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How Many Cabins Are There in Hell?

Friday, November 6th, 2009 Posted in General, Travel funnies, Travel industry | 2 Comments »

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="427" caption="(c) Oasis of the Seas"][/caption] Here's one seagoing vessel you will never find me upon: the 6,300-passenger Oasis of the Seas that is now in the ocean somewhere on the way to its home base in Florida. ...

Another Southwest Airlines Sweep

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in Cheap North America Travel, Travel industry, Vacation deals | No Comments »

SmarterTravel.com just released the results of their reader survey in which respondents pick the best and worst airlines in a variety of categories. They might as well call it the "Southwest vs. USAirways Survey" since the former did a smackdown ...

Airline Fees in Europe

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 Posted in Cheap Europe Travel, General, Travel industry | 2 Comments »

SmarterTravel has published a series of great tables to help passengers figure out how much they'll get reamed by various airlines in extra fees and frequent flyer fees to redeem "free" tickets. Now they've got a guide to airline fees ...

Succumbing to a Group Tour (for a Good Reason)

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Destination reports, General, Travel adventures, Travel industry | 1 Comment »

Long-term budget travelers are, by nature, and independent lot. You wouldn't be out there backpacking around in the first place if you were trying to fit in and conform to the norm. "I don't do group tours" is a common ...

4 Annoying Things and 2 Good Ones

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 Posted in General, Leffel projects, Travel industry | 5 Comments »

1) I have years of personal family photos stored on Kodak Gallery (once Ofoto), but add up the megabytes and they wouldn't fill a $4.99 memory stick from Big Lots. So why is the company sending me an extortion e-mail ...