Travel Tonic

Bringing you what’s new in travel for June 28th 2011 through June 29th 2011:

• Poll: Which airplane boarding style do you prefer? – Brad Tuttle recently posted this on This Just In…Newsweek’s Travel Blog:A new boarding process introduced by American Airlines has been called “complete chaos” by flight attendants.
• The new King Memorial is ready for its close-up – Sean O’Neill recently posted this on This Just In…Newsweek’s Travel Blog:More than 400,000 visitors may descend on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall in late August to witness the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. What do travelers need to know to plan a visit?
• How to Use Facebook to Plan Your Vacation – posted this over on Frommer’s : Move beyond your inner circle and use Facebook to find travel deals and get travel advice.
  
• Daily App Deals: Get AudioCapture for Mac Free, Previously $2.99 – Lifehacker’s Rachel Atwood just posted this article:
  

  
  
  

  New to Lifehacker, Daily App Deals is a not-quite-quotidian compendium of noteworthy app price drops and discounts. More »
  
  
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• Orbitz: Discounted Europe Packages – Smarter Travelhas posted some info about ["dublin","vacation packages","amsterdam","paris","europe"]: Orbitz has discounted vacation packages to several popular Europe destinations, including Paris, Dublin, and Amsterdam.Head over to www.smartertravel.com to read the whole article.
• Where in the world will your interests take you? – Rachel Mosely recently posted this on This Just In…Newsweek’s Travel Blog:
  

  Maps of the Stars (AnnieGreenSprings/Flickr)

  CNN recently spoke to travel writer Tony Perrottet, who journeyed across Europe in search of sites so salacious, they’ve become the stuff of legends. Among them, the Venetian home that once belonged to Giancomo Casanova, and the Stufetta del Bibbiena, a very closely guarded washroom in the Vatican’s papal quarters decorated with some decidedly secular imagery by Raphael himself.

• What matters most in a hotel? – Sean O’Neill recently posted this on This Just In…Newsweek’s Travel Blog:
  

  A suite at the Holiday Inn (Courtesy princessAngela/myBudgetTravel)
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  A national survey conducted on behalf of the insurance company Chubb finds that 44 percent of travelers consider cleanliness their biggest worry in picking a hotel. Other factors mattered relatively little: 23 percent said price was most important, and 19 percent ranked location as the top worry, according to the phone survey of 1,000 Americans in June reported recently in the LA Times.

  The problem with the survey is that it includes nontravelers as well as travelers. Only about 50 million Americans hold passports, but anyone could have been invited to give opinions in the survey.