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How to Prepare When Your Child Flies Solo
If you are allowing your children to fly alone, be sure to take every necessary precaution to ensure their safety. Millions of children fly alone each year; be sure you and your child…
Ease Your Burden: New Support for Single Parent Families
November 7, 2003 -- Not enough attention is paid to the unique problems of single parents who want to travel with their children. A good place to get help on that subject is…
Istanbul (not Constantinople) for a Bump over $100 a Day
October 29, 2003 -- This deal isn't a turkey: well-respected Picasso Tours is offering one of the cheapest packages we've ever seen to Istanbul, with air and four nights at a…
Dive into Dubuque: 2,400 Miles of Mighty River Poured into One Museum Complex
October 27, 2003 -- There's cause for celebration right here in this river city, as a monolithic project nears completion featuring a resort, riverwalk, convention center, casino, an…
Fall & Winter Specials on California's Mendocino Coast
October 22, 2003 -- California's northern coast is the perfect antithesis to the state's southern section. Its pace is slower, its people more relaxed and its culture more intimate.…
Ready, Get Set, Chicago! The Second City is First in Free Events and Savings
October 20, 2003 -- The Windy City recently announced a bevy of bargains for visitors good through the end of winter as part of its seventh annual "Chicaglo" promotion. You'll find…
Euromania! London Packages Just Got Cheaper, plus Budget-Priced Rooms Across the Continent
October 15, 2003 -- There they go again! Go-Today.com, having pushed the limits almost everywhere else is steadily snipping prices, this time in a favorite spot for American travelers…
Tres Chic for Tres Cheap: We Compare Paris Packages for Fall and Winter
October 8, 2003 -- This autumn and winter, make it Paris, when it glitters, with skies that are often crisp and clear, and leaves still remain scattered along the boulevards. There are…
Plenty of Pensacola: Shows, Rooms, Tours and More in Florida's Panhandle
October 6, 2003 -- The City of Five Flags -- so-named due to the shifting governance over time by the Spanish, British, French, the Confedaracy and the U.S. -- has a veritable…
Rock em, Sock em, Morocco: An Extensive Tour in this North African Nation
September 29, 2003 -- September, October and November, often rainy in our climate, are perfectly pleasant in North Africa. It's the best time to travel there, and we've found a pretty…
Temporarily Own a Home Where the Florida Suburbanites Roam
September 26, 2003 -- We introduced you to the thrill of impersonating a Florida homeowner back in June when we reported on deals for renting private homes near Disney World. Now we're…
Spain by Plane, Staying Mainly in Madrid All on a Budget, Plus a Jaunt Through Portugal
September 19, 2003 -- It's coming soon, the fall and winter travel discount season for Spain, where British old age pensioners instigated the first "cheaper there than at home"…
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Spooky Halloween Haunts Across Massachusetts
September 19, 2003 -- To reinforce its ghostly image, the commonwealth infamous for the Salem Witch Trials is dragging some old skeletons out of the closet and rattling a few chains…
Hotel Chains Big and Small Open the Doors with Budget Rates (Fall Colors Free of Charge)
September 22, 2003 -- I was impressed by my first visit to a Microtel Inn, and remain so, especially by their prices. There are several budget-oriented hotel and motel chains around…
Rooms with a Boo! in Leery London and Bloody Bucharest
September 22, 2003 -- I've walked the plank to get into Dracula's Castle in Romania, and I lived in London for eight years, and I'm not sure which is scarier. We've dug up a couple of…
You, John Q. Public, Can Sleep Here: Rest Your Head in Historical Hotels Across America
September 19, 2003 - Hotel junkies are well aware that many establishments are not just places you sleep -- some of them have witnessed extraordinary events, hosted famous people and,…
Rome for the Holidays: The Cheapest Week Yet in the Eternal City
September 17, 2003 -- We were excited to tell you back in June about some incredible deals to the Italian capital. Now we're positively beside ourselves with this latest offer from…
Leafers, Peepers: Fall Foliage Tours in Canada and the Northeast for Cheaper
September 15, 2003 -- It just wouldn't be fall without journeying off to take in the brilliant vistas of an autumnal landscape painted in bright swaths of reds, oranges and yellows.…
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Deal: Disney Discounts Again for Fall & Winter
September 10, 2003 -- Theme parks across the country are still feeling the post-9/11 pinch, and while numbers of visitors across the board increased slightly in 2003, they are still…
A Three-Fer We L.L.ike: Gift Certificates from Quikbook
September 8, 2003 -- The best kind of freebie is one you get for doing something you were going to do anyway.In the case of hotel discounter Quikbook (www.quikbook.com), they're giving…
Cheap China Set: Three Asian Cities at Bargain Basement Prices
September 5, 2003 -- Two of my favorite tour operators are having a little competition for visitors to Hong Kong this fall and winter, each with prices starting at just $499, including…
Soar with the Eagles: Mongolian Adventures for the Fit and Brave
September 1, 2003 -- Normally I wouldn't recommend a "new" festival, much less one dreamed up by a tour operator just three years ago, but the Golden Eagle Festival in Mongolia should…
Squirrels on Film: Point, Shoot and Sleep in Yosemite with Packages for Photographers
August 25, 2003 -- Ever since Ansel Adams set up his tripod in Yosemite National Park, the venue has been a dreamscape for photographers anxious to match, or (improbably) to better,…
South of the Border Double Feature: Costwise Combos to Uruguay and Costa Rica
August 25, 2003 -- Sometimes, it seems, our Canadian friends seem more adventurous than we do, with companies like GAP offering tours to Bangladesh, for instance. But now, The Great…
Europe Bargains Racing On, For Fall & Winter
August 22, 2003 -- Americans are trickling back to Europe, not in droves, mind you, but enough to keep hope alive in tourism industry breasts from Ireland to Austria, Portugal to…