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and money. the winter schedules
include the Constitutions 55-dayI
cruise beginning February 10. The
itinerary includes Madeira, Casa
blanca, Cadiz, Tangier, Gibraltar,
Algiers, Naples, Piraeus. Istanbul.
Haifa, Beirut, Alexandria, Genoa,
Cannes, Barcelona, Palma and
Lisbon. The minimum price is
$780,. A 65-day cruise touching
many Of these ports and adding
Cherbourg and Southampton is
set for the Britannia, sailing
January 81.
The Holland-American Lines
Nieuw Amsterdam is shortening
it's 5O-day South American run to-
80 days for a minimum $1.275
price tag. The cruise includes
Curacao, Netherlands West Indies,
Bahia and Rio, Montevideo, Uru-
quay and offers an all-expense
trip to Buenos Aires and five days
in Montevideo. II
In addition to the MaaSdan1,
two other sleek new liners will be
plying the vacation lanes. Frances
proud Flandre will be making its
first winter runs and the Italian
Lines Andrea Doria, described as
the fastest vessel built in Europe
since the war, will sail from New
York January 80 for the West
Indies.
Luxury Apartments
Sporting three outdoor SWIM
ming pools, the Andrea Doria can
accommodate 1880, passengers. but
will take only $50. For this IT.
day voyage, the passenger can pay
anywhere from $470 to $4,000 for
one of the four luxury apartments.
For supreme elasticity, the easy
going, informal freighter cruises
are always popular. Alcoa stresses
the uncertain schedules. Sailing
and arriving dates aren't always
as posted; nor is the length OF
time in port. A1coa's vessels are
primarily carrying freight. al
though passenger quarters are
comfortable, the food wholesome
and good.
United Fruit will make its last
cruise service voyages out OF New
York on January 2 before discon-
tinuing those runs, but it will con-
tinue 11-day and 12-day trips out
of New Orleans for Havana.
Puerto Barrios in Guatemala and
Tela in Honduras.
New Places Visited
American wanderlust Is con-
tinually being sharpened by pros
poets of somewhere 1.-The tourists
haven't found yet" Despite the
heavy traffic going into the Carlb-
bean, the curious are still finding
one of those places. not yet fitted
into the well-traveled notch, but
perfectly capable of doing so. IA
cility-WiSe.
Antigua, in the British West
Indies, is one of these.
A cool little sugar island near
Puerto Rico is the site of the new
Mill Reef Club, a privately fl
nanced playground of some $50
wealthy Americans. It is one Of the
most lavish, yet quietly restrained
spots in the Caribbean.
In contrast to this, there Is the
Antigua Beach Hotel, a postwar
hostelry where the rates, including
meals, begin at $6.
Quiet and Cheop
st. Thomas is showing of sew
eral Florida-type luxury hotels
and is we'll on the beaten tourist
path.
| Grenada, in the British West
India, too, a lush Spice Island of
the Antilles. 1t is quiet, beautiful
and cheap. In white, low-slung
Santa Maria Hotel overlooking
the city and harbor, rates start at
81, double, with meals.
At any one time, a visiting
American may have a difficult
time rounding up three more, al
though the 2-year-old Santa
Maria is drawing more and more
every season.