Six and Seven Star Hotel Rating Inflation
So far no international classification for hotels exists, but that hasn’t stopped ambitious hotel marketers from slapping any number of stars, diamonds, and cacti on their properties and touting them...
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Azores, Family Travel Treasures of the Atlantic
The Azores! What else except a huge dose of tectonic magic explains the nine wayward, islands of the Azores, scattered randomly in the middle of the Atlantic.These sleeping beauties...
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Junk, Junk and Fun: City Museum, St. Louis
The generically named, City Museum is anything but a generic museum. This St. Louis museum is more like a fun house or carnival than a museum.Made almost...
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Penalizing the Single Traveler
The math is simple but deceptive: If a hotel room cost two hundred bucks, that’s a hundred bucks per person, because hotels assume two people...
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Dude Ranches for Families
When 180 horses’ hooves pounded the ground a few feet from me, manes flaring and breaths misting ghost-like in the chill Colorado mountain air, this city boy was transfixed.It was the 5:30...
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How Guys Travel
Give a guy a choiceWould he prefer a major sporting event like the Super Bowl, front-row seats at a major musical event like a U2 concert in London … or spending a week in Hawaii or...
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How Come I Didn’t Know That! Avoiding Cultural Snafus
OK, you’re lucky enough to be in Italy…and you’ve actually been invited to a dinner party.So, when in Rome do as the Romans do:...
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Are Teen Spas Self-Indulgent?
The “Teen Spa Program” at Pinehurst Resort (Pinehurst Village, North Carolina) is designed “to reduce teen stress through aromatherapy, massage, soothing music.”“We...
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