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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are other things to consider, too.
Untours usually have conveninet schedules from New York or Boston to Zurich for
their Swiss Untours, but if you elect to depart from other US cities, their
airline schedules sometimes leave much to be desired. For instance, this
past July we elected to depart from Dulles Airport in Washington because we
have a son living only about 20 minutes from the airport. For whatever
reason, the airline schedule Untours had to offer was on British American which
of course meant we went through London with a long layover there. This
would put us into Zurich about 3:00PM long after the Untour staff had
departed. This wasn't too bad because we were familiar with the train
schedules and could have gotten to Sachslen on our own. However, it was
inconvenient. Also, the return flight left Zurich at 8:30AM, too early for
us to make the flight unless we came to Zurich the day before and had the
expense of a hotel bill and meals plus losing one day of our trip. There
were taxes and other fees of $219 for travel through Heathrow plus an estimed
$100 or more for the need to get to Zurich a day early. We went on line
and found direct flights to and from Zurich at very convenient times.
The tickets for this route was only $317 more than we would have paid for the
Untour proposed routing,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>or in other words, equal cost. Oh, and by the
way, we could earn Frequent Flyer points via the direct flights and none by
using BA. Suggestion, if you are departing from US cities other than New
York or Boston, be sure to investigate making your own travel
arrangements. It can be both cost effective and more
convenient.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bob Miller</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=broy@dplanet.ch href="mailto:broy@dplanet.ch">Barbara Roy</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=idyllchat@lists.untours.com
href="mailto:idyllchat@lists.untours.com">Idyllchat new</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A
title=culturechat@lists.untours.com
href="mailto:culturechat@lists.untours.com">Idyll Untours Culture Chat</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 09, 2007 11:52
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Idyllchat] It’s Not Just the
Destination, It’s the Connection-Munich</DIV>
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<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Thought
you might all like to see this article in today's travel section of the
NYTimes.</DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; TEXT-ALIGN: left">We
recently returned to Switzerland, via Munich on a flight from Boston and
thought it</DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; TEXT-ALIGN: left">was
great, as the article indicates. Happy travels.</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Barbara
Crowell Roy</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Sachseln
Switzerland</DIV><A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/travel/09headsup.html?8td&emc=td">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/travel/09headsup.html?8td&emc=td</A>
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