Torchlight parades and fireworks are de rigueur for New Year’s Eve at ski resorts in the U.S. and Canada. They are fun to watch, but it’s even more fun to be part of the show – i.e. be a participant in a torchlight parade! Not all ski areas let the general public join in the trip down an unlit hill at night, but if they do, sign up now!
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Skiing (and snowboarding to some extent) are going intergenerational. In a world where parents have neither the time nor money to take their kids skiing, grandparents are clicking into their skis and taking their grandkids to the slopes. Grandparents with both time and money, for the most part, can have a wonderful experience of teaching, eating, talking and playing with their grandkids and vice versa.
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Jay Leno invites Jim Norton to talk about his love of airlines, airports and traveling. Heck, contributors to Consumer Traveler could have written this shtick months or even years ago. This performance is followed by two hilarious Vegas commercials featuring Chincilli Day.
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A recent story that floated across my screen offering me four more days every year. Since I can always use a bit more time, I was intrigued. I never knew my GPS system was so useful. I know that I lose plenty of time sitting in traffic, but I never knew I could recoup it. Well, kinda.
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Here is an example of bad, very bad customer service at the Hertz car-rental counter. The entire sequence was caught on video tape. Next, comes an old-time travel reel about Chicago filmed back in 1948. It is fun to take a look at how Chicago was portrayed. Finally, our own Christopher Elliott has been quietly making videos in his closed studio. Here is one on using suggestion forms.
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An announcement came across my computer screen noting the important things that American Airlines is doing with this much needed influx of cash that we all thought was necessary just to keep the airline afloat. They are sponsoring sports teams – yes, those cash-strapped teams that actually pay their players more than the airline executives get.
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Heathrow Terminal T-2A is on the architects planning boards with drawings and renderings done and plans for an opening in 2013 if all goes right. The new building will a bit smaller than the ill-fated Terminal T-5, measuring about 100 feet less on one side and 75 feet longer on the other. The architectural highpoint will be its rippling roof.
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When working at her bookstore, White Birch Books, in North Conway, N.H., which is in the middle of the White Mountains, my daughter Laura gets all kinds of questions from tourists, but this one takes the cake.
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American Airlines’ public relations firm is up for a prestigious award — “the most innovative and successful public relations campaigns of the past year.” What was the crisis? Raising the baggage fees?
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