Contiki announces Canada Savings

Travellers heading to Canada can and save up to $339 per person with Contiki.

Canada tours booked before 30 June, 2007 will be entitled to this fabulous discount.

These awesome Canadian tour savings are valid on Contiki’s Grand Canadian and Canada and The Rockies itineraries for travel by 30 September, 2007. The savings are based on Contiki’s special pay by 30 June and save $250 tour discount deal combined with its four-month Early Payment Discount – which can save clients another $89 – that’s’ a total of up to $339!

Contiki recently surveyed Australian travellers to see what they want motivates them to travel…the report tapped into the new spirit of travellers in Australia, the intellectual traveller (or iTraveller). It revealed a genuine movement away from the mainstream perception that youth travel is inherently hedonistic and frivolous to a desire for experiences that allow a person who travels to absorb the country’s culture and customs to its fullest.

Canada ranked in the top ten destinations iTravellers in Australia wanted to visit next. Not just for skiing in the mountains but to cheer for the best cowboys at Canada ’s biggest rodeo show The Calgary Stampede, to watch a pyrotechnics spectacle at the world’s largest fireworks competition Celebration of Light in Vancouver , or to riding aboard the specially designed Ice Explorer vehicle on the Athabasca Glacier.

Contiki’s Grand Canadian – 18 days now priced from $3279 per person, (twin share, land only).

Highlights include: Newport: see the summer mansions of the rich and famous; Boston: see Harvard University, Boston Commons and the original ‘Cheers’ Bar; walk the Freedom Trail; Maine: a scenic drive through the novelist ‘Stephen King’s territory’; Quebec City: visit the only walled city in North America; Montreal: visit old town Montréal and the old port; Toront travel along the St. Lawrence River Valley and see the Thousand Islands, the eclectic shops on Yonge Street and the University; Whistler: drive the scenic Sea to Sky Highway, visit Shannon Falls, see Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains, hike one of Whistler many trails; Kamloops: enjoy a scenic drive through the Lillooet Mountain Range, see Duffy and Kamloops Lakes; Mt. Robson: drive along the Yellowhead Highway into the Rocky Mountains, check out Mt. Robson, the highest point in the Canadian Rockies; Jasper:  explore the national park, visit Maligne Canyon, the deepest and longest limestone canyon in the Rockies and walk to Athabasca Falls; Columbia Icefield: drive along the Icefields Parkway, see some of the 200 glaciers in the area, ride aboard the specially designed Ice Explorer vehicle on the Athabasca Glacier, see the vivid blue colour of Peyto Lake; Lake Louise; Banff: see the Saskatchewan River Valley and Weeping Wall; Yoho, Glacier and Mt. Revelstoke National Parks:  see the incredible Spiral Train Tunnels, see Kicking Horse Valley; Vernon: see the orchards, farmlands and vineyards of the Okanagan Valley; Vancouver: see Gastown, Chinatown and Lion’s Gate Bridge, visit the Totem Poles of Canada’s First Nations People in Stanley Park and finally; Seattle: see the Space Needle, Lake Union and its houseboats made famous by the movie Sleepless in Seattle.

All Contiki’s Canadian tours include transport, accommodations, sightseeing, most meals and the benefit of an experienced tour manager who can give clients the low-down on each area.

For more info see www.contiki.com/canada. Bookings available exclusively through travel agents nationally.

Report by The Mole