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How Free Wi-Fi Can Help Cure the Holiday Travel Delay Blues

Face it: you're going to get stuck somewhere this holiday season. That's already happening to friends of mine, who are (at this writing) waiting for an alternative flight to New York City since their first flight was cancelled because of rain. Smart ...

From SASCHA SEGAN, Frommers,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.,  Starbucks Corp,  JetBlue

Home for the Holidays? Our Annual Calendar of the Best Days to Fly

Holiday fares are even lower than last year, but they may rise from here on out, according to fare experts at Priceline (www.priceline.com) and Bing Travel (www.bing.com/travel). The total gutting of the American economy encouraged lower airfares for ...

From SASCHA SEGAN, Frommers,  5 Nov 2009

New Routes, New Discounts for Amtrak This Winter

There's something about a reinvigorated national rail service that's magic. Now, I'm not saying that Amtrak is truly coming back. But our national train line seems to have a sparkle and verve it didn't have for the past few years, now that a ...

From SASCHA SEGAN, Frommers,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Amtrak

Recycled Cities: Three Great Post-Industrial Destinations

In this era of reusing and recycling, more cities are looking at their old stuff -- industrial buildings, abandoned neighborhoods and leftover rights of way -- and coming up with creative new uses for them. Three cities, San Diego, New York and Toronto, ...

From SASCHA SEGAN, Frommers,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Peter Brown

How to Get Up, Up and Away in Barcelona

Barcelona is blessed with a dramatic setting: the entire city slopes from dramatic hills down to the sea. But most tourists don't get much higher than Montjuic, the complex of museums and historical sites plunked onto a hill just south of the city ...

From SASCHA SEGAN, Frommers,  28 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Norman Foster

Amtrak Discounts Get Easier This Summer

Amtrak is trying a neat new trick this summer: making their discounted rail fares easier to use. For years, if you wanted a discount on Amtrak, you had to look up obscure savings codes and punch them in when you buy your ticket. Some of those discount ...

From SASCHA SEGAN, Frommers,  14 Jul 2009

Beyond the Buzz: How to Use Twitter for Travel Help

Okay. Even if you don't care about the insanely over-buzzed micro-blogging site Twitter, there is one reason you need to know about it: it can save you hours on the phone trying to get through to hotel or airline customer service, and can be a great ...

From SASCHA SEGAN, Frommers,  10 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  JetBlue,  Google Inc.,  Chris Elliott,  Rainn Wilson

Don't Go There: My Top 10 Overrated Travel Experiences

Here at Frommer's, we pride ourselves on not only telling you what to do, but what not to do. Every one of our books has a little "overrated" tag that we attach to experiences we don't feel come up to our standards. This article is not a compilation of ...

From SASCHA SEGAN, Frommers,  21 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Gwen Stefani,  John Hancock

How to Get the Best Seat on the Plane

You probably know the basic airplane seat hierarchy: First class, business class, exit row, proles. Coach-class airplane seating is so sad and grim that it's always best to try to game the system. That could mean upgrading with frequent flier miles, ...

From SASCHA SEGAN, Frommers,  10 May 2009
Related Topics: AirTran,  Boeing,  American Airlines,  Frontier Airlines,  JetBlue

Eat & Runways: The 13 Best U.S. Airport Restaurants

Most airport food is hideous. Often, the best you can get in a U.S. airport is a generic "brewhouse," where your mediocre burger comes with a large, watery beer. I travel pretty frequently, and I turn to Burger King all too often when I'm stalled ...

From SASCHA SEGAN, Frommers,  5 May 2009
Related Topics: Burger King,  Ronald Reagan,  Todd English

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