If it`s an 800 toll-free number you need for planning a vacation or business trip, it may be in the 1992 edition of the ”Toll-Free Travel & Vacation Information Directory.”
The booklet has toll-free numbers for airlines, cruise lines, hotel and motel chains and discount travel services as well as tourist information offices.
The booklet also lists travel agencies for disabled persons, senior citizens and youths.
For a copy send $5.95 (includes postage and handling) to Pilot Books, 103 Cooper St., Babylon, N.Y. 11702.
DISABLED TRAVEL A trip to Alaska designed especially for travelers with physical limitations, including anyone confined to a wheelchair, is available from Sundial Special Vacations.
The Aug. 23-Sept. 5 trip begins and ends in Anchorage. Excursions include trips to Columbia Glacier, Mt. McKinley and Denali National Park as well as visits to Fairbanks and Valdez.
Price is $1,960 a person, double occupancy, and includes accommodations, most meals, tours and transportation while on tour. Air fare to and from Anchorage is not included.
For information, contact Sundial Special Vacations, 600 Broadway, Seaside, Ore. 97138; 800-547-9198.
TAKE A WALK The regions of Tuscany in Italy and Burgundy in France are two of the destinations for fall walking tours from Butterfield & Robinson. As the trips coincide with wine harvests, participants will visit vineyards along the way. Departure dates for the 7-day trips to Burgundy are Sept. 6 and 20 and Oct. 4. Rate is $2,455. Oct. 9 and 23 are the departure dates for the 8-day Tuscan trip, and the rate is $2,955. Rates are per person, double occupancy. Airfare is additional.
Rates include accommodations, most meals, luggage transfer, services of two guides and tips.
Besides walking tours, the company offers tours built around biking, hiking and rafting in countries around the world.
For a brochure describing the trips and more information, contact Butterfield & Robinson, 70 Bond St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 1X3;
800-678-1147 or 416-864-1354.
LONDON CULTURE London`s major theater area-the West End and its three dozen or so theaters-may be known to most visitors, but what about cultural life elsewhere in the city?
With the help of ”Beyond the West End Theatre,” a new brochure from the British Tourist Authority, visitors can acquaint themselves with 24 performing arts venues throughout the city that offer performances of contemporary dance, cabaret, comedy and mime.
The brochure also comes with discount vouchers worth $85 at these places. For a copy of the brochure, send a self-addressed, business-size envelope with 52 cents postage to British Tourist Authority, 625 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1510, Chicago, Ill. 60611-1977.
A WINE CRUISE For aficionados of German wine, here`s an ultimate way to sample the wines of the country: a cruise down the Rhine and Moselle Rivers while sampling vintages of the Moselle, Rheingau and other regions.
The floating German wine seminar, lectures and tastings included, is aboard the 184-passenger Italia and is scheduled for Oct. 17-24.
The wine program is under the direction of Dr. Hans Ambrosi, co-founder of the German Wine Academy.
The cruise will begin in the Dutch port of Nijmegen and will follow the Rhine to the Moselle, with stops that include Strasbourg, France, and Basel, Switzerland.
Rates range from $1,185-$1,370 a person, double occupancy and include accommodations, meals and the wine program. Air fare is not included.
Contact a travel agent for more information, or Rhine Cruise Agency, 170 Hamilton Ave., White Plains, N.Y. 10601; 800-346-6525 or 914-948-3600.
FREE FOR THE WRITING For a copy of the ”Summer `92 Hotel Packages” brochure listing packages in more than 80 Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia properties, contact the Washington, D.C., Convention & Visitors Association, Summer `92 Hotel Packages, Tourist Information, 1212 New York Ave. N.W., Suite 600, Washington, D.C. 20005; 202-789-7000. . . . For information about activities in Indiana`s La Porte County, call 800-634-2650. . . . For a copy of the ”Kauai (Hawaii)
Vacation Planner,” call 800-AH-KAUAI. . . .
