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For visitors who want to see the event with a group, Scientific Expeditions is offering a seven-day "Eclipse Express" tour of Finland and Sweden featuring a plane-view observation of the eclipse. Departure is July 19. Cost: $2,790 per person including airfare from New York, hotels, two mea...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author By Elizabeth Wissner-Gross
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 04.03.1990
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Summary:For visitors who want to see the event with a group, Scientific Expeditions is offering a seven-day "Eclipse Express" tour of Finland and Sweden featuring a plane-view observation of the eclipse. Departure is July 19. Cost: $2,790 per person including airfare from New York, hotels, two meals daily, two nights' ferry cruising, and flight-seeing. Call (800) 344-6867. Callers to Dial a Cruise can name a ship, theme cruise, destination or maximum budget and ask for the best available rate. Current discounts include a one-week Eastern Caribbean cruise on an "upscale ship" for $669 per person in an outside cabin, and a two-for-one discount on a 10-day cruise of the Orient. Hot line: (800) 882-9000. Visitors to Hawaii can now extend their Pacific vacation with a direct flight to the Marshall Islands. Air Marshall Islands is offering direct service to a choice of Majuro (the capital) or Kwajalein from Honolulu. (Access to the Marshall Islands, 2,000 miles from Honolulu, previously required a series of connections on other airlines.) One-way fare is $485; children pay 67 percent; under 2 fly free. Seven-day advance-purchase round-trip fare is $504. Flights between Majuro and Kwajalein are $90 each way.