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Free stay during downpours

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A luxury Malaysian beach resort has come up with a novel way for guests to actually look forward to a downpour on their holiday: a free night if the rainfall exceeds 3 cms.

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Sampling Noumea's delights

By MANDY EVANS - The Marlborough Express

Visitors to Noumea, New Caledonia, need to take a credit card and a corkscrew to fully enjoy the pleasures of this French territory's capital. But that's the only hard part.

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Sampling Noumea's delights

Visitors to Noumea, New Caledonia, need to take a credit card and a corkscrew to fully enjoy the pleasures of this French territory's capital. But that's the only hard part.

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Malaysian resort

Free stay during downpours

A luxury Malaysian beach resort has come up with a novel way for guests to actually look forward to a downpour on their holiday: a free night if the rainfall exceeds 3 cms.

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