Hot Air Balloon Adventure with 2-Night Hotel Stay for Two

Enjoy a hot air balloon ride for two at more than 150 locations in the United States with Soaring Adventures. Valid one year from date of purchase, subject to availability.

First, the passengers will meet the pilot and ground crew who will take them to the launch site where the beautiful balloon is being inflated. Then the ground crew will unpack the equipment and invite the passengers to participate in the inflation process. After launching, the balloon will gently ascend and float between 500 and 1,000 feet.

They will travel above the treetops and below the clouds for about an hour, covering 5 or 10 miles--wherever the wind takes them! On landing the pilot and passengers will celebrate with a champagne toast, an old European tradition (soft drinks also available). The whole experience takes about three hours...three fantastic hours.

The ride can be taken at any one of Soaring Adventures of America's 150 certified ballooning locations coast-to-coast.

Note: Hot air ballooning is subject to weather conditions. If your scheduled flight is cancelled, every effort will be made to reschedule you while on your trip, but there are no promised made or implied that space will be available to allow for rescheduled flights during your vacation. You can, of course, use the certificate at any of the 150 locations at another time if your flight is cancelled and unable to be rescheduled.

Hyatt Hotels - While on this wonderful trip enjoy a two-night stay at any of the following Hyatt Hotels locations, (subject to availability and continued participation) valid one year from date of purchase.

Travel is valid 12 months from date of purchase. Reservations are subject to availability. Certificates cannot be replaced if lost, stolen or destroyed. All packages have a no refund policy.


Retail Value: $868

This auction item will temporarily close online on Friday March 26, 2010 at 12:00 pm CT; however the final online bid will be the opening bid for the silent auction Ben Franklin Fruhlingsfeier International Festival, which will be held from 2-8 pm CT on Saturday March 27, 2010 at the Deutsches Haus, 200 S. Galvez Street, New Orleans.


Choose from over 150 possible hot air balloon / Hyatt Hotel locations for your trip:

AR
(Hyatt Place Rogers/Bentonville)
Launch sites in or near: Bentonville.

AZ
(Hyatt Place Phoenix area (5 locations); Summerfield Suites Scottsdale; Hyatt Place Tucson Airport)
Launch sites in or near: Phoenix, North Phoenix, Glendale, Deer Valley, Scottsdale, Maricopa, Carefree, Tucson/Eloy, and Sedona area.

CA
(Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport; Hyatt Place Fremont/Silicon Valley; Hyatt Place Sacramento/Rancho Cordova; Summerfield Suites Belmont/Redwood Shores; Summerfield Suites Pleasant Hill; Summerfield Suites Pleasanton; Hyatt Place Ontario Mills; Hyatt Regency Orange County; Hyatt Summerfield Suites LAX/El Segundo; Hyatt Valencia; Hyatt Place Reno Tahoe Airport (NV))
Launch sites in or near: Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Lake Tahoe, Truckee/Reno (NV), Perris, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Temecula, and Del Mar.

CO
(Hyatt Regency Tech Center-Denver; Hyatt Place Denver/Tech Center-Englewood; Hyatt Place Denver Airport/Aurora; Hyatt Place Denver/Park Meadows-Lone Tree; Summerfield Suites Denver Tech Center; Hyatt Place Colorado Springs/Garden of the Gods; Hyatt Summerfield Suites Colorado Springs)
Launch sites in or near: Boulder, Denver, Longmont, Littleton, Castle Rock, and Colorado Springs.

CT
(Hyatt Summerfield Suites Hartford North/Windsor)
Launch sites in or near: Farmington, Hartford/Bloomfield.

FL
(Hyatt Regency Jacksonville; Hyatt Place Orlando area (4 locations) ;Hyatt Regency Miami; Hyatt Place Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area (3 locations); Hyatt Regency Tampa; Hyatt Place Tampa (2 locations); Hyatt Place Lakeland; Hyatt Place Ft. Myers; Hyatt Place Sarasota; Hyatt Place WPB)
Launch sites in or near: Orlando, Leesburg, Clermont, Mt. Dora, Deland, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Lakeland, Miami, Port St. Lucie, Homestead, and Tallahassee.

GA
(Hyatt Place Atlanta (12 locations); Hyatt Place Columbus-North; Hyatt Regency Perimeter NW)
Launch sites in or near: Augusta.

IL
(Hyatt Regency O’Hare; Hyatt Place Chicago area (4 locations); Hyatt Regency Woodfield; The Hyatt Lodge at McDonalds Campus; Hyatt Rosemont; Hyatt Deerfield; Hyatt Lisle)
Launch sites in or near: Plainfield, Fox River Grove, Plainfield, Lawrenceville, Belleville, and Sycamore area.

