This weekend we read about a company created to get around carry-on baggage fees, capsule hotels in Hong Kong and a new ruling that will shift power back to pilots concerned with safety of their aircraft.
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This weekend we examine how to get the most out of all-you-can-eat salad bars from how to make sure you get what you want to piling the most for your money onto your plate. (Watch out! These techniques have been banned by Pizza Hut in China.) Next we take a look at strange items that travelers leave behind in hotel rooms. Finally, TSA reports that this year’s haul of spare change left behind at security checkpoints topped $400,000.
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US Airways opposes Philadelphia airport expansion, Las Vegas resort fee guide, hotel companies launch reservation site
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Las Vegas monorail offers locals discount rides, New Year’s resolutions for hotels, Honeywell software helps pilots land
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This Christmas eve we take a look at cuddly TSA bomb-sniffing puppies, a cute town in southern Spain that voted to have itself painted blue and then decided to stay that way and finally a look at the remarkable hotel prices in Indianapolis for the Superbowl.
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After being on the road nonstop since finishing my book Scammed: How to Save Money and Find Better Service in a World of Schemes, Swindles, and Shady Deals, back in June, I can tell you that good customer service isn’t a big deal — it’s a lot of small ones.
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787 takes flight for first commercial passengers, tips on how to sleep in the air, NYC will get 120 new hotels but do they need them?
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Chip & pin credit card problems, travel outlook strong for rest of 2011, fly between two cities in two hours through space
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Walton needed to cancel her reservation a day before her arrival. “An agent told me they would charge a $100 fee – the price of one night,” she says. “So even if they are able to rebook the room I will not get a refund.”
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Providing a clean comfortable bed is fundamental for hotels, but Ned Levi doesn’t think that’s enough in the 21st century. Ned discusses his own hotel needs and peeves, plus those of travelers he knows, and of readers who have written him.
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