I just saw that Sams Club Travel (yes they sell everything) has a package from chicago for 7 days 6 nights for ~$800 per person airfare and lodging at Banana Beach. Sounds good. what are your thoughts on Banana Beach? We are looking at this as as much a business trip as a vacation so close to town is best.
(this is for 1st week in Sept)
Thank you all again

David

BB is great!

damnnnnnn that is CHEAP I would TAKE THAT! QUICK!
DO THEY HAVE ANY FROM OTHER STATES TOO?

yeah they do, its sams club travel, you do have to be a member of sams, but ti think thats like $50 a year

Banana Beach is very nice and that's an offer you can't refuse!

Off the topic, are there any good upscale pool halls in Chicago's Grant Park area. I'm at the Best Western arriving on the 22nd and leaving on the 25th.

The BB deal sounds like a good one to me!

Saw a similar deal in an email yesterday from Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel (don't need to be a member of anything to get the deal, either!):

Roundtrip airfare and seven nights at a new beach resort in Ambergris Caye, Belize, starting at $439 for Washington, DC departure. The package includes seven nights at the Banana Beach Resort in a veranda or balcony suite, each decorated with locally made Rattan furniture and art from the Yucatan and equipped with a full kitchen, a living room area and a private bathroom for each bedroom. The beachfront resort offers Jungle River cave tubing, diving, snorkeling, fishing and tours throughout Belize.

Valid: Sept. 1 - Oct. 31, 2005; add $75 for departures before Sept. 1 or after Oct. 31, 2005.
Add $150 for Miami, New York, Philadelphia; $170 Atlanta; $190 Boston, Dallas, Houston; $320 Los Angeles, San Francisco; $340 Chicago; $370 Denver, Seattle.

Here's the link to the referring website:
http://www.budgettravelonline.com/bt-dyn/content/article/2005/08/11/AR2005081100778.html

And to the provider:
http://www.jetawayholidays.com/

........Janet

simon, for all the help you have given me, I am going to find the best one and get you the info.

FYI - none of these are offered by Banana Beach - some other tour operator is offering them. The owner of BB had no idea about any of them. Careful...

Simon-if you come thru Dallas/Mesquite you can come to our pool hall...our house!