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New at Westin Hotels: Communal Sports Bras

...along with sneakers and shirts you can borrow to work out in

(Newser) - With precious little room in their carry-ons, many travelers are willing to leave their sneakers at home and skip their workouts while traveling—but are they also willing to wear communal sneakers and sports bras? The Westin thinks so, and it's launched a free "gear-lending" program that does just...

12 Lost Treasures You Can Search For

In the mood for an adventure? Here are a dozen places to begin your search

(Newser) - There are still some places in the world where X marks the spot. The Huffington Post lists a dozen locations ripe for real-life treasure hunting:
  1. Superstition Mountains, Ariz.: The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine is supposedly hidden somewhere in these mountains ... and full of ancient Apache treasure.
  2. Kaliningrad, Russia: The Amber
...

To Improve Your Marriage, Travel Alone

You'll reconnect with yourself and miss your spouse

(Newser) - In a marriage, sometimes the most romantic getaway is a solo vacation, writes Neal Pollack for Salon . “Stagnation is marriage's greatest enemy, so sometimes Regina and I go on trips without each other.” For her 40th birthday, he held down the fort while she had a blast visiting...

Travel Journalist of 2010: Brat Pack's Andrew McCarthy

He wins top honor in the industry

(Newser) - The year's top travel writer is a familiar face, but more so for acting than writing. Andrew McCarthy of Brat Pack fame (yes, Molly Ringwald's true love in Pretty in Pink) has won the 2010 Lowell Thomas award for Travel Journalist of the Year, notes Jim Romenesko's blog at PoynterOnline....

Fall Foliage: 10 Best Places to See Autumn Leaves
 10 Best Places for Fall Foliage 
TRAVEL
Sep 19, 2010 1:25 PM CDT

10 Best Places for Fall Foliage

Get ready for some nice drives and yummy cider

(Newser) - Scenic drives, long walks with leaves crunching under your feet, hot apple cider ... there's nothing quite like autumn, and the spectacular foliage that comes with it. The US boasts the best displays of fall foliage, writes Christine Sarkis on SmarterTravel , but the rest of the world is certainly not lacking....

1 of 4 Men Travel With Cuddly

Biz guys tote teddy bears

(Newser) - One out of four adult men travel with a secret tucked away in their suitcases—a special stuffed animal. That's what hotel chain Travelodge found out by tracing back to their owners the 75,000 teddy bears left behind in hotel rooms each year. Interested in how many of the...

101 Places You Don't Need to Visit
 101 Places You 
 Don't Need to Visit 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Jun 13, 2010 8:54 AM CDT

101 Places You Don't Need to Visit

Disneyland Paris is just too obvious

(Newser) - Had enough of all those lists of places to see before you die? Then check out 101 Places Not to See Before You Die, which focuses on “overhyped tourist sites" and the like. A sampling, courtesy of USA Today :
  • Ibiza: The Spanish party isle is a great place—"
...

What It's Like to Stay in NYC's Priciest Hotel Room
What It's Like to Stay in
NYC's Priciest Hotel Room
perk No. 43: butler
Jun 12, 2010 10:29 AM CDT

What It's Like to Stay in NYC's Priciest Hotel Room

Champagne, butlers, and Maybachs, oh my!

(Newser) - To stay at the top of NYC's Four Seasons Hotel, you have to fork over $35,000 a night (no matter who you are—no discounts given). The four-room 4,300 square-foot Ty Warner Penthouse (named for the hotel's owner/Beanie Baby mogul) took 7 years to design and $50 million...

Ash Cloud Cancels Hundreds of Flights

Renewed activity at Icelandic volcano leads to more travel chaos

(Newser) - Hundreds of flights were canceled and delayed today as the reinvigorated ash cloud issuing from an Icelandic volcano spread across parts of Europe and the UK. Three clouds are moving in various directions, closing airports in Scotland, Portugal, Germany, and other countries. The total number of canceled flights since the...

The World's Worst Tourist Traps - SmarterTravel.com

 Lame Tourist 
 Spots That 
 Suck Us In 
blarney stone is blarney
Apr 25, 2010 1:59 PM CDT

Lame Tourist Spots That Suck Us In

Venice gondola ride? Totally overrated

(Newser) - There's nothing like traveling halfway across the world to visit a spot that doesn't live up to the hype. SmarterTravel rounds up 10 destinations that you should scratch from your bucket list:
  1. Blarney Stone: Funny how its initials are BS. The line is long, and what you're waiting for is
...

