Think Australia, Think Luxury

Mollymook Beach, South NSW - Photo©VDuBourdieu

Mollymook Beach, South NSW - Photo©VDuBourdieu

Long known as an expert on travel to the South Pacific, Austravel now has a special microsite for easy access to its luxury travel sector.

The site is simple to get around, gives a broad view of Australia, and allows users to search for accommodation and excursions by name or region.

For instance, it offers customers the chance to take one of Australia’s great railway journeys onboard the chairman’s private carriage on the Ghan.

For little more than the regular fare, you can travel with family or friends in privacy and comfort across the Australian landscape.

•    Your cabin is a private lounge during the day;
•    By night, your private cabin converts to your choice of comfortable, double or twin beds with quality bedding;
•    An oversized panoramic window in your cabin offers you a unique perspective on the ever changing Australian landscape;
•    You can also stretch your legs and take meals in the elegant Queen Adelaide Restaurant Car, including a la carte dinners.

For those who want to book excursions, Luxury Australia provides access to sea planes in Sydney, and escorted tours of the Great Barrier Reef.

The Austravel luxury microsite covers Saffire, a stunning resort on Tasmania’s Freycinet Peninsula and Wolgan Valley, Australia’s most environmentally responsible tourist destination.

The newly refurbished Crown Towers in Melbourne is also a hot property on the site.

As well as a wide selection of images, the microsite offers access to Google maps so that visitors can see luxury resorts and their stunning locations – up close and far away.

Wellington, NZ - Photo©VDuBourdieu

Wellington, NZ - Photo©VDuBourdieu

Founded 32 years ago to showcase travel in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, Austravel is known for its great deals.

These include individually designed holidays, cheap flights, hotels, cruises, and escorted tours.

Austravel prides itself on finding the right holiday for its customers, and has won the Australia Tour Operator of the Year Award three times out of the last five years at the Tourism Australia Awards.

Link to Austravel’s new luxury site here:

Aussie Favourite – Vacations & Travel

Vacations & Travel, July-Sep 2010

Vacations & Travel, July-Sep 2010

It’s already Australia’s ‘favourite travel magazine’ and the latest, quarterly issue of Vacations & Travel offers real value for money.

In the July-September issue, the magazine includes a packed 180-page Annual Holiday Planner. This features more than 80 hotels, resorts, apartments and cruise lines in Australia, New Zealand, and around the world.

That’s in addition to the regular 220-pages of Vacations & Travel, with its great destinations, stunning photography and incisive writing.

In the Antipodes’ winter issue, you’ll find romantic and adventurous tropical destinations, from the rainforest of Sabah to the holiday islands of Mauritius, the Cook Islands and French Polynesia.

There are also features on California, Patagonia, Vietnam and South Africa, plus skiing in Japan, Austria and Canada.

If you’re planning a holiday across the Tasman, the 68-page New Zealand luxury supplement is a must have, listing the very best vacation spots in the land of the great white cloud.

From Auckland to Dunedin, they swear to give you the perfect place to stay, whether it’s for a short break or a longer vacation.

One lucky subscriber to Vacations & Travel will win a five-night vacation for two in Japan, courtesy of Japan Airlines, the b akaska (sic) hotel and Japan National Tourism.

To enter, please click here.