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Skiing popular
over Thanksgiving break
By Pamela Amaral
Special to the On-line Forty-Niner
With Thanksgiving
upon us and winter break right around the corner, students
are eager to flee Long Beach and have a little fun elsewhere,
including the ski slopes.
LA Ski and Sun
Tours and Summer Winter Action Tours are two companies that
actively plan trips for college students.
These trips consist
of more than just some ski slope lift tickets and discount
rates on hotel rooms. Concerts, casinos, contests, theme parties,
disc jockeys, bars, clubs and more than 3,000 college students
from around the West make these trips so popular.
For $259, LASST
offers three nights' stay in a downtown Reno casino, which
is one of the best aspects of the trip, said LASST representative,
Kellen Flores.
"The night
life in Reno is amazing. There's so much to do and there's
never a dull moment," said Flores.
The LASST trip
includes two days of lift tickets at Squaw Valley and admission
to a Digital Underground and Kottonmouth Kings in concert.
The purchase also includes parties each night and a college
music festival featuring DJs such as Brandon Wallace and Oliver
Twist.
For $249, SWAT
offers three nights' stay at the Lake Tahoe Inn. A $50 upgrade
includes a room at the Horizon Casino in South Lake Tahoe.
The trip includes a two-day lift ticket at Heavenly Mountain,
a Pennywise concert and admission into the wild theme parties
that SWAT hosts each night.
"The best
part about these trips is that there are over 3,500 college
kids from California, Nevada, and Arizona and we are all here
for one reason, and that's to party," said SWAT representative
Billy Grenham.
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