Posts from ‘July, 2008’

There’s a great article at MSNBC today, “The best guided city walks” by Emilie Harting. Harting extolls the virtues of going on guided tours over listening to an iPod tour or reading a guide book to become acquainted with a city. Overall, I agree. Obviously, if your reason for traveling is to get away from [...]

Vegas comes to Vermont! The Colchester-Milton Rotary Club is hosting a charity casino night and Texas Hold’em Tournament on Friday, August 15, 2008, from 7-11pm at the Hampton Inn off Exit 16 in Colchester. There is a $100 entry fee for the Texas Hold’em game, with rebuys in the first hour only. The tournament offers [...]

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article (“Delta Launches Online Boarding Pass Ads“) featuring a new attempt by Delta Airlines to raise revenues via advertising that will appear on your online boarding passes for your target destination. So, for instance, if you’re flying to Vegas, the ads will be for Vegas restaurants, hotels, and attractions. [...]

The Vegas Internet community is all abuzz tonight with the news that a great discount code (SDM060, “The Ultimate Escape”) that had been shared all over the Internet–on normally trusted sites–was only intended for certain MGM player’s club members, and many, many unhappy travelers have received emails from the MGM Grand telling them, essentially, that [...]

I first heard about Yapta, an airfare tracking site, a couple of months ago and wanted to test it out myself before I recommended it. Suffice it to say, Yapta has won me over, completely. I had booked airfare for a trip to Vegas in September through Jetblue at a price that was a bit [...]