Oct 29th, 2009 at 1:00PM: In Bermuda, Cambridge Beaches Resort & Spa is offering a fourth night free if you pay for three by the end of the year. Experience some serious luxury at this AAA Four-Diamond resort, where you can wander the 30-acre peninsula on the island's west coast, soak in the sun on private beaches and get rubbed down at an award-winning European-style spa. Meals and afternoon tea are intricate affairs ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Fourth night free at Cambridge Beaches, just in time for the holidays
Oct 29th, 2009 at 1:00PM: In Bermuda, Cambridge Beaches Resort & Spa is offering a fourth night free if you pay for three by the end of the year. Experience some serious luxury at this AAA Four-Diamond resort, where you can wander the 30-acre peninsula on the island's west coast, soak in the sun on private beaches and get rubbed down at an award-winning European-style spa. Meals and afternoon tea are intricate affairs ...Put your Paws Up for the holidays this year
Oct 20th, 2009 at 1:00PM: While the rest of the world is trekking out to Rockefeller Center to see the tree or hanging around Times Square while waiting for the ball's big drop, head the other way. "The Last Best Christmas Vacation" package from the Paws Up resort in Montana pulls together everything you'd want in a traditional winter holiday celebration ... along with the luxurious touch that you'd expect at a remote, ...Five tips for booking holiday travel
Oct 18th, 2009 at 8:00AM: If you're planning to fly home for the holidays this year, it's time to start booking your flight. Even though fares are cheaper than they were last year, prices have been going up over the fast few weeks, according to a report in USA Today. Thanksgiving prices are down around 7%, with the Christmas/New Year's season down 12% from last year. Since the travel market is still limping along, you may ...Let the Madness begin
Nov 26th, 2008 at 12:00PM: It's time. The worst travel day of the year is upon us, the sun has risen and it's time to get the shit kicked out of you at the airport. Have you got your passport? Did you sleep well last night? Go through the rituals before you leave your house: passport and wallet, left pocket. Phone, right pocket. Laptop, charger, soap, jacket, headphones, book. Got a ride into the office and a ride to ...Galley Gossip: A question about traveling with kids and scoring an extra seat
Nov 21st, 2008 at 11:30AM:
Dear Heather,
I've written to you before and now I have another question. So I've told you that we're traveling w/ our one-year old next month. No car seat, etc. Are there any sneaky ways to insure that we could get an 'empty' seat for her???? I think currently we have it booked so my husband gets the window seat and I get the aisle. We thought that might work as nobody would want to sit in the ...How will your holiday travels go? Do some research with the Holiday Travel Cutback interactive graphic
Nov 18th, 2008 at 2:00PM: For me to get home for Thanksgiving, I'm lucky enough to only have to take Amtrak. Even though train stations are popping at the seams with travelers during the November holiday weekend, airports are even worse. And this year is no different. As a matter of fact, during this year's Thanksgiving and Christmas travel periods, airlines will operate about 2,500 to 3,000 fewer domestic flights than ...10 Holiday tips for Getting Through the Airport
Nov 17th, 2008 at 9:00AM: Wow, it's here again. The holiday season so loved for the time off and family visits and so feared for miserable travel experiences. During no other time of the year are loads so high, people so anxious to get home and weather patterns so unfortunate. But things are different this year. You've got Gadling on your side, watching the travel radar, ear to the ground, listening to low fares and ...Christmas in Saigon
Dec 25th, 2007 at 4:00PM: Nothing helps you realize you're eight thousand miles away from home better than spending the holidays in a foreign country. Last year, traveling through Southeast Asia with my parents we found ourselves at the Oscar Hotel in downtown Ho Chi Minh City (still called Saigon by the locals), Vietnam over Christmas Eve. An interesting way that tourism has seized the country is the Vietnamese ...Woman sits in urine soaked airplane seat
Dec 20th, 2007 at 3:30PM: As volumes increase over the holiday season, the crazy airline stories start rolling in. Just yesterday, a woman flying from West Palm Beach to Boston reported that she took her seat in and AirTran flight, only to find that it was soaked in urine. By the time she realized the gravity of her problem, it had soaked all the way through her clothes. So she had to go to the bathroom, remove her wet ...Military airspace opened for holiday travel
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Nov 18th, 2007 at 2:00PM: If you're one of the 27 million people flying over the next week, your flight may not be as miserable as you were planning for. Last week, the Bush administration authorized the partial use of military airspace along the eastern seaboard. This mean less congestion (in the skies at least) and better integration with Air Traffic Control across some of the nation's busiest airports. That doesn't mean ...Holiday Travel: We Are All in the Same Boat
Dec 26th, 2006 at 9:24AM: A few days ago I learned something very valuable about holiday travel that had never been revealed to me before. "We are all in the same boat." You see I learned all this on my flight out of Chicago into Atlanta where I needed to make my connection to Tampa. The flight into Atlanta was running about 30 minutes behind and once we landed the plane just sat there on the runway until they could get ...Flying on the Busiest Day of the Year
Nov 26th, 2006 at 11:16AM: Philadelphia watch out! I'm going to be famous! Okay, not really famous, but maybe famous for thirty seconds or so... After shuffling off my flight from Tampa, FL, I made way down to baggage claim where I noticed the news folks out and about with their cameras ready to make some news. First they nabbed a mother of one (easy target) and probed her on today's flying situation. Being a mother of what ...The Turkey Testicle Festival
Nov 23rd, 2006 at 1:31PM: In the famous words of my old dear aunt, "Gag me with a spoon, please!" Thanks to Jaunted I've just learned of a festival that has been taking place in the town of Huntley, IL for 24 years now, the Turkey Testicle Festival. Gulps. The event has already passed (it was held yesterday according to the dates on the site), but appears to be rather popular with um, Chicagoland locals and other Illinois ...
