Airfare, hotel rooms, cruise tickets, rental cars and all-inclusive vacations at a discount
October is an odd time for travel booking. It is low season for cruises (check out our review of luxury cruise lines currently offering discounts) and for Europe and for Southeast Asia. The northern hemisphere ski season hasn't started yet and the Caribbean is at the tail end ...
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Germany’s funky Baumhaus Hotel has an un-Germanic sense of humor
Ever since we published our selection of places that resemble a Dr. Seuss illustration we've regretted leaving certain hotels off our list. Like this one: the funky, arboreal Baumhaus Hotel in Neißeaue, Germany.
Baumhaus is a sort of woodsy-themed adventure park with eight different treehouses that can be rented ...
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High value comes to high luxury sailings
Close your eyes and picture this: You’re on the Christina O(nassis) with Jackie-O and Ari sailing the Greek Isles. Oh Jackie-O this is marvelous. So cool. Cocktail hour and then a fabulous dinner of the freshest daily catch followed by great conversation. Ari did what! And laughter. Next ...
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Suite sanctuary at the Arun Residence
Our favorite room in Bangkok is not the most luxurious . . . or the best value . . . or the most traditional . . . or the most chic. But give us a $150 budget and ask where in the Thai capital we'd want to stay ...
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The Bose QuietComfort 15 compared
In a previous review we put to the test two of the most popular high-end noise reducing headphones—the Sennheiser PXC 450 and the Bose QuietComfort 3. Our verdict: the PXC 450 was the better.
Since that review Bose introduced a new member of its noise reducing headphone lineup: The ...
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Europe’s one-table restaurants
To reserve an entire restaurant for you and your date you have to be exceedingly wealthy. That, or find an exceedingly small restaurant.
Here are three restaurants that consist entirely of one table. Each is in Europe. And each claims to be the world's smallest restaurant. Which one deserves ...
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