Traveler’s Notes . . .
The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway will serve up a Thanksgiving Day “Ride ‘n’ Dine” combination ticket. For $21.65 adults and $14.65 children, you get round-trip tram fare plus a traditional holiday dinner at the 8,516-foot-elevation Alpine Restaurant. Information: tel. (888) 515-TRAM . . . Versailles palace outside Paris will open Dec. 31 for what’s billed as its first New Year’s celebration since the French Revolution. Your $1,400 buys you a night of extravagant cuisine, music, fireworks and more--with a portion donated to restoring the palace. Information on “Le Bal du Roy”: tel. 011-33-1-4359-1648 or (212) 355-0400. . . . Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens this weekend opened for the winter season, through Dec. 23, with a 50-stall Christmas market and, new this year, ice skating on Tivoli Lake. Information: tel. 011-45-33-15-10-01. . . . “Treasures From Mount Vernon: George Washington Revealed,” with the president’s false teeth among 170 artifacts, opened this weekend at the New-York Historical Society through Feb. 22, 1999. On March 16, it opens at the Huntington Library in San Marino.
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