Enter to Win 7 Days of Airport Parking
Comments (and therefore contest entry) are now closed. I will contact the winner shortly. Maybe it’s you! Travel-Babel has been around since October 2006, but this is the first a random drawing I’ve held. The winner receives a voucher for good for seven days of free outdoor parking at The Parking Spot (that’s the one at Denver International Airport), FastTrack [...]
Small Economies Add Up When Traveling
Big travel savings + small economies = biggest savings Travelers today often spend precious hours searching online for the very cheapest air fares and best-priced accommodations. I do it myself. I’ve dragged myself and my bags on public transportation to and from airports rather than taking expensive taxis. I’ve stayed in crummy motels to save a few bucks, especially [...]
10 Airports Where You’re Likely to Arrive Late
Eight of the 10 are in the Northeast including three in/around New York There’s an awful lot to like about the greater Denver area, and one of them is the (relative) ease of air travel. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics recently listed the 10 worst airports in the US for on-time arrivals in 2011, and I don’t imagine [...]
Travel Providers’ Lousy Contracts
Chris Elliott examines contracts travel industry forces upon customers For a service industry, travel providers are often more about being self-serving than actually serving, let alone catering, to the traveling public. Author, travel advocate and journalist Christopher Elliott tackles yet another topic on behalf of aggrieved travelers. In “Who Has the Worst Contract in Travel?”, [...]
Pamphleteering Pilots at Nine Airports Today
Disgruntled United pilots take complaints to flying public If you are passing through any of nine US airports today (Chicago O’Hare, Denver International Airport, Washington Dulles, Los Angeles International, Lexington Blue Grass Airport, NYC LaGuardia, Greater Rochester Airport, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and San Francisco International Airport), you’ll probably see United Airlines pilots in full uniform [...]
Cinco de Mayo Celebrated More in the US Than in Mexico
Event celebrates a battle, not Mexico’s independence As my friend Jimm Budd, a gringo residing in Mexico City and publisher of Mexicogram, reminds us year after year: “Saturday is May 5, Cinco de Mayo, when, it seems, everyone abroad remembers Mexico. Best way to remember Mexico is by sipping a margarita, and there are as many [...]
New Luxury Camp Near Yellowstone
Yellowstone Under Canvas is a new luxury camp near West Yellowstone, Montana with its premiere season from May 14 to September 13. It is part of an international movement called “glamping,” which refers to luxury camping — a contraction of “glamour” and “camping.”
Bucket List Blog
My friend Karen Berger has launched a new travel blog, cleverly named BucketTripper, essentially an anthology of interesting experiences in interesting places around the globe that might be on your bucket list. I’ve been to a number of these places — and others certainly are list of places to see, to visit, to experience. The [...]
Modest Building is Israel’s Independence Hall
The country is 64 years old, an ths low-key Tel Aviv landmark might be due for a makeover Israel’s Independence Hall is a former private residence where members of the National Council, representatives of the Jewish settlements and the Zionist movement, met in quasi-secret on May 14, 1948, to sign the Scroll of Independence and [...]
Chihuly Glass Dazzles in Golden
Private collection of pre-eminent artglass maker’s works at Foothills Art Center Two of the Denver Art Museum’s current visiting exhibitions (“Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective” and “Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection”) and the impending opening of the new History Colorado Center have been getting a great deal of local buzz, but that shouldn’t [...]
