Spring travel deals: 30% off (or more) and $30 gift cards from Hotels.com
Posted on Friday, March 12th, 2010
You don’t have to wait until Daylight Savings Time begins March 14 to clean up on great spring hotel deals. Hotels.com announced a Spring Sale with savings up to 30% off, a $30 gift card or both, but I found even bigger savings there too. Generally, the way this deal works is the longer you stay, the more [...]
Hotels are Getting Hot for Foursquare Too
Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Our sis site HotelChatter does a bang-up job of covering the latest news and trends in the hotel world. We’re also including a few links from VegasChatter, the newest member to the family. So check in and stay awhile.
HotelChatter:
· Foursquare + Hotels = Match made in heaven
· What hotel have Foursquare deals
· How will you celebrate the ‘Penis Festival?’
· Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle?
VegasChatter:
· Inside the newest club: Victor Drai’s Hollywood
· Studio 54 lives on! Kinda.
· Amy Winehouse is coming to Vegas to get married…again.
· The latest, greatest Donny & Marie news
Is It a Hotel Safe or Tank Top? Only You Will Know
Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Not all of our friends have the best luck with passports, which they carry in their pockets because they don’t want to leave them in cheap hotel rooms. Ditto for laptops, extra currency, and so on. Travelers always have to make a decision between what’s safer: carrying something around in a strange city or abandoning it behind a locked door. Enter the Travelon Garment Hideaway, a piece of travel gear that we’re trying to hate but kind of finding interesting.
The idea here is that there’s a middle ground between leaving something out in the open or putting it in your pocket. Things can actually be hidden. So from the outside the Travelon Garment Hideaway looks like a woman’s tank top. On the inside, though, there are 5 distinct plastic pockets in which you can stash all manner of personal belongings. You put your valuables in the pockets and then either hang the bag up or fold it in the bottom of a drawer, making it look like just another item of clothing. This adds an extra layer of obfuscation for when you’re wandering about town that’s slightly more clever than the old “put your passport in a pillowcase” trick—which, lets be honest, was never particularly clever.
Marquesas Islands: A New Name and Meeting Marquesan Royalty: Just Another Day for Adventure Girl
Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Have you ever wanted to venture way, way out to the islands around Tahiti? Sit back and then and daydream with us as we follow Twitter celeb Stefanie Michaels, aka Adventure Girl, as she goes island-hopping in the most exotic of places—the Marquesas Islands. Each day this week, she’ll reveal another adventure. Join her 1.5 million followers on Twitter for more Marquesas conversation @AdventureGirl, and don’t forget us @Jaunted!
“It’s just gone too quickly,” I say to my husband. “Where has the time gone?” Already it’s my eleventh day onboard the Aranui ship, and we’re looping back towards home and the end of the journey. The Aranui, as more of a freighter than a cruise ship, picks up contents from the various islands, and delivers them to others. What we had done over the first 10 days was stop to pick up fruits and vegetables from Nuka Hiva, and deliver them to the arid Ua Huka, then loaded up wood carvings and Tapas from Ua Huka, and delivered them on our way back to Ua Pou. It’s a transport system that’s extremely integral to these far-flung islands, and it even takes the locals around.
Now very confident with my anti-nausea patch, I face the almost two-day journey over open seas back to Papeete, Tahiti.
After the jump, Adventure Girl
How To Get Tickets To See Conan O’Brien on Tour This Spring
Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Today, devoted fans of Conan O’Brien finally got the message they’ve been waiting weeks for:
“Hey Internet: I’m headed to your town on a half-assed comedy & music tour. Go to http://TeamCoco.com for tix. I repeat: It’s half-assed.”
That’s right, Conan O’Brien made the announcement this morning via Twitter that he is going on tour, because, as he put it, it was either go on tour or “start helping out around the house.”
The 2-month, 30-city tour kicks off on April 12th in Eugene, OR and “promises to be a night of music, comedy, hugging, and the occasional awkward silence,” according to Teamcoco.com, which is already overloaded with web traffic.
The tour, entitled “Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television” in honor of the clause in his contract with NBC that keeps him off TV until September, will also include sidekick Andy Richter and the former “Tonight Show” band.
What you need to know, after the jump!
Lady Gaga Almost Suffers Deep Vein Thrombosis on Transatlantic Flight
Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Pop star Lady Gaga is notorious for her outlandish sense of style, but dramatic shoes and avant garde outfits were almost her downfall this week when the singer showed early stages of the potentially deadly deep vein thrombosis condition while on a transatlantic flight.
Gaga suffered from swelling in her legs on the flight, due to the most outrageous in-flight fashion we’ve ever heard of. She donned the infamous “Armadillo” shoes by recently deceased British designer Alexander McQueen and dressed in a black and yellow tape ensemble like the one pictured above from her upcoming Telephone single.
The flight attendants (airline sadly unknown), became greatly concerned with her condition and eventually convinced Gaga to change her clothes into something less restricting. But before she could strip, she had to get help to undo her outfit, it was that complex. Perhaps one of the other celebs on her flight came to her rescue? Also on board were P. Diddy, Peaches Geldoff and Liam Gallagher.
Related Stories:
· Lady Gaga’s Outfit Causes Health Concern on Plane [Shinystyle]
· Celeb Travel [Jaunted]
[Photo: TwitPic]
Historic Wyoming ski resort reopens; hopes for more snow
Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010
More than five years after shutting down, Sleeping Giant, a ski area about 50 miles west of Cody, Wyo., and three miles from Yellowstone National Park, has reopened under new ownership. But the resort in the Absaroka Range is having another problem: skimpy snow.
The ski area, with 180 acres and a 900-foot vertical drop, reopened [...]
Las Vegas: Caesars gets a new Garden of the Gods pool oasis, tourists get a great deal
Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010
You might wonder why Caesars Palace has remodeled its pools, since it already had one of the most elaborate pool layouts on the Las Vegas Strip, but don’t think about it too hard. Just be thankful that Garden of the Gods, the new and improved 5-acre pool area at the casino-resort, is a playground [...]
