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For $10 You Could Win A Luxury Hotel Stay

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This week I’m focusing on my favorite prizes in Passports with Purpose 2010. To enter, go to the Donate page, and for each $10 you donate, you get an entry into a free prize drawing for a prize of your choice. All the money raised (less Paypal’s fees) goes directly to LAFTI. Your donations will help build a village in India.

Since Passports with Purpose is the travelbloggers’ fund-raiser, we are supported by many travel companies including hotels and resorts. Today I’ve chosen my favorites from the long list of hotels supporting this year’s effort.

Naturally, I had to choose the four-night stay at five-star hotels in Ireland as my first choice within the vacations prizes. This is the part of Ireland where we spend most of our time when we visit family in Ireland. We got married in this area and we think it’s beautiful – and a really great destination for a family vacation.
Read more about this donation at IrishFireside.com.

For a $10 donation to LAFTI you can enter a free drawing to win this luxury vacation in Ireland. Donate HERE.

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Thinking more of a quiet couple getaway, the 3 night luxury ‘BodyHoliday’ spa break for two people at LeSPORT hotel in St Lucia is very tempting. Here’s what TrainsOnTheBrain.com had to say about this prize: “It’s an all inclusive package including luxury room, meals, all drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), a full programme of fitness activities, plus one spa treatment per person, per day. The hotel is on the Northwest tip of the Caribbean island of St Lucia and sits directly on Cariblue’s crescent beach, surrounded by 42 acres of lush tropical gardens. It’s a thirty minute drive from the capital Castries and the George F.L. Charles airport”.

For a $10 donation to LAFTI you can enter a free drawing to win this luxury vacation in St.Lucia. Donate HERE.

Aruba-Marriott-Resort-300x200My last pick for today is a (drum-roll…) 5-night stay at any of the nine Paradise by Marriott resorts in the Caribbean and Mexico. How cool is that? As a family, we’ve stayed at various Marriott properties around the U.S. Marriott is a family-friendly brand with lots of different accommodation options but the Paradise properties truly look heaven-sent for families seeking to rest, relax and spend quality time together.
Full details of this awesome prize are at BestFamilyTravelAdvice.com.

For a $10 donation to LAFTI you can enter a free drawing to win this luxury vacation with Paradise By Marriott. Donate HERE.

 

 

 

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For $10 You Could Win A Gift Certificate Worth Hundreds Of Dollars

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This week I’m focusing on my favorite prizes in Passports with Purpose 2010. To enter, go to the Donate page, and for each $10 you donate, you get an entry into a free prize drawing for a prize of your choice. All the money raised (less Paypal’s fees) goes directly to LAFTI. Your donations will help build a village in India.

Today I’ve picked out my favorite unusual experiences from the Passports with Purpose prize list. Most of these are donated as gift certificates.

Consider a flight on a zeppelin. Yep, that’s right, I said a zeppelin. Talk about way-out-there-unusual. I know my boys would love to win this one. If you’ve got a boy, or boy-at-heart in your life who’s got an engineering bent, I’d bet he’d be totally wow-ed with that as a holiday gift.
Read more about this donation at RoamingTales.com.

For a $10 donation to LAFTI you can enter a free drawing to win a flight on a zeppelin with Airship Ventures. Donate HERE.

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Sometimes the tipping point in choosing a new travel destination is finding a great company to help you plan and book your trip and guide you in your once-in-a-lifetime experience. Indus Travels is devoted to bringing the best in both quality and value to custom tours to India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan and Dubai. The company concentrates on designing tours that introduce travelers to the amazing complexity of culture and environment, and they strive to offer these tours at unbeatable prices and with unparalleled comfort.
The full details of Indus Travels’ generous donation of a $500 gift certificate are at BreatheDreamGo.

For a $10 donation to LAFTI you can enter a free drawing to win a $500 gift certificate for an Indus Travels tour. Donate HERE.

