New Orleans: Papa Noel lowers hotel rates
Papa Noel (a.k.a. Santa Claus) is heading to the Big Easy, where he has himself such a grand time that he’ll stick around for most of December. Holiday happenings in the always-festive city of New Orleans will include glittering lights, caroling, street parties, special menus and the nightly Celebration of the Oaks tour in City [...]
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Filed under travel | Comment (0)Why Atiu?
There are 552 good reasons for visiting Atiu, a Makatea Island in the Cooks Group, northeast of Rarotonga. This is far too many to innumerate, but we’ll try.
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Filed under travel | Comment (0)Freeze Frame: Belum, afloat in comfort
Taking part in the jungle experience no longer means camping and roughing it out. Here?s how you can do it the easy way
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Last minute: $35 for three courses with OpenTable special
Fall squash soup followed by Monterey sand dabs, anyone? Maybe some apple upside-down bread pudding to finish? These are options at Los Angeles restaurant Grace, and, if you act soon, you won’t need to break the budget to sample them or offerings at other select eateries. Tomorrow, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, is the last day [...]
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Filed under travel | Comment (0)Omni San Diego Hotel offers half-off for the holidays
San Diego will see a steady stream of festive events leading up to the holidays, including the Thanksgiving Dixieland Jazz Festival (Nov. 26-30), Balboa Park December Nights (Dec. 5-6) and Port of San Diego Bay Parade of Lights (Dec. 14 and 21).
But whether you event-hop or not, San Diego is never a bad bet for [...]
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Filed under travel | Comment (0)Hawaii news roundup: low visitor forecasts; inauguration event in the works; extra Superferry sailings for holidays; Honolulu bike-share
Hawaii got gusty yesterday, with high-speed winds causing a brush fire, a fly-away roof and a blown-down coconut tree, which fell onto a car in front of Iolani Palace, according to the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Winds appear calmer today, but anyone connected with tourism on the islands is perhaps still feeling unnerved.
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Hawaii: inter-island flight deals from go! and Hawaiian Airlines
So you’ve decided to go for it and book your trip to Hawaii. With such low airfares to the islands still available, who can blame you? If you’re open to exploring different areas while you’re there, listen up, as at least a couple of airlines are hoping to inspire you to shift you and your [...]
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Filed under travel | Comment (0)Turn that booze cruise into a gourmet tour
“Champagne tasting is a strange concept,” says wine critic Oz Clarke, as he kicks off our sampling session. “We don’t usually bother tasting it, we just get on with drinking it.”
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Filed under travel | Comment (0)EasyJet reports sharp fall in profits
Budget airline easyJet PLC reported a 45 per cent drop in full-year profits today as higher fuel costs offset a strong gain in revenue.
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Filed under travel | Comment (0)Going on vacation on location
Across Western Australia, tour operators are pouring coals on barbecues, chilling lagers in cold stores and hanging corks from their wide-brimmed hats in preparation for an influx of visitors, following the international roll-out of writer-director Baz Luhrmann’s new outback epic, Australia, which is due to be released in the UK on Boxing Day.
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