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Article / Air Travel

Get Intra-Spective: Minor Fares to Major European Cities

April 28, 2004 -- As cheap Europe fares fade into the warmth of summer, consolidator Intratours is doing their best to provide a last gasp of cheap fares for May. Their low fares are…

Article / Air Travel

EVA Knows The Cheap Way to Taipei (And Saigon)

April 26, 2004 -- Our column on Delta and Taiwan's China Airlines is still causing a stir, so we thought we'd mix things up a bit with a deal from Taiwan's other international carrier,…

Article / Air Travel

Easy, Cheesy: Fares to and within the UK and Ireland

April 26, 2004 -- Hunting for decent fares to Europe today, we stumbled upon one of the strangest promotions we've seen. If you're a brilliant budget traveler making your way across…

Article / Air Travel

Free Nights, Discount Cars, Off-Season Specials and More for Puerto Rico

April 26, 2004 -- As the number of travelers to the Caribbean drop off over the course of the next several months, tourism officials begin kicking discount promotional schemes into…

Article / Packages

Mo' Bay for Less Money: Spring Savings on Lush Jamaica

April 24, 2004 -- We're not jerking you around. Now's an excellent time to snap up some spring savings for three-day to weeklong vacation packages to Jamaica.For Jamaica, you can have…

Article / Air Travel

Save Some Green on Pink Bajan Beaches

April 24, 2004 -- Barbados just announced it's annual spring sale, "the Best of Barbados" promotion (for brevity's sake, let's just call it BOB), that offers a slew of amenities like…

Article / Air Travel

The Cities of Oz For Fewer Emeralds: Packages Under $1,100!

April 24, 2004 -- Australia's winter means cool prices for U.S. visitors, whether it's $749 airfares from the West Coast or $1,099 air-and-hotel packages.Couples departing from a wide…

Article / Cruise

Liner Insider: What's Happening in the Cruise Industry

Ports keep growing to contend with swelling numbers of passengers, itineraries are reconfigured and new health trends continue to enliven the cruise industry. We report on it all in…

Article / Cruise

Carnival & NCL Ink Port Deal with New York

Riding the wave of ever-increasing number of passengers, New York looks to create a berth in Brooklyn and renovate its existing passenger terminals.

Article / Cruise

Caribbean Princess Makes a Splash

Cruise expert Heidi Sarna examines the new ocean liner from stem to stern.

Article / Air Travel

Delta and China Airlines: A Codeshare Too Far?

A new codeshare raises questions about a carrier's safety record. Here's what you need to know.

Article / Air Travel

Domestic Airfares are Ripe For the Picking

April 19, 2004 -- How many times can we tell you? Domestic airfares are generally quite low right now. If you're flying between two cities served by low-fare airlines or US Airways…

Article / Air Travel

A New Contender In Airfare Search Still Working Out the Kinks

It's admirably independent, honest and open, and offers some innovative features for travelers who are flexible with their time. But it's glacially slow, a tad buggy, and is missing…

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Over and Down Under: Great Fares to Europe and Australia

April 16, 2004 -- Europe is warming up. Australia is cooling down. Our spring may be the true sweet spot for global fares, because it's everybody's "shoulder season" -- the time when…

Article / Hotels

Lodge-Podge: Grab Bag of Savings

April 14, 2004 -- To keep those hotel beds full during off-season periods, hotel owners and innkeepers will dream up almost anything, piling gimmick upon gimmick, even lowering prices…

Article / Car, Bus, Rail

An Asian Array of Bactrian Bargains, Rapid Rails and More

April 14, 2004 - You can find radically different forms of transportation throughout Asia. On the cutting edge, look to South Korea, which just became the fifth nation to make use of…

Article / Air Travel

Scan Europe's Low-Fare Airlines for Great Deals

If you haven't flown within Europe in the past few years, you're in for a big surprise.

Article / Air Travel

You Say Fiji, I Say Tahiti: Let's Call the Whole Thing...Paradise

When dealing with paradise, as nearly every South Pacific destination calls itself, it's hard to know where to start -- or stop over, for that matter. Some seasoned travelers in this…

Article / Air Travel

Welcome to the Family: Head East to the New EU

Ten new countries will join the European Union on May 1. For travelers, this means no more passport checks or customs lines when crossing between old and new EU countries.

Article / Cruise

New Princess Vessel Shines on Inaugural Sailings

Princess is on a roll. Just one year after it scored big with the beautiful Coral Princess and Island Princess, the Love Boat line has topped itself by launching one of the best new…

Article / Cruise

Don't Miss the Boat with the Latest Cruise News

Carriers switch out ships on now and future rosters, cruises waaaay down under to Antartica, engine trouble for the Norwegian Star and more in this cruise news roundup.

Article / Cruise

Can I Sea Some ID? The ABCs of Cruise Line Age Policies

If you happen to be a civilized teen looking to cruise solo with a friend or two, you're basically out of luck. Here are the age policies of the major lines.

Article / Air Travel

It's Like Christmas in DC: Flights All Around!

April 7, 2004 -- Washington, D.C.'s Reagan National Airport is one of only four airports in the country where flights are restricted by federal law.Airlines must go through a…

Article / Air Travel

JetBlue, AA Face Off In Caribbean: They Fight, You Win

April 7, 2004 -- Much-loved discounter JetBlue has just started flights to the Dominican Republic, and that has American Airlines nervous. The result: A fare war to please…

Article / Car, Bus, Rail

The High Cost of Getting Where You're Going: Some Modest Proposals

Airfares may be low right now, but it seems like the cost of everything else is going up. Recent news about the upping of cab fares and gas prices promises to be a steady drain on your…