Denver Hotels Holiday Travel Deals

Seventeen Denver hotels are offering Mile High Holidays deals, with rates starting at $52.80 (a nod to Denver’s elevation of 5,280 feet, or one mile, above sea level).
Mile High Holidays runs Nov. 1, 2007, through Jan. 31, 2008. In addition, Denver is hosting a variety of holiday events, including:
The Santa Claus Special ( www.crrm.org), Dec. [...]

Southwest Airlines Vacations $100 Discounts

Southwest Airlines Vacations is giving clients $100 off vacation packages for holiday travel.
Clients can create their own holiday getaway by using promotion code GIFT2YOU on any vacation package of three nights or longer from Nov. 23 through Nov. 30 by 7 p.m. EST for travel Dec. 1 through Jan. 13, 2008.
Southwest Airlines Vacations offers vacation [...]

Atlanta Hyatt Holiday Getaway

Hyatt Hotels of Atlanta announced their newest packages in time for the holiday season.
Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead is offering a shopping package, “Shop Til You Drop,” offering guests a shopping experience at Phipps Plaza and Lenox Square. Shop Til You Drop includes the following: accommodations; HyTea for Two in [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing all of our subscribers, clients and blog readers a
Safe, Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving.

 
 
We are going to enjoy this holiday break, and be back blogging on Monday.

Southwest Vacations Offers Free Disney Upgrade

Southwest Airlines Vacations is giving a free Magic Your Way Theme Park ticket upgrade.
Packages must be booked between before Dec. 15, 2007 for travel from Jan. 1, 2008 to March 3, 2008, for three nights or longer at any Walt Disney World Resort hotel.

The upgrade includes Park Hopper and Water Park Fun & More Options. [...]

Travel Issues Important Political Issue

Travel Issues Important for Presidential Voters
The Travel Industry Association, National Tour Association and Travel Business Roundtable conducted a survey of likely presidential primary voters in two key states, revealing that travel issues are of significant importance to the electorate.
Each survey was conducted Oct. 24 to 29 and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 5.66%.
Stung [...]

United Introduces Lie-Flat Beds on Atlantic Routes

United Airline said it is the first U.S. airline to offer 180-degree, lie-flat beds in business class on overseas flights.
The first international aircraft to complete the company’s multi-million dollar product enhancement has begun flying between Washington Dulles and Frankfurt.
The bed is part of United’s new international business class service, which also includes menus created [...]

Windjammer Cruises Fails to License

Windjammer License to Sell Cruise Travel Expires

This comes as no surprise to the travel industry. The Cruise Vacation Blog, and other travel industry sites have been reporting on Windjammer for months. In truth Windjammers ships are in Caribbean ports, and cannot leave for failure to pay port charges. The owners are still selling cruises on [...]

Aruba Enjoys More Visitors in 2007

This year has proven to be a success in Aruba with the tourism industry booming.
The island is seeing significant growth in visitor arrival numbers and major hotel and resort renovations as well as new air service.
Aruba remains a vacationer’s paradise with vigorous 4.17% growth in U.S. arrivals through July of 2007 year-to-date, translating into 12,497 [...]

US Airways Holiday, Winter Strategy

US Airways is augmenting staff, checking equipment and reaching out to airports and federal officials to ensure that its customers have smooth flying this holiday season and throughout the winter.
The airline also is offering travel trips to help customers who will be taking to the skies during a very busy holiday travel season.
It is adding [...]

Online Holiday Tips Tool from JetBlue

JetBlue Airways launched an online tool to help its passengers over the holidays.
The tool advises travelers to verify the status of their flight’s departure online at www.jetblue.com/flightstatus before leaving for the airport.
The site also provides real-time flight information, including a map showing an approximate location of airborne flight for those tracking the arrival of their [...]

AAA Travel Predictions for Thanksgiving

Travelers this Thanksgiving are facing record high gas prices for November but they will not be deterred from seeing friends and family this holiday.
AAA estimates that 38.7 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this holiday, a modest 1.5 percent increase from last year’s 38.1 million travelers.
“This is the first time that [...]

AAA Gives Defensive Flying Tips

With the two busy holiday travel periods approaching, AAA announced a series of defensive flying tips for airline passengers concerned about the frustrating problem of flight delays.
According to AAA’s 2006 estimates, 4.8 million leisure travelers flew over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and more than nine million Americans flew during the Christmas-New Year’s time period.
AAA advises [...]

Caribbean Family Travel Deals

At Frenchmans Lookout in Tortola, five nights for a family of 10 people is $13,000, or approximately $278.50 per person per day.
The price includes: five nights’ accommodations; arrival and return transfer; welcome cocktail and dinner; breakfast daily; one full day with lunch on a captained yacht, with lunch; and ten spa treatments. Four percent [...]

ATA Offers Savings on Hawaii Flights

ATA is offering savings through Tuesday of up to $40 on its roundtrip fares for travel to/from Hawaii from more than 50 cities.

Hilo, Honolulu, Kona, Lihue, Maui. Discounts are in effect for the $40 discount for travel on the following dates: Nov. 9 to 15, 2007; Nov. 22 to Dec. 14, 2007; Dec. 30, 2007 [...]

MyGuideIreland.com Offers Dollar-Related Sale

MyGuideIreland.com, an Irish in-bound operator serving tourists from the U.S., will hold U.S. dollar rates at February levels.
The company has changed its exchange rate so that one euro now costs $1.35 when booking any of their Irish vacation packages.
This turns back the clock to February 2007, which is the last time a euro cost $1.35 [...]

Disney World Unveils Cinderella Castle in Lights

A new lighting spectacle is transforming Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World Resort into a lighted ice palace at holiday time.

Bathed in more than 200,000 tiny white lights, the castle glows as “Cinderella’s Holiday Wish” delights Magic Kingdom guests nightly, starting Nov. 12.
To transform Cinderella’s fairytale castle into a magical ice palace it took: five [...]

Montreal Festival

The Festival in Montreal is offering packages to participants so that out-of-town guests can take full advantage of the event and enjoy everything the city has to offer.
Dozens of new hotels have enlisted as partners and that number is expected to double in time for the Festival.
For more information, or to view a list of [...]

Broadway Stagehands Strike Closes Most Theatres

Just not a good time to have pre-booked a popular Broadway show . . . 
Yesterday marked the a second day a strike against Broadway theaters by stagehands with no end in sight.
Press reports said 27 shows remained closed Sunday, the day after stagehands went on strike, shutting down such musicals as “Wicked,” “The Phantom of [...]

Chicago’s Millennium Park to Feature Ice Paintings

Chicago’s Millennium Park in February will feature a colossal installation of abstract paintings in ice by Canadian artist Gordon Halloran. The work will be the centerpiece of a new winter celebration in Millennium Park, Museum of Modern Ice, Feb. 1-29.
The installation, which marks the U.S. debut of Halloran’s work, “Paintings Below Zero,” will incorporate a [...]