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Passport to Paradise in St. Lucia
Enjoy a View with a Room at Ladera Resort

If you’re a first-time overseas traveler, one cool Caribbean resort is offering to cover the cost of your passport




What better way to start a vacation than with a complimentary passport, a welcome cocktail for immediate relaxation and a massage to work out your traveling kinks? Ladera Resort on the island of St. Lucia is offering its Passport to Paradise special. Valid now through Dec. 31, 2007, the special includes reimbursement of the full cost of a U.S. passport, valued at $97, for all first-time overseas travelers. You’ll also enjoy five all-inclusive nights in a contemporary island-style tree house villa or suite situated one thousand feet above sea level. Open to the outdoors on one entire side, the unique accommodations deliver some of the most panoramic forest and ocean views in all of the Caribbean.

Highlights of this travel package include:

• Five nights’ stay in a villa or suite
• Ladera’s signature leather passport wallet
• A 30-minute jet-lag massage at the Ti Kaye Posé Spa
• Complimentary "Juanderlust" cocktail
• Reimbursement of the cost of a U.S. passport




For more information, visit www.ladera.com or call 800-738-4752.

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