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January 26, 2002
MEDIA RELEASE ROMANTICS PREFER B&B’S TO
CHOCOLATES & FLOWERS ON VALENTINE’S DAY
Valentine’s Day (February 14) is fast approaching and there is no better way to
spoil your other half than treating them, and of course yourself, to a weekend
getaway. Weekend getaways,
especially bed and breakfast packages, are more popular now than ever before.
Traditional Valentine’s Day gifts such as chocolates and flowers do just fine,
but do not deliver what couples need most – a break! Australians are now taking shorter and
fewer holidays than in the past.
Figures and anecdotal evidence from Tourism NSW and the Bureau of Statistics
reveal more Australians are turning their backs on the traditional four-week
summer holidays, preferring trips of a week to 10 days. As well, people are
travelling more to domestic locations than overseas. NSW Tourism Minister Sandra Nori said
lifestyle changes were leading people to take shorter holidays.
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practical solution to the perfect Valentine’s Day gift, as well as to the
changing attitudes to holidays, lies in a bed and breakfast. Chris Peck, Director of
OZbedandbreakfast.com, recognises this.
Peck states “people have become so wrapped up in their everyday
commitments that they are often unable to spend the quality time they need with
their significant others.
Increasingly, couples are using Valentine’s Day as a time to escape together,
and are finding bed and breakfasts to be the perfect hiding places where the
mobile phone can be switched off and contact with the office minimised”, he
says.
OZbedandbreakfast.com is the perfect source to book romantic Valentine’s Day
getaways. Unlike other bed and
breakfast sites, it is quick and easy to use with a very simple, clear and
consistent layout for all of Australia.
No matter what sort of weekend escape you are searching for -- whether
it’s a lighthouse on the cape, a rural retreat, a nunnery in the city or a beach
house overlooking pristine white sands -- you will find it all on
OZbedandbreakfast.com, Australia’s number one B&B website.
Visitors can make reservations online, e-mail innkeepers, locate bed and
breakfasts and guesthouses via map and post questions and comments on services.
However, “the weekends around Valentine’s Day is a busy time”, warns Peck. So, this Valentine’s Day, forget about
chocolates and flowers and give them a romantic bed and breakfast getaway.
INFORMATION RELEASED BY OZBEDANDBREAKFAST.COM |
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