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Show 4 Golf In The Spanish Style T OURISTS on Spains Costa del Sol are swingers in the true sense of the word now that this stretch of Mediterranean resort coast offcis some of Europes most challenging golf. Half a dozen golf courses lie within a 40 miles radius on this sunny southern shore of Spain and what's more, they're playable all year 'round. Foreseeing the potential of this coast as a golfing haven some 40 years ago, the governcourse just outside ment built a tricky Malaga, hub of the Costa del Sol. It has since added a 40 room parador or inn on the grounds. Rates for a double room are $6 to $7.50 per day. TRAVELING WEST, at Marbella, is die smart Los Monteros Hotel, site of the challengRio Real golf course. Greens fees are ing free for guests at Los Monteros. Daily rate's for room and two meals are $10.85 single; $1915 double. Nearby at San Pedro de Alcantara, the Hotel Golf Guadalmina has an 18 hole course bordering the Mediterranean. Double room rates at this 1st Class A hotel are from $o to $10 per day. Newest on the circuit is the championship course at the Atalaya Paik Golf and Coun try Club in Estepona. The 6.910 yard, par 72 couise lies on gently rolling countryside with magnificent views towards the sea, mountains, Gibraltar and Africa. Rates at the 2(11 room deluxe Atalaya Park are $11.70 single; $15.00 double, $23.75 for a suite for two. ROBERT TRENT JONES first Euroiiean golf course is on 150 acres at the Sotogrande es irt and land development on the western end o! the Costa del Sol. In addition to the championship 18, the Club has a nine-hol- e par three couise and practice ground. Facilities for golfing guests are in tastefully furnished villas just a few hundred feet from the Mediterranean ($12.50 single; $15 double a day). The nine-holcourses the Golf Club at San Roque and the links at the Hotel Renia Cristina in Algeciras also are on the western end of the coast. Rates at the deluxe class Hotel Reina Cristina are 85 to $7 single and $7 50 to $12 50 double. i Cum-pament- o e GREENS FEES at Spains courses range from $1 to $3 a day and rental about $! 5Q to $2. Your caddy will get and a lesion from the pro will cost you generally of clubs, about $1 about $2. One of the newest golf courses on Spains lamed Cosia del Sol is at the Atalaya Park Golf and Country Club. woman traveler motor tour of Europe as low as $2,495. 21-d- ay For Short Trips Call Air Taxi You Our tour lets you see eight European countriei the comfort of your own '69 Volkswagen. We take care of all the arrangements. The price (which varies, depending on VW model and number of people in party) includes everything. Your new Volkswagen. Round trip jet fare from San Francisco. Hotel accommodations. ly Frances Kolton w HEN YOU WANT to go any great distance, you take a trunk line or large airline such as American, Unuited or TWA; when your objective is to go from one medium-sizecity to another, you take a local service (these used to be known as d feeder airlines) such as Frontier or Allegheny; but when you want to go somewhere neither of these covers or at your own will and time or to your own destination, you take an air taxi. Air taxis are the third level of air transportation they make it possib'e for us to go any place in the world where there is a legal landing strip! TODY, for example, air taxis blanket the Caribbean, making it simple and quick for tourists to hop from island to island. I've taken dozens of air taxis, for example, from St. Croix to St. Thomas for a day of shopping, or from Oreas Island to Seattle, and each time have blessed them for making life so simple and time so easy to manage. Air taxi companies generally medium sized air fly ligbt-an- get to keep the car. In Continental breakfasts. Complete dinners. Escorted tours. Marine and European driving Travelers return to a Puerto Rico hotel airiort after an afternoon of f shopping at St. Thomas. roe-po- rt craft and their operators are licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration. Free to develop routes where demand exists, they grow as the need and traffic do. THE NATC, or National Air Taxi Conference, is a large group of operators and their federally recognized trade association. The association is quick to point out that their members must meet standards even higher than those required by the FAA. There are about 8.000 airports not served by scheduled airlines which are convenient to air taxis and presumably to you. Air taxi service may bo regularly scheduled, like the one took last summer in Seattle's and in such San Juan islands cases the tariff is published in brochmes that look much bke any airline's material, or you can charter an air taxi, in The Salt iJtke Tribune, Sunday, February 23, l!k!9 1 Insurance. And the cost of shipping your VW home. There will be eight tours in 1969, the first one starting June 7th. Mail the coupon below for complete information, including itinerary. Ours is a great way to see Europe. And think of the souvenir you'll be bringing home. which case the service rates will be for the aircraft and the costs cheaper when they are divided among several people. IF I HE IDEA appeals to you and I assure rm that safety factors are very high, indeed, the way to among air taxis get an air taxi is either to call a major airline, the one taking you from point to point, and ask them to hook ou your local phone an NTC air He'll schedule flight. book and call taxi oiierator. convenient a C. Johnson Co., Inc. P.O. Box 1097, Burlingame, California on or to check The following booklet by Franco Koltun oro now Available to readers: "DrrMni aid packin' App'opri.tfely M for Taei," "Tippmq Widely Abroad, "How To Moot the Mut lnterrtin people Wboirvrr You Go." and "Bud " fMmo and PMnmnq a Trip Aboard Send 35 cent's lor rath booklet, or 11 IS for alt four, to Mim Frances Koltun, New York. N Y 1001. $5 West "'ti St Kottun't excelAlso available is M lent book on ail aspects of travel, "The woman Intel!. ornt Traveler," regular7 so but especially priced at Si SO ly reade s Send for th.s nrwsraper check pr money aider te the same ad MA. 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