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At least 14,000 domestic flights were cancelled or delayed over the recent Father’s Day-Juneteenth holiday weekend, and at least as many pieces of checked baggage were misdirected, delayed or lost. Staff shortages and bad weather are making a mess of summer airline travel, making it more important than ever to protect yourself with travel insurance.
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Swoop in for savings with Canada’s ultra-low fare airline, which is expanding service to both U.S. cities and destinations in Canada. Swoop is adding non-stop flights to five new destinations this summer: New York, Chicago, Nashville, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and extending current seasonal service to San Diego, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, St. Pete/Clearwater,
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Hawaiian Airlines is now offering passengers COVID-19 tests to take at home, before traveling, to avoid the 14-day quarantine now in effect for travelers visiting or returning to the Hawaiian Islands from the US mainland. Passengers can order the $150 mail-in saliva test online through Vault Health to take at home before travel. The test
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From Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend, active duty U.S. military and their families receive free admission to more than 2,000 museums and other attractions throughout the United States. The program is called Blue Star Museums. When it launched in 2010 there were 700 participating museums. By 2019 the list has grown to more
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Travel tip: If you need a new U. S. Passport, or Passport Card, get it now, before the price goes up. Starting in April 2018, a passport will cost $10 more for all U.S. travelers, both adults and children. That means adult passport books will now cost $145, up from $135, while passports for children
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Travel tips. Customs and immigration lines are inevitable, whether you are arriving in your bucket list destination or returning home from it. After all, every time a plane full of people arrives, it takes a while to process all that luggage and the passengers aboard. Still, there’s a lot you can do to speed your
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The world’s largest annual winter carnival is the annual Quebec Winter Carnival, in the heart of Old Quebec. It is 17 days of fun in the snow, February 1 to February 17, 2013. The daily schedule of festivities includes parades, fireworks, slide runs, a giant foot ball game, concerts, snow sculptures, horse-drawn sleigh rides, dogsled rides, snow sculptures,
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The Canstatter Volksfest in Stuttgart is a smaller version of Munich’s gigantic Oktoberfest, although the suds-fueled merry-making is just as raucuous. When some 5,000 people get together in a tent with mountains of food, rivers of foamy brews and a band encouraging sing-a-longs, it is just not possible to sit quietly for long. Okay, I’ll
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Best free travel apps: These free, useful travel smartphone apps will help you check your packing list, find Wi-Fi, translate important phrases, coordinate your travel itinerary, call home, even find a bathroom when you travel overseas. And did I say they are free? Skype – don’t worry about cell phone coverage overseas, or astronomical international
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The Epic Hotel is the newest Green Seal certified four-star hotel in Miami. That’s just it’s latest award. The Epic also has been named one of the top 25 hotels in the U. S., and one of the trendiest. The Epic is part of the Kimpton chain, which operates boutique hotels under the Monaco and
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