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Big Deal Saves You Fairly Big Bucks in Portland, Oregon

Out in super gorgeous Oregon, the city that should call itself "the kinder, gentler Portland" is casting around for visitors to get its tourist industry safely through what promises to…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Looking for an Exciting Adventure? There Are Asia Packages Galore This Winter

Most Americans thinking of overseas travel the first time head for Europe, and the experience is almost always pleasant enough to keep them coming back on future trips. A lucky…

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

South Ameri-mania! Machu Picchu from $1195, Guatemala from $699, Including Air

With more than 22 years in business under its skin, Tara Tours continues to specialize in Central and South American vacations, one of its best being also the cheapest. How does…

Article / Family & Kids

Boomers Get Beach Discounts in Daytona

How much does Daytona Beach want you to visit?A lot.They're offering every kind of discount from free hotel rooms to cheaper meals to lure visitors to this attraction-filled part of…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Helicopter to Your Private Island, Just off Fiji

You can live like a celebrity when you sign up for "Fiji's Ultimate Experience," a package being offered by Outrigger Hotels & Resorts, yet not break your bank account, as prices…

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Paris & Provence This Winter for $775, Truffles Extra

Forget about Paris or Provence in summer, when they're crowded with tourists, getting in the way of real travelers like you and me. The time for smart people to go is winter, when…

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A Slow Bike in China: 16 Days Touring the Countryside from $129 a Day

Here's one that speaks to all you Sinophile pedalists out there: a long tour of China by bicycle including airfare, deluxe hotels, all meals (banquets too!), all fees to museums and…

Article / Honeymoons

Five Special Winter Nights in Italy, Only $599, Air Included

We've told you before about the marvelous bargains offered by Tourcrafters to and within Italy. Well, they've done it again, with their offer of five nights in one of four major…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Tequila Martinis for Santa, Mistletoe for the Missus

The traditional Christmas of ornamented trees it's not, but Yuletide in Mexico (it is the home of the poinsettia, after all) can be a lot of fun, particularly if you celebrate it at…

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South Dakota's Badlands, So Good, They're Great

Tour the profound and profane in this heart-of-America roadtrip.

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Twice Tahiti For Under $200 Per Day, Including Air

Two separate one-week Tahiti packages are on offer from Islands in the Sun, specialists in travel to those fantasy-drenched spots, trips they claim give you savings of up to $1,600 per…

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Tips from the Publisher: Visit Andalusia

Dropping temperatures and dropping prices make the fall a great time to visit this region of Spain.

Article / Road Trips

Tips from the Publisher: A Visit to Napa Valley

Frommer's Travel Guides publisher Mike Spring shares the joy--and the secrets--of a visit to wine country, including the best way to get more vino for your dollar.

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Money-Saving Malta: Air, a Week's Hotel, Morning Meals and More Out of Three U.S Cities, Plus You Can Affordably Add On a Multitude of Other European Cities All for Under $100 a Day

The Mediterranean archipelago-nation of Malta is barely a blip on most travelers' radar and for no good reason. It's temperate and mostly dry year-round. It offers some of the best…

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A Brief Stop in Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Just a short drive from larger and more active Philadelphia, Reading, PA, and Berks County provide a welcome return to simpler times.

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A Room with a Boo! Things Go Bump in the Night in these B&Bs on Halloween

Halloween is one of those holidays when everything can seem so predictable--the trick-or-treating, the doling out of candy, the same old costumes--so it's nice when someone comes up…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Captains Courageous, Prices Outrageous: Five Days in Tropical Tahiti from $739

For only three specific Wednesday departures, exotic discounter Discover Wholesale Travel is practically giving the store away with this five-day air/hotel package to Tahiti in October…

Article / Road Trips

Tips from the Publisher: Which Valley Is Best for You?

The Fall is the best time to head to California Wine Country, only an hour or so from downtown San Francisco. But which to choose, Sonoma or Napa?

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

Dominatable Snow, Man: Trekking on the Trail of The Yeti in the Himalayas from as Little as $425

Since 1976, Peter Owens has been leading trekking trips in Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, including 33 for the Sierra Club. If you are hale and hearty (or just hale, I guess), you can join…

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Budget Tours of Mexico--the Original and the New--for Mature Travelers

Grand Circle Travel has returned with a newly redesigned Web site featuring its just-announced 2003 list of tours for the over 50 crowd. Today, we're featuring its most popular…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Ply Me a River: A Florida to (and through) South America Cruise from $80 a Day

The Orinoco and Amazon rivers are the stars of this January 2003 cruise on the Royal Olympic's Olympia Voyager. Well, the rivers and the price. This 17-day excursion out of Ft.…

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Help Costa Rican Kids & Enjoy a Beachy, All-Inclusive Vacation, too!

Exotic discounter Sunny Land Tours is offering an eight-day beach experience in Costa Rica that simultaneously benefits Costa Rican children. The vacation starts at just $799,…

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Will You Fly Some Thousand Miles for a Camel Fair? You Should for This Rare Tour to India and Nepal

Back in the day, "I'd Walk a Mile for a Camel" was one of America's most popular slogans. Today, that's passé and smoking is a divisive habit, but going to North India and Nepal for a…

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Travel Exotic With Cosmos, From $174 a Day, Including Air to Asia and Down Under

For 75 years, the people at Cosmos Tours and its more expensive sister company, Globus, have been taking visitors (some 500,000 each year) to six continents and more than 60 countries.…

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Watch the Simple Pleasures Roll by in Traincentric Strasburg, PA

An ironic juxtaposition of all-things-locomotive nestled in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country.