Deal of the week

Visit Australia and New Zealand this spring or summer on a nine-day package that starts at $1,499 and includes air, hotel and motor-home rental.

The Air New Zealand special, offered May 1 to June 30, focuses on Auckland, New Zealand; and Sydney and Cairns, Australia.

Included: air trans- portation from LAX or San Francisco Inter- national to Auckland, two nights’ accommo- dations in Auckland, air transportation from Auckland to Sydney, one night in a Sydney hotel, six nights’ rental of a motor home for travel to Cairns, and return air transportation from Cairns to LAX or SFO.

Call (800) 262-1234 or see www.airnewzealand.com/usa; click on “Vacations & Destinations,” then “Australia & New Zealand.”