Last Minute Offers to the World’s Biggest and Most Extraordinary Carnival Celebrations in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador da Bahia

Salvador, Brazil, February 19, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Only a few days before Carnival, the biggest street party in the world, which will take place on February 21st to 24th 2009, the Brazilian Rio de Janeiro and Salvador are finishing final preparations for hosting the event that unites millions of Brazilians and foreigners for a few exceptional days. The famous Carnival hot-spot is Rio de Janeiro. Rio’s colorful Carnival Parade in the Sambadromo stadium, built exclusively for this purpose, is a spectacular event featuring fascinating presentations of reputable Samba Schools competing for the title of the year’s Samba Queen. This show becomes all the more thrilling by the enormous glittering costumes designed especially for this event, by the rhythm of the samba music, and the mirthful atmosphere amongst foreigners and Brazilians alike.

For four days, the Sambadromo Parade will be the center of life in Rio de Janeiro, complimented by numerous themed parties and balls, the most renowned of which takes place in the luxurious Copacabana Palace Hotel.

While the first visitors for carnival are already arriving in the city, there are still some excellent hotels with rooms available, offering last minute bookings with great discounts! The Online Travel Company Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group’s specialized Travel Consultants have insider information about these offers and can help their clients find great deals for a unique Carnival experience in Brazil.

With the Discover Travel Group, travelers can join this exceptional party staying at the most exquisite hotels of the city. Travelers can choose between accommodation at the Copacabana Palace Hotel, ideal for participating in this hotel’s famous carnival ball, and luxurious rooms with ocean view over Rio’s picturesque beaches of Copacabana or in Ipanema. Also available is the famous Fasano Rio, inaugurated in 2007, with splendid interior design by the world famous architect Philippe Starck.

While the city of Rio de Janeiro indisputably hosts the most visually impressive Carnival event with its explosion of colors and costumes, Carnival in Salvador da Bahia holds the title of being the world’s biggest street party. Several Parades pass through the streets of the city on four consecutive days, the biggest one along the spacious avenue along the famous beaches of Barra and Ondina. When Rio impresses with sights, Salvador fascinates its visitors with the sounds of the irresistible rhythms of its music, in styles as diverse as samba, percussion and the typical local Bahian Axé music. World-famous Brazilian and international singers and bands are the stars of the Parade.

Travelers wanting to indulge in Brazilian lifestyle with its enthusiasm for rhythm, sound and music find their ideal Carnival travel package to Salvador created by Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group. Accommodation at first class hotels like the Design Hotel Zank in the Rio Vermelho neighborhood or the traditional Convento do Carmo in the historic center Pelourinho can be combined with tickets to the best seats at the ‘Camarotes’ for watching the Parade. Guests staying at the Othon Palace Salvador right by the beaches of Ondina can see and hear the Parade pass directly in front of the hotel.

The Discover Travel Group website www.DiscoverBrazil.com offers relevant information and request forms for personalized travel packages to Rio de Janeiro, Salvador da Bahia and other destinations in Brazil. Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group’s further websites www.Discover.Travel, www.DiscoverSouthAmerica.Travel and www.DiscoverCentralAmerica.Travel offer an even more varied choice of destinations for traveling in luxury in South America and Central America.

Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group:
· Won the 2008 Ulysses Award for Innovation in Tourism Enterprises from the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization),
· Are nominated as Central America’s Leading Travel Agency and South America’s Leading Travel Management Company for the World Travel Awards 2008
· Managing Partner Robert Phillips was elected ASTA Chapter President for Brazil.
· Has been selected by the Brazilian Ministry of Tourism as an Affiliate Member of the United Nations World Tourism Organization.
· Is authenticated by the Tralliance Corporation and the .Travel Registry.

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