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Offsite Booking. While airlines continue to add fees, travel websites seem to be dropping them, at least temporarily. Last week Expedia dropped its booking fee for all domestic and international flights through May 3. Now Travelocity has dropped its $7 booking fee too. Let your fingers do the tapping...
Ship Ahoy. Expedia is offering a sale on cruiselines, like Norwegian, Royal Caribbean and Disney. Sail to Mexico on a four-night cruise from from San Diego or L.A. for just $189 per person, or to Alaska for 12 nights for $799 per person. Book by Feb. 27 for travel before March...
...World for Cheap. Expedia is having a winter sale, with hotel discounts of up to 50% off at properties around the world. A four-day trip to Cancun, including airfare and a room at the Gran Melia Resort, starts at just $666 per person. Airfare plus four nights at the W Hotel in New York City starts at $544 per person. Expedia has separate Web pages for people who prefer urban travel and those who like a sunny beach. Book before Feb. 11, 2009. (See 10 things to do in New York City...
...limited, for example, they top the list of tourists credited with trying to speak local languages the most, with the French, Chinese, Japanese, Italians and Russians coming in last in the local-language rankings. Does this mean Americans are the most polyglot tourists on the planet? Maybe not, says Expedia's marketing director for Europe, Timothée de Roux, who says the poll's focus on hotel operators may explain the counterintuitive outcome. (See 10 things to do in Beijing...
There is a new service from Expedia, Travelocity and other travel websites: environmental expiation. If you wish, when you buy a plane ticket, they will figure out how much carbon your trip will be adding to the atmosphere and charge you for it. (For Boston to Los Angeles, about 3,000 miles, it comes to around $9.) The money goes to nonprofit groups that either plant trees to absorb the carbon or produce an equal amount of energy in an eco-friendly way (using windmills and such). You are still increasing the carbon in the air, but someone else, thanks...