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Planning Big Weekends in Raleigh Starts with TGIF Weekends
Visit www.VisitRaleigh.com/TGIF or call 800-849-8499

Media Contact: Martin Armes, (919) 645-2654; marmes@visitraleigh.com

RALEIGH, N.C. - Looking for an affordable weekend trip to North Carolina's Capital City area in 2006?

Take advantage of Raleigh's TGIF promotion which offers visitors more than $20 of savings and the following benefits when booking a TGIF rate each and every weekend (Friday, Saturday and/or Sunday night) throughout 2006:

• Guaranteed lowest available TGIF starting from $49 per night at 25 participating hotel properties
• A 20 minute Sprint calling card to call home
• Free $10 shopping card to either Cary Towne Center, Crabtree Valley Mall or Triangle Town Center
• Enhanced 2006 Visitor Rewards card good for valuable discount offers to participating local attractions, stores, museums, restaurants and golf clubs
• Guaranteed lowest available TGIF golf rates any day of the week at four participating courses

So when you're looking for a big city weekend, look no further than the Raleigh area where TGIF weekends make it easy and affordable to getaway. Use the weekend to enjoy great concerts and special performances like Jerry Seinfeld, David Copperfield and Martina McBride,  award-winning musicals "The Lion King", Chicago, Annie, Mama Mia and Doctor Doolittle, high energy sporting events like the MEAC Basketball Tournament and Carolina Hurricanes hockey as well as museum exhibitions including Brain: The World Inside Your Head, The Enemy Within: Terrorism in America 1776 to Today and the South's largest-ever Monet exhibit, featuring many works never before seen by the public.
The Raleigh area is also host to North Carolina's largest annual event, the State Fair, nine great shopping destinations including Cary Town Center, Crabtree Valley Mall and Triangle Town Center, the state's only 5-story, 3D IMAX theatre, seven colleges and universities and more than 40 miles of trails and greenways -- plus many other great events and activities that you won't find at home and many only in Raleigh.

More information and reservation details are also available on the official web site www.VisitRaleigh.com/TGIF or by calling 800-849-8499.


The Greater Raleigh CVB is a non-profit agency to enhance the economic growth and development of Raleigh and Wake County by increasing visitor and convention business.