How to Not Look Like an American While Traveling
How to Not Look Like an American While Traveling
LOSE THE TUBE SOCKS
Apr 17, 2010 5:17 AM CDT

How to Not Look Like an American While Traveling

For God's sake, skip the tube socks

(Newser) - One of the greatest thrills Seth Stevenson had while traveling was being mistaken for a German, in Germany. "Now, I can hear you asking: Seth, why would you want to pretend you're not American?" he writes in Newsweek . He doesn't—he loves the US!—but wants to remind...

Muslim Names Stall US Travel Visas

Travelers' applications vanish into 'administrative processing'

(Newser) - A student visa for a clean-cut French grad student to attend UC Berkeley sounds like a pretty routine matter—but not when his name is Mohamed Youcef Mami. Mami, who missed both his non-refundable flight and the start of his master's program waiting around in France for his mysteriously delayed...

1&cent; a Night? Hit Red Roof Inn
 1¢ a Night? Hit Red Roof Inn 
TRAVEL
Mar 30, 2010 8:23 PM CDT

1¢ a Night? Hit Red Roof Inn

Motel chain offers bargain, but you gotta be quick

(Newser) - Your next stay at Red Roof Inn could be about as close to free as it gets, but you need to be on the ball. The chain, with 350 US locations, is offering rooms for 1¢ from April 1-15, the Los Angeles Times reports, but you can book just 48...

Discovery Closes In on Sarah Palin's Alaska Show

Series reportedly titled 'Sarah Palin's Alaska'

(Newser) - Sarah Palin's Alaska is looking more and more like a sure thing: Discovery Communications has edged out rival A&E in bidding for the show, the Hollywood Reporter notes. Palin doesn't come cheap: If Discovery pays anything close to her $1.2 million per episode asking price, the former governor's...

World's Best Small Music Venues
 World's Best 
 Small Music 
 Venues 
TRAVEL
Mar 21, 2010 2:33 PM CDT

World's Best Small Music Venues

From NYC to London, Berlin to Mississippi

(Newser) - Want to see hear some great music in a tiny place? The Guardian asks industry insiders for tips:
  • Pegu Club, New York: Hitting this unassuming West Houston Street spot is “like going back to the great clubs of the 20s, when the staff were pretty and jazz and cocktails
...

7 Ways to Get Jailed (or Killed) While Traveling

Forget your ID in Japan, and end up in the pokey

(Newser) - An African safari is likely to be a bit more exciting than a day at Disney Land, but there comes a point where enough is enough. Turner Wright, writing in Vagabondish , runs down seven travel ideas that'll get you killed—or at least some quality time in the local clink:...

Why I Hate Living in Japan
 Why I Hate Living in Japan 
Mar 6, 2010 2:17 PM CST

Why I Hate Living in Japan

Everything's got meat in it, for one—bad news for vegetarian

(Newser) - Many years of life in Japan have thoroughly soured American expatriate Tim Rogers on the country, despite his long personal history of “tolerating the hell out of some world cultures.” Herewith, some reasons:
  • Animé sucks. Used to be fine, but now “it’s inbred trailer-trash in entertainment
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Sacre Bleu! Even French Find Parisians Rude
 Sacre Bleu! Even French 
 Find Parisians Rude 
NO SURPRISE DEPT.
Mar 3, 2010 5:00 AM CST

Sacre Bleu! Even French Find Parisians Rude

Capital-dwellers hard-working but snobbish: poll

(Newser) - The stereotype of Parisians as rude, unfriendly, and arrogant prevails among even the French, according to a countrywide poll. More than 70% of those surveyed believe Parisians are more snobbish than average and more than 65% label capital-dwellers more arrogant and aggressive, the Telegraph reports. Nearly 70%, however, had a...

Skiing: One Boom China Can't Sustain
 Skiing: One Boom 
 China Can't Sustain 
TRAVEL
Feb 8, 2010 8:07 PM CST

Skiing: One Boom China Can't Sustain

Investors bet big that sport would take off; still waiting

(Newser) - The Chinese have adopted any number of Western status symbols—cars, clothes, little dogs—but skiing isn’t one, to the tremendous disappointment of developers who made huge bets on the country’s first winter-sports resorts. The $140 million Yabuli International extravaganza opened last year near northeastern Harbin, but, as...

Luxury Vacation of Future: Aircruises

Inventive company unveils design for a 21st-century airship

(Newser) - Cruise passengers of the near future could be floating above the Earth in colossal kite-shaped craft if design firm Seymourpowell's plans take off from the drawing board. The firm, whose work was sponsored by Samsung, says its Aircruise concept could someday be a leisurely, environmentally friendly alternative to flying for...

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