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TAHOE EVEN FOR NON-SKIERS *Michael Anderson & Teresa
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Snow boarding has become a big attraction
and lessons at Heavenly and elsewhere have become very popular. Tahoe
also offers 31 miles of trails for cross-country skiers and has many
places for snowshoeing. Ice-fishing is easily arranged and horse-drawn
sleigh rides as well, a perfect way for children to end the day.
And there's a lot for adults to do in Tahoe as well. By day, there's Genoa Lakes Golf Course and March and April are great months for "Ski & Tee" vacations. Nearby Carson City also offers great golf year-round and interesting historical sites in addition such as the Nevada State Museum, the Nevada Children's Museum and the Nevada Railroad Museum. And once the night draws in, the restaurants and casinos beckon. The Las Vegas casinos have established a presence in Tahoe and created new dining and stage entertainment for the two million visitors Tahoe gets each year.
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The shows vary from Harveys
Cabaret with "Hard Body Rock," its adult
musical review, all this winter but show is dark April 9-30 to the
South Shore Room at Harrah's (800-427-7247) that will have entertainers
from Bobby Vinton Mar 17-18 through Kevin James, TV's King of Queens
May 26-27. All the big resorts have ski packages with especially
good mid-week rates that vary from two nights at Caesars
Tahoe (800-648-3353) with breakfast and lifts tickets for
two at S150 per person, to a higher priced package at Embassy Suites
(800-988-3724) of one night in a two-roomed suite with breakfast,
lift ticket (or snow tours or one-hour massage) and evening cocktails
for $129 per person. Embassy
Suites Resort in South Lake Tahoe has won awards for
the Number 1 Embassy Suites in the country and, located on the California
side of the state line, is the closest to the new downtown gondala
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Finally, if you want someplace romantic to stay in
Tahoe, consider Fantasy
Inn at 3696 Lake Tahoe Blvd (800-367-7736) with its 53
rooms, all different, most with special themes such as Romeo and Juliet,
Antony and Cleopatra, Arabian Nights and - wait for it - Graceland. |
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Tahoe Queen: M. S. Dixie II Zephyr Cove Snowmobile Center And if winter is not for you, scheduled for July 21 through August 26, 2001 is the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, held in a natural sand ampitheater; this year's Festival is featuring evening performances of The Comedy of Errors and The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
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