You wouldn't build just any old resort in a setting as dramatically beautiful as Tofino, B.C.
At Long Beach Lodge Resort, recently featured in the pages of Architectural Digest, the views are compelling both inside and out.
Regular room rates can climb as high as $650, but to celebrate B.C.'s 150th anniversary, the resort is offering a special "B.C. 150" package with rates from $150 per person, per night, from now through Sept. 30, with a two-night minimum stay.
The rate includes accommodation in a beachfront room, breakfast and lunch for two, and a glass of local wine.
For details, see the "Specials & Packages" link at www.longbeachlodgeresort.com
Save on winter sun with Sunquest: It's open season with Sunquest's latest promotion, offering $100 per person ($200 per couple) off all products in the Winter 2008-2009 Southern Sun brochure, available now. Very few restrictions apply.
All Sunquest destinations, from all gateways, are included in the promotion, either for air only or package holidays for three, four, seven and 14 nights.
The deal also applies to group bookings. The only passengers who don't qualify for the $100 deal are kids.
Bookings must be made by Aug. 18 for travel Nov. 1, 2008 through Feb. 28, 2009. More information at www.sunquest.ca
Cabin upgrades In the Caribbean: Signature Vacations knows the value of a good upgrade.
Just a few weeks ago, the company was offering upgraded rooms in Mexico. Now it's offering cabin upgrades for Caribbean cruises, to an outside stateroom on either of its Tropical Cruise itineraries this winter.
Departures are from La Romana in the Dominican Republic, to either St. Lucia, Barbados, Guadeloupe, St. Kitts and Tortola or Grenada, Dominica, Antigua, St. Martin and Tortola. The booking deadline is Aug. 15 for sailings Dec. 21, 2008 to April 27, 2009.
See www.signaturevacations.com for departure dates and pricing.
Best Buy of the Week: Super 8 has blast-from-the-past nightly room rates of $8.88 (U.S.). That's what the economy lodging chain charged when it first opened in 1974.
In a sale that continues through both today and tomorrow, Super 8 is offering 800 rooms at hotels across Canada and the U.S. for $8.88 on a first-come, first-served basis for stays through Dec. 30.
The sale starts at 8 p.m. each day and continues until that day's allocation of discounted rooms is sold out. Bookings must be made at www.super8.com
Kathryn Folliott is a Toronto-based freelance writer. Prices quoted are subject to change and availability.
