Archive for June, 2009
June 28, 2009: Foxwoods Resort, Connecticut
Peter is broadcasting his radio show this Saturday from the MGM Grand at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. Call in with your burning travel questions at 1-888-88-PETER (1-888-887-3837), or email Peter at peter@petergreenberg.com. (Write “ASK PETER” in the subject line so it doesn’t get rejected by our spam filters.) Featured guests include:
Laptop Security on the Road
Worried about laptop theft on the road? There are some services out there that can help get your computer back—or maybe even prevent the theft in the first place. You’ve heard of LoJacking your car. But what about LoJack for laptops?
Memo From Paris: Luxury Hotels At Discount Prices
I know I’ve told you a little about the Hotel Powers in my postcard, but now I have the low-down on the four hotels in the group and their guaranteed USD rates and they are so exciting that I had to write a little note. Also, I have asked to see the “worst” room in [...]
FAA Fatigue Rules, Flight 3407, Air France, Swine Flu and Magic Italy
There are a lot of hot stories in the world of travel today. So here’s a roundup of the main travel news stories from around the world. FAA asking airlines to come up with new anti-fatigue rules
Suzy Gershman’s Postcard from Paris: The Encore
Cher Peter, Thinking of you from Paris and remembering a dinner we shared at Cinq at the George V about a million years ago when I first moved to Paris. Across my balcony now I see the George V … I’ve found a secret new four-star hotel in a fab location that could be my [...]
Unusual Travel Laws Abroad
Okay, so obviously you know not to smuggle drugs when you’re abroad. But what about the laws that you didn’t know about? Some countries have some pretty obscure laws and traditions that they can be very serious about.
Travel Detective Investigates Air France Flight 447 and Commuter Jet Safety
Let’s start this week with the continuing investigation into the crash of Air France Flight 447. More than 50 bodies and more than 400 pieces of wreckage have been recovered, but don’t get too confident about that—some of those pieces are smaller than a paper clip with the exception of the tail section. But the [...]
Grateful Traveler: Lessons from Paradise
In 1985, Dale Soria went to Yosemite National Park on a trans-Sierra ski trip. Twenty-two years later, he’s still there. Dale Soria is a dentist and when he learned that the only dentist working in Yosemite was retiring, he took his place. At the time, he, his wife Catherine and their three children were living [...]
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