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Tucson, Sunday, November 5, 1995 (the Arizona Uailij Star Section I Page Three AH dressed up and nowhere to go? We have some suggestions! Tokyo $589 Hong Kong Manila $795 Bangkok $819 Seoul $679 Singapore $809 Saigon $919 FLORIDA Ft. Lauderdale $350 Tampa $330 Jacksonville $330 Orlando $330 West Palm Miami $350 London $475 Frankfurt $580 Paris $560 Nice $820 Zurich $599 $610 Sydney $975 EAST COAST Buffalo $375 Hartford $375 New York $350 Pittsburgh $375 Richmond $375 Baltimore $335 Grand Canyon Special The Rose Parade! The Crystal Cathedral! CALL NOW FOB PRICES DATES! Present this coupon to the main office for a iO discount on ieaturea tours. Special Senior Discount Available! Toan My caacel with fewer taea 28 (520) 622-8811 CD 9 ir rr Instant Purchase Sample Fares From PHOENIX Credit Card Payment -Ask About Other Cities New York City $135 Cleveland $108 Miami London Tel Aviv Paris Athens Rome Cairo Frankfurt $159 $295 $395 $344 $294 $390 $600 $354 Minneapolis Atlanta Charlotte Washington Boston Detroit $83 $81 $189 $158 $122 $80 The Sea Ghost near Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco waits for guests Bed and breakfast aboard Fares are one way based on roundtrlp purchase. Fares are subject to change until time ol actual ticketing. Advance seat selection and frequent flyer miles apply.

All fare rules of airline apply. Major scheduled airline TauIhu? t5W.8 "s' 'Mil a1 ill If owned yachts and make them available for overnight accommodations. "It's kind of a win-win situation for everybody. These are boats that aren't used all the time, and the owners get them washed, maintained and well cared for. And we pay them 25 percent every time we use the boat, so it's a source of income." As of last month Harris had nine boats in his bed-and-breakfast fleet two motor yachts and the Sea Ghost in San Francisco and five sailboats and a motor yacht in Oakland.

Rates range from $85 a night to $270, double occupancy, depending on the size and luxury of the boat and the time of week and season (weekends and summers generally cost slightly more). For those who simply must venture out to sea, Harris provides Snooze Cruise packages, charging $325 per couple, plus an overnight lodging rate, for a two-hour trip with a crew and captain on one of the motor yachts. Customers may invite a small number of guests aboard their boats many as there are people staying the but large parties are forbidden. For that, the Harrises make available their Mariner II yacht. A converted Coast Guard cutter, the Potomac once served as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's yacht and "floating White House." Now a National Historic Landmark owned by the Port of Oakland, the Potomac is anchored near the Dock-side Boat Bed office.

eiiiffliieiisFSMEiGi: By Robert Cross Chicago Tribune SAN FRANCISCO Eight hours off the coast of Madagascar, Sea Ghost cruised with silken grace, her sails inflated by a light wind. Finally, aboard my craft and fully in charge, I worked my imagination into a scenario of salt and adventure, eventually transporting myself and my neat, tight vessel to the faraway Indian Ocean. That great leap of credulity took most of my remaining strength, for in reality I was merely ex-' periencing yet another permutation of California's bed-and-breakfast industry. My host, Rob Harris, mastermind of Dockside Boat Bed, a man usually too busy to pick up the office phone himself, arranges lodgings in boats moored at the marina beside Pier 39 in San Francisco and at the foot of Jack London Square in Oakland. I Harris and boat owners who are in on the deal provide most of the amenities offered by landlocked including television, videocassette recorder, stereo, soap, towels, showers and a continental Jireakfast.

Guests must provide their own nautical fantasies. Harris told me he had worked as an advertis-Jng-agency account executive until about 10 years "Yes, I was a Madison Avenue ad guy," he Jsaid. But his work took him to a lot of places, in-, Australia. "And it was there that I realized there are lifestyles better than being a New York commuter. "I realized there were a lot of nice boats on San Francisco Bay that didn't go out very often, so i I thought about the idea of a bed and breakfast -j! but on a boat," Harris explained.

