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Archive for October, 2010

Travel Tip: Travel Price Matching & Price Comparison

Travel Tip: Travel Price Matching & Price Comparison If you’ve ever found a cheaper rate after making a reservation, it’s only fair to get access to that lower price, right? Well, don’t make assumptions before reading the fine print.   If you’re dealing with a specific hotel, the details are usually straightforward. For example, the [...]

10-10-10 Travel Deals on The Early Show

10-10-10 Travel Deals on The Early Show Among the days on the calendar, there is one day that is a Perfect 10: Sunday, October 10, 2010 or 10/10/10.    In honor of this special day, travel providers are putting together a bevy of special offers. For the most part the date is an excuse to [...]

Get Travel Discounts With Your Rail Pass

Get Travel Discounts With Your Rail Pass

Get Travel Discounts With Your Rail Pass When traveling for days or weeks at a time, every dollar and euro counts.   After purchasing a €19 ferry ticket in Greece and then realizing she could have saved €6 simply by flashing her Eurail pass, Dara Bramson became a woman on a mission. Read on to [...]

Travel Tip: Travel With a Heart

Travel Tip: Travel With a Heart It’s great to hear about travel providers that use their resources to give back. And this tough year has been no exception.   The Rabbit Hill Inn is best-known as a country house in Vermont, but it’s quietly rolled out a monthly package for those hit by the economic [...]

European Travel Warnings Issued as Terrorism & Security Concerns Grow

European Travel Warnings Issued as Terrorism & Security Concerns Grow

European Travel Warnings Issued as Terrorism & Security Concerns Grow A mass of travel alerts, including one from the U.S. State Department, have been issued to Europe this week, following the discovery of a terrorist plot last week.  On Wednesday, European security officials announced that they had uncovered a terror plot to attack major cities [...]

Northern California’s Shenandoah Valley Wine Country: Postcard from Suzy Gershman

Northern California’s Shenandoah Valley Wine Country: Postcard from Suzy Gershman

Northern California’s Shenandoah Valley Wine Country: Postcard from Suzy Gershman Dear Peter,  After my tasting tours of Napa and Mendocino, I realized that in order to balance out the picture, I needed to get to Amador County and the Shenandoah Valley Wine Country. Don’t ask me why anyone outside of Virginia names anything the Shenandoah [...]

Travel Tip: Haunted Places for Halloween Travel

Travel Tip: Haunted Places for Halloween Travel With Halloween just around the corner, it seems like every destination suddenly has a resident ghost. But in some places, there are spooky spots to explore all year long.   For decades, hikers have reported seeing the ghost of a woman around Ash Cave, in Ohio’s Hocking Hills. [...]

Complete Orlando Travel Guide

Complete Orlando Travel Guide

Complete Orlando Travel Guide Looking for Orlando travel information? You’ve come to the right place.  We’ve rounded up all of our Orlando-related articles into one convenient post so you can see the broad range of activities available in this ever-popular destination. In light of Peter’s radio show from the Orange County Convention Center during AARP’s [...]