Losing My Ryanair Virgi...
Filed under: Europe , Airlines , Budget Travel Ryanair, Easy Jet , German Wings and other discount airlines have changed how Europeans travel, but until last week, I’d yet to fly on a budget European airline and had no idea what to expect. After booking a ticket from Bari, Italy,...
12 Hours In Yangon, Mya...
Filed under: Asia , Burma (Myanmar) For most of the past two decades, the only images and sounds of Myanmar that have reached the outside world is of its repressive military regime and the heroic resistance of the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. For years, travelers found themselves...A Working Trip to Vegas...
Last week, Allegiant paid for me to come out to Vegas and speak to the attendees at its annual conference for the airports it serves. This is a great event that lets Allegiant talk about its own business to the airports so that it can further beat into them the importance of low costs....Museum Month: Kalaupapa...
Filed under: Arts and Culture , Hiking , History , Learning , Paddling , Scuba Diving , Surfing , North America , United States , Ecotourism , Luxury Travel Some people – me, for instance – tend to skip museums when traveling in favor of fresh air or outdoor recreation....A New Way Compare Hotel...
Filed under: Hotels and Accommodations , Internet Tools One of our favorite parts of travel? Food. We love trying local dishes and delicacies, ordering the freshest and newest dishes available to tempt our palate. But sometimes, an old standby will have to do. Which explains our...How To Go Couch Surfing...
Filed under: Jordan , Hotels and Accommodations , Budget Travel , Middle East As the popularity of the Couch Surfing movement grows exponentially across the budget travel community, it’s widely understood that often times you won’t actually be sleeping on a couch. Sometimes...
Air New Zealand OneUp P...
Apparently this has been around for 6 months, but I hadn’t heard about it: Air New Zealand has a program called OneUp where they will offer select flyers who have purchased long-haul tickets on ANZ’s website the opportunity to bid on a one-class upgrade on their next flight....