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NileGuide Welcomes 10Best.com to its Expanding Travel Family
January 31, 2011 | NileGuide Updates | Read More
As you may have heard, we welcomed a new member to our burgeoning NileGuide family last week. With the acquisition of 10Best.com, a site best known for its strengths in restaurant and attraction recommendations, we’ll be supplementing our NileGuide itineraries with new Top Ten travel recommendations...
Feeling Groggy? You Might Have Social Jet Lag
January 31, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
If you’ve been feeling tired but have been having trouble falling sleep, you may have social jet lag. Social jet lag is the modern phenomenon of people’s modern lives conflicting with their nature internal rhythm. Also referred to as a chronotype, our natