Travel News for February 3rd 2010 through February 4th 2010
Bringing you what’s new in travel for February 3rd 2010 through February 4th 2010:
- New site PackLate lets you rent a place after all – Sean O’Neill recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek’s Travel Blog:Have you ever been tempted to take advantage of the vacation-rental clearance—booking a beach home or mountain condo mere weeks before check-in?
- Google Map Buddy Generates High Resolution, Full Size Area Maps – Lifehacker’s Kevin Purdy just posted this article:
Want a wall-sized satellite view of your neighborhood? A full-page street map of the town you’re visiting? Google Map Buddy, a free, portable map maker, grabs data from Google Maps and arranges it exactly how you want it. …Read the rest at Lifehacker
- Allerglobal Generates Allergy Travel Cards in Multiple Languages – Lifehacker’s Jason Fitzpatrick just posted this article:
Having food allergies can be a big enough hassle in your native country, let alone when traveling where you don’t speak the language very well. Allerglobal helps you make language-specific food allergy cards to communicate in restaurants. …Read the rest at Lifehacker
- Have a (scientifically) happier vacation – Sean O’Neill recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek’s Travel Blog:
(Courtesy pasotraspaso/Flickr) - Couches in Coach: What Air New Zealand’s Gamble Means for You – Smarter Travel has posted some info about coach class: The coach-class upgrade could signal big changes industry-wide. Plus, updates on oversize passenger charges and why to avoid JFK this summer.Head over to www.smartertravel.com to read the whole article.
- Family travel: “Stop telling us to pack light!” – Sean O’Neill recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek’s Travel Blog:An interesting discussion broke out in the comments on our recent post about whether shipping your bags to your destination is smart.
- San Francisco: Night at the museum – Justine Sharrock recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek’s Travel Blog:
The California Academy of Sciences (Courtesy Cheryl Lemanski/myBudgetTravel) - 17 great destinations for chocolate lovers – RobinD_travel recently posted this over on the Bing Travel Blog:Thank goodness for the equator. Its humid climate, regular rainfall and good soil are the perfect recipe for growing theobroma cacao, also known as the cacao tree. Its fruit is the precursor to Toblerone bars, Baci chocolate kisses, Lindt truffles, Hershey’s chocolate bars, Cadbury Crème eggs, Fran’s salted caramels, Ghirardelli squares and all other manifestations of chocolate goodness that are found in abundance this Valentine’s month.
