Travel, Cruise

Tomorrow morning I am California bound! That’s right…it’s road-trip time baby!
The BF and I will be spending this Christmas down in LA with my grandmother as well as my aunt and her family. We’re driving down from the beautiful shores of BC to the also beautiful (but decidedly) warmer shores of Southern California. We […]

American’s latest exclusive deal nets you 20% off flights from the US to select destinations in the Caribbean and Mexico.  The following destinations are included:
Antigua (ANU)
Bermuda (BDA)
Barbados (BGI)
Curacao (CUR)
Grand Cayman (GCM)
St. Maarten (SXM)
La Romana, Dominican Republic (LRM)
Cancun, Mexico (CUN)
Cozumel, Mexico (CZM)
Ixtapa, Mexicao (ZIH)
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (PVR)
As always, certain restrictions apply.  Travel is valid from Jan […]

Belgium is no longer for sale, and with its newly formed interim government, it’ll be a unified country until at least March. That’ll give politicians three more months to hammer out permanent agreements on constitutional reforms and economic policies.
After a six-month negotiating period, you’d think citizens would be relieved, but most of them haven’t been […]

Portugal, the country’s tourism board wants you to know, is more than sun-soaked beaches filled with British snowbirds. The nation’s new marketing scheme calls it the “West Coast of Europe”, which we suppose is fairly accurate, given that it’s on the Atlantic, not the Mediterranean.
Turismo de Portugal commissioned some striking new photographs to help make […]

At a highly anticipated press conference today, Department of Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced that flights in and out of JFK would be capped at 83 per hour for at least the next two years, starting in March 2008. As it stands now, about 100 flights per hour are scheduled at peak times. Currently available […]

Feel like taking a gentle, relaxing swing? Then the Shotover Canyon Swing near Queenstown, New Zealand, is probably not for you.
The name itself is fantastic–the Swing is above the Shotover River–and the experience sounds pretty amazing too. After you jump off a platform built into the edge of a cliff above the river:

You’ll have a […]

About to get more popular…
Hundreds of food service workers at San Francisco International have authorized a two-day strike if their demands for more pay and better benefits aren’t met. That would mean no dry turkey sandwiches and no wilted caesar salads for the hundreds of thousands of travelers who would land at SFO during the […]

Berlin’s got a great reputation as a party town–think Love Parade, for a start–and the New Year’s Eve celebrations in Berlin are really something to experience. Silvester, the name used for NYE by many across Europe, is a huge event in Berlin in front of the Brandenburg Gate, which seperated East and West Germany before […]

Customs and Border Protection officers in Florida spend so much time searching passengers coming back from Cuba they may be missing actual threats to the country, says the Government Accountability Office. A report from the agency today says one in five passengers arriving in the States from Cuba are given intensive inspections, despite the fact […]

Zoom Airlines, which already flies between London and JFK, is expanding its low-cost transatlantic flights to the United States. Service between London Gatwick and Fort Lauderdale begins May 22, 2008, and flights between San Diego and Gatwick start June 20.
While Zoom offers super-low one-way fares like many of the UK’s LCCs, the company also has […]