Play Like Tiger Woods... Or at least play on his new Asheville course!

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Tiger Woods' latest golf course design, The Cliffs at High Carolina, is his first course in North America and is located minutes from downtown Asheville. (We don't have any Asheville vacation rentals at the Cliffs but we do have many other great offerings...with free golf!)

Why Asheville, NC? Why Not! Woods, the No. 1 golfer in the world, pulled out his Western NC map and picked Asheville for obvious beauty, spectacular views and wonderful community.

The members-only course, which is expected to be completed in Mid 2010, will be a walkable course with elevations reaching nearly 4,000 feet. The southern exposure of the course will also make the course playable year-round. The course will be a part of a community with a state-of-the-art Wellness Center and Spa, Community village and a trail system over miles of mountain trails. Other courses in the community by well-known designers include: two Jack Nicklaus Signature courses, two Tom Fazio courses, a Gary Player signature course and a Tom Jackson designed course.

Does the anticipation of this new course make you want to practice until you ARE Tiger? Check out the Mountain Discovery Pass here at Carolina Mornings! Even if you don't have Tiger's paycheck, YOU can play for FREE at Reems Golf Club (and get other exciting freebies like skiing and white water rafting!)

Vacation Renters' Paradise

The Boston Globe's Sunday magazine article Bargains in Paradise sites that the Cape Code rental market is "off to a slow start" this year. The article goes on to site that fly to destinations are taking a huge hit this year and presenting with big discounts. The drive to destinations are not feeling the same pain and in some cases not even offering any discounts.

Here in Asheville, we are seeing a decrease of the number of reservations and the stays are shorter then last year. And as the Boston Globe's article even suggests, and we at Carolina Mornings are witnessing first hand: more vacationers are looking for deals and freebies.

I would like to say this is not so, but I cannot tell a lie. So how have we responded to traveling public? or as Janet Jackson sang "What Have You Done For Me Lately?"

Some of our owners are offering amazing specials and as a company we have offered some free amenities such as $50 gift certificates to Zambra's Restaurant honoring the moms for the month of May. But regardless of any of these specials, we have also added more value and Freebies to our vacation rentals. Our area's one and only Asheville's Mountain Discovery Pass offers FREE activities: Whitewater Rafting, Trolley Tours, Golf, Lake Lure Cruise Tours. Now with each rental accommodation, our guests basically get close to $100 of free activities for each night of their stay. You gotta admit, where else can you rent a vacation rental and as a bonus receive FREE rafting? Free Trolley Tours? Golf? Really now? I think this is amazing! Don't you?

Vacations and Value Added Benefits

Take Mom out for some outdoor adventure! Along with our Mother's Day Specials, every reservation will still get FREE daily activities. Yes, every day you can play a round of golf, rafting on the French Broad River and trolley tours all for Free! Yes Zippo, Nada, Rien, Nothing-well except you do need to book a vacation rental with us. Small detail, but nonetheless a great giveaway. This is what we call value added to your accommodations. Nowhere else in the Asheville Mountain area can you receive such amazing gifts. We are not talking $5 or $10 off these activities, we are saying "one free admission for each of these every night of your stay". I think this is awesome and so proud to have the Mountain Discovery Pass available for all of our guests! And by the way, even if your mother is not around this weekend, you can still come and go out and play with Mom in mind.

Great Savings: Free Dinner on Carolina Mornings

Ok, Nothing is free. However the $50 gift certificate to award wining Zambra Tapas Restaurant is actually free when one books a reservation with Carolina Mornings. Now there are 2 conditions (always some fine print involved, but we will make this very simple): one must book a vacation rental from now until June 1st and this offer cannot be combined with other "specials".
That is it. Very Simple, Value Added Deal that we are offering to all. We want to reach out to our loyal guests new and old and let them know that Asheville's leading vacation rental company is offering a free night out on the town. And, get this: included in our reservations you get our complimentary free North Carolina Mountain Discovery Pass (MDP). This includes more free activities such as whitewater rafting, Asheville Trolly Tour, a round of golf, every day of your stay!!
Again what a Deal! Such Savings! So tell your friends and family to check us out! We really are trying to Simplify!

Check us out on the Amenity Services Inc (ASI) web site!

Our Carolina Mornings Mountain Discovery Pass, free amenities with every Carolina Mornings reservation, is thanks to our partnership with ASI. They have revamped their Web site since the last time I visited, and it looks great!

Check them out, and while you're at it, take a look at our personal ASI page too! We are enjoying our partnership with ASI, and so are our guests.
We currently offer a variety of amenities depending on the season, including golf at Reems Creek, admission to the Fun Depot, white water rafting with Rock ‘n’ Water, admission to Asheville’s Historic Trolley Tour, passage on the Lake Lure Boat Tour and ski lift passes at Ski the Wolf. There are more to come too!

Congrats to ASI for their nice Web design and thanks to them as well for our great page on their site!

Asheville Mountain Discovery Pass

Carolina Mornings has teamed up with Amenity Services, Inc. to provide the first amenity pass of it's kind among WNC vacation rental properties.

Every guest reservation receives the Mountain Discovery Pass (MDP) as part of their stay. The pass includes free tickets for several area attractions, including Rock 'n' Water whitewater rafting, Lake Lure Tours, golfing at Reems Creek, Asheville Historic Trolley Tours and Asheville's Fun Depot.

Each amenity pass allows one free admission per paid night at any Carolina Mornings accommodations. To get the Asheville MDP in full detail, click here.