US Open Tennis Travel

There is one more Grand Slam to go for 2009 and as far as tennis travel goes the US Open at Flushing Meadows is not really a big one for us. Don’t get me wrong, I would love it to be as big as our Wimbledon Packages or our French Open travel and we definitely get enquiries. Each year we do a limited number of customised individual tennis travel packages built around the US Open, I just want to do more of them. The US Open should be huge after all it is the last one of the year, it is in New York (officially one of, if not the safest city in America) and it is summer time.

I have lived in New York both on Manhattan and in Queens and it is a special place on the planet for the sports traveller, the cultural sophisticate or the fan of popular culture. I love my Architecture and Modernist Art, after all that true Aussie Icon the Blue Polls was painted in New York. As for popular culture, most of us have a soft spot for either Seinfeld, Sex in the City or any of the Dick Wolf crime dramas.

This year you can get to New York for about $1000 as the deregulation of the trans-pacific air routes and the GFC have put fares in a tail spin, it is not too late to go! If you can’t make New York and most of us can’t get in early for the first of grand slam of 2010 The Australian Open. Australian Open tickets with travel packages have been on sale for a while and six months out is not too early to secure a great hotel and Australian Open Finals tickets as 2010 will see more of old guard or the next wave of hero’s.

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I got this photo off our Sportsnet Holidays facebook site. It was taken during the 2009 Australian Open and I am angling to use it in our Australian Open 2010 marketing. As the enquires are starting to flow for Wimbledon 2009 and The French Open I was thinking how I would love to see one of our role out banners at either event. While they are great for the Open in Melbourne where the fans have alot of fun they don't seem very Lawn Tennis or Roland Garros.

We also just got a new offical image for the 2010 Hopman Cup I have been pleasantly suprised by how many people have got themselves organised to sign up for the Hopman Cup and The 2010 Australian Open.