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All's Fair with These Fares! Even More Savings on Flights for Home and Abroad

Announcements of new sales and discount fares continue to stream into our inbox here at Frommers.com. Today we're here to tell you about current savings for flitting about within…

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Scholarly Journeys: Learn the Language and more with a Study Abroad Program

For some years now, NRCSA has been offering students and anyone else interested in learning foreign languages the chance to go abroad to hit the books, parlez and sprechen with the…

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Save $100 on Inexpensive Italian Insights Into Spring

If you book an Amazing Italy Tour from Insight Vacations by September 30, 2002, you can save $100 per couple on an already low priced nine-day tour of that country, starting from…

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Getaway to Galway, Dublin and More, Plus a Discount Card Good Across Ireland

Despite the oft gloomy weather, Ireland is always inviting with its verdant, sheep-dotted hills, incredibly friendly (and talkative!) people, an overwhelming number of ancient and…

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Schushhhhhhhhh! Don't Swiss-Miss These Two Discounted European Ski Packages

Attention all slope addicts, the Swiss Alps are calling you, and right now they are practically irresistible with a double shot of air/lodging/ground transportation/meal combos to luxe…

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Reduced Room Rates, Tours and Discounts Fall in to Place for Prime Foliage Season

Choice Hotels International has created a series of packages for its Comfort, Clarion and Rodeway Inns chains that make leaf peeping affordable this autumn throughout the eastern…

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The Rebirth of Two Renaissance Ships Opens Up Introductory South Seas Cruises From $799

As former patrons of the Renaissance ships, which we have praised highly over the years, mourn the line's passing, there is a bit of good news. Princess Cruises has purchased two…

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Slow Boat in China From $131 Per Day

Taking the boat to China, slow or otherwise, is next to impossible these days, unless you go by freighter. But inside the world's most populous nation, it's a cinch, especially when…

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Nine-Day Irish Pub Crawl From $969

You don't have to be a lover of The Drink to enjoy this CIE tour--in fact, you should be sober enough to enjoy the social life, music, dancing or gossiping that takes place in Irish…

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Awesome Autumn Package at Zion National Park

As we've told you many times, the great national parks of the American West did not overflow with visitors this summer, and blame finders are pointing their fingers in two different…

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B&B Stays Soothe Western Visitors After Fires Burn Out & Floods Recede

During the summer, news of the tragic forest fires in the West competed with reports of floods in Texas, but now that Mother Nature has taken a rest from her disastrous duties,…

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Stay Cheap for Pomp & Fireworks in London's November

With Britain remaining the Number One tourist destination for Americans going to Europe during the years when it is not Number Two, it behooves visitors to remember the off-season…

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Nearly Half Off Stays in the Grand Canyon--Plus a Few Extras--For Frommer's Readers Only

We have been suggesting--nay--urging you to take advantage of our National Parks system this year. The number of visitors from outside the U.S. has dropped significantly, and many…

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Blame Canada! Our Neighbor to the North Cuts Fares Up to 40% Off For Autumn Travel

They don't have sales often, but when they do it's worth taking note (and taking a trip) because it really is a sale. Air Canada is reupping what is becoming an annual event--huge…

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$100 Off For Our Readers on a Mediterranean Cruise in November

We enjoy being nice to our readers whenever we can, and now comes along Troy Tours, a Los Angeles firm we have recommended before, to help us. They say they will give a discount of…

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Tips from the Publisher: Luggage Talk

Best Western recently came out with a list of useful tips for smart packing, which I thought I'd pass on to you, with a few thoughts of my own.

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Celebrate Cooler Autumn on the Mediterranean

Europe has had a bad summer, what with the heat, then the floods and (what do you get when you put those two together?) the humidity. But October and November will be much cooler, with…

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Off-Peak London, Three Nights Plus Air from $339

A brand new travel Web site is raising the stakes on the budget-Europe game by offering three packages to London, the cheapest starting at $339 per person, airfare and hotel…

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Count on Dracula Specials This Halloween in Eastern Europe

President Franklin Roosevelt famously said "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." Yet fear can, in fact, be fun, especially if you follow in the Transylvanian footsteps of…

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Inaugural Wine Cruise Along the Eastern Seaboard

For the first time ever, the Arabella, a well-loved 160-foot sailing cruise yacht, will have a wine tasting trip, where you can sip from the offered categories, comment on the wine's…

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A Turkey Trot and a Greek Shuffle: Packages in and around the Mediterranean

Turkey has been a favorite destination for European travelers since the days of the Grand Tour, but especially during the past three decades, as the country has emerged from a sleepy…

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Italian Winters For Under $40 a Day

Everyone knows tourism to Europe is down this year, what with the lower buying power of the American dollar and the still-lingering effects of Sept. 11 travel phobia, even though most…

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From the Publisher: Lost Luggage Reports and Timely Arrivals, Part II

What airlines are most likely to cancel your flight or have your bags if you get there? Find out here.

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Free Florida Hotel Stay Extended, Plus a Free Car Rental

We told you recently about the freebie stay in Fort Lauderdale hotels on September 11 when you pay for a consecutive night. No surprise here that the response was strong with rooms…

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This Just In: Half-off for Colorful Fall Cruises

If you act now, you can enjoy an inexpensive buy-one, get-one-free opportunity with Regal Cruises out of New York. Prices start as low as $848 for the first ticket, nothing (except…