Travel> Practical Traveler on the NYTimes.com
$855 a Night? Can We Talk?
Reports claim that hotel rates are dropping but I cannot find anything cheaper than usual on any of the top travel sites!
WHAT’S the best way to book a hotel? That’s becoming trickier as hotels try everything they can to drum up business in one of their most challenging years.
Average daily hotel rates in the United States are expected to drop 9.7 percent for the year, to $96.43, according to Smith Travel Research, which tracks the industry. That would be the steepest year-over-year decrease since Smith began tracking hotel data ...
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... $855 a Night? Can We Talk?; By MICHELLE HIGGINS
Travel> Celebrity Travel on the Telegraph.co.uk
100 celebrity holiday favourites
Take this trip around the world touching well know and unusual locations.
Where do the stars go when they need to kick back and relax? Which restaurants, shops, resorts and hotels do they rate above all others? 100 of Britain’s best-known celebrities tell all.
Claudia Schiffer
“One of two designer boutiques called Fred Segal in West Hollywood and Santa Monica. My favourite hotel is ...
Full Story: 100 celebrity holiday favourites
Travel> International> Caribbean on the WashingtonPost.com
Face to face with Jamaica
It's called the "Jamaica Tourist Board's Meet the People program" and has about 300 ambassadors who volunteer in order to meet new people and see the real Jamaica.
Enough with the gated resorts. It was time to break out and meet the locals.
Kathi Cooke unhinged the gate to her house in Montego Bay and opened her arms. I strode into her embrace and then into her home. As the evening darkened, we gabbed away on her silky red couch, about gardening, dogs, community service, baking, work life and ...
Full Story: Face to face with Jamaica; By Andrea Sachs
Destinations> Europe> Uncommon Lodging on BudgetTravel.com
Transylvania's Revamped Guesthouses
Here's a list of nicely preserved fortified towns, carefully restored cottages, former royal stables, private parkland and Dracula-themed tours.
In the last decade, some Romanian families have reclaimed ancestral estates and opened guesthouses in mountainous Transylvania—the infamous stomping grounds of Count Dracula and his real-life inspiration, Vlad the Impaler.
Full Story: Transylvania's Revamped Guesthouses; By Emily Haile
Easy Recipes
Yummy and Easy Rolls
AS finger food, sushi rolls have a lot going for them. They’re easy to eat neatly, even while standing with a glass of wine in one hand. ...
Yummy and Easy Rolls
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