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Frugal Over Fifty: There are benefits to getting older, especially discounts for shopping, dining and traveling. More than 100 retailers, supermarket chains, health and wellness chains, airlines, hotels, restaurants and movie theater chains nationwide offer discounts to seniors. Few of these offers are widely promoted. Some don’t even appear on the company website. The top
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JetBlue is expanding flights across the U.S. and the Caribbean, including two new destinations serving the airline’s major hubs, New York, Boston, Orlando and Los Angeles, and launching the new routes with a fare sale. Some flights begin immediately, but even the routes launching in Fall 2023 are available for booking now – and all
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For many of us, room service is an important hotel amenity. Most orders are conventional, but this Room Service Report shows some strange and weird room service requests, including “diet water” and an over-the-top $1,600 Wagyu beef burger. The room service survey also finds that demand for the popular amenity is on the rise according
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The 47th annual Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks returns to the East River on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. This year’s show will launch 60,000 shells and effects from five barges positioned between E. 26th and E. 40th Streets along the East River, with prime viewing from Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. New this year is a
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Use your nose to avoid big car repair costs. Your sense of smell can help you avoid car trouble. Simply, paying attention now to strange smells from under the hood or from under the car can be the difference between a fast, inexpensive fix now or a costly repair later, or even mechanical failure or
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Get unlimited flights for six months with the new Frontier Airlines Go Wild! All-You-Can-Fly pass for just $299, for access to more than 85 destinations in the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. The GoWild! Fall and Winter Pass is valid for unlimited travel from Sept. 2, 2023 through Feb. 29, 2024. With a
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Delta is rated the best US airline for the fifth year in a row, and United is number two. JetBlue, Spirit, Allegiant and Frontier are the worst. After Delta and United, rounding out the top five are Alaska Airlines, American Airlines and Southwest airlines, in that order. That’s according to the annual Best Airlines Report,
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Of course it would be Las Vegas. We’re talking about the first-ever cannabis-friendly hotel in the city known for gambling, scantily-clad showgirls, star chef restaurants, top name concert stars and one of the most famous marketing campaigns in tourism history, “What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas”. So you can enjoy your joint, spliff, bong,
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Teens can work-out for free all summer at 2,400 Planet Fitness locations in the US and Canada through the chain’s High School Summer Pass program. The free offer is for registered high school students aged 14-19, whether or not a parent or guardian is a paying club member, being offered May 15 through August 31.
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Along with an exclusive color and other features, the 2024 GMC Hummer EV Omega Edition is a tough-as-nails tricked-out off-roader able to launch Zero-60 in 3.5 seconds. And expensive – at $149,995, its nearly double the price of the regular production model. Do you really need to spend nearly $70,000 extra for special blue paint
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