Dasparkhotel: It isn’t really a hotel. But it is in a park.
It's almost like being homeless All the charm and safety of a bomb shelter Our rooms are no longer full of crap We like to imagine that those were among the tag lines rejected by the Dasparkhotel, the accommodations in a suburb of Linz, Austria where guests spend the night in ...
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Go cruisin’ for discounts
It seems there are always cruise deals of some sort to be found. But with the industry trying to jumpstart travel as the world economy rebounds, there are some especially good cruise deals to be found right now. Here's our selection of a few sales on cruises to the ...
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Finally, an airline works to actually add amenities
These days most airlines are cutting back on the amenities they offer. If they still have amenities to cut back on, that is. Airlines already without frills are resorting to increasing extra fees in their quest to make your flying experience increasingly horrible—Ryanair is even considering charging for ...
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Comic book art and architecture at Belgium’s Musée Hergé
Brussels might be best known as the center of European Union bureaucracy and as the namesake for terrible tasting sprouts but it is also a Mecca for comic book lovers. Cartoons are arguably the Belgian national art form and world-renoun characters such as The Smurfs, Asterix, Blake and ...
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Would you like some vertigo with your soup?
It's a bird! It's a plane! it's . . . dinner? For an experience that brings cuisine to new heights check out Dinner In The Sky. The Belgium-based company will hoist you and 21 guests up in a dinning platform for a gourmet meal. The hoisting is done by ...
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The Hotel Marques de Riscal
There's a scene in The Simpsons in which a cartoon rendering of architect Frank Gehry casually tosses a piece of paper onto the ground, gives it a look and then says to himself "Frank, you genius! You did it again!" That joke is probably funnier seeing it than reading ...
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