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I Was Going To Complain About My Free 5-Star Hotel — Then I Found Out It's Only $400 A Night
So no worries!
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Dubai’s Luxury Underwater Hotel
Dubai’s fascination with overblown architecture has moved below sea level thanks to the announcement of The Water Discus — billed as the world’s largest underwater hotel.
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Lishadi Market Vendor
Pu Dengyi offers a modest assortment of birds, squirrels, and other rodents caught near his mountain-village home at the weekly Lishadi market in China's Nu River Valley.
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Fendi to finance Trevi Fountain makeover
Fendi is the latest Italian luxury fashion house to come to the rescue of a deteriorating tourist attraction in Rome.
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Why Do Air Traffic Control Towers Have Slanted Windows?
Many people assume that they are designed that way to prevent the sun's reflection or glare from blinding incoming pilots. But this explanation doesn't fly.
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Memorable moments in Grand Central's 100 years
Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, which turns 100 this month, is a glorious exception.
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The Shard, EU's tallest building, opens to the public
The Shard -- eyesore to some, marvel to others -- on Friday opened to the public, most of whom will head straight to the 72nd floor, 244 meters above ground level.
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6 Myths About Travel Spending That Cost You Money
Plenty of so-called conventional wisdom isn't really wisdom, especially when it comes to travel spending. The myth: Book your plane ticket as far ahead as possible. The reality: The conventional wisdom that the early bird gets the worm was debunked last year when Airlines Reporting Corp.
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Flight to Caribbean diverted due to smoking family
A Sunwing flight from Halifax bound for the Dominican Republic was diverted to Bermuda and made an emergency landing as a result of several unruly passengers Friday night.
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Canada's Magical Ice Hotel
Canada's Hôtel de Glace, the unique ice hotel, is back this season for its 13th annual reconstruction.
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Super Bowl contest winner denied entry to U.S.
A Vancouver Island man who won an all-expense-paid trip to the Super Bowl in New Orleans has been refused entry into the U.S. because of a marijuana possession conviction 32 years ago.
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North Korea's ghostly 'hotel of doom' could open in 2013
The North Koreans started erecting the 330-meter Ryugyong Hotel, the tallest hotel at the time, in 1987.
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Exile the Obama way
Through utilisation of the federal No-Fly list, authorities are increasingly subjecting individuals to de facto exile.
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Stunning Underground Art In Stockholm’s Metro Station
Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, offers you some of the most exciting metro rides in Europe or what they call “world’s longest art exhibition”. Most of the city’s metro stations host some beautiful underground artwork, which makes every stop very unique and different.
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Swallow's Nest castle
The neo-Gothic Swallow's Nest castle perches 130 feet above the Black Sea near Yalta in southern Ukraine. Built by a German noble in 1912, the flamboyant seaside residence is now a popular tourist destination.
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Rape case in Mexican resort city puts violence back in the spotlight
The allegations grabbed headlines across Mexico and around the globe: Hooded gunmen stormed into a beach bungalow and attacked a group of Spanish tourists, authorities said, raping six women and tying up a group of men with cell phone cables and bikini straps.
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Hilton hotel to pay compensation to guest whose holiday was ruined by BED BUGS
A luxury hotel group has been forced to compensate a guest whose holiday was ruined by bed bugs which left him covered in bites and blood.
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Carnival Cruise Ship Stranded Near Mexico
A Carnival cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 passengers and crew is stranded in the Gulf of Mexico after an engine room fire broke out this morning, representatives for the cruise line said.
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How to Travel Like a Billionaire: All That Money Can Buy
There’s a growing set of the super-rich who are pushing the boundaries of luxury to its limits. Lauren Lipton reports on how—and where—the top 0.01 percent travel, and sees for herself what it’s like to vacation like a billionaire.
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US Airways Charges $75 To Change My Ticket To Incorrect Flight, Won’t Talk To Me About It
Consumerist reader Ryan would really like to talk to someone at US Airways about a mix-up at the ticket counter that cost him $75 and delayed his travel time by a few hours, but getting an airline rep on the phone has been a trial.
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