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Where to Go Next: Plan your spring and summer getaways now and take advantage of these three discount deals for airfare, cruises and hotels in the Caribbean, South Pacific and more. Take Your Sweetie to Tahiti – Paul Gauguin Cruises is celebrating Valentine’s Day 2018 with half-off all-inclusive fares with included roundtrip airfare from Los
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Bad news for lovers of the National Park System. FREE admission days have been slashed from 16 in past years to just four in 2018, and none span an entire weekend. Worse, admission fees may double or more, to $70 per vehicle and $15 per person, for the most popular national parks, including Yellowstone, Yosemite,
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If you aren’t preparing your own meal, or visiting friends or family, national restaurant chains are ready to serve you on Thanksgiving Day. “Eat, drink and be thankful” is the way one chain restaurant is promoting its Thanksgiving Day feast. Here’s a list of chain restaurants planning to be open on Thanksgiving Day 2017, some
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You’ve seen the photos and video reports from the Caribbean islands pummeled by Hurricane Irma, and it isn’t pretty. This article is from 2017 and outdated While some islands are re-opening for all-important tourism, which supports so many jobs and businesses, islands including St. Martin (shown above) and Barbuda are in dire straits. Tens of
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Quick, before it melts, get your favorite ice cream flavors delivered to your door in 22 cities from coast to coast. The new ice cream delivery service is a partnership between Baskin-Robbins and delivery service DoorDash, launching to celebrate National Ice Cream Month in July 2017. This article is from 2017 and has been archived.
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Lufthansa is the first airline worldwide to use a color palette of on-board lighting, designed to fit with the day and night-time biorhythms of passengers. This article is from 2017. Click here for more recent articles about airplane travel. Anybody who has ever traveled across time zones, especially internationally, knows about jetlag, which is what
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Sorry, Paris, but beaches and islands rank at the top of the list for romantic vacations, and not just for Valentine’s Day. If you are thinking beyond Feb. 14, 2017, these are the top beach and island destinations around the world, recommended by travel agents with Travel Leaders. Hawaii. “Hawaii is a beautiful destination with
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Crested Butte is having a super lift ticket deal the day after the SuperBowl, and it depends on the final score of the big game between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots. Lift tickets will be priced at $1 per point of the total score of the game. If the score at the end
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There’s little to enjoy about airplane travel these days, thanks to long security lines, cramped seats, full flights, extra fees for everything from checked bags to priority boarding. Consumer Reports rates the best and worst airlines in 2016, the best and worst websites for getting airfare deals in a special report. Not surprisingly, there are
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It sounds too good to be true: designed and made in America, gets around 85mpg, and costs under $7,000. That’s the promise of the Elio E-Series, a super fuel efficient vehicle Paul Elio and his backers plan to start rolling off the assembly line of a former GM plant in Shreeveport, La., later in 2016.
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