Posts from ‘August, 2008’

I hereby declare September to be Vegas Month at SoloFriendly.com! Why? Because I’m traveling solo to Vegas next week to enjoy a well-deserved 3.5 day, 4 night vacation, so when I return, I’m sure I’ll have all sorts of information, updates and goodies to report on. To kick things off, I thought [...]

Thought I’d share this brief article (“Orlando for Grownups”) from last week’s Time magazine showcasing how Orlando, Florida is becoming more of a city for adults. The author states,
“Some 54% of adults who visit the city now do so without children–66% if you include convention attendees, according to travel researcher D.K. Shifflet & Associates.”
Interesting [...]

The Champlain Valley Fair is in full swing in Essex, Vermont this week. You have until Labor Day to get over there and see the racing pigs, stuff yourself with fried dough, see who grew the biggest pumpkin this year and ride the rides until you puke. $5-10 admission.
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Ron Suskind [...]

Today’s New York Times spells out the fees for food and beverages on each airline here (“Hungry at 30,000 feet? Pay up”). It’s good to be able to compare who has the best free snacks, and who is inhumane enough to charge for water, so you can make an informed decision about who [...]

I just wanted to share this great piece by veteran flight attendant James Wysong, author of Flying High with A Frank Steward: More Air Travel Tales From the Flight Crew, who writes a column at MSNBC.com. (If you’re not regularly reading his stuff, I recommend it. He has terrific insider knowledge of how [...]

Last week, I had the pleasure of going to the 1/2 Lounge (so named because it is located at 136 1/2 Church Street) in Burlington for the first time. I met friends there, but would feel pretty comfortable being there by myself, too. The 1/2 Lounge is a dimly-lit, cozy little space that you [...]

It’s starting to sound like I’m completely obsessed with this, right? In today’s Las Vegas Review Journal, Doug Elfman writes about the closing of the Experience, and he really nails why people like me are obsessed with its closing and why we loved it so much to begin with (and it’s not just because [...]

This doesn’t have anything to do with solo travel, per se, just travel, but I wanted to share this lovely quote by Matt Damon from his interview in the most recent Conde Nast Traveler (“Matt Damon’s Good Work Hunting”):
Damon believes in the power of travel to transform people. He wishes that Americans were less insular, [...]

There’s a good article by Ellen Perlman in the 8/8/08 Dallas Morning News about fees charged to solo travelers. According to Perlman, the tide may be turning (though probably slower than we would like): “According to a report from Carnival UK, the trend for singles and one-parent families to go on a cruise [...]

Since solo travelers routinely take it on the chin when it comes to hotel and transportation costs (because we have no one to split the cost with) and are unable to utilize 2-for-1 deals, it pays to have some other strategies in your back pocket for saving money on travel. Here are 10 that [...]