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Article / Family & Kids

A Room with a Boo! Things Go Bump in the Night in these B&Bs on Halloween

Halloween is one of those holidays when everything can seem so predictable--the trick-or-treating, the doling out of candy, the same old costumes--so it's nice when someone comes up…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Captains Courageous, Prices Outrageous: Five Days in Tropical Tahiti from $739

For only three specific Wednesday departures, exotic discounter Discover Wholesale Travel is practically giving the store away with this five-day air/hotel package to Tahiti in October…

Article / Cruise

Goofy Prices for Mickey Mouse Cruises

If you book early, you're likely to get one of the incredible rates being offered now for winter cruises on Disney Cruise Lines. The three-night cruises start at just $419 per adult,…

Article / Road Trips

A Brief Stop in Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Just a short drive from larger and more active Philadelphia, Reading, PA, and Berks County provide a welcome return to simpler times.

Article / Road Trips

Tips from the Publisher: Which Valley Is Best for You?

The Fall is the best time to head to California Wine Country, only an hour or so from downtown San Francisco. But which to choose, Sonoma or Napa?

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

Dominatable Snow, Man: Trekking on the Trail of The Yeti in the Himalayas from as Little as $425

Since 1976, Peter Owens has been leading trekking trips in Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, including 33 for the Sierra Club. If you are hale and hearty (or just hale, I guess), you can join…

Article / Health, Insurance, Security

Princess Starts First Fully Accessible Shore Excursion in St. Thomas

Princess Cruiselines and Accessible Adventures team up to make shore excursions available for disabled travelers.

Article / Packages

Holy Roman Empire! Three Nights in the Eternal City from $549 Including Air, Hotel and Morning Meals, Equally Affordable Getaway Packages to Five Other Eurocities as well

Far and Wide Travel is offering free companion airfare on certain five-day/three night air/hotel combos to further reduce their prices good for daily departures from November 1 through…

Article / Packages

Trod Where Monks and Monarchs Dwelt: An Iberian Journey At Just Over $100 per Day

Trying to cover the entirety of this vast peninsula in a single trip is seemingly insurmountable and possibly insane; it contains two whole countries, Portugal and Spain, and the tiny…

Article / Hotels

Earn Free Weekend Nights with the Return of Marriott's "Take 2" Offer

This deal is easy enough to understand. If you stay three different times in any of Marriott's properties between October 14, 2002 through January 31, 2003, you'll get two free weekend…

Article / Hotels

Too Cool for School: Get a Jump on Ski-Lessons, Lodgings Included, by Booking Early

Now is the right time to plan for the winter ski season, but if you're not quite sure of yourself on the slopes, you may want to get an edge on others by studying technique at the…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Ply Me a River: A Florida to (and through) South America Cruise from $80 a Day

The Orinoco and Amazon rivers are the stars of this January 2003 cruise on the Royal Olympic's Olympia Voyager. Well, the rivers and the price. This 17-day excursion out of Ft.…

Article / Air Travel

Lop Off an Additional 5% on Already Discounted Fares to the Caribbean and Latin America at Delta.com

To celebrate the addition of new routes and new flights to the warmer parts, Delta Airlines is offering an extra savings on top of its introductory fares to such tropical favorites as…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Help Costa Rican Kids & Enjoy a Beachy, All-Inclusive Vacation, too!

Exotic discounter Sunny Land Tours is offering an eight-day beach experience in Costa Rica that simultaneously benefits Costa Rican children. The vacation starts at just $799,…

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

Budget Tours of Mexico--the Original and the New--for Mature Travelers

Grand Circle Travel has returned with a newly redesigned Web site featuring its just-announced 2003 list of tours for the over 50 crowd. Today, we're featuring its most popular…

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

Will You Fly Some Thousand Miles for a Camel Fair? You Should for This Rare Tour to India and Nepal

Back in the day, "I'd Walk a Mile for a Camel" was one of America's most popular slogans. Today, that's passé and smoking is a divisive habit, but going to North India and Nepal for a…

Article / Packages

Bless My Sol! Big Savings Make These Packages to Spain the Perfect Cure for those Wintertime Blues

If you've ever read Don Quixote or listened to Man from La Mancha, you know that the weather in Spain isn't always sunny. But it should be no surprise that people enjoy the Iberian…

Article / Air Travel

Canny Air Canada Sells Fall & Winter Seats Cheaper

If you can plan ahead for trips to Canada or destinations beyond this fall and winter, get your wallet out and book before September 30, 2002, for trips that can begin as early as…

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

Travel Exotic With Cosmos, From $174 a Day, Including Air to Asia and Down Under

For 75 years, the people at Cosmos Tours and its more expensive sister company, Globus, have been taking visitors (some 500,000 each year) to six continents and more than 60 countries.…

Article / Air Travel

All's Fair with These Fares! Even More Savings on Flights for Home and Abroad

Announcements of new sales and discount fares continue to stream into our inbox here at Frommers.com. Today we're here to tell you about current savings for flitting about within…

Article / Road Trips

Watch the Simple Pleasures Roll by in Traincentric Strasburg, PA

An ironic juxtaposition of all-things-locomotive nestled in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country.

Article / Packages

Scholarly Journeys: Learn the Language and more with a Study Abroad Program

For some years now, NRCSA has been offering students and anyone else interested in learning foreign languages the chance to go abroad to hit the books, parlez and sprechen with the…

Article / Packages

Save $100 on Inexpensive Italian Insights Into Spring

If you book an Amazing Italy Tour from Insight Vacations by September 30, 2002, you can save $100 per couple on an already low priced nine-day tour of that country, starting from…

Article / Packages

Getaway to Galway, Dublin and More, Plus a Discount Card Good Across Ireland

Despite the oft gloomy weather, Ireland is always inviting with its verdant, sheep-dotted hills, incredibly friendly (and talkative!) people, an overwhelming number of ancient and…

Article / Packages

Schushhhhhhhhh! Don't Swiss-Miss These Two Discounted European Ski Packages

Attention all slope addicts, the Swiss Alps are calling you, and right now they are practically irresistible with a double shot of air/lodging/ground transportation/meal combos to luxe…