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Take Nota: The ultra-exclusive travel guide series Nota Bene is now available in Hong Kong. Catering to style-conscious travellers, these rainbow-coloured guides cover one fashionable destination per issue (the likes of Courcheval, St Tropez and Marrakech) and focus on the world's most fashionable hotels, restaurants, shops and nightlife. The guides are usually available by subscription only - 10 destinations are published a year - but Design Link (9-11 St Francis Street, Wan Chai, tel: 3113 8728) is stocking the NB City and NB Review themed box sets (the former comprises New York, Rome and Dublin, the latter the Maldives, St Moritz, Turks and Caicos Islands - at HK$980 each). Subscription costs a steep #250 (HK$3,590) a year, or #460 for two years, and entitles you to access the archives, shop from the back catalogue and use the company's travel advisory service. For details, call (44) 870 240 4089 or visit www.nbreview.com.

Out of Finnair: Finnair is offering round-trip, economy-class tickets to any of the 50-plus European cities it flies to, for $5,380. Flights go via Bangkok (for one-hour refuelling only) and transfer at Helsinki. Blackout periods are April 3-8, July 10 to August 23, and December 18-23. Business class tickets on the same flights are $17,200 until the end of the year, with one stopover in Bangkok or Helsinki permitted. For more details, call 2117 1238 or visit www.finnair.com.

Miles high club: Fly 10,000 paid, qualifying miles on United Airlines before March 31, and you'll receive 5,000 bonus miles. Alternatively, fly 10,000 miles before February 29 and you can choose to earn double miles on any subsequent flights before March 31. Call 2810 4888 or visit www.unitedairlines.com.hk (see under Valuable offers) for more information.