stadium, home to England's FA Cup Final, will go under the demolition ball later this year. But even though the soccer season is over, the turnstiles will remain open during the summer. The authorities are squeezing every buck they can out of the doomed stadium by turning it into a tourist attraction. For GBP7.95 (about HK$95) visitors will be given a tour of the ground, the dressing room, and even up the famous 39 steps to the Royal Box. The tour costs GBP5.50 for children and pensioners. Call 0208 795 8090 or visit the Web site:
www.wembleynationalsta dium.com Emirates Airline is serving up five-star cuisine in all three classes. The 15 dishes for this month have been created for the airline by two chefs at Dubai's luxurious Royal Mirage Hotel. The cuisine is an Arabian blend, but the chefs are Swiss and Australian. The Royal Mirage is the fifth hotel to feature in Emirates' Great Chefs promotion.
If you are planning to do any high altitude climbing this summer, check out the Princeton University Web site which gives excellent information on how to avoid altitude sickness, which can strike even the fittest if they don't take precautions. Many tourists are unaware of the potential risks in places like the Himalayas. The university also gives some sound advice to those planning wilderness excursions. The Web site is
www.princeton.edu Smoking may be banned on Ansett, but it'll be OK to light up on one flight soon in business class, and that's official. The Olympic flame will be carried on a Boeing 767, which will fly it from Athens to Guam. The flame will then be carried through Oceania for two weeks.
KLM is to implement a new policy allowing passengers with physical disabilities on flights, after the airline came under fire for refusing to transport two passengers in wheelchairs to a tennis tournament for the disabled in the United States recently. 'They came on board, but the purser decided [to remove them] based on the rules that the passengers could not transport themselves down the aisles to the lavatory,' a KLM spokesman said.