Friendly Planet Travel has several reduced price offerings for families looking at summer vacations to often exotic destinations. These trips often cost less than $2,000. They include:
Captivating Costa Rica – Spend 7-days exploring Costa Rica starting at $1,179. This trip includes round-trip airfare from Miami including fuel surcharges taxes and fees all ground transportation, accommodations in "superior" hotels, a daily breakfast buffet and all intra-country transfers.
Exotic Ecuador – Spend 8-days in Exotic Ecuador for $1,299, which is a savings of $300. This trip includes round-trip airfare from Miami to Quito, fuel surcharges and taxes and fees, all ground transportation, accommodations in "superior" and "deluxe" hotels with private bath, 15 bountiful meals including 7 buffet breakfasts, 3 lunches, 5 dinners, comprehensive sightseeing tours including entrance fees and a professional English-speaking tour guide.
Tokyo Express – Spend 7-days for $1,599 in Tokyo. This trip includes round-trip flights from LAX via Singapore Airlines non-stop jet service including fuel surcharges and taxes and fees, 5 nights "superior" first class accommodations, buffet breakfast daily, arrivals and departures transfers via airport bus, and a city tour of Tokyo with a local guide.
Incredible Thailand – Spend 14-days for $1,919 in Thailand. This trip includes round-trip flights via China Airlines including fuel surcharges and taxes and fees, intra-Thailand transportation, accommodations at "superior" first class and "deluxe hotels," full buffet American breakfast daily and 2 dinners, sightseeing tours as per itinerary and all transfers, professional, English-speaking tour guides, and optional extensions to Angkor and Wat and Phuket Island.
Kenya Safari Express – Lions, tigers and bears. For $2,199, travelers can enjoy 8-days in this beautiful country. This trip includes round-trip airfare from New York to Nairobi on Turkish Airlines including fuel surcharges airline taxes and fees, 6 nights accommodations at a "deluxe" Nairobi hotel and "superior" safari lodges, all intra-Africa land transportation and transfers, boat safari on Lake Naivasha, 12 bountiful meals, comprehensive sightseeing tours and game-viewing drives, experienced driver/guide and game-spotter, and comprehensive sightseeing tours in Nairobi by a local English-speaking guide.
Colors of Cuba – Friendly Planet is one of first tour operators that was granted a people-to-people license to Cuba. And Cuba is now listed as one of the top destinations to visit in 2012. This 8-day tour for $2,799 offers travelers round-trip flights from Miami to Havana, seven nights’ accommodations, all intra-ground transportation, 21 meals, a Friendly Planet escort, English-speaking local guide, health insurance and nearly all taxes and fees.
By David Wilkening
