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...that kind of freebie is one sign that these trips ain't cheap. Prices for the one- to two-week tours range from $2,289 to $6,529 per adult and $2,069 to $5,869 per child. That breaks down to $381 to $544 a day, including hotel, some meals, transportation, tours and activities, but not airfare. On average, Disney packages cost roughly 10% more than other similarly posh family tours. "I am a Disney fan, but I must say, I was shocked by their pricing," says travel-guidebook writer (and mother of two) Pauline Frommer. "They...
...Ritz Rocks "Silver-Spoon Voluntourism" - high-end hotels facilitating eco-friendly projects for guests - is genius [Nov. 16]. I think it is great that a hotel as regal as the Ritz-Carlton, a hotel I would not ordinarily associate with community service, is taking action. President Obama should be happy he doesn't have to do it alone anymore. Emily Larson Mansfield, Mass...
...Until recently, that change looked like it might never happen. Last summer, Iraq's government hosted an auction for eight large oil and gas fields at Baghdad's high-end Al-Rashid Hotel. There, oil executives from the U.S., Europe, Russia, China and South Korea paraded on stage and dropped their bids into a sealed box, in a ceremony broadcast live on Iraqi television. It was meant to be grand theater, but proved a p.r. failure for Baghdad. Just one bid succeeded: it was submitted by a partnership between Britain's BP and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) for production...
Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot...
...Shabaab are a hard-core al-Qaeda group, and they are really establishing a foothold and deepening their bases in Somalia," Nuruddin Dirie, a London-based Somalia analyst and former presidential candidate in its Puntland region, tells TIME. "We knew they would target the government officials, but a hotel setting, targeting the graduating students, it tells us quite a lot about how ruthless, how uncaring this enemy is." (Read how Somalia's fishermen became pirates...