Located in Orlando’s International Drive tourist district, the Best Western Orlando Gateway Hotel is at the heart of everything that Orlando, Florida has to offer. The Best Western Orlando Gateway is a family-friendly AAA 3-diamond hotel that offers free scheduled shuttle transportation to Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, Universal City Walk, SeaWorld and...
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The country is pushing to get travelers to experience the island beyond its beaches. From the Wall Street Journal : From the tourism minister on down, Jamaican officialdom has embraced a plan to market the nation’s Jewish history as a way of wooing a new segment of travelers. Tourism officials admit that Jamaica’s...
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Here’s a quiz. How can you visit some of the best royal palaces in Europe with no crowds? What about some of the best art collections
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Irvina Lew first visited Barcelona, Spain, during the 1992 Summer Olympics, and returned on another sporting mission: the announcement of an international sailing race between New York and Spain. In between interviewing skippers, she explored the city’s art, culture and hotel scene. I’m in Barcelona, a chic, cosmopolitan port city that I first...
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The short life of SS Normandie, one of the grandest ocean liners ever built, is receiving tribute at the South Street Seaport Museum , as many of its salvaged art deco interiors are on display through January. “It was the most flawless of the ocean liners,” curator and cruise ship historian Bill Miller...
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In her next Olympic blog, Theresa Corigliano encounters the oddities of a heavily secured host city, and discovers a new kind of currency that only comes out at the Games. It’s not just me.
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When tourists come to New York City for the first time, they want to see everything—the Empire State building, Times Square, Brooklyn Bridge, the World Trade Center site, Wall Street, and the Statue of Liberty. Thankfully, most of these landmarks are free to look at, but one stands out as being an especially...
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Antigua's New Relaxation Machine Wall Street Journal ... reachable only by private ferry, Jumby Bay also feels far removed from the bustle of Antigua , which has been troubled by crime in the last few years.
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This is a guest post from Kaare Revill who has traveled extensively with her three kids: ages 6, 4, and 2. She was kind enough to share her best recommendations for a family visit to Estonia - a family-friendly European destination that most Americans don't know much about.
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When Puerto Vallarta was “discovered” in the 1960s by film director John Houston and used as a location for a Richard Burton-Elizabeth Taylor movie, it was a remote, almost inaccessible Mexican fishing village with a palm-lined beach, surrounded by rocky cliffs and wild jungle mountain. There was a dirt airstrip and only one...
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