US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - Grand Bahama Island One Day Sale - 11/08/01 only

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">US Airways invites you to experience Grand Bahama Island/Freeport with US Airways and Our Lucaya Beach & Golf Resort. But hurry, these great air fares and
room rates are available for purchase for one day only. Tickets must be purchased via usairways.com by Thursday, November 8, 2001, and rooms must be booked
through Our Lucaya reservations at 1-877-491-6012 by Thursday, November 8, 2001. All travel must be completed by March 20, 2002.

To find these fares, simply enter your origin and destination cities, select "My Travel Dates are Flexible" and choose from a list of low fares. When you
find the fare basis code 'VE73BWN', you will know you have found these great fares. Tickets must be purchased at the time of reservation.

Here are some sample round-trip fares available for sale at http://www.usairways.com

From: To: Roundtrip Fare:
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Atlanta, GA Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $148 #
Boston, MA Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 *
Buffalo, NY Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 *
Chicago O'Hare, IL Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 #
Dayton, OH Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 #
Greensboro, NC Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 #
Memphis, TN Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 #
Myrtle Beach, SC Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 #
New Orleans, LA Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 #
New York LaGuardia, NY Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 *
Newark, NJ Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 #
Newport News, VA Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 #
Pittsburgh, PA Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 *
Raleigh/Durham, NC Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 #
Savannah, GA Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 #
Toledo, OH Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 #
Washington National, DC Grand Bahama Island/Freeport $188 * %

* Grand Bahama Island/Freeport travel valid Thursdays through Sundays from LGA beginning December 1, 2001, and daily service begins February 2, 2002 from
LGA.

# Grand Bahama Island/Freeport daily service begins February 2, 2002 from CLT.

% DCA service valid Thursday, Friday, and Sunday beginning December 1, 2001. Daily service begins February 2, 2002.</font>

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
Fares are based on required round-trip purchase. Travel is via US Airways, US Airways Shuttle or the US Airways Express carriers during the travel period
specified. Depending upon your travel needs, alternative routings may be available at the same fares, with part of the service provided on regional
aircraft operated by US Airways Express carriers Air Midwest, Allegheny, CCAIR, Chautauqua, Colgan Air, Mesa, Piedmont, PSA, Shuttle America or Trans States
Airlines.

SALE FARE REQUIREMENTS: Coach fares are shown round-trip based on required round-trip purchase on usairways.com. Tickets become nonrefundable 24 hours
after making initial reservations, but under certain conditions may be changed for a minimum $100 fee. All reservations must be ticketed within 24 hours of
making the reservation, and no later than 11/8/01. All travel must be completed by 3/20/02. A 3 night minimum stay is required. Maximum 30-day stay
applies. Blackout dates apply 12/21-12/23/01, 12/28-12/30/01, 1/2-1/3/02, and 1/6/02.
Fares do not include up to $18 airport passenger facility charges where applicable. Fares do not include government imposed international
taxes/fees/surcharges up to $50 and are subject to foreign government approval. Seats are limited or may be sold out during very busy travel times,
weekends or holiday periods. Fares are approximately 45% off of non-sale fares between the United States and the Caribbean. Other conditions may apply.
Schedules are subject to change. Lower fares may be available in these markets. These sale fares may not be available in all markets or on all
flights/routes.</font>


[This message has been edited by markbach (edited 11-08-2001).]

Note, this special also includes a deal at the Our Lucaya resort for $198 per person for three nights (double occupancy) for an Ocean View in Breakers Cay, which looks like a pretty good deal compared to the regular rates.

Anyone have any personal experience with this resort?

I've booked my tickets already ... just looking for the hotel now.

This is a pretty good deal since they don't restrict your day of travel. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I was able to get my reservation at the hotel after being on hold for 55 minutes. There was a recording on the hold message that said response to the US Airways promotion has been overwhelming (it also took me about 30 tries to get past the busy signal to even get on hold).

The Agent I finally talked too said they sold out the rooms set aside for the promo, but the reloaded more during the day (that was mighty good of them, I was worried they would be sold out!). The room you get has a regular rate (if you try and reserve it on their website) of $300/night, so $396 for three nights is a steal, and on top of that, the guy tells me they'll give you the fourth night free, so it's $396 for four nights!

Looks like they running somewhat of the same promotion-buy tickets prior to 1/15/02-

Has anyone stayed at Our Lucaya?

