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HOTEL LOBBY TOURING

Taste the good life the cheap way

PALM SPRINGS, Califor-
nia — We have . just
discovered a great. way to
" sample The Good Life while
on holiday.

iv 's called: “hotel lobby touring”

~— and it needn't cost a penny. (It

better ‘not — after that: article —
headlined SPENDING SICKNESS,

about chronic spenders, in™: the

March'27 issue of. the North Shore ”

News).

My wife Mandy: and} happened =
to get into hotel lobby touring in. -

., the U.S., the next. cheapest holiday
_ destination after Canada, thanks
to our revived dollar.:

Only here will you find a $300
. million’ (ali prices in U.S. dollars;
" convert to, Canadian: by adding”
about 25 per cent) hotel with two ”

waterfalls and a lake in, its: 100.
. foot-high lobby.

3 Marriott's Desert: Spring
Resort in nearby. Palin Desert. :

returned: to:real

-yedity; by ‘stopping: f'at:Motel 6. It:
n’t:-have: much. ‘ofa: ‘lobby, but -

(one’person

ight) ‘down to'$11.71.a\.
“a person per, day (four in a room | for.

a week), plus nine-per-cent tax.

‘After_all, you might as well save:

a money, as you spend it:

_two- ‘nigh
$730 “fi ve-nigh
hich include all

Hope; Frank Sinatra, tous Autry, .
former: president : Gerald Ford. and ie

‘Walter Annenberg are among
those with homes in the area — as
the Gray Line tour driver delights

’ in relating.

Or take the public bus: For ex-
ample, the one-zone 50-cent fare

BUSINESS

buys you a ride on a topless —

double-decker, “whose route in-
cludes the airport into town.

If you drive, shop around for
gas, which ranges from 80 cents to
$1.40 a (U.S.) gallon,

When you rent a car anywhere,

consider buying collision ‘damage
waiver coverage at home (it’s
usually cheaper). You might also
take a chance and rent after you
arrive. One fellow here quoted me

$50 a week ‘twhen I have extra
cars on the lot.’’

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