San Francisco Launches “Beyond San Francisco” Web Pages

The San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau (SFCVB) has dedicated a “region” of its website to the areas outside the city of San Francisco. An interactive map visually guides visitors around Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley, the East Bay, Sausalito/Marin, the Wine Country, North Coast/Mt. Shasta, Lake Tahoe/Sacramento, Yosemite/Central Valley, and Monterey/Carmel. [...]

Delta Starts Antigua and Barbuda Flights from NYC

Delta Air Lines will begin new nonstop service between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Antigua and Barbuda on June 12. The flight will operate Thursdays and Saturdays. To celebrate the new service, Delta is offering a one-way special fare of $189 for purchase by Jan. 21, with travel completed by Sept. 4, [...]

St Lucia Romance at Coconut Bay

Coconut Bay Beach Resort & Spa on St. Lucia’s southern coast is offering couples their Sweetheart of a Deal package at an all-inclusive rate starting at $342, which is a 40 percent savings off of the regular nightly room rate. The deal also includes additional complimentary amenities and a room upgrade. Couples will be greeted [...]

Cape Cod’s Ocean’s Edge Resort Family Savings

To celebrate the upcoming three-day holiday weekends, Ocean Edge Resort & Club on Cape Cod is offering families winter savings of over 20 percent with nightly rates starting at $149. Parents and kids can take advantage of the Family Escape package available Jan. 18 to 20 and Feb. 15 to 17 and 22 to 24, [...]

US Airways Luxury Vacations Offers Mastercard Discount

MasterCard cardholders will receive $100 off of the booking price when they book a minimum four-night air and hotel package with their MasterCard cards to any US Airways Vacations luxury property worldwide. They must book a 4.5 star (or higher) luxury hotel by Feb. 4, 2008 and travel by March 12. When booking online passengers [...]

Top Travel Destination Specials

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Southwest Offers New Orleans Deals

Southwest Airlines Vacations is offering reduced package rates and bonus gifts for air/hotel packages to the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Dec. 14-March 24, 2008, for travel Dec. 21-March 31, 2008. Bonus gifts include: Free Riverwalk CD & Premier Passport and $10 Café Du Monde Certificate. Sample two-night prices listed below are per person double occupancy [...]

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 ( [...]

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 [...]

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 Onyx; a $50 Simon [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island Put 2008 Tickets on Sale

Statue Cruises, the new authorized concessionaire of ticket sales and ferry service to the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island Immigration Museum, launched its ticket sales and trip planning website. Visitors may now purchase tickets online for trips on or after Jan. 1, 2008. The website address is www.statuecruises.com. The website introduces Reserve [...]

Palm Beach Florida Beaches Remain Open

Palm Beach County Beaches Remain Open “The overwhelming majority of beaches in Palm Beach County Florida are open, accessible, and welcoming to visitors,” said Jorge Pesquera, president and CEO of the Palm Beach County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Reports of county-wide beach erosion caused by Tropical Storm Noel are false, according to Pesquera. Daniel Bates, [...]

Dominican Republic Storm Update

Even though the storm killed 82 residents on the island, according to the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Tourism, the main tourist areas in the country were not damaged by Tropical Storm Noel. No foreign tourists and no damage to hotel complexes were reported in any of the major tourism areas of Bávaro, Bayahibe, La Romana, [...]

Hurricane Noel Caribbean Update

Noel had been blamed for at least 48 deaths in Haiti and 82 in the Dominican Republic, and thousands were homeless because of catastrophic flooding. One death was linked to the storm in the Bahamas, along with one in Jamaica. Extensive damage was reported in Cuba. The deaths in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and [...]

Fuel Prices Move Airlines to Hike Fares

The consumer airfare research site Farecompare.com said airline fares have just gone up again, the seventh time the airlines have attempted to hike fares since September. Not all of these attempted hikes have stuck, but many have. The latest increase came when American Airlines announced a $20 roundtrip fare increase to recover some of the [...]

Mexico’s Blue Bay Esmeralda Single Parents Package

Mexico’s Blue Bay Esmeralda Sets Single Parents Package BlueBay Grand Esmeralda on Mexico’s Riviera Maya, the flagship property of BlueBay Hotels & Resorts, a new collection of affordable luxury all-inclusive beach resorts, has introduced a Single Parent promo where adults are not charged a single occupancy supplement if sharing the room with two kids. Kids [...]

U.S. Airline Aging Fleet Like Old Tuna Cans

Unfortunately for U.S. travelers, the fleets aren’t going to get any less dingy or more inviting anytime soon. None of the new Airbus A380s on order, and only 43 of the 710 Boeing 787s on the way, are destined for U.S. carriers, according to a New York Times report. Instead, major U.S. airlines are sticking [...]