Las Vegas New Year’s fireworks back to rooftops
November 16, 2009 ·
New Year’s Eve fireworks will return to the rooftops of Las Vegas Strip hotels to ring in 2010 after ground-level displays disappointed revelers last year, event and county officials said. “We’re moving the fireworks show back to where it should be,” said Pat Christenson, president of the event promoter, Las Vegas Events. Christenson said the [...]
Tree-lightings, from Rock Center to The Grove
November 16, 2009 ·
This season’s Christmas tree displays include trees made from feathers at a historic home in Indianapolis, a thank-you tree in Boston sent from Nova Scotia, and the Obamas’ first National Christmas Tree ceremony in Washington. The National Christmas Tree is scheduled to be lit on Dec. 3. Details of this year’s ceremony have not been [...]
Wi-Fi for travelers becomes web marketing lure
November 10, 2009 ·
Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places. Google Inc. announced Tuesday that it would provide free Wi-Fi access in 47 airports across the country, including Boston, Houston and Seattle, through Jan. [...]
Holiday airfares close to last year but climbing
November 9, 2009 ·
If holiday travelers on the same plane compare what they paid to fly, they’re likely to find quite a spread, depending on when they bought their tickets. Fares for travel around the holidays have been rising since late summer. Christmas fares are now running 4 percent below a year ago, and the gap is likely [...]
Escape your family for the holidays
November 9, 2009 ·
When Lulis Leal’s family gets together for Christmas, she is usually sunning herself on a beach surrounded by palm trees and turquoise waters, with not one extended relative in sight. For more than 10 years, Leal has been spending the holiday season in exotic locales like the Bahamas or Hawaii — anywhere warm, the Cedar [...]
Airlines ratchet up holiday surcharges
November 3, 2009 ·
If you plan to travel around the upcoming holidays, prepare to pay a little more — again. Most of the largest U.S. airlines have increased a surcharge for travel on the busiest travel days to $20 each way, up from $10. The surcharges apply to a large number of flights within the U.S. on more [...]
Thanksgiving travel options by the numbers
October 21, 2009 ·
Holiday surcharges. Bag fees. Fees for just about everything. Long airport security lines. Flying might not be your cheapest, quickest or most comfortable option to travel to grandma’s house this Thanksgiving. Consider taking the bus or Amtrak, driving or even renting a recreational vehicle for a family adventure. At an average $2.57 a gallon this [...]
