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AARP's discounts best used as last resortSlowly but surely, AARP's hotel discounts - once a prime feature - are becoming less and less useful. Unfortunate though it may be, AARP's decline as a discount source simply mirrors the decrease in big-organization discounts, generally. More than ever, you...
San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, February 01, 2009Eco-friendly 968 Park Spa Resort in TahoeOutside, it's awash in white snow. Inside, it's all about being green. As the first truly eco-friendly hotel on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe, 968 Park Spa Resort is a serious option for overnight visitors for whom protecting the environment is more than just...
San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, February 01, 2009Sorting out the choices among Caribbean resortsAs always, price is one signpost; less expensive typically means fewer frills. But beyond butlers, dining options and spas are other matters of style. Here's a look at some of the crucial options: Family oriented Two decades ago, most all-inclusives were...
San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, February 01, 2009One woman's monument to LincolnMILTON -- Abraham Lincoln is a hard man to avoid these days. Last month's presidential inauguration of another lanky Illinoisan has made the Great Emancipator as ubiquitous as Miley Cyrus. And you can be sure Honest Abe will continue to garner headlines this month since Feb. 12 marks the bicentennial of his birth.
The Boston Globe Sunday, February 01, 2009What a calling cardWhile I was in Egypt, my cellphone provider would have charged me $1.50 per minute for incoming and outgoing calls. But I had inserted a OneSIMCard into my BlackBerry (a GSM, or Global System for Mobile communications, phone), so I received all calls for free and paid just 55 cents per minute to ring the United States. The OneSIMCard, made ...
The Boston Globe Sunday, February 01, 2009Salsa just steps from CubaMIAMI - Café Mystique is in an unassuming hotel off the highway near the airport. Unless you have a reason to seek it out, you would not know it is there.
The Boston Globe Sunday, February 01, 2009Art grows in BushwickNew york - Things change in the city's art world in a matter of moments. Bushwick's moment is coming.
"It's happening fast. There is a whole slew of emerging artists moving to Bushwick," says Sara DeRose, marketing communications director of the Brooklyn Arts Council. "It's the next big place."
Philly Sunday, February 01, 2009Travel Troubleshooter: Insurance bought unawaresQuestion: I have a question about
travel insurance that I bought online when I booked airline tickets. Actually, I didn't mean to buy the insurance. I was on the Frontier Airlines
web site, and there was a little box that was automatically checked that indicated I wanted to pay an extra $10.95 for
travel insurance.
Philly Sunday, February 01, 2009Senior Traveler: Hitting slopes at a reasonable costThere are vast differences between winter vacations and wintry vacations. Many seniors seem to prefer their winter wonderlands on a sunny and sandy Caribbean island, but others welcome the "warmth" of a northern clime, with cozy wood-stove-heated lodges and the exhilaration of a downhill run on a snow-covered mountain.
Philly Sunday, February 01, 200910 for the RoadYou can plan now to attend these weekend events, occurring in a few weeks and within a day's drive of Philadelphia.
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