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Report Cards
Report Cards, March 2008 issue
On FRANCE, December ’07-January ’08. . . After 20-plus trips to Paris, we continue to find excellent, unusual, inexpensive restaurants (in terms of euros, not in terms of the present dollar exchange rate). On our last trip, the following were noteworthy. • Casa San Pablo (5 rue de Sevigne) — in the fourth arrondissement, about midway between ...
Funniest Thing for March
Funniest thing, March 2008 issue
Tell ITN about the funniest thing that ever happened to you while traveling in a foreign country. There are no restrictions on length. (ITN prints no info on destinations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean.) The ITN staff will choose each month’s winner, who will receive a free one-year subscription to ITN. Entries ...
Myanmar & Vietnam with Ceylon Express International
Tours in Review, January 2008 issue
Varini de Silva of Ceylon Express International (9542 Dumbreck Dr., Huntington Beach, CA 92646; 800/423-9566, www.ceylonexpress.com) created an independent month-long trip to Asia for my wife, Barbara, and me. Land and internal air for the Feb. 19-March 19, 2007, trip cost $13,500. Ceylon Express, using ground operators Rainbow Travel (Thimphu, Bhutan) in Bhutan and Indochina Services ...
Laos — land of a million elephants
Features, January 2008 issue
by Richard Shally, Walnut Creek, CA. Photos by Henk Ten Dam, Netherlands Laos is known as “the land of a million elephants,” but are there really a million? To find out, I took a 17-day Small Group Discovery Tour with Carpe Diem Travel, a UK-based socially responsible tour company. The January ’07 tour started and ended ...
Bangkok & Chiang Mai — a tale of two Thai cities
Features, November 2007 issue
by Marilyln Lutzker, Sunnyside, NY Bangkok is a constant assault on the senses. Its pollution, traffic and crowds may make you shudder, but its palaces and temples will make your eyes dance. After seeing them, I wonder if there is any gold leaf left in the world! The glitter, the shine, the sparkle, the overwhelming splendor, ...
Eye on Travel Insurance » Q&A
Columns, August 2007 issue
by Wayne Wirtanen Following are some ITN readers’ letters and inquiries that I have received recently regarding travel insurance. The first came from Judie Kesson of Coronado, California: Q: “As longtime subscribers and sometime contributors, my husband, Ken, and I want to report back on our very positive experience with Divers Alert Network, or DAN (Durham, NC; 800/446-2671, ...
Looking for luxury in Vietnam, Thailand, & Bali
Features, July 2007 issue
by Bill Kizorek, Lisle, IL International travel: the phrase conjures up visions of adventure and exploration. There are so many ways to go about it. When I am by myself, I don’t care if I sleep in a tent in Botswana with hippos grunting through the canvas or eat breakfast at a camp table across from ...
How much to tip on tours?
Travelers' Intercom, July 2007 issue
Richard E. Smith of Long Beach, California, opened up the topic of tipping on tours (April ’04, pg. 4). Questions he asked included 1) “Should the cost of tipping be included in the tour price?,” 2) “Should there be an existing standard for tipping adhered to by most tour companies?,” 3) “Should an escrow tipping ...
Doesn’t trust room safes
Travelers' Intercom, July 2007 issue
Murray Halbert’s tale of theft from his room safe at Angkor Wat (May ’07, pg. 41) resonated painfully with me, as something eerily similar happened while I was staying in a not-so-wonderful, smallish hotel in Bangkok in December ’06. I have made use of those in-room electronic safes on several occasions, a habit that I ...
Report Cards
Report Cards, May 2007 issue
From Sohren, GERMANY, March 18, 2007. . . • Using the website www.flyhahn.com and flying into Frankfurt-Hahn Airport on Ryanair, I found this incredibly great hotel deal: €35 (near $47) per night, single (or €40 with breakfast), at Hotel-Pizzeria Venezia (Niedersohrener Str. 14, D-55487 Sohren, Germany; phone +49 [0] 6543/98 88-0, fax 98-88 38 or ...
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