DEAL OF THE WEEK

The online travel retailer go-today.com offers a “Costa Rica Winter Special” from $1,049 per person, double occupancy, that includes round-trip air fare from Los Angeles on United Airlines (with 3,000 frequent-flier miles); six nights in Costa Rica, including a stay at Pacific beaches; airport-hotel transfers; a choice of tours of the Monteverde Cloud Forest or the Arenal Volcano and Can~o Negro Wildlife Refuge; daily breakfast; and some other meals. An airport tax of $69 is extra. There is a $50-per-person surcharge for travel Friday to Sunday. The package must be purchased by Feb. 29. Book online at https://www.go-today.com.

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FREE FOR THE ASKING

The “African American Visitors Guide” to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., features Caribbean, Latino and Native American sites as well as African American ones. There is a brief history of the area’s African Americans and information on related tours, businesses, churches, museums, shops and restaurants. To order, call (800) 22-SUNNY or write the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, 1850 Eller Drive, Suite 303, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316.

This Week’s Holidays

Banking and government offices will be closed or services curtailed in the following countries and their dependencies this week because of national and religious holidays:

Monday: Grenada, Macao

Tuesday: Bhutan, Guadeloupe, Iraq, Macao, Slovenia

Wednesday: Egypt, Guadeloupe

Thursday: Iran, Malta, Martinique

Friday: Angola, Cameroon, French Guiana, Japan, Liberia, Martinique, St. Pierre and Miquelon

Saturday: French Guiana, Martinique, Myanmar

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Source: Thomson Financial Publishing