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dates are March I5 to 23.

Meanwhile the latest tuxury
cruise line is getting under way
with a series of cruises in Asia.
Renaissance Cruises has a new,
100-passenger, all-suite vessel, the
Renaissance 1, with Italian officers
and American management, the
latter veterans of top operations
like Royal Viking Line.

Renaissance will be ‘‘port-inten-
sive’? which means a great deal of
emphasis on destinations.

Renaissance ! will be based in
Singapore for a series of mostly
one-week cruises.

There are seven other vessels to
come, all with a ‘‘cashiess en-
vironment,” enabling passengers
to sign for everything — including
gambling funds — right up to the
Jast day. It’s not true that the casi-
no has a front door, a back door
and a plank going over the side.

Barge cruising in Europe con-
tinues to grow in popularity, with
a new company, French Cruise
Lines, offering trips through
Burgundy and Provence.

There is also a six-day trip start-
ing at Honfleur and heading up the
Seine to Paris. Prices start at
$1,350 U.S. per person.

At 100 passengers, the Arlene
and Normandie are somewhat big-
ger than the old narrow boat that
took me chugging through
Burgundy in the company of 14
other souls, but the cost is also

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you away from the cold
damp Vancouver Winter
on the voyage of a
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Departing from London, travelling 29,000
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Australasia and the Far East.

Other Winter Sun Cruises will be on
board Azerbaydzham's sister ship Karelia,
formerly the Leonid Breznev, rechristened
after a multimillion dollar refit.

Sample the delights of
the Caribbean on one of
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seeking cruises to the
West Indies.

Or perhaps 37 nights on the Rio Carnival
cruise may appeal more to your sense of
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But regardless of which CTC cruise you
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money.

Call your travel agent or.

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considerably less.

Then there is the Fantaseas fleet
of sailing ships offering ‘‘luxury
and mystique’ on exotic vessels in
the Mediterranean, with 24-
hours-a-day pampering and no
sweaty stuff like hauling on sheets
or dogwatches. Have your travel
agent talk to Starlight Charters in
Toronto.

If you’ve taken the train (the
Orient-Express of course) and
want to try a similar experience,
what about an Orient-Expgess
cruise? The MV_ Orient-Ex tess
starts its fifth season on April 28
with weekly sailings between
Athens and Olympia.

Up to 260 cars can be carried,
and passengers can get off along
the way — at Istanbul, Kusadasi or
Patmos — and resume the trip a
week later. Fares start at $820 U.S.

Finally, Special Expeditions will
explore England, Scotland and
Ireland with the 80-passenger
Polaris. Trips run during May and
June, before the tourist season
becomes totally frantic.

The cruises start and finish in
London, calling at Dartmouth,
Isles of Scilly, Ring of Kerry and
Kenmare, Skelling Islands, Aran
Islands, Sligo County, Iona and
Eigg, UNapool, Orkneys, Shetland,
Mousa Island and Fair Isle, Isle of
May and Whitby.

Agent is M-H Tours of Mon-
treal. But let your travel agent do
the work; it doesn’t cost you a
penny to let them do it all for you.

bathing suits
and cruisewear.
Adrienne Vittadini

lonsdale Quay Market
984-7243

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