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What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Hong Kong

Here are the latest openings, offerings, changes, and events in Hong Kong.

Article / Local Experiences

Fifty Tips for Planning an Affordable Trip to Ireland from $60 a Day

A sweeping checklist of incredible breadth and depth to help you pinch those pennies for another pint and get more for your vacation dollar on the Emerald Isle.

Article / Family & Kids

Offpeak, C'est Magnifique! Budget Packager Adds Gay Paree to its Ever-Growing Roster. Prices Start at Just $399

We were the first to introduce you to Rodney Ezrapour's online-only powerhouse of budget-minded vacations, Offpeak Traveler, way back in July last year when he began offering those…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Dive into this Sea of Savings: A Caribbean Conscription of Resorts, Villas and Inns to Choose from

Here's another savory sampler that'll make you to get down to the tropics and to warm up on the beach, with prices that should make you want to jump out of your parkas and into your…

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What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Colorado

Change is inevitable. Here's a rundown of new opportunities, recent closings, updated phone numbers and URLs and more for our latest guide to Colorado.

Article / Hotels

Le Meridien Cuts It Down the Middle: Halfsies on Most Luxury Properties All Around the Globe

If you're still planning a late winter break and you've got a few extra beans in your coffer, consider a little splurging on your accommodations. The Meridien Hotel & Resort chain…

Article / Cruise

Get a Tan in the Yucatan: Cost-Conscious Cruise from Florida to Mexico

Following a logical pattern set by a regional New England airline years ago, Scotia Prince Cruises of Maine is in the middle of a five-month trial run of a service using one of its…

Article / Family & Kids

Snow 'Em How It's Done! Winter Packages for Cheapskates

Skiing in the Rockies is poles apart from that in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. However, prices are often about the same in many cases. You can get by, very nicely indeed, for about $80…

Article / Air Travel

Bloomin' Bloomsbury! Fly British Air to Almost Anywhere in Europe and Get Two Free Nights In London

It really couldn't be much simpler or more affordable. If you book online, you get up to two free nights in your choice of nine London hotels. The rooms are gratis, and, what's more,…

Article / Family & Kids

Are You Gonna Eat That? The Best Chefs, the Best Food, the Best Prices: Restaurant Week Returns for a Bumper Crop of Cities

Food, glorious food! Some people can't get enough of sports, some clothes, others trash TV. Me? Give me the chance to cook, eat, discuss or read about food, and I'm happy. Thus, I'm…

Article / Family & Kids

Canadian Combos: Toronto's Tourism Boards Promotes Plenty O' Packages for Late Winter Savings

Toronto the Good's third annual getaway scheme conjures up price-cutting on hotels, theater tickets, entrance fees to museums and other attractions, dinners and more through March 31,…

Article / Family & Kids

Heart-Shaped Box: Splurgeworthy Valentine's Getaways at Luxury Hotels and Inns in London, Boston and Maine

Love is never cheap, or shouldn't be, but there are still ways to spread the love and let your significant other know your relationship is special without breaking your bank. Who…

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

Go To the Dogs, I Say! You Mushn't Miss Out on Alaska's Iditarod

For racing fans, dog lovers and snow bunnies, the Iditarod race is a chance to combine three pleasures at once. You'll meet the mushers as they draw their starting numbers for the big…

Article / Family & Kids

Sixty-five Tips for Planning an Affordable Trip to the Big Apple from $90 a Day

Here's where you'll find everything you need to know to handle the practical details of planning your trip in advance--airlines and area airports, a calendar of events, resources for…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Viva la Savings! You'll Find January-only Discounts at this Family-Friendly, All-Inclusive Mexican Resort

One of my favorite places to save money, the Viva Resort chain, is running monthlong special at its Puerto Vallarta property, the Viva Vallarta, located in the Vallarta Bay…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

From as Low as $899, You Can Spend a Lazy, Beachy Week in a French Polynesian Paradise

Originally planned as a January-only special, Tahiti Vacations is now selling its weeklong packages to the utopias of Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora for travel all the way through March.…

Article / Packages

Quirky Extras Plus Free Bonus Days with These Land-Only U.S. and Canadian Packages When You Book Early

When Globus, one of the world's premier tour operators, decided to try something a little different with its North American programs, it settled on things like sitting in on a Stella…

Article / Air Travel

Even More Winter Reductions on Fares Now, Good For Flights Through Mid-Spring

In addition to the basket full of bargains enumerated last week for airfare discounts, we've got two more to add to the list; national carrier Air Canada and the no-frills Airtran.Air…

Article / Cruise

Springtime for Holland and Tulip Beds: Luxury River Cruises Promise a Bloomin' Good Time

Why tiptoe through the tulips when you can cruise instead? Sunny Land Tours is selling three nine-day river cruises in April through Belgium and Holland to coincide with the peak…

Article / Air Travel

A Brand-new Budget Carrier Based out of Germany Brings New Competition to the Market--and some Sehr Große Savings to You

There's a new Kind on the European budget carrier block offering certain one-way fares for as little as $20.Inaugurating its first flights on December 1, 2002, Germanwings, a brand new…

Article / Cruise

Tips from the Publisher: China on Your Own

Skip the group tours and see China's cities and rivers with a private guide--or better yet--on your own.

Article / Car, Bus, Rail

Leasing a Renault for $29 a Day with Eurodrive

Sometimes, thinking outside the box can be very productive. That's the case with auto rental in Europe. Instead of looking only at the big names in car rental, take a gander at Renault…

Article / Family & Kids

Look Ma, No Hills! Consider a Cross Country Skiing Trip--Good For the Whole Family and Eminently Affordable

Watching skiers much of my life (but flunking out on the slopes, myself), I've always considered the cross-country folks a hardier breed than those just schussing downhill. Now comes…

Article / Hotels

Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn: Pay for the First, Get the Second Night Free through February

If you like freebies, take a look at the Holiday Inn promotion called "Next Night Free," which runs through February 28, 2003 for most properties. It allows you a second night free…

Article / Family & Kids

Mom! Can Eddie Go to Florida With Us? The Slippery Issue of Allowing Your Child to Invite A Friend on Your Family Vacation

Bob Sehlinger waxes parental with advice on how to handle a potentially sticky situation.