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Buddy Bombard's Europe announces 30th Anniversary Ultimate Adventure with $10,000 per person savings

Join Buddy Bombard, pioneer of adventure travel, for a unique experience encompassing seven European countries.
This 52-day luxury cultural adventure features Buddy Bombard's legendary excursions by low-level balloon.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 6th, 2006. (West Palm Beach, FL)-The 2006/2007-season marks the 30th Anniversary of the founding of Buddy Bombard's Europe. In celebration Buddy Bombard presents his 52-day, 30th Anniversary Ultimate Adventure. Guests join the regular season schedule from August 15th to October 5th 2006 and experience all of Buddy's summer programs without repeating itineraries. The 52-day trip, with $10,000 per person savings if booked by May 1st 2006, is also offered during the same dates in 2007.

Buddy Bombard, founder and president said of the 30th anniversary trip, “This 52-day opportunity is for everyone who has always wanted to experience everything we offer and now they can do it in one unforgettable adventure. For 30 years I've watched my guests' fascination-wonder-their speechless awe, at the perspectives they experience from our low-and-slow balloons. That's what's inspired me throughout the years. The great thing about this 52-day “house party,” (how our guest's describe our trips) is that travelers can join the whole affair, or join where it suits them. It's a lifetime experience either way.”

Buddy Bombard's Europe remains the world's only vacation experience of its kind, combining exceptional cultural land tours with the unique qualities of low-level sightseeing by balloon, in the area of each tour. For the 30th Anniversary Ultimate Adventure, guests join seven scheduled departures, from five to ten days each, and one to four days-luxury transfer programs between each trip location.
All of Bombard's historical summer programs are included without repeating itineraries and are:

• The Medieval Splendor of Siena & its Palio;
• Swiss Summer in the Emmental & Jungfrau Regions;
• Salzburg Lakes & Alpine Foothills;
• Prague's 1,000 years of Cultural & Architectural Brilliance;
• Istanbul & Remarkable Cappadocia;
• Burgundy's Medieval Castles & World Famous Vineyards;
• The Loire Valley and its Royal Châteaux;
• Plus hosted luxury transfer programs of one to four days between each trip location. Also includes Germany.

Brochure price for the Buddy Bombard's 52-day 30th Anniversary Ultimate Adventure is $81,087 per person, double occupancy and is all-inclusive from trip commencement in Europe. Bookings made by May 1st, 2006 receive a $10,000 per person Anniversary Savings, ($71,087 per person, double occupancy). Single supplement is $9,780. Refer to the regular season brochure for complete itinerary on each destination, terms and conditions. Trip may also be segmented and viewed at www.buddybombard.com
under Trip Combinations.

About Buddy Bombard's Europe
Buddy Bombard, a pioneer in adventure travel founded Buddy Bombard's Europe in late spring of 1977, with headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida and Château de Laborde in Beaune, France. Buddy Bombard's Europe remains the world's only vacation experience of its kind that provides unique luxury land tours including daily scheduled sightseeing adventures by low-level balloon, in the area of each tour. Bombard offers 19 tours and 27 Trip Combinations annually in six different European countries: France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey and the Czech Republic. Trips range in length from five to ten days with average balloon flights lasting an hour and a half each day for summer programs, and average flights on winter programs lasting three and a half hours.