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Pick an Island, Any Hawaiian Island: Airfares and Packages for Budget Travelers
Happiness is a Hawaiian vacation and if you plan sooner rather than later, there are some significant discounts available.
Accommodations You Can Afford in Paris on a Budget
If you don't mind the occasional oddly shaped (and usually tiny) room or lugging your baggage up some stairs, you'll find that staying in a hotel in Paris doesn't have to significantly…
Post-Wilma, Miami Welcomes Back Winter Travelers
Although the city of Miami was spared most of the major damage from Hurricane Wilma in October, the storm blew through and disrupted power and water supplies, forced closings of some…
$599 for a Week in the Caribbean? Save on Scores of Seven-Day Cruises
Here are some of the best deals a handful of major travel agencies are advertising this week.
Practical and Field-Tested Tips for Cruising with the Kids
As we rack up our ocean odysseys, we learn a little more each time about works best for all of us.
Cruise News You Can Use: Niche Itineraries and New Routes & Services
Check out the latest on golf-themed outings, special passes to King Tut exhibit in Fort Lauderdale from HAL, WWII and Vietnam oriented itineraries, remote luggage check-in, kosher…
Cruising into History: Ships That Send You Back in Time
They're living, physical presences from a time before we were born, or maybe from our youth. If they've been well maintained, and not ruined by misguided refurbishments, they have few…
Rhythm, Culture and Travel Come Together in West Africa at Surprisingly Affordable Prices
Any way you look at it, West Africa offers travelers get a look at African roads less traveled. Best of all, West Africa travel is usually extremely affordable as tour providers try to…
Our Resolution? To Help You Take to the Skies as Cheaply as Possible
While one carrier will discontinue all flights on Thursday, the new year still finds new sales at carriers big and small.
Hit Rock Bottom (Prices, that is) in Europe: Air and Hotel Packages Get Cheap, Cheap, Cheap
We've rounded up some of the rock-bottom-cheap winter packages currently offered throughout Europe. Maybe Santa will bring you a plane ticket to one of these places?
Think About Alaska Now? Well, the Early Bird Gets the Room
Now is the time to be thinking about a summertime vacation in Alaska. Summer will be here before you know it and soon enough you'll be dying to get out of the sweltering heat and head…
What's New, Nearly New and Otherwise in Cruising
Carnival orders four new ships, HAL prepares to christen Noordam, MSC Cruises hosts a beauty pageant, RiverBarge returns to the Big Easy and SeaDream reconfigures upcoming South…
Steal Away for a Last-Minute New Year's Countdown
Even if it's tough to find a place to 'get away' from loud New Year's revelry, celebratory shakers and paper hats with rubber band chin ties, it isn't that difficult to find a spot to…
Luxury Class Options Expand for Fliers and Prices Come Down a Notch
A few new, small, luxury airlines are showing there's another way to fly. Luxury flying doesn't make you wait on long lines or play knee-battles with your neighbor's tray table. And…
If You Can't Give the Gift of Travel, Give a Travel Gift Instead
With so many things to choose from, where to start can be as confusing as deciding where to go. Here are a few sites to help.
Summer Down Under: Round-Trip Air LA to Sydney Starts at $998; San Francisco to Auckland from $910
Sure there may be more beautiful beaches in Brazil, or better shopping in Paris, richer red wines in Italy and plenty of sport right here in the U.S., but for a combination of all…
The Amazing Azores: An Atlantic Oasis Close to Home with Stays Under $100 a Night
Long the play ground of discerning European travelers and adventure seekers, particularly the Portuguese and English, the Azores remains largely undiscovered by Americans and therefore…
Packages Worth Perusing: Take a Nine-Day Inca Holiday from $799 for Starters
Surprising to some, Peru includes surf beaches, desert oases, traditional indigenous cultures, architecturally significant colonial cities, fine cuisine and the southwestern section of…
Heidi Ho, Switzerland: Three Night Stay in Zurich for $499 Plus Skiing, Railpasses and More
Whatever happened to Heidi, the little Swiss goat herder who was such a goody-goody? If you haven't heard since third grade, be happy that you can find her legend still very much alive…
Rocky Mountain Highs: Winter Train Travel in Canada
Ah, the Canadian Rockies. While we have our share of purple mountains majesty here in the good ole U.S. of A., our friends to the North surely have splendor to spare, too. Although…
Leave Your Heart (but not Your Wallet) in San Francisco Through the New Year
San Francisco is celebrating winter and the holiday season in style. If you can't think of one reason to visit, try 100 reasons instead.
Glitter, Glamour and Gambling A-Go-Go: Las Vegas Gets Cheap for December
Not surprisingly, the number of travelers to Sin City drops in December and so does the price of getting there.
Bargain Berths and Savings at Sea for a Whole Slew of Cruises
Book by Sunday for big savings on NCL, take $800 on French Country Waterways, swing to the beat and save on air wtih Crystal Cruises, plus our usual extensive round-up of the cheapest…
Recent Events Keep the Cruise Industry Interesting
Upstart easyCruise draws first blood in a Caribbean turf battle, Oceania expands its fleet, SeaDream slates South America through 2007, Cirque du Soleil takes to the sea on Celebrity…
A Cruise Ships Walks into a Bar, Says to the Bartender . . .
Let's introduce a concept: standup comedy on cruise ships. Is your reaction (a) ho-ho, that could be funny, or (b) kill me now?