IN
(Hyatt Regency Indianapolis; Hyatt Place Indianapolis (2 locations); Hyatt Place Fort Wayne; Hyatt Place South Bend/Mishawaka)
Launch sites in or near: Anderson, Carmel, Bloomington, and Vincennes.

KS
(Hyatt Place Kansas City area (2 locations); Hyatt Place Topeka)
Launch sites in or near: Kansas City.

KY
(Hyatt Regency Louisville; Hyatt Place Louisville-East)
Launch sites in or near: Louisville.

MA
(Summerfield Suites Boston/Burlington-MA; Hyatt Summerfield Suites Hartford North/Windsor (CT))
Launch sites in or near: Worcester, and Derry (NH).

MI
(Hyatt Regency Dearborn; Hyatt Place Detroit area (3 locations))
Launch sites in or near: Oxford.

MN
(Hyatt Regency Minneapolis; Hyatt Place Minneapolis (2 locations))
Launch sites in or near: Jordan.

MO
(Hyatt Regency Crown Center (Kansas City), Hyatt Place Kansas City/Airport)
Launch sites in or near: Parsons and Kansas City.

NC
(Hyatt Place Charlotte (3 locations); Hyatt Summerfield Suites Charlotte Airport)
Launch sites in or near: Charlotte.

NJ
(Summerfield Suites Bridgewater; Hyatt Summerfield Suites Philadelphia/Plymouth Meeting (PA))
Launch sites in or near: Flemington, Clinton, and New Hope area (PA).

NM
(Hyatt Regency Albuquerque; Hyatt Place Albuquerque (2 locations))
Launch sites in or near: Albuquerque, Gallup, and Taos.

NV
(Hyatt Place Las Vegas; Hyatt Place Reno Tahoe Airport)
Launch sites in or near: Las Vegas and Reno.

NY
(Hyatt Regency Buffalo; Hyatt Regency Rochester; Hyatt Regency Long Island at Wind Watch Golf Club; Hyatt Place Saratoga/Malta; Summerfield Suites Westchester/White Plains)
Launch sites in or near: Stockport (The Catskills), Fayetteville, SE Syracuse, Munnsville, Dansville, and Bath.

OH
(Hyatt Regency Cleveland-The Arcade; Hyatt Place Cleveland/Independence; Hyatt Regency Cincinnati; Hyatt Place Cincinnati (2 locations); Hyatt Regency Columbus; Hyatt Place Columbus (2 locations))
Launch sites in or near: Columbus, Lebanon, and Cuyahoga Valley.

OK
(Hyatt Place Oklahoma City (2 locations); Hyatt Place Tulsa/Southern Hills)
Launch sites in or near: Oklahoma City and Tulsa.

PA
(Hyatt Regency Pittsburgh International Airport; Hyatt Place Pittsburgh Airport; Hyatt Place Pittsburgh/Cranberry; Hyatt Summerfield Suites Philadelphia/Plymouth Meeting; Hyatt Place Bethlehem)
Launch sites in or near: Beaver Falls (Pittsburgh area), Valley Forge, York, Quakertown, Allentown, and New Hope area.

TN
(Hyatt Place Memphis (2 locations); Hyatt Place Germantown; Hyatt Place Nashville (5 locations))
Launch sites in or near: Memphis, Spring Hill, Franklin, Brentwood, Clarksville, and Lebanon.

TX
(Hyatt Regency DFW Airport; Hyatt Regency Dallas; Hyatt Regency North Dallas; Hyatt Place Dallas/Fort Worth area (11 locations); Hyatt Summerfield Suites Dallas (5 locations); Hyatt Place San Antonio (2 locations))
Launch sites in or near: Dallas/Fort Worth area, Plano, McKinney, Wills Point, Waxahachie, Midlothian, and San Antonio/New Braunfels area.

UT
(Hyatt Place Salt Lake City (2 locations); Hyatt Summerfield Suites SLC/Sandy)
Launch sites in or near: Park City and Heber.

VA
(Hyatt Fair Lakes; Hyatt Place Dulles Station/Herndon; Hyatt Summerfield Suites Herndon)
Launch sites in or near: Winchester/Berryville/Boyce area, Woodstock and the Shenandoah Valley.

WI
(Hyatt Regency Milwaukee; Hyatt Place Milwaukee (2 locations))
Launch sites in or near: Lake Geneva and Sun Prairie.