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Ireland
Cruising Scotland’s Caledonian Canal
Car rental insurance glitch
I rented a car in Australia, Oct. 17-29, 2007, where I had a minor accident. The car was parked legally and I wasn’t in it when it was sideswiped. I had paid US$864 for the car rental, which was from Europcar at the Sydney airport. I filed a claim with Diners Club, invoking the insurance benefits that ...Searching for family ties in Scotland
Dingle Peninsula ‘superior’
For the first part of our trip to Ireland (Nov. ’07, pg. 65), Aug. 27-Sept. 1, 2007, we used the “Emerald Package” from Dooley Vacations (Lynbrook, NY; 877/331-9301, www.dooleyvacations.com). The package, at $899 per person, included round-trip air from New York to Dublin, a hotel for the first night, five nights’ vouchers for B&Bs and rental ...Keeping in touch with the folks back home
Bill Steltzer of West Grove, Pennsylvania, lamented that on a May ’07 trip to France he had trouble finding public Web-access points. “Now that computer ownership is universal, the Internet cafés have vanished,” he wrote. “We used to find public libraries good spots for Internet access but not on this past trip. At the mediatheques (small-town ...“Irish Explorer” tour with CIE Tours International
I would highly recommend the 10-day “Irish Explorer” coach tour from CIE Tours International (Morristown, NJ). The overall tour, Sept. 1-10, 2007, was excellent and a good value for the money. It cost $1,568 per person plus $867 air from Los Angeles. We had a direct flight to Dublin. Kudos to Air Lingus, as the toilets ...“Irish Odyssey” with CIE Tours International
We highly recommend CIE Tours International (10 Park Place, Ste. 510, Morristown, NJ 07962-1965; 800/338-3964, www.cietours.com). We did their 12-day “Irish Odyssey” coach tour, May 19-30, 2007. What really sold us on CIE was their “no options” policy. The cost of our tour was about $1,640 per person, land, and they did not ask us for ...How much to tip on tours
Richard E. Smith of Long Beach, California, opened up the topic of tipping on tours (April ’07, 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 ...St. Davids, Wales, & Beccles, England — a look at two small-town destinations
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