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Silent Auction 2017

by Nicole Quaste

Mar 1, 2017
March 2017

EACH YEAR, Global Traveler hosts an online travel auction to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, joining in the fight of a lifetime. If we stand united with LLS, we can aid in the organization’s mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma.

Approximately 1.2 million people living in the United States either have or are in remission from leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma. You might ask yourself, “What can I do to help?” One way is to bid in our auction, fulfilling your travel dreams while helping ensure someone has the chance to live to fulfill their own dreams. The following selection of items is available at our online auction, live March 1 through May 1. Bid on business-class airline tickets, luxury travel items and stays at some of the world’s finest hotels, generously donated by our corporate partners. All of the auction proceeds go straight to LLS to help fund its life-saving research and patient services.

As a result of LLS-conducted and -funded research and other initiatives, survival rates quadrupled over the last 50 years. LLS made it possible for so many people diagnosed to continue living full, healthy lives, and LLS provides hope for those still fighting.

Thanks to your generous participation in past auctions, we’ve raised more than $1 million on behalf of LLS. Every year we aim to raise the bar higher. Join us in reaching our goal in 2017 by bidding often on the items listed on the following pages. An amazing travel experience is within reach, and with it comes another step in the fight to eradicate cancer.

Log on to our website via your smartphone for complete instructions and to start bidding. Visit the website regularly, as new items will be added.

BID TODAY

Two-night stay at The Beverly Hilton

Two-night stay at The Biltmore Hotel Coral Gables in a junior suite with daily breakfast

Bose Soundlink around-the-ear wireless headphones

Two-night stay at The Breakers Palm Beach

Two round-trip business-class tickets from LAX/SFO/JFK to TPE on China Airlines

Two round-trip China Eastern Airlines business-class tickets for flights departing LAX, JFK, SFO, ORD, HNL, YVR or YYZ

Two-night stay at China World Summit Wing, Beijing in an executive room with daily breakfast

Delsey Helium Sky 2.0 suitcase

Global Travel Clothing jacket

One-night stay at InterContinental Los Angeles

Three-night stay at Kowloon Shangri-La Hong Kong

Two-night stay at The Langham, Chicago

Four-day, three-night stay in a superior deluxe room, including breakfast, at Mandarin Orchard Singapore

Three-night stay at Meliá Buenos Aires

Two-night stay at Montage Beverly Hills

Three-night stay at any Omni hotel or resort in North America

Seven-night stay at Palm Island The Grenadines

Three-night stay at Paradisus Cancún

Three-night stay at Paradisus Los Cabos

Two-night stay at The Peninsula Beverly Hills

Two-night stay at The Phoenician Scottsdale

Three-night stay at any Radisson Blu or Radisson location worldwide

Two-night stay at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis

One pair of Singapore Airlines business-class tickets, Houston (IAH)–Manchester (MAN)

Three-night stay at Sofitel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills

Two-night stay at The St. Regis Dubai

One-night stay at The Time Nyack Hotel

Two-night stay at Virgin Hotels Chicago

Two-night stay at W Dubai

Two-night stay at The Westin Dubai

LLS

BID TODAY global17.auction-bid.org

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