August 31st, 2007 at 04:29pm Under Travel
Beach season may be ending in much of the USA come Labor Day. But a new book keeps sun worship alive by spotlighting clothing-optional stretches of sand and lodgings around the world. The World’s Best Nude Beaches & Resorts includes…
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August 31st, 2007 at 01:39pm Under Travel
Earlier this month, Peninsula Beverly Hills general manager Ali Kasikci, lauded as one of the best GMS in the business, announced he was leaving after almost 16 years. Here’s what he’s up to: Kasikci e-mailed me last night to say…
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August 31st, 2007 at 12:17pm Under Asia
I just recently watched the extended directors cut, Apocalypse Now Redux, and got to see a whacked out Robert Duvall famously commenting that “Charlie don’t surf.” I don’t know whether that is true or not, but I do no that…
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August 31st, 2007 at 10:20am Under Travel
The blog will be on vacation this coming Monday — a bit like the folks working on the London Underground. Two trade unions, with employee ranks in the thousands, are planning to walk out Monday and Tuesday. (Fine! Tube’s too expensive anyway at approximately $8 one way. Everyone should be walking in London.)
If you need me, I’ll be in Apalachicola. Where’s that, you say? Why, it’s on Florida’s “Forgotten Coast,” as the saying goes. Apparently, that’s not just a tourism slogan, because a lot of people cannot find this Gulf village on a map. (Hint: It’s between Tampa and Panama City, but far from either).
This crusty old fishing town, renowned for its oysters, is joining the Florida condo boom — in fact, I’m checked in to the new Water Street Hotel, the new luxury/condo project that’s shaking up the quiet town […]
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August 31st, 2007 at 07:52am Under Travel
There was some griping from Cruise Loggers a few weeks ago when we wrote about Carnival’s plan to add watery play zones atop its eight Fantasy class ships. In short, some readers felt that the additions would result in the…
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August 31st, 2007 at 06:29am Under Travel
You know you want to take the kids on your next trip, but where? Travel + Leisure magazine lists the top family-friendly resorts to help with the decision.
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August 30th, 2007 at 05:47pm Under Las Vegas
A good time is a sure bet this weekend in sizzling 100-degree Vegas, where tourists will be laboring over (hopefully hot) slots and poker tables. There’s lots new to do, too. The Luxor’s LAX nightclub is opening Friday night, with…
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August 30th, 2007 at 04:12pm Under Travel
Vero Beach Hotel & Club gives love a good name
Vero Beach has to have one of the coolest yellow pages. Roll up to any phone booth and look under “B” — you might find Bon Jovi. Or flip to “P” for Prince (or is it “O(+>“?). They both have (one of their umpteenth) houses here. Just ask any LA Dodger, peaceful Vero Beach is tha bomb: smack dab in Florida’s Indian River County, that’s where they have their spring training (although next year they move to Glendale, AZ… our condolences).
Beachy and low-key as the Treasure Coast tends to be (as opposed to, say, what’s going down a little further south), it’s also golfers paradise ’round these parts. Ever wanted to visit the kind of links you’re not good enough to be allowed on? You’ll probably find one or two of those here.
But you can stay somewhere respectable. […]
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August 30th, 2007 at 03:16pm Under Travel
Elan Restort & Spa: As close to Tahiti as it gets in Cancun.
Socrates asked, “What is virtue?” — I’m gonna set the bar a little lower and ask you, fellow interlocutors, “What’s a villa?“
I know this much: If run by a resort, they’re usually listed at the bottom of the rate card. At first glance it’s easy to confuse their totally obnoxious cost with a phone number, and they’re often priced weekly as opposed to nightly (as if that softens the blow — I can divide by seven, dontcha know). If they’re privately operated, it’s hard to even find their rates printed anywhere, online or otherwise; you have to call a realtor to get the bad news.
And of course, every so-and-so IMDB dweller has to stay in one when they go to places with “Saint” in the name, be it Barts or Tropez or what have you. […]
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August 29th, 2007 at 04:05pm Under Travel
After my informal survey of U.S. tipping guidelines earlier this week, I came across a survey of 1,500 European hotel managers conducted in April for Expedia.com. Americans are the best tippers at Euro hotels, by far, the survey says. Also…
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August 29th, 2007 at 04:01pm Under Travel
Need a Pacific fix? Crystal Cruises is your line in 2009. The luxury cruise company announced plans this week to send its 1,080-passenger Crystal Serenity on an epic, 105-day voyage around the region. Departing from Los Angeles on Jan. 21,…
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August 29th, 2007 at 03:01pm Under Travel
Remember that lady on “Seinfeld” Elaine did everything in her power to avoid looking at because of her hideous goiter? That’s kind of how it’s been at the American Airlines terminal at JFK these last couple of years — you never really want to make direct eye contact with the monstrosity lest you go blind.
That’s all changed thanks to AA’s brand new $1.3 billion — that’s BILLION — terminal at JFK.
Maybe you too have witnessed the subtle hints these last 2 years, since the renovation’s actually been going on in phases. According to a spokesperson: “Today’s opening was in Terminal 9 — it’s the culmination of a multi-year project that began when construction began on Terminal 9. The first phase opened in 2005, and today was the first day that […]
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August 29th, 2007 at 11:59am Under Travel
I am just back from Indianapolis, and boy did I have fun. Okay, so I went for last month’s NASCAR race, the Brickyard 400, but I managed to squeeze a little golf in. Now I suggest you do the same,…
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August 29th, 2007 at 11:40am Under Travel
Violence in Iraq has kept tourists at bay for years, but the head of its Tourism Commission says southern Iraq is relatively stable, and is visited by the faithful.
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August 29th, 2007 at 10:51am Under Travel
For a mysterious place
sandwiched between Europe and Asia with a brutal history, Moscow
is surprisingly refreshing.
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August 29th, 2007 at 10:42am Under Travel
Behind the Screen column: For travelers, the toughest tariffs are those that are levied without your say, in districts far from where you live and vote. And when it comes to paying the taxman, renting a car can be the costliest part of your trip.
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