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This Deal Won't Suck You Dry: Surviving the Everglades with a $69-a-Night Room and a Little Blood

You'll get a sticker reading "I Gave at Everglades National Park," but it doesn't refer to the money you can shell out for a room here. It's something a little more sinister: all the…

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Le Meridien Cuts It Down the Middle: Halfsies on Most Luxury Properties All Around the Globe

If you're still planning a late winter break and you've got a few extra beans in your coffer, consider a little splurging on your accommodations. The Meridien Hotel & Resort chain…

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Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn: Pay for the First, Get the Second Night Free through February

If you like freebies, take a look at the Holiday Inn promotion called "Next Night Free," which runs through February 28, 2003 for most properties. It allows you a second night free…

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Cheaper Mornings After in New York City: Winter Means Reduced Rates on Some of the Swankier Rooms in the Big Apple

Despite their hangovers, thousands of visitors to New York City head home on January 1 every year. Hotel operators then brace themselves for a month of low occupancies, fewer diners…

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Unique Boutiques: 25 Hip and Modern San Francisco Hotels Cutting Rates

For the fourth year running, much of the City by the Bay is having its winter sale, with hotel rooms going for as little as $99 per night. That's the rate for some of the…

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Historic Homes for the Holidays: B&B Specials and Tours Across the Country in December

The holidays are hassles for some, but it is possible to get away where Yuletide actually means a comfortable old house, a glowing fireplace, eggnog and cookies. We're not talking…

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Windy City Winter Wonders: Free Flicks, Free Concerts and Reduced Room Rates

That toddlin' town, Chicago, is deep-dishing up incentives to get your tourist--and holiday--dollars with its sixth "Chicaglo" promotion. Through December 27, 2002, the tourism office…

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Increased Limits, Strong Dollar Make Canada a Keen Choice for Your Holiday Shopping

You may not have heard, but the feds doubled your shopping dollars in early November when they bumped up the maximum allowance for duty-free items to a stunning $800. With all those…

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On Your Landmark, Get Set, Go! Driving Tours to Historic Hotels in the West and all across the United States

By now, we should all be willing to put our faith in the National Trust for Historic Preservation, responsible for saving hundreds of places around the country for posterity.…

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The Weak Canadian Dollar Brings American Travelers Even More Savings at Muskoka Sands Resort

As the U.S. dollar continues to weaken overseas, it can thank Canada for allowing it to gain strength there, difficult as that may be for our peaceful neighbors to the north. So it is…

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San Francisco Treat: Boutique Hotel's Rates Just Get Lower the Older You Are

This deal proves the maxim that age has its benefits. From November 15, 2002 through January 19, 2003 the recently renovated Galleria Park Hotel is offering room rates based solely on…

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Too Cool for School: Get a Jump on Ski-Lessons, Lodgings Included, by Booking Early

Now is the right time to plan for the winter ski season, but if you're not quite sure of yourself on the slopes, you may want to get an edge on others by studying technique at the…

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Earn Free Weekend Nights with the Return of Marriott's "Take 2" Offer

This deal is easy enough to understand. If you stay three different times in any of Marriott's properties between October 14, 2002 through January 31, 2003, you'll get two free weekend…

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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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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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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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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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Winter Rates Come a Full Season Early to Sequoia National Park

We've been encouraging you in this space to get out and enjoy what is probably our most treasured travel resource--the National Parks. Now it's even easier with room rate reductions of…

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Singlish Stay for a Single Dollar: Singapore Airlines Offers Deeply Discounted Lodgings for Your First Night

If you fly Singapore Airlines in September, take advantage of their stopover deal giving you the first night for only a single buck in any of nine selected hotels. If you want a bump…

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Rest Your Heads on B&B Beds This Summer

With more Americans taking car trips this summer and fall (nearly half of them traveling at short notice), chances are you're one of those people looking for last minute…

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Dream Apartments in Paris, 30% Off

People love to talk about their dreams, but hardly anyone ever listens. You can brag about your dream apartment in Paris, though, because you can tell friends you got it for 30% less…

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Tips from the Publisher: Hotel Guest Habits

A recent poll pulls back the sheets and uncovers the behaviors and attitudes of hotel visitors.