Add moguls to your holidays

Want to ski your way through the holidays? A five-night Holiday Week Ski Package, for stays Dec. 23-Jan. 9, includes meals and skiing on New Hampshire's Pats Peak, Mount Sunapee, and Ragged Mountain. The package includes five nights' lodging at either the Blue Acorn Inn, Henniker House B&B, Highland Lake Inn, or Rosewood Country Inn; a country breakfast each morning; lift tickets for four days at your choice of slope, and dinner each evening. Prices start at $536 per person (for the Blue Acorn Inn). Three-night packages, in which guests ski two days and ring in the New Year, are also available beginning at $220 per person (for the Henniker House B&B).

Visit www.granitestatevacations.com and click on Inn Packages.

Grin and bear it

The Planters Inn in Charleston, S.C., has an offer designed to chase away those Wall Street blues. The Bear Market Holiday package includes two nights' lodging, continental breakfast for two each morning, and a tour of the Historic District in a horse-drawn carriage. The package at this Relais & Châteaux property starts at $399 and is available through Feb. 26.

Visit www.plantersinn.com or call 800-845-7082.

Free breakfasts

Through Feb. 28, AAA members staying at Hyatt hotels in North America get a complimentary full breakfast in addition to the 10 percent discount members receive year-round.

Visit www.hyatt.com and look for the AAA Members link. Specify offer code BREAKF.

$500 off per couple

CIE Tours International is giving discounts up to $500 per couple on 2009 escorted vacations to Ireland, Britain, Italy, and Eastern Europe, as well as for European river cruises. To get the discount, book a tour of 10 days or longer or a river cruise for travel May 1-Oct. 31, together with either flights or travel insurance, and pay in full by this Dec. 31. There is also an offer to save $300 per couple on shorter tours.

Visit www.cietours.com, see a travel agent, or call 800-CIE-TOUR (243-8687).

This donation's for you

If you and a companion have invitations to the Obama inauguration and can spare $40,000 for the Fairmont Washington D.C.'s Eco-Inaugural Package Jan. 18-21, here's what you will get: four nights in the two-bedroom Lexus Hybrid Living Suite; use of a Lexus LS 600h hybrid vehicle with driver; a donation of $2,000 to the National Geographic Society; organic spa treatments; a custom-tailored organic ball gown; two butlers; and an organic supper for 10.

For more details, visit www.fairmont.com/washington. For reservations, call 202-429-2400.

RICHARD P. CARPENTER

Most prices quoted are for double occupancy, minus taxes and fees. Offers are subject to availability. Richard P. Carpenter can be reached at carpenter@globe.com.