Cyber Monday Travel Savings: A (Growing) List
Posted on 11/29/2015, 10:30 AM
Apparently tryptophan, the sleep-causing amino acid in turkey, also inspires wild bouts of shopping. How else to explain the mad rush after the holidays to empty Best Buy and Target? Now, travel marketers are trying to get in on the action, pleading the (worthy) case that adventures are a much better gift than any sweater or cellphone case. A slew of them will be putting forward "Cyber Monday...
Cyber Monday Travel Savings: A (Growing) List
Posted on 11/29/2015, 10:30 AM
Apparently tryptophan, the sleep-causing amino acid in turkey, also inspires wild bouts of shopping. How else to explain the mad rush after the holidays to empty Best Buy and Target? Now, travel marketers are trying to get in on the action, pleading the (worthy) case that adventures are a much better gift than any sweater or cellphone case. A slew of them will be putting forward "Cyber Monday...
Pausing for Art in the Napa Valley: A Visit to the Spectacular di Rosa Preserve
Posted on 11/14/2015, 5:45 PM
White, red, or rose, and whether to sip or spit—those are the choices and considerations that fill the days of most visitors to the Napa Valley wine region. But even the most avid oenophiles usually need to take a break from hour upon hour of vino. And when that happens, many head to the di Rosa Preserve, a sprawling, 217-acre visual arts complex that provides its own form of intoxication. T...
Congrats, Philly, the US's First World Heritage City
Posted on 11/12/2015, 3:00 PM
Congratulations to Philadelphia, which has just become the first American city to earn the distinction of World Heritage City. Like World Heritage Sites, which are named by UNESCO, Cities are deemed to be worth protecting for their value and position in world history. In Philadelphia's case, it was named for its role in promoting democracy. "The universal principles of freedom and democracy...
Airfare to New Zealand Has Been Slashed: $328!
Posted on 11/12/2015, 2:15 PM
American Airlines may be dumbing down some of its product inside the United States (click here for that story), but overseas, it's making a big move that should bring down the price of a trip Down Under. The airline has announced it will fly from Los Angeles to Auckland, New Zealand starting next June. That may not seem like a big deal on the surface, but look at it this way: Until now, Air N...
What Motel 6's Fancy New Rooms Look Like
Posted on 11/02/2015, 1:30 PM
You're about to hear a lot more about Motel 6 in the coming weeks. By the end of this year, it hopes to have renovated 75% of its 1,200-plus properties. The motel chain knows it has an image problem, so to promote the things it's doing to revitalize its brand, it's launching a big media blitz that includes a 30-second TV commercial featuring some fancy camera work that fully shows off what a ...
More Free Lodgings! This Time The Giveaway Is For Members of the Military, 2500 of Them
Posted on 10/29/2015, 8:45 AM
Seems to be the season of freebies! Massive timeshare corporation Westgate Resorts is doing the gifting and amazingly, nobody will have to sit through a timeshare presentation to stay the night. (I asked. Three times.) Instead, Westgate Resorts is showing its patriotism by giving away two-night, three-day stays to the first 2500 callers on November 11, starting at 9am ET. Callers must have se...
Florence With the Experts: A New Program Italy-Bound Travelers Should Know About
Posted on 10/26/2015, 12:15 PM
Florence (photo by PapaPiper/Flickr) Italia Rail, the company that has been, for the last decade, the largest international vendor of Italian rail tickets, is taking that expertise and branching out into rail/hotel/tour packages. Its first program, available from now until the end of March, allows travelers to see the iconic city of Florence in a no muss, no fuss way that's wonderfully...
Celebrate New Year's Eve in a Free Hotel Room
Posted on 10/23/2015, 4:00 PM
And we're not talking the Motel 6 in Akron. CitizenM Hotels, a growing chain that has made a name for itself with stylish pod hotels (read: the digs are tiny, but very high design), has announced that it will be giving away 500 rooms for New Year's Eve stays in such party cities as New York, London, Glasgow, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. They're even picking up the room tax (such "extras" as Wi-Fi...
Innovative New In-flight Safety Video Animated with 1,000 Delft Tiles
Posted on 10/16/2015, 2:15 PM
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is the latest entrant in the battle to come up with the least boring in-flight safety video. The novel concept: Create an animated version of the pre-flight safety admonition by hand-painting Delft Blue tiles—because they're Dutch, so points for authenticity—and then using those tiles as a ceramic form of hand-painted cel, shooting one after another to animate the instr...
