Travel BEAVER TRAILS COSTA RICA: The Oakville Beaver travelled with Hilary Borner and Jeffrey Grigg to the Zoo Ave in La Garita de Alajuela, Alajuela, Costa Rica. Founded in the late 1980s, Zoo Ave's mission is to rehabilitate and care for Costa Rica's injured, orphaned and mistreated wildlife. 41 | Thursday, October 22, 2015 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com "Connected to your Community" BEAVER TRAILS TO HALIBURTON: The Oakville Beaver was again included in this year's second annual college reunion of Rick and Wanita, Rolf and Donna, and Paul and Lucy. Take along a copy of the Oakville Beaver on your next vacation and send it in for publication to Beaver Trails, Oakville Beaver, 5046 Mainway, Unit 2, Burlington ON L7L 5Z1 or email to editor@oakvillebeaver.com. IREland scotland BEAVER TRAILS TO FLORIDA: The Oakville Beaver travelled to Ford's Garage Restaurant in Florida with: from left, Bill Richards; Judy Pielsticker; Barb Bedard; Noreen Blakeley; Lou Lewis; Fern Richards; Dell Bedard; Ann McJannet; Gerry Pielsticker; Collette MacDonald; Bryan McJannet and Dan MacDonald. McTavish Travel Windstar will offer a series of cruises in Italy in 2016 that can be booked back-to-back with tours from Vermont Bicycle & Walking Tours VBT. VBT specializes in escorted small-group bicycle and walking tours and is owned by Xanterra Parks and Resorts, who also own Windstar Cruises. Guests combining a VBT bicycling or walking tour with a Windstar cruise will receive a 15% discount off the normal cruise fare, two free hotel nights in Rome and a complimentary transfer to the ship. For example, VBT's 10-day Puglia: Italy's Undiscovered Coast bicycle tour 25MAY16 departure can be combined with Windstar's 06JUN16 Classic Italy & Dalmatian Coast cruise (Star Breeze all-suite power yacht, 212 guests) or the 31AUG16 Puglia departure be combined with Windstar's 12SEP16 Sicilian Splendors cruise (Star Breeze). VBT's 10-day The Quiet Pathways of Tuscany walking tour 31MAY16 departure can be combined with Windstar's 11JUN16 Glitter & Glam of the Rivieras cruise (Wind Surf sailing yacht, 310 guests); 18OCT16 Pathways of Tuscany can be combined with Windstar's 29OCT16 Islands of the West Med (Wind Star sailing yacht, 148 guests). There are several other bicycle or walking tour combinations, call us for details. Windstar Cruises received the 2015 Cruise Critic Editor's Picks Awards for "Best Cruise Line for Romance" and Windstar's Star Breeze (formerly Seabourn Spirit) received "Best Cruise Ship Refurbishment" vbt.com windstar.com Air Canada Vacations is offering an Early Booking Bonus for Las Vegas packages. Book an ACV Las Vegas package by 31OCT15 and save CAD150 per family, enjoy free seat selection, up to 2 free car rental days and Aeroplan Miles. Other fabulous offers include: free Rock of Ages show tickets with a minimum 5-night stay at The Venetian; free breakfast for two with a minimum 3-night stay at Wynn Las Vegas or Encore at Wynn Las Vegas; 2,000 Bonus Aeroplan Miles per couple with a stay in any MGM resort booked by 31OCT15 includes Bellagio, Aria Resort & Casino, Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Delano, The Mirage Hotel and Casino, MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, The Signature at MGM Grand, Monte Carlo Resort & Casino and New York, New York Hotel & Casino. Air Canada rouge flies daily between Toronto and Las Vegas. Call us for Air Canada Vacations reservations. vacations.aircanada.com After 76 years in the air, US Airways' final flight, flight number 1939 departed San Francisco at 9:55 p.m. last Friday and flew overnight, arriving in Philadelphia at 6:18 a.m. The flight number, "1939" refers to the year the airline started as All American Aviation, providing airmail service. US Airways has merged with American Airlines and while it will take more than a year to repaint and reflag US Airways aircraft to American Airlines, effective 16OCT15 all flights are ticketed as American Airlines. americanairlines.com BIKE OR WALK, THEN CRUISE GueST SPeakeR JOe Fahy PLeaSe JOin uS ACV LAS VEGAS Thursday Oct. 29th · 7-9 pm Hilton Garden Inn (QEW/Burloak) 985 Syscon Road, Burlington LAST FLIGHT FOR US Airways Refreshments and Door Prizes R.S.V.P. Suite 300, South Oakville Centre · 1515 Rebecca Street, Oakville 905.827.1100 travel@mctavish.com www.mctavishtravel.com 289-813-1969 · 1-844-564-1076 www.furtherafieldtravel.ca Ont Reg No 1437985