World Travel Guide

An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.I’ve written before about our experience with Priceline…here’s a quick refresher on our takeaways from that search for a Las Vegas hotel room for a business trip…. Hotel rooms and other purchases from travel auction sites are generally nonrefundable. Be prepared

Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.Welcome to the September 22, 2010 edition of the Carnival of Cities blog carnival, where we tour the world in a single blog post. Thanks very much to the host for the previous edition, Let’s Do Something Different, and we look forward to the next host, Netherlands-based Guido

Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.(This is a guest post by tourism expert, Mom and all-around great gal Sarah Page. Part One of  her kids in Colorado series is here.) Estes Park/Rocky Mountain National Park If you love the mountains, then Rocky Mountain National Park is the place for you.  I’ve traveled a fair

Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Most people will forget about it until the week before, but Columbus Day 2010 (October 11) is often a school holiday in the US and a great opportunity for a fun fall 3-day weekend getaway. Draw a map around your town with about a two-hour driving radius (flying with kids is usually

Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Way back in 2006, I wrote a post on this blog entitled “Why the bleep would I want to go there?”
In it, I wrote about taking the kids to visit places that seem crummy, but really aren’t, and how you can’t have an opinion about seemingly crummy places unless

Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.
Welcome to the July 28, 2010 edition of the Carnival of Cities, where we tour the world in a single blog post.
Hope you enjoyed the previous Carnival edition on my tourism and social media blog, Sheila’s Guide to the Good Stuff, and the next one will be held August 11 on the

An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.It only happens every other August.
It’s happening in August 2010.
It fills the center of the magnificent Grand Place with the most gorgeous, colorful carpet of painstakingly arranged real flowers.
You can read more about it on the Brussels flower carpet website.
There are fun

Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.Although significant travel events have been a bit scarce around here lately, mine is a road-tripping family at heart.
Whenever it’s time to plan one, there are a few guidebooks that I turn to again and again, because they are well-edited, accurate and it’s easier to skim

Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.Most bloggers like to keep up with their blog’s statistics and analytics, to see how we’re doing over time with our readers.
I’m no exception, and I thought you might be interested in some of the data from the last six months about popular items on this blog.
The

Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.In my tourism training hat, people often ask me about the utility of location-based services like Gowalla and Foursquare.
Here’s an example of why they’re so handy….
I was speaking in Houston at the TFEA (Texas Festivals and Events Association) annual conference,