May 19th, 2009 at 4:00PM: It's always pretty tempting. You're sitting in the gate area and hear the voice on the loudspeaker, offering travel vouchers and other perks if you'll give up your seat because your flight is oversold. You know the drill ... "if your travel plans are flexible." Well, while en route to the Gadling meet-up in Chicago, I got this opportunity and decided to roll the dice. Along the way, I learned a ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Giving up your seat for a voucher? Only on one condition!
May 19th, 2009 at 4:00PM: It's always pretty tempting. You're sitting in the gate area and hear the voice on the loudspeaker, offering travel vouchers and other perks if you'll give up your seat because your flight is oversold. You know the drill ... "if your travel plans are flexible." Well, while en route to the Gadling meet-up in Chicago, I got this opportunity and decided to roll the dice. Along the way, I learned a ...Cincinnati crime-fighter becomes local attraction
Another passenger pulled off plane after booze fueled fight
Feb 22nd, 2009 at 10:30AM: And here we go again - once again, a passenger decided that being cut off from drinking more booze was not such a good idea, and decided to start a fight. Russel Krebs, a 6'3" 200 pound passenger was on his way to Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International airport on a Comair flight when the crew decided that he'd had enough to drink. At that point the real trouble started. An off-duty pilot and ...Delta wonders about Atlanta
Jan 29th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Is Delta playing chicken with Atlanta? The airline is getting ready for negotiations with Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport ... and has opened by threatening to lean on secondary hubs like Memphis and Cincinnati. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution questions the airline's likelihood of pulling the trigger, though. Delta is concerned that the costs of running through ...How safe is that romantic horse-drawn carriage anyway?
Dec 18th, 2008 at 3:30PM: Last night, as I drove through downtown Cincinnati to take in the lights at Fountain Square, I passed several horse drawn carriages. Admittedly, they looked festive and romantic. I imagine that they are quite the tourist draw. Downtown Columbus has almost nothing going on at night. Cincinnati looks hopping. A horse drawn carriage might pep things up around the State House was my thinking.
Then a ...The Most Expensive and Least Expensive Airports in the US
Nov 5th, 2008 at 12:30PM: According to the US Department of Transportation, airfares are now at an all time high. The average fare for the 2nd quarter of 2008 was $352. That's up nearly 8% from a year ago. Travelers are definitely feeling the surge in prices. However, the averages for individual airports vary wildly. Cincinnati has it worst. With fares averaging $595, it is the most expensive airport to fly out of in the ...Photo of the Day (10.19.08)
Oct 19th, 2008 at 1:30PM: Was your week a blur like mine was? I think this photo, by Flickr user JasonBechtel, is an apt photographic metaphor. Doesn't it just "feel" fast? I love the sense of movement and the way the background blurs while parts of the cheetah's body stay in focus. You might also think Jason took his cheetah photo on safari in Africa, right? Wrong. It was actually taken at the Cincinnati Zoo. Just goes ...Largest indoor train display in the world at new train lovers' attraction
Aug 3rd, 2008 at 9:00AM: Train-love runs deep in Ohio, there are scenic railroads, train stores, train societies, clubs of train watchers and old railroad station restaurants. Here is another example.
Friday, August 1 was the grand opening of EnterTRAINment Junction, a train attraction that is being billed as "the only train-themed family entertainment center in the world." Located 30 miles north of Cincinnati, not far ...Ohio's cinematic spots: An Intelligent Travel report
Jul 14th, 2008 at 2:30PM: Every time John Ur covers a state via its cinematic hot spots in his series "Cinematic Road Trip" for Intelligent Travel, I look to see which movies I've seen and what spots I know. It's always a pleasure.
This week Ur hit Ohio. Ohio, as he found, is diverse. He did skip over Columbus. I'll have to think about a movie that may have been filmed there. Columbus is not dull, but can slide under ..."Bodies" exhibit: a personal experience
May 31st, 2008 at 5:30PM: About two years ago, I saw the "Bodies" exhibit when it was in Cleveland. As I found out when reading Jaunted, there is a problem with the New York City exhibit. Perhaps, some of the people who were turned into plastic sans skin didn't have a say in the matter.
