28 - Sunday, August 14, 1988 - North Shore News onan nll com, Onmnao Paw eee: NOT SO long ago Sitmar Cruises booked me a hotel in Fort Lauderdale. It was new, beautifully built in a colonial style with a huge open core and galleries of rooms above. But they weren’t rooms — they were suites. Every bedroom had a separate sitting room with table, another TV and generally enough extra space for a maharajah’s elephant. My address was the Embassy Suites, and my bill, under $100, was m0 more than the rate for a conventional hotel. It's no surprise that this chain and others with similar products are catching on fast. Frequent business travellers like the extra space that makes them feel more at home, while the sitting room area is particularly appealing to women who want to use their hotel for business appointments. travel talk David Wishart For families it means that the kids can be shut in the bedroom with the cartoon channel, while parents hide out in the other room for a quiet meal, or a flaming row. {t was families, of course, who discovered the joy of space by adopting the concept of con- dominiums for vacations. For years my annual vacation was a condo on Maui, where for less than the price of one hotel room ! got a beautiful condo on the beach with @ separate bedroom and hotels, so the basic rule of thumb remains, that you get twice the space for the money, plus the kitchen. This makes a condo ideal for a family, or two couples sharing. And having a kitchen is a great bonus, enabling parents to cater to iS TRAVEL a eal on vacation. Condos also tend to be in smaller buildings, and they often have stores on the ground floor or nearby. Some come with cars as well, usually at much better rates than the airport bandits. Booking a condo can be done in several ways, including checking the small advertisements of this newspaper. The best way, and the safest way, is to use a travel agent, Photos submitted CONDOS SUCH as this one on Maui offer good value. children, particularly babies. Even in the best hotels, room service has its panic periods, and of course that’s just when you want hot water to heat the baby’s formula. With a kitchen you can save cash galore by doing your own meals. Okay, this is not recom- mended for the exhausted wife who wants to be spoiled rotten in a good hotel, but more and more people are getting cheesed off with the $10 breakfast. (In Europe read $20). For a couple and two kids that’s $40 gone before you hit the beach. One rationale is that if we eat well at home 50 weeks of the year with occasional restaurant outings, there’s no need to be big spenders who has access to the numerous companies, such as Astoa in Hawaii, which has a wide range of digs on all the islands. To give an example of the prices, Wardair Holidays’ summer program, good through October, includes the four-star Hotel Prince Kuhio in Waikiki for $869 and the three-star Miramar for $779. That is one person for one week, based on two sharing, and including air- fare. A similar vacation at the Waikiki Banyan condos for two people sharing is $879 each, or $664 each for four sharing. The couple in the condominium pay about the same as the better hotel, but have twice the space plus a kitchen. The two couples in the condo are saving quite a bit of money on rent, and after that they have the economy of the kitchen and the fun of sharing meals. The same applies for winter ily H i wih i ke a i ry ine Re Ei cial ae aH aa mae holidays. The Whistler Village Inn, for example, offers a generous amount of space and a kitchen for its daily rate, which all helps to make skiing more affordable, par- ticularly for families. Papermaking A TWO-DAY WORKSHOP WITH SHARYN YUEN — SEPT. 9-11 n this workshop a variety of methods of producing hand- formed paper sheets will be taught, and you'll explore using fibres as sculptured medium through traditional European papermaking and contemporary casting techniques. Stable papers are produced from cotton/linen rags and linters. nstruction includes coloring and painting with pulp laminating, embedding, casting a paper bowl, low relief casting with a vacuum table, making shaped papers and other experimental techniques. Studio work is supplemented by slide and video presentations. haryn Yuen has studied the art of papermaking in Quebec. Banff, California, Belgium and Japan. Over the past ten years her work has been extensively exhibited in the Northwest. She is well known as a teacher as well as an artist. Sharyn is currently proprietress of Kakali Handmade Papers. She is also co- owner of PaperYa on Granville Island. lam Bay Farm is a 100-acre organic farm rich with crops, meadows, forests and wildlife, a stocked trout pond and a half mile of ocean shoreline set in a peaceful valley on Pender Island. You will enjoy delicious meals cooked with produce One of my favorite areas of Ontario is the Killarney wilderness region, not only for the lakes but for the unique, spectacular, white quartz hills. Annabelle and Maury East run the Killarney Mountain Lodge (1-800-461-1117); its a fine, interesting place to visit. Jane Champagne pictured) is the artist-in-residence. She sent me al f glowing letter on the Joys of Tilleys which ended with this PS: “I might add that I've become “jaddicted to Tilley clothes — they really are all you say they are, which proves that all advertising is not necessarily hype.” Thanks, Jane. You can imagine how difficult it was, at first, for (his Canadian to say his products were the very best, But | managed. Alex Tilley from our gardens, walks on the beach and through the woods, horses, canoeing, hot tub and sauna. A 50% deposit is due two weeks before workshop date. Please book early as space is limited. Tuition, room and board: $199. ther workshops scheduled for Clam Bay Farm this summer include: * Govindido - ‘Hands On’ Drum Workshop. July 15-17 e3} ¢ Susan Hughes - The Garden Within. July 22-24 © Cheryl Kolander - Silk Dyeing with Natural Dyes. Aug, 5-7 © Robert Minden - Ways of Telling — A Storytelling Workshop. Aug. 19-21 © Daphne Marlatt - Jounal Writing for Women. Sept. 16-18 ® Sandra Semchuck - Photographing Within Play. Sept. 30-Oct. 2 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL CORRINE DAVIS. CLAM BAY FARM R.BR.1 North Pender Island, B.C. sea VON 2M0