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Under $100
An opening special price of $99 gets a room for two at the brand new Hotel Ibis Tainui in Hamilton. Make a booking and your breakfasts will be discounted to $2 a person. The hotel is on the banks of the Waikato River with water and central city views. Valid for stays between December 10 and January 31, you can book now.
Contact until the hotel opens, call "sister" hotel, Novotel, Hamilton (07) 838 1366.
On the web: www.jasons.com/hotdeal
UNDER $200
Literally nestled over the water's edge in Tauranga, the one-year-old Sebel Trinity Wharf Hotel is offering its $350-a-night bed-and-breakfast rooms at $168 for two people. You'll also get full buffet breakfasts.
Rooms are complete with LCD TV, king-sized bed, heated bathroom flooring, separate bath and shower. The hotel has a private pontoon and jetty.
Contact Wotif.com, 0800 441 092 or book on-line at www.wotif.com/hotelW46443
UNDER $600
A three-night Romantic Package to Las Vegas is priced from $545 each, twin-share.
Return flights from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and return airport transfers are included. You'll stay at the Paris Las Vegas. Valid for travel between March 13 and November 30, this must be booked by December 15. Flights from New Zealand are not included.
Contact GO Holidays, 0800 464 646.
On the web: www.goholidays.co.nz
UNDER $3000
Couples who book early for a nine-day Glimpses of China tour for 2008 will save $300. Priced from $2099 each when booking on a twin-share basis - and not including airfares from New Zealand - the tour takes in the Great Wall of China, the Terracotta Warriors, Beijing, Xian and Shanghai.
There are two departures each month from March to September, excluding August due to the 2008 Olympics.
The $300 comes off when travellers book and make a deposit by January 18 and pay the balance by March 14.
Contact China Holidays, 0800 824462 or email sales@chinaholidays.co.nz
On the web: www.chinaholidays.co.nz
UNDER $5000
Sailings from New York or from Southampton, England, aboard "Queen Mary 2" plus the flights from New Zealand to get you to the dock on time are priced from $4158 each, twin-share. Choose whether you travel from New York to Southampton or the other way around on the six-night Trans-Atlantic cruises. Sailings at this price are in May and October. Flights are from Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch. Book and pay by December 14.
Contact Lion World united Travel, 0800 277 477 or email travel@lionworld.co.nz
On the web: www.unitedtravel.co.nz
UNDER $7000
Cruise the waterways of Vietnam and Cambodia on a newly-built luxurious riverboat, , from $6250 each, twin or double-share. Limited to 60 passengers or less, the 12-day cruise along the Mekong River sets out from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap in Cambodia. Departures begin in January. Flights from New Zealand can be arranged.
Contact Were Travel United, (09) 520 4142.
On the web: sophie@weretravel.co.nz.
