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Jolly Old England and Jolly Good Prices: Quick Jaunts to London from $279!

Making short trips to London incredibly cheap is all the rage this winter. We were the first to introduce you to start-up OffPeakTraveler.com with its sensible three-day getaways to…

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Bargains to (the) Boot: Special Discounts Across Italy for Early Bookers and Seniors, Too

If you act quickly, you can reap a $250 per couple savings and have a chance to win a free vacation on first-class packages to Italy with Globus Tours and British Airways. If you're an…

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A-fjordable Norway: Oslo Hotels and City Card Passes for Under $100 A Day

You don't often find bargains in Scandinavia, home to the world's highest standard of living, highest taxes and longest-lived inhabitants. But you needn't go broke visiting there, as…

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Paint the Town Red(uced): Discounts, Twofers and Freebies in the Big Apple

Every winter, during what is the slow season for almost everyone in the tourist industry, New York City tourism authorities run promotions to lure visitors in. This year is no…

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When to Prague? In the Winter, no Doubt, when Prices Drop and the Crowds Thin

Winter weather usually equals a drop in tourism for any non-skiing locale. It's understandable; most people don't want to spend their leisure time shivering in the cold. But with a…

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Pair off for Paris with This Affordable Winter Getaway

I praised Sunny Land in this space recently for its $299 roundtrip airfares to Paris and Amsterdam, lasting through May of 2003. With war jitters and the economy still not helping to…

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Pallin' Around with Palladio: Venice is Cheaper Yet This Winter

Unfortunately, Tourcrafter's 5-nights in Venice from $399 for air and 3-star hotel has sold out. Upgraded packages to 4-star hotels are still available for an additional $150. For more…

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Great Big Savings on (and off) the Great White Way: Discount Club Slashes Prices for NYC Theater Tix

You can always take your chances and stand in line at the TKTS booths in lower Manhattan or Times Square waiting with the throng to get reduced-price tickets to Broadway and…

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The Game's Afoot! Follow Your Spirit to the UK with this Bevy of Bargains

With prices sliding lower than ever for this coming winter, some Americans are still sitting on their hands, hedging their bets that prices will drop even lower before they book…

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London Prices Are Falling Down

Fantastically frugal European vacation packager Go-today has just added another holiday themed package to its wintertime lineup, and what a doozy!?a week surrounding President's Day in…

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Tafelspitz, Pierogis and Pils: Pinch More Pennies in Prague, Krakow, Vienna and More with Special Savings--Only for Frommer's Readers

As temperatures start to fall, discount packager Affordable Poland dishes out competitive prices on both independent and escorted tours to middle and eastern European destinations, and…

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Pacific Coast to The Boot: Italian Package Prices Plummet

Prices from the West Coast to Italy have fallen to levels rarely seen before, down to the kind of costs you see usually only from East Coast cities. It's happening with many companies,…

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Cosmos & Globus Go For the Essentials with a Passel of Packages to Europe

Many travelers (and I am one) love the idea of buying airfare and hotels in a package to save money, but then hate the idea of being dragged along on an escorted tour with a whole…

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Tourcrafters Tops Itself in Italy

What is a travel deal that's more unbelievable than unbelievable? We said the "u" word about a recent Tourcrafters' Italy offer, but they've outdone themselves, again. Now, the firm is…

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Top Winter's Blahs with Blasé Fling (Just $399) in London

You know, just really know, that sometime in midwinter, you will get a case of the blahs and need an escape. My advice would be to go for London (where I lived for 8 years), because…

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Get Your (Chinese New Year) Goat in Hong Kong

Don't let them get your goat this coming New Year's.Go get it yourself in Hong Kong, where you can celebrate the Chinese New Year (yes, it's the Year of the Goat coming up) for at…

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Czech This Out: Great Prague Picks for Fall and Winter

It was once the seat of the Holy Roman Empire until those conniving Hapsburgs move it too snootier Vienna. It's the only major European city that hasn't been obliterated in part or in…

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An Avalanche of Seasonal Packages at Unseasonably Low Prices: $499 for a Week in Austria, $679 for France and More

Now's the time to wax those skis in preparation for some midwinter savings from Ski-Europe and their "Super Ski Weeks" packages. All deals include roundtrip airfare, lodgings in two-,…

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Pronto to Toronto! Take in the Good City from as Little as $107 Per Night, Including Air and Lodgings (Rental Car Just a Tad More)

Who knew? Toronto, once considered good but boring, is now the third largest theater center in the English-speaking world after London and New York. If you love the stage--and shopping…

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Holy Roman Empire! Three Nights in the Eternal City from $549 Including Air, Hotel and Morning Meals, Equally Affordable Getaway Packages to Five Other Eurocities as well

Far and Wide Travel is offering free companion airfare on certain five-day/three night air/hotel combos to further reduce their prices good for daily departures from November 1 through…

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Trod Where Monks and Monarchs Dwelt: An Iberian Journey At Just Over $100 per Day

Trying to cover the entirety of this vast peninsula in a single trip is seemingly insurmountable and possibly insane; it contains two whole countries, Portugal and Spain, and the tiny…

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Bless My Sol! Big Savings Make These Packages to Spain the Perfect Cure for those Wintertime Blues

If you've ever read Don Quixote or listened to Man from La Mancha, you know that the weather in Spain isn't always sunny. But it should be no surprise that people enjoy the Iberian…

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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…