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Arthur Frommer (born 1929) is a travel writer, publisher and consumer advocate, and the founder of the Frommer's series of travel guides and Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine. He has published many books for budget-conscious travelers and has been one of America's foremost budget travel authorities since the 1950s. Frommer's seminal book, Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, changed the way Americans traveled, and foreshadowed such later budget-conscious guidebooks as Lonely Planet and Rick Steves.

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Bigger isn't better for cruise ships

The travel world is all atwitter about the imminent premiere (a few days from now) of the largest cruise ship ever built - the 20-story high, 220,000-ton, 6,000-passenger Oasis of the Seas, covered with rock-climbing walls and zip lines, torrents of ...

From ARTHUR FROMMER, San Francisco Chronicle,  22 Nov 2009

Prevent airline nickel-and-diming

And still they come - additional efforts by airlines to assess extra penalties for the most casual, innocent and totally harmless acts on your part. Memorize the following five new charges, and take steps to prevent them: 1. A three-week rule for ...

From ARTHUR FROMMER, San Francisco Chronicle,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Southwest Airlines,  JetBlue

Cruise ship 'enrichment' programs disappointing

You wouldn't know it from the activities programs on most cruise ships, but a large percentage of the American people actually are interested in the world of ideas. They attend lectures on public issues and cultural trends, belong to book groups that ...

From ARTHUR FROMMER, San Francisco Chronicle,  27 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Queen Elizabeth II,  Leonardo da Vinci

Cruise deals are out there

Here are three examples: Go to CruisesOnly ( www.cruisesonly.com), one of the country's largest discounters. Sailings through the rest of the year (except for Christmas/New Year's) and into much of January are selling for as little as $43.50 per ...

From ARTHUR FROMMER, San Francisco Chronicle,  9 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Celebrity Cruises

Frugality now fashionable - and necessary

It has become chic to be cheap. It is dumb to spend recklessly. It has never been more important to use public transportation, hostels, apartments and guesthouses, inside cabins, sightseeing passes, cut-rate carriers and all the other devices of ...

From ARTHUR FROMMER, San Francisco Chronicle,  19 Jul 2009

Travel like a local in a small group

Intrepid Travel, an Australian company operating in the United States, recently announced that it had created the vacation arrangements for more than 80,000 Americans in 2008. This means that an even larger firm from Canada known as GAP Adventures - ...

From ARTHUR FROMMER, San Francisco Chronicle,  7 Jun 2009

Budget travel

I'm troubled (to say the least) by an example of discrimination practiced flagrantly at the airports of America, in the plain sight of everyone. And I'm puzzled as to why an uproar hasn't emerged on the part of economy passengers. I've recently been ...

From ARTHUR FROMMER, San Francisco Chronicle,  31 May 2009

Related Topics: United Airlines,  Facebook Inc.

Icelandair offering bargain flights

So what does this have to do with travel? Only that Icelandair, the well-regarded airline of that once-prosperous nation, is flying people this summer from New York, Boston and Seattle to many major capitals of Europe for at least $200 less than ...

From ARTHUR FROMMER, San Francisco Chronicle,  24 May 2009

Related Topics: Aer Lingus

Big Island resort offers $800 airfare credit

For a standard villa-bungalow, including all three meals, you normally pay about $660 per night for two people, which produces a room-and-board price of about $330 per person per night. That's not a bad price for such an elegant place, with a giant ...

From ARTHUR FROMMER, San Francisco Chronicle,  17 May 2009

Related Topics: American Airlines,  United Airlines

Sites offer further ways to cut travel costs

Finding a spare room for two or three nights in a costly city is the service offered by a startup called AirBed & Breakfast ( www.airbnb.com). It rents spare rooms, cots, couches and airbeds in the apartments of residents in 831 U.S. cities, sometimes ...

From ARTHUR FROMMER, San Francisco Chronicle,  10 May 2009

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