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...appeal, how about a ride in the cockpit of a Concorde flight simulator? British Airways has offered its Executive Club members that experience at auction in exchange for 143,500 miles, says Elizabeth Weisser, director of Executive Club and its various partnerships. Other auction awards have included an African safari, a five-day cooking course with master chefs in Italy and a golf outing in Scotland. "People want experiences that are unique and different," Weisser says...
...points for a one-carat-diamond engagement ring. For those who still want to travel but are looking for something different, Marriott Rewards and Hyatt Hotels Gold Passport programs offer cruises to a host of exotic destinations for top members. Hilton counters with a six-night safari for two in Kenya, at a cost of 250,000 HHonors Worldwide points. "It's those different, unanticipated awards that are so meaningful to our members," says Jeff Diskin, president and chief operating officer of HHonors, which provides 10 points for every $1 spent at a Hilton property...
Theodore Roosevelt mounted a grand, year-long safari to East Africa, where, nearsighted as Mr. Magoo, he fired off an astonishing amount of ammunition at every species in God's creation, to be stuffed for the American Museum of Natural History. Lyndon Johnson returned to his Texas ranch to drink and smoke and grow his hair long like a hippie and wait to die. Richard Nixon did brooding penance beside the Pacific, then went back East to reinvent himself as elder statesman...
...which should bring families back for their fun and Disney's profit. Audiences return to a movie like Titanic to relive the same experience. They'll go back on the safari to catch things they missed the first time. And isn't that a good thing? In a pop-culture era offering passive, instant gratification, this park seduces visitors into becoming active searchers for the bounty of animal and floral life. By adroitly mixing the educational and the enthralling, Animal Kingdom proves they can be the same thing. It's a fun field trip for adults of all ages...
That didn't lessen the embarrassment when two East African crowned cranes died during the final weeks of preparation for the park's April 22 grand opening. Both times one of the birds darted beneath an open-air tram on the Kilimanjaro Safari ride and was killed. Disney officials called the deaths "unfortunate accidents," but the remaining cranes were moved to a location near a walking trail, and the trams were outfitted with additional mirrors to improve visibility for drivers...