Free flights for APT 2011-12 Vietnam tour-cruises APT is offering free return airfares to Vietnam/Cambodia and discounts up to $3000 a couple on some departures of its 10 Vietnam-Cambodia tour cruise packages between June 2011 and April 2012, if booked by March 31, 2011. The 12-day Ho Chi Minh, Mekong and Angkor tour, for example, is priced from $4195 per person, twin share which includes seven nights cruising the Mekong River on the ms Amalotus or ms La Marguerite and two nights in Ho Chi Minh City and Siem Reap, the key sites, 29 meals, airport transfers, excursions to remote villages, port charges, cruise tipping and Freedom of Choice Touring and Dining in Ho Chi Minh City and Siem Reap. APT has scheduled 55 departures of this package in its just-released brochure.Some of the free flight deals include airfares tax of about $400 while others require customers to pay the tax. Contact: call 1300 229 804, visit www.aptouring.com.au or see a travel agent.
Additional detail re ms Amalotus: APT’s own ms Amalotus enters service next year. APT says the 62-suite ship will offer the largest suites on the river, twin balconies for more than 90 per cent of suites, two lounges, a library, sun deck with pool and bar, beauty salon, spa, fitness centre and restaurant. With this ship and the ms Marguerite, APT’s fully-inclusive packaging, first class hotels, small group shore excursions in some of the Mekong’s most remote villages – inaccessible to most and the Victoria Express train in North Vietnam, APT is
now able to take its hallmark high standard Europe cruise-tour travel to Indochina, according to APT General Manager Marketing, Debra Fox. Ms Fox said the Amalotus’s “exquisitely decorated” staterooms will offer sophisticated amenities and a stylish décor, fusing accents ofcolonial design with regional Khmer artefacts. All suites and staterooms are located on the outside of the vessel.
Looking forward to sailing on APT in the near future, I LOVE RIVERSHIPS,
John.
