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Article / Hotels

Start Your Week With a $25 Family Hotel Deal on Route 66

Route 66 has often been called America's favorite highway, and with good reason, as it goes to all the good places, such as Springfield, Illinois. In addition to the splendid history…

Article / Air Travel

Fly with a Friend on USAir for Only $1 More

Now through next Thursday, US Airways is offering companion fares for select cities within the continental US for only $1, making these prices roughly half their usual cost. To…

Article / Packages

Rolling, Gliding, Up the Alps & Skating For Pie

You're out there, you inline skaters, and you're in for a surprise. You may never have thought of touring France or Switzerland on your wheels, or even Florida or Minnesota, but now…

Article / Packages

BritRail Offers Day Excursion to Paris on Eurostar for $179

The road warrior isn't the only one to try squeezing important sites and sights into a busy schedule. There are leisure travelers, too, who can't make the time to see more than one…

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

Find Your Digs by Activity in Costa Rica with a New Online Hotel Index

Costa Rica Hotel Index and Costa Rica Expeditions.

Article / Packages

Tips from the Publisher: Using a Travel Agent

When the trip gets complicated, Mike believes it's still best to call a travel agent. He outlines his process to achieve the best possible success in this relationship.

Article / Beach & Water Sports

How Now, Curacao: All-Inclusive Resort Serves Up $111-a-Day Adventure Package

Curacao, that orange-flavored liqueur so bright blue it makes your drinks look more like Windex than the potent potable you ordered from the bar, is aptly named after the bitter…

Article / Packages

Contiki Lops off $100 for European Packages

"Europe has remained the top destination choice for young professionals and college students," says the marketing director for Contiki Holidays, Lis Wooldridge, after a survey recently…

Article / Hotels

Super 8 to the Apple Core, Now in Times Square

While the rich- and famous-frequented hotels of New York City battle their way back from the drop in occupancy rates they experienced after the World Trade Center attack, five hotels…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Mediterranean Meditation: A Week on Malta Starts at $899

Sixty miles south of Sicily lies Malta, an island richer in history and culture per square mile than any other in the whole of the Mediterranean. Before eventually becoming the…

Article / Theme Park

Animal Magic, Disney Style, Just $29.95 & Up

Disney World

Article / Car, Bus, Rail

Extra Day For Tootling Around On France's Railpass

Reacting to the threat of fewer Americans traveling to France this year, or just to make sure those nice Yanks keep coming back to the world's leading tourist destination, Rail Europe…

Article / Local Experiences

Tip from the Publisher: See Iceland

People ask me, as publisher of Frommer's, "What's your favorite place on earth?" I have many favorites, but the one that always comes to mind is Iceland. I've been there several times…

Article / Hotels

Show Me The State of Missouri B&Bs, From $50 Up

You don't have to see the reborn "Oklahoma" musical, now back on the Broadway boards, to know that everything is up to date in Kansas City. Because it is, always has been, always will…

Article / Miscellaneous

The 2nd Annual Weekend of Hope in Stowe, VT Offers Cancer Patients, Survivors and Family Free Rooms, Lectures and More

The Vermont Cancer Network and Stowe team up to bring about the Weekend of Hope.

Article / Packages

Try A Delightful Mix of Pandas, Kites & Wats in China or Siam

Go back in time a bit to sample childhood pleasures, perhaps go back enough to call Thailand "Siam" again, or take a slow boat in China, not to it. You can do all this, and go fly a…

Article / Packages

The Super Highdeck Road to Rome, From $123 a Day

English and American philosophers and theologians used to drone on and on about "The Road to Rome" years ago, talking mostly about the implications of converting to Catholicism. Those…

Article / Family & Kids

Way, Way Downtown...New Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky

Kathleen Warnock, Editor, Frommer's Travel Guides, writes of her experience at the Humana Festival in Louisville.

Article / Packages

Go, Go Gaugin! Tahiti and Moorea Starting at $699

We reported earlier on Tahiti Vacations great $999 deal to New Zealand. Now they're shortening the distance and the price on two packages, but you'll have to be ready to leave soon-the…

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

Tips from the Publisher: Biking in Holland

Holland is biking country, particularly for families and people on the far-edge of middle age.

Article / Local Experiences

Volunteer to Research and Preserve History--Good for the Whole Family or by Yourself

United States Department of Agriculture's Forest Service program, Passport in Time (PIT) is a public lands archeology and preservation program that relies almost wholly on volunteers…

Article / Health, Insurance, Security

MEDJET Takes Worry Out of Overseas Health Emergencies

MEDJET Assistance is like AAA for your body. Members are guaranteed transport to the hospital of their choice, anytime they are more than 150 miles away from home and hospitalized.

Article / Packages

Pursue the Classics in Canada or Italy, From $139 Per Diem

You don't have to read Latin to pursue the classics with the University of Toronto's St. Michael's College this summer, but you do need an interest in literature, the arts or just…

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

Big Mountain, Not-so-Big Prices, in Montana This Summer

If you're hankering for a real outdoors vacation this summer, you should consider Big Mountain in Montana. Right next door (at 25 miles, a Montanan's next door, that is) to Glacier…

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

Gliding Through the Glades, From Only $69 a Day

The Everglades National Park in Florida is still very much alive, despite the best efforts of the sugar industry to replace it with cane fields, but I urge you to visit before the…