"I lease privately One Way'- Round Trier Adults $24 Seniors $12 $21 tjhikfren $9 $15, pffii mmmm mm bit et news link 3 hour, visual excursion through Southern Arizona on tracks originally laid in Relax as we head south from Benson, past the Fa'irbank ghost town, all the way clown to Charleston. The clickity-clack of the train and views of some of Mother Nature's best work can otily be experienced from this railroad. It's been a long time in the maMrig, but definitely wortii the wait." Expert narration leverage snack service Finns, im a ee For another unusual bed and breakfast experience, click cmto Metairie, Pampered Pets Bed and Breakfast, which offers cat condos and doggie suites. mm i I A i- I i For your guide to great tastes in the following sections: Calendar, StarLight, Food More and tempo. For our complete restaurant Menu Fax listings.

Gordon Wiltsie photo Next week: Take to slopes their founders, Max Dercum, 83, and Dave McCoy, 80 both of whom still ski. Writer Peter Shelton talks to the two pioneers of the slopes and gives you a frosty fee! for the resorts in next week's Travel section. Arapahoe Basin, and Mammoth Mountain, are true skiers' mountains. Wild snow, dramatic terrain and a practical, unadorned grace make them so. The two booming ski resorts mirror to a great extent Vegas' Flamingo 'a real class joint' By Tom Turner The Arizona Daily Star Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel said he wanted "a real class joint" when he borrowed "family" money in 1946 to build the 77-roorn Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas remember the movie? The "family" thought he was crackers.

So did the handful of residents in the sleepy Nevada burg. Yeah, crackers and caviar. FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK like the other big resorts in town with their indoor amusement parks. But the hotel's roots are not forgotten. There is Bugsy 's Celebrity Theatre, where "Forever Plaid," an off-Broadway musical about the 1950s, has been playing since February.

It's $17.95 plus tax. And Bugsy's Deli will open soon. It truly is a class joint. Check out what's playing at some of the other Vegas joints thus month: Aladdin Theatre: On Nov. 18 the heavyweights of Blues: Bobby Bluebland, Clarence Carter, Johnny Guitar Watson, Little Milton Campbell.

Singer Peter Cetera opens Nov. 1 9. Bally's Celebrity Room: Nov. 9-15, George Carlin with Dennis Blair; Nov. 16-22, Englebert Humperdinck.

Boomtown Opera House: Nov. 28, 29, Johnny Paycheck and Hank Thompson. Caesar's Circus Maximus: Nov. 8-21, David Copperfield: Nov. 24-26, Natalie Cole.

Hard Rock's The Joint: Nov. 14. 15, Donna Summer: Nov. 30. Super Models of the World.

MC.M Grand Theatre: Nov. 9-12, Rosie O'Donnell. MGM Hollywood Theatre: Tom Jones closes Nov. 8. From Nov.

13-17 "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" will be telecast live. Nov. 17-20 it's Dennis Miller and Rita Rudner. Sands Copa Room: Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons close Nov. 8.

Comedian Richard Jeni takes center stage from Nov. 17-26. Sheraton Desert Inn Crystal Room: Nov. 24-26. Martina McBride.

Menu features and money-saving coupons. You'll eat them up. The Flamingo was the beginning of an American phenomenon. Last month, the Hilton company, which now owns the Flamingo, put the finishing touches on a $130 million expansion and renovation. Now it's a palatial spread with six towers containing 3,642 guest rooms surrounding a lush, 15-acre park with lighted tennis courts, five swimming pools, several waterfalls and live flamingos and penguins, yet.

From the front, the Flamingo Hilton is a blaze of pink neon, pink glaze and glass that took two years to construct. Current hotel president Horst Dziura was a bit more expansive than Bugy in describing the expansion project. "This hotel is one of the premier resorts, not only in the city but also in the world," he said modestly. It is not, he said, your family destination i I- i.