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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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If you are planning on international travel in the next six months, apply for or renew your passport now. The window between the end of summer travel season and the start of holiday travel season is when processing times are shortest. That’s the advice from the US State Department, which declares each September as Passport Awareness
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Tens of thousands of residents throughout the Caribbean have lost their homes, businesses and jobs, and even major hotels and resorts are closed for repairs. If you have upcoming reservations, here’s what you need to know, from the Caribbean Tourism Organization, but contact your airline, cruise line or travel agent or resort to be sure.
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 This article is from 2017 and has been archived.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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You win some, you lose some. Customers, that is. Every year, some vehicle models shine, others go stale. Here are the winners and losers in 2016, from sub-compacts to family sedans and SUVs to hunky trucks. 2016 sales winners Let’s start with one model that wins every year. This year, as in every other year
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Best new athletic gear: The Olympics showcase the world’s top athletes. Lucky for the rest of us that some of the high-tech gear developed for them will be on the market soon to help us improve in our own favorite sports activities, on land or on the water. Here are five new tech developments for
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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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