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Free-night offer by Country Inns & Suites
September 22, 2009 5:55am
Everyone’s serving up free nights these days. Expedia is doing it with a recently announced promotion. And Choice Hotels —with Comfort Inn and Econo Lodge a couple of the names under its banner — has offered, after a three-night stay, points applicable for a future one-night stay.
Now, the mid-range Country Inns & Suites by Carlson has joined the trend with a deal of its own, available at its hotels in the U.S. and Canada.
Deal: Through the “Free Night Fall” promotion, stay two or more nights at a participating hotel this fall and you’ll receive a voucher for a future free night that can be applied to a visit of two or more nights this winter. You can redeem the voucher at any participating hotel, regardless of where you stayed initially.
After your stay in October or November (see valid dates below), you’ll need to register online to receive your free-night voucher in the mail. Read the rest of this entry »
United makes nice, but guitarist’s YouTube songs will go on
July 8, 2009 7:00pm
Dave Carroll, the songwriter whose bouncy tale of damaged six-string baggage has been lighting up YouTube and tweaking United Airlines for the last two days, is declaring victory. And astonishment.
He doesn’t want any money from United, the 41-year-old Nova Scotia singer-songwriter says, even though he wound up paying $1,200 to repair damages suffered by his guitar on a spring 2008 series of flights from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Omaha, Neb. And he’s still trying to fathom the web-media explosion that brought his case to the world’s attention.
“Any day you’re on Wolf Blitzer’s screen in ‘The Situation Room,’ it’s a big day,” said Carroll late Wednesday, winding down after a medley of interviews.
Spooky seafaring with Mark Nesbitt on fall ‘ghost-hunting’ cruise
June 12, 2009 1:14pm
We’ve heard about vampires slated to hit the high seas, so news of this ghost-hunting cruise didn’t surprise us. This fall, on Royal Caribbean’s Jewel of the Seas, Mark Nesbitt — historian, former park ranger, tour guide and author of the “Ghosts of Gettysburg” series — will headline a themed cruise meant to send chills up your spine.
The five-night New England/Canada cruise, Oct. 17 to 22, arrives and departs from Boston. Ports along the journey include Portland and Bar Harbor, Maine, and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
On board, Nesbitt will tell scary stories, but it sounds like the frightful fun begins in earnest off the ship. In Portland and Bar Harbor, participants can opt to join “spooky” tours, and a “ghost walk” is scheduled for Halifax. Other add-ons include an overnight stay at the allegedly haunted Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, and led by Nesbitt, a tour of Boston, with due mentions, of course, of Lizzie Borden and the Boston Strangler. Read the rest of this entry »
Stay twice at a Choice hotel and earn a free night in U.S., Canada and Mexico
March 26, 2009 1:05pm
Here’s a deal perfect for spring road-trippers. Join the Choice Privileges rewards program (free) and stay at a Choice hotel two separate times by April 30th and earn enough points for a free night stay good at up to 1,500 Choice hotels within the U.S., Canada, Mexico and more.
New to Choice? It includes 5,700 hotels from 10 mid-priced lodging chains including Cambria Suites, Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Sleep Inn, Clarion, MainStay Suites, Suburban Extended Stay Hotel, Econo Lodge, and Rodeway Inn hotels. Free breakfast and free high-speed Internet are offered at many of the hotels.
Give peace a chance at John and Yoko’s bed-in venue in Montreal
February 24, 2009 10:12am
If you want to make history John and Yoko style, you can fly to Montreal and rent the hotel suite where the couple held their bed-in 40 years ago to protest the Vietnam War.
The room is No. 1742 at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel and goes for $599 per night (available from March 1 through June 21).
Five bonus photos of Your Scene in Travel 2008
December 26, 2008 2:00pm
Snow daze (above): A polar bear samples the snow in Manitoba, Canada, in November. Joe Kras of Glendale used a Nikon D300 (200-400 F4VRG lens) to save the moment.
This polar bear is a keeper– as are many of the photos that readers of the L.A. Times Travel section submitted this year to our regular feature Your Scene.
Here’s a celebration of our readers’ best work–and the ultimate souvenir: Your Scene in Travel: Our favorite reader photo submissions of 2008.
And here are five bonus submissions that we picked to feature in our last Travel section of 2008.
12 books of Christmas: ‘Odysseys and Photographs’
December 23, 2008 6:00am
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I am completely in love … with Albert Schweitzer.
How could you not be after looking at his photograph in “Odyssey and Photographs: Four National Geographic Field Men — Maynard Owen Williams, Volkmar Wentzel, Luis Marden, Thomas Abercrombie (National Geographic, $40)?
If you look at the picture that Wentzel shot of Schweitzer, the medical missionary in Africa, you see what Wentzel meant about the doctor’s “reverence for life” as two kittens make themselves at home on his cluttered desk.
12 books of Christmas: ‘Distinguished Inns’
December 18, 2008 6:00pm
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There is, always, the place that sticks in your mind, that charming little inn that felt almost like home, but with nicer people and better linens.
I love browsing books like “Distinguished Inns of North America (Panache Partners, $34.95) not just because I sometimes aspire to be the kind of traveler who can stay at the Ashby Inn in Paris, Va., but because these lodgings sometimes lead us to places we might otherwise never go.
The 12 books of Christmas: ‘Great Caves’
December 17, 2008 6:30pm
Caves always strike me as a little creepy, the result, perhaps, of one too many horror movies where the dripping water, the bats and the bad guys all seem to converge in one dank underground spot.
But Tony Waltham’s “Great Caves of the World” (Firefly Books, $29.95) brings them into the light, so to speak.
The 12 books of Christmas: ‘Sacred Places’
December 16, 2008 12:10pm
If you want something a bit more in tune with the vibe of the season, think “Sacred Places of a Lifetime” (National Geographic, $40).
Its subtitle, “500 of the World’s Most Peaceful and Powerful Destinations,” tells you it’s a big ride, but its really the organizing principle that is fascinating.