US Airways invites you to experience Grand Bahama Island/Freeport with US
Airways and Our Lucaya Beach & Golf Resort. But hurry, these great air fares
must be purchased via usairways.com by Tuesday, January 15, 2002, and rooms must
be booked through Our Lucaya reservations at 1-877-772-6460 by Tuesday, January
15, 2002. All travel must be completed by May 21, 2002. All tickets must be
purchased at least 7 days prior to departure. Refer to the "US Airways E-Mail"
when booking your reservations with Our Lucaya.

Fares are based on required round-trip Coach purchase. Travel is via US
Airways, US Airways Shuttle or the US Airways Express carriers during the travel
period specified. Depending upon your travel needs, alternative routings may be
available at the same fares, with part of the service provided on regional
aircraft operated by US Airways Express carriers Air Midwest, Allegheny, CCAIR,
Chautauqua, Colgan Air, Mesa, Piedmont, PSA, Shuttle America or Trans States
Airlines.

Combine great fares with a special low rate at Our Lucaya Beach & Golf Resort,
Grand Bahama Island's fabulous new beachfront resort. You'll receive warm,
Caribbean days and your first night FREE! Then stay a minimum of two more nights in the beautiful Breakers Cay or luxurious Lighthouse Pointe starting at
just $49* per person per night ($65 after 2/14/02). We'll even upgrade you to a
spectacular ocean view room for only $15 more per person, per night, based on
availability.
US FaresOur Lucaya offering One night free (with 3 night stay)US fares

From the website it looks like a typical oversized resert ... they're running TV ads here in Charlotte now for the resort too.

Oversized it may be (personally, resorts are not necessarily my idea of "fun"), but the prices are exceptional. They also seem to be the main Priceline.com resort in the area. I've seen BiddingForTravel.com (Priceline tattletale) quotes at half the (low) US Airways rate.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Beckles:
From the website it looks like a typical oversized resert ... they're running TV ads here in Charlotte now for the resort too.</font>

Just to update this old thread. We just got back yesterday and we were extremely impressed with the Our Lucaya (http://www.ourlucaya.com/) resort. It was much nicer than I expected, which is always a pleasant surprise. We stayed in the Breakers Cay, which is their "mid-tier" section (I'd avoid the low tier, whose name escapes me, but didn't look nearly as nice from what we were able to see, and I imagine the Lighthouse Pointe, the upper tier must be pretty nice!). Very clean, huge room, nice furnishings, excellent amenities in the room, huge patio with two chairs and a table. Definitely go for oceanview (we actually had an end unit only on the 2nd floor, but we could see the ocean and it was actually fairly entertaining sitting on the patio at night watching all the spring breakers and such).

For the $132/night (plus $6/person resort fee + 12% tax) we were paying, it was an incredible deal. The restraunts though are very expensive, so be ready for that (but they are better than most of the stuff available elsewhere on the island, except as discussed below).

We also went out to West End and checked out the Old Bahama Bay (http://www.oldbahamabay.com/resort/inntroduction.htm). This place is very nice too, and if you are looking for a quiet vacation, this is the way to go. We ate at the one restraunt here and it was very good and fairly reasonably priced.

Another restraunt to be sure to hit is the Ferry House, which is right beside Our Lucaya.

The US flights were fine, and surprisingly FC was not full coming or going (came Friday and left on Monday) from the Island.

I too took advantage of some great rates on US Air and Our Lucaya. I agree w/ Beckles- The resort is very nice and clean. We paid a little higher rate ($160 a night, but the deal we had was - stay 3 nights and pay for 2) for a ocean view at Breakers Cay, and stayed three nights. The only problem is the check in proceedures at Our Lucaya. Extremely slow!!!!- But we were upgraded to the 10th floor and had access to the Harbourview club. Club was a good time. Great staff -- open from 7am to 10pm- Breakfast in the morning - afternoon snacks -cocktails for two hours at night, and free beer, soda, water all day. Golf was very good (although my game was not) playes twice and finished 18 in about 3 1/2 hours each time. Also- first class on US out of LGA- on the way down was just my wife and I and on the way back there was only one other person in first. I'd go back

Beckles- how's the water this time of year?

The water was fine, maybe a tad on the chilly side, but fine during the day when the sun was out.