Rotarian Trip to Nicaragua in August, 2014

Getting group rates for tickets has gotten increasingly difficult.  People are coming from so many different places and usually you can get much better prices on line than we can get as a group rate.  So we are asking everyone to buy your own tickets directly but, you must coordinate your arrival and departure to match within an hour or so of the United flights shown above.  I know that American and some others have flights through Miami which closely match this schedule.  The ground travel, meals and hotel charges will be $570.00 per person (double occupancy in hotels). Add $180.00 per person if you require a private room. We will co-ordinate all of this as we always have in the past. If you will be on flights other than these United flights Please send me a copy of your tickets so that we will know when to meet you. Payments and sign-up sheets for this should be sent to:

 

                  Hope & Relief International Foundation, Inc.

                  10700 Gerke Rd.

                  Brenham, Texas 77833

                  Fax  979-836-0614

 

We will schedule everyone on a first come, first served, basis as of the date we receive your payment.  No one will be scheduled before payment is received.  Attached is a reservation form which should be sent in by everyone, with the information and your payment. Please provide ALL the information. In order to secure all the hotel reservations we need to have your registration by November1,2013 or we will not be able to be sure that we can have hotel reservations for you. We will be staying at a different hotel in Managua than the one we have stayed at in the past and our cut-off date for reservations is November 1, 2103. AFTER THIS DATE WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GET ADDITIONAL RESERVATIONS.

 

The group will spend the first night in Managua and leave the next day for Chinendega to visit the city dump, the clinic for the children of the dump, and the school built for children of the dump.  Lunch will be served at La Batania, a trade school built in partnership with Rotarians and the Quen of Spain.  Rotary donated all of the machinery and equipment used in their metal and woodworking shop.  A tour of the San Martin Hospital will take the group to the new wing for hemodiali sis which was donated by Rotarians.  The House of Santa Lucia will also be toured which is a house for the blind.  The next day the group will visit the Refugio Belen, a pregnant women's shelter where the mother's receive Rotary bags filled with layette supplies for their newborn babies before heading home.  Other Rotary built villages will also be toured.  Some vacation time is also planned at an all inclusive resort, Montalymar Resort.  Shopping at Mercado and visiting the volcano park near Masaya are also planned activities before the trip ends.