Snow fell briefly this morning outside my office window here in the Rocky Mountains, turning thoughts of golf to skiing or snowboarding and the mind-numbing process of deciding what lift ticket products to buy: season passes, multi-day passes, multi-mountain passes, buddy passes, and on and on and on. Crested Butte Mountain Resort soothes such brain…
Can you fall in love with a small, harshly-lit store in a strip mall along one of Denver’s busiest major streets? If the store is City Wine, it’s love at first sight that deepens with time, going beyond appearances to the friendly, helpful, entertaining personality within. City Wine’s owners are knowledgeable and passionate about wine,…
We all dream of staying in five-star hotels, but we can’t always afford it. So for those who want the very best with your next Priceline.com hotel bid for the very least, you must read the bulletin board site known as Bidding For Travel. Here, bidders communicate with each other about recent bids, sharing inside…
Our Spring/Summer their Fall/Winter are great times to go Down Under. Qantas will be offering non-stop and non-entertainment service — with personal TV screen on each seat — beginning 3/29/06 from SFO on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, as well as daily from LAX to Sydney, Australia. Just buy your ticket by 2/3/06 for travel from…
Just saw this great deal from Costco Travel: A six-night Mexican vacation from $399 per person* — with a savings of $327 per person. It’s at the new Villa Del Palmar Flamingos Beach Resort & Spa in the exclusive Vallarta Nayarit region. This vacation includes: • Round-trip transfers from airport to hotel; • Six nights…
You gotta love Jet Blue with its leather seats, your own TV/DVD system and other amenities for peanuts. Now, Jet Blue just announced its Winter Clearance Sale. Fares start at $39 one-way from Long Beach to Las Vegas, $40 from Boston to JFK, $69 from Boston to Florida (Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, W. Palm Beach, Ft….
The good news: If you’re fed up with so-called fare alerts or low fare search engines that never find you the fare or flight times you want, I’ve just heard about TripStalker. This free travel booking software runs in the background on your computer, so it constantly queries and stalks various Internet travel sites for…
Though the weather outside here in California is in the 80s, Mount Tremblant Resort in Quebec’s Laurentian mountains, 90 miles from Montreal, is now advertising its Ski & Stay Packages with savings of 30% on skiing and lodgings if you book by October 31. This was voted the #1 ski resort in Eastern North America…
On Expedia.com, the air space between Hawaii and the West Coast is on sale for two days with fares from $283 roundtrip on Hawaiian Airlines, ending at 10pm PDT October 14. So you have less than 8 hours to book and save on a flight to Honolulu from these Western US cities: LA, Sacramento, San…