In the exhibit literature I saw, there were many assurances that the people on display had agreed to be a museum piece before their ...Latest mentos geyser world record event
Sickness at water park thought to be virus related
Mar 29th, 2008 at 11:00AM: Last week it was reported that 90 people became sick after visiting Six Flags Great Escape Lodge and Indoor Water Park just north of Albany, New York. According to this subsequent report by the New York Department of Health, the number went up to 435 by the time the complaints stopped rolling in. People were suffering from gastrointestinal problems, although, the illnesses didn't seem to be ...Cincinnati, one of the worst cities for women?!!!
Mar 26th, 2008 at 9:20AM: Iva's post about the best cities for women caught my attention since Cincinnati was listed as one of the three worst. I wonder if Self magazine gathered the statistics that led to this list before Ohio's smoking ban? The reason Cincinnati ended up at the bottom is because of the high number of women who smoke here. Since smoking is not allowed in restaurants or bars in Ohio I wonder where women ...Ohio's got you covered when it comes to presidents' houses
Feb 18th, 2008 at 3:00PM: Ohio has the nickname "Mother of Presidents" because eight U.S. presidents were elected from here. Seven of the eight were born in this state.
Although the site of Rutherford B. Hayes' birthplace in Delaware (about 30 minutes from Columbus) is no longer there (I think there's a gas station on the site), there are other presidents' houses and landmarks still standing. A tour of all of them covers ...Greyhound bus line expands its priority boarding system
Jan 7th, 2008 at 5:30PM: Back in November, Catherine wrote a post about Greyhound's $5 extra per ticket priority boarding, seat assignment system. After a month of trying it out, the system must be working well because it was expanded in December to include a large portion of Greyhound's departure cities. (see news release) Not all trips from the departure cities are elibible for priority boarding, however.
The main ...Pay phone--Cell phone: Guess which one is winning?
Dec 8th, 2007 at 11:00AM: The news is AT&T is going to dump pay phones by 2009. It's already started. Being that I'm a bit of a Luddite, I find this alarming. Sure, as the article states, more and more people have cell phones, "even nine year-olds have a CrackBerry and Bluetooth headset attached to the dome," but I think pay phones serve a function--perhaps not in every location, but I know people who can't afford a ...Creation Museum is paving more parking lot
Nov 25th, 2007 at 2:30PM: I am curious about the Creation Museum that's not too far from Cincinnati in northern Kentucky. I pass by a huge billboard for it every time I head to visit my relatives who live near there. The billboard is stuck out in a field next to I-71. Most billboards between Columbus and Cincinnati are set out in fields. That's all there is between the two cities. It's a fairly flat and BORING ride.
The ...A Greyhound bus Thanksgiving travel adventure
Nov 21st, 2007 at 4:15PM: When we walked into the Greyhound bus station in downtown Columbus today a little after 12 pm to buy my dad a one-way ticket to Cincinnati, he asked my daughter if she'd ever been to the station. "Nooo," she said, her voice implying disdain, as if, why in the world would she ever have the reason to go there. My daughter is 15, so you can imagine. It's the way they talk.
My son, who is 5, ...Vintage train stations: Where have all the trains gone?
Nov 9th, 2007 at 12:01PM: My art car friend, Greg Phelps knows a lot about funky travel. He still talks about that crane hotel in the Netherlands that he and his girlfriend stayed in earlier this year after Gadling's suggestion. Today he sent me a travel tidbit that led me to train stations. Here is a Web page link that takes visitors around the U.S. via a combination of vintage postcards and photographs to the train ...Dubai is Getting Taller in One Spot
Sep 14th, 2007 at 2:17PM: Dubai's tallest building, the Burj Dubai has finally reached the height of being the tallest one in the world, and it's not finished. Now it stands at 1,831.5 feet tall (555 meters), just a bit taller than the CN Tower in Toronto (1,824.9) which was the largest free standing structure. The once tallest building, the Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan, lost it's first place standing in July. Oh, well. In ...
