We would feel remiss if we didn’t keep you up to speed on all of those travel deals floating around — in the ether of the Internet. Travelzoo sends us their weekly Top 20 and we like to cut them down and share them with you. Keeps getting cheaper: $19 & up — JetBlue...
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We always thought the Barcelona bird market on the Ramblas — that long road filled with street performers and tourists — was kind of creepy. Sure, people loved to walk through the market snapping pictures of caged squawking birds as they quoted Maya Angelou. But there was a sadness to the market too, there...
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It’s the wedding of the century or the weekend, depending on who you talk to. Chelsea Clinton is tying the knot to some guy (his name is Marc Mezvinsky, and eventually will get his own Wikipedia page, he doesn’t have one now). While the media just won’t shut up about this wedding, we’re more...
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We’re quickly becoming friendly with the people at Travel Ticker — in part, because they keep offering up some discounts that make our head spin just a little. Here’s some of the offers they have for this week. $129+ Exclusive 35% off AAA Four Diamond Chicago stay — $129+ Rate is per night. Hotel...
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The European Commission, one of the important bodies needed to bless the proposed merger between Continental and United airlines, said it doesn’t see any problem with the marriage. “Approval from the European Commission is another important step toward completing our merger with United,” said Jeff Smisek, Continental’s chairman, president and CEO, in a press...
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The key to communications is to have people receive the message you intended to send — but here are a few times that the message may have been lost in translation — or worse yet, maybe it wasn’t. Check out what we found around the web.
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Tora, Tora, Tora! (In Japanese, that means either Discount, Discount, Discount or Attack, Attack, Attack.) That’s the mantra JetBlue has taken now that nearly every other airline has started offering tickets at super discounted prices. For travelers, that means discounts for you. Just go here and check out JetBlue’s Giant Wall of Savings. There...
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One cool way to board a plane is the completely paperless method. But there are drawbacks. Walking into the airport without a paper boarding pass is unnerving. The habit of having a ticket is overwhelming. Every time I would tap my hand on my bag to assure myself that my ticket was there, it...
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The oil has stopped gushing and the media has gone on to cover other breaking stories. Oh, there may be a couple of hundred million gallons of oil still floating around, but, well, whatever, if there’s not fresh video of birds dying, what’s the point of covering it? Sadly, that is case of our...
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One of the great joys of traveling is the complete freedom from staying on a diet. It’s your business trip or vacation…act like it. A specific function that is always a treat is eating at buffets – whether it’s on a cruise ship or a Las Vegas Hotel. However, there’s always sand in the...
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King Tut, who’s been dead for about 3,300 years, should be aware of the following rules in New York City. Parking, when you can find it, is very expensive. And that’s only if you can find it. Double parking, while illegal, is often the preferred method if you’ve just got to run into the...
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Everyone is an expert nowadays and everyone has a digital camera — ergo, ipso facto, everyone thinks they are an expert photographer. However, the Internet has proven otherwise — not everyone is an expert — by a long shot. So Olympus, through one of its professional photographers Jay Kinghorn, offers up three easy to...
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