This offer is only available with holidays booked at brochure price and may not be used in conjunction with any other promotional offer and does not apply to bookings already made with Bladon Lines.7. This promotion entitles you to one free ski pass with five differently numbered "ski pass" tokens when booking a chalet or chalet hotel holiday from the Bladon Lines "Ski Brochure 1995/96". At this stage of the season some resorts are booked up, the following resorts have been suggested for greater availability:- Zermatt, Verbier, Val D'Isere, Tignes, Meribel, Courchevel, Deux Alps and Serre Chevalier.2 Photocopies of tokens are not acceptable.3 Only one application may be made per booking.4. The winner will be picked at random from all correct entries after lines close at midnight tonight Normal Newspaper Publishing plc rules apply The Editor's decision is final.TERMS AND CONDITIONS1. Probably the most romantic mountain resort in the world, Zermatt has great night life, off-slope sports facilities and a fascinating history. The ski area connects with the Italian resort of Cervinia allowing you to sample a little of Italy during your stay.To enter our competition simply answer the following question by calling our competition line on 0891 252 699 and leave your answer, name, address and telephone number.Question: Which famous mountain dominates the skyline of Zermatt?Calls cost 39p per minute cheap rate, 49p per minute at all other times. Zermatt is a car-free village of old chalets and grand hotels, with the highest ski slopes in the Alps and wonderful mountain restaurants.
You will then be given a selection of chalets or chalet hotels to choose from.Your holiday availability will then be checked and the booking price confirmed.Your five differently numbered tokens must then be sent to Bladon Lines with your deposit and the booking form from your brochure to qualify for your free ski pass.Bladon Lines will arrange your free ski pass and will send your tickets to you two to three weeks before the date of your departure.Today you could win a seven day holiday for two to Zermatt, Switzerland including flights and accommodation. Bladon Lines operates over 100 chalets throughout the Alps and has an excellent reputation for quality and service. Flights depart from nine UK airports and most resorts offer a free ski guiding service.Chalet holidays represent superb value for money, specially trained chalet girls provide all guests with a cooked breakfast, packed lunch, afternoon tea with cakes and a three course evening meal with complimentary wine during dinner.HOW TO QUALIFYSimply collect five differently numbered tokens from the seven we will be printing up until Saturday 10 February. Then present them to Bladon Lines or your local travel agent when you book a chalet or chalet hotel holiday from the Bladon Lines 1995/96 brochure, including the following top resorts:- Zermatt, Verbier, Val D' Isere, Tignes, Meribel, Courchevel, Deux Alps and Serre Chevalier. In return, Bladon Lines will arrange a free ski pass for each member of your party.
Today we are printing Token 1.HOW TO BOOKSelect the resort that you would like to travel to from the Bladon Lines 1995/96 brochure.To make your booking call the Bladon Lines/Independent Ski Line on 0181 780 8860 or go to your local travel agent and identify yourself as a holder of "Independent/Bladon Lines Free Ski Pass" tokens and state your preferred resort. With snow conditions improving throughout the Alps and the advantage of this terrific money saving offer, you are bound to have a great holiday. Now is the time to book. Bladon Lines is a specialist chalet tour operator, a concept which has proved a real winner with British skiers. If you book a chalet or chalet hotel skiing holiday with Bladon Lines before the end of the season you will receive a free ski pass worth up to pounds 164 for one week or pounds 328 for two.
If you have been waiting for the best deal before booking your ski holiday, you've just found it. We've teamed up with Bladon Lines to offer readers of the Independent on Sunday and The Independent a very special deal. The steel superstructure was supplied by Trafalgar House.The airport, which will replace the existing over-stretched airport, Kai Tak, is due to open for business in 1998.. GEC and ICL are supplying the flight information system and the data cabling system respectively.However, the most striking structure on the island is not the airport itself, but the mighty Tsing Ma suspension bridge which connects the airport to the mainland side of Hong Kong.Last month, the final 1,000-tonne deck section was being winched into place.
CHEP LAP KOK is probably the world's biggest building site. The area for Hong Kong's new airport already teems with 8,000 workers - a population that will rise to 20,000 within the next few months, writes Patrick Hosking. The airport's control tower has been erected, the skeleton of the terminal building is taking shape, and the path of the runway is already discernible amid all the dust and the rubble. Parts of the site are a sea of cranes.It is all a far cry from 1992 when work began, slicing the top off a 302-hectare rocky outcrop in the South China Sea to create a reclaimed 1,248-hectare platform.Rubble was shifted at the rate of 10 tonnes a second for more than three years to create the artificial island.A key obstacle to the pounds 13bn project was removed last July when, after six years of wrangling, the Chinese and British governments agreed on the financing.AMEC, BICC-owned Balfour Beatty, Tarmac and Costain are among the British companies working on the project. The next few years may not be quite the seat-of-the-pants gamble he took, but the risks are still there..