HomeAway-sm-thumb-240x240-25-150x30My last pick for today is a whopping $800 gift certificate with HomeAway.com. I’m a huge fan of HomeAway. For most of our travels as a family of four in the past ten years we’ve opted to rent houses and apartments rather than stay in hotels and HomeAway.com is my preferred website to go to research and find the “right” property. An $800 gift certificate will cover a one-week stay in a 2-bed apartment in most of the destinations listed on the HomeAway.com website.
The HomeAway gift certificate in the Passports with Purpose prize list was donated by HomeAway.co.uk with GranTourismoTravels.

For a $10 donation to LAFTI you can enter a free drawing to win this gift certificate with HomeAway. Donate HERE.

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For $10 You Could Win A Favorite Tech Toy

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This week I’m focusing on my favorite prizes in Passports with Purpose 2010. To enter, go to the Donate page, and for each $10 you donate, you get an entry into a free prize drawing for a prize of your choice. All the money raised (less Paypal’s fees) goes directly to LAFTI. Your donations will help build a village in India.

I’m a geek. I love gadgets and technology, so it should be no surprise that my prize picks today are all gadgets.

This is the Microsoft Kinect, one of the hottest-selling tech toys this holiday season. I’m familiar with the Kinect, in fact, intimately familiar: my husband worked on the Kinect team so I’ve been hearing about this device for over two years now. We had various beta versions of the device in our house for much of the early part of this year – which meant that my kids got to play with a cool new piece of technology but they couldn’t tell their friends about it! I’m not a video-gamer but I loved the way that the Kinect is a family entertainment device. I particularly like that it gets everyone up off the sofa for active game-playing.
Read more about this donation at CAroundTheWorld’s blog.

amazon-kindle-3-02-270x270For a $10 donation to LAFTI you can enter a free drawing to win a Kinect. Donate HERE.

I’m a Kindle fan. I know, I’m biased, after all, I did work for Amazon.com for eight years. I can still spend hours in bookstores and am just ask likely to buy a new book in paperback or hardcover as I am to buy one on my Kindle. But. The Kindle rocks as a travel tool. Especially the Worldwide 3G version. In the past three months, as we’ve traveling along the spine of the Andes in South America, we’ve been in some pretty remote places. And you know what? If there’s wifi, you can buy a new book on your Kindle and it’s there in minutes. Boredom on 25+ hour bus-rides can be a thing of the past!
There are two Kindles in this year’s Passports with Purpose prize list. One each from BudgetTravelersSandbox and one from TheWorldIsCalling.

For a $10 donation to LAFTI you can enter a free drawing to win a Kindle. Donate HERE.

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My last pick for today is an iPad. I don’t own an iPad but I did have the chance to play with one before we left Seattle. It’s an extremely slick device. Since we’ve been traveling I’ve been jealous of my husband’s ability to stay in touch with friends and family using his iPhone – using just wifi connectivity (we’re not paying for international data service – that’s way too expensive). But, the iPhone is small and I find it hard to read a newspaper article. I can’t imagine trying to read a book on it. The iPad is a great combination device for travelers. If I could enter a Passports with Purpose drawing, I think this is the one I’d be betting all my money on.
The iPad in the Passports with Purpose prize list was donated by DSRB.

For a $10 donation to LAFTI you can enter a free drawing to win a Kindle. Donate HERE.

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bootsnall

Livemocha round-the-world-with-us

travellerspoint

 

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Eat Chocolate And Support Passports With Purpose 2010

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Yours truly, outside the Fenoglio chocolate shop in Bariloche, Argentina.

Passports with Purpose 2010 started earlier this week and my friend Lauren, who owns Chocolopolis, a specialty chocolate shop in Seattle, has kindly donated a chocolate-tasting event as a prize. There’s more to chocolate than a plain bar of Hershey’s or Cadbury’s would lead you to believe and with a $10 donation (on the Passports with Purpose Donate page), you can be in the running to host this fun event for yourself and a few good friends.

This year, Passports with Purpose is fund-raising for LAFTI, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of the Dalit (untouchable) population in India. With $50,000 we will be able to build a village and provide some of these people with homes. You can learn more about LAFTI and their incredible mission in this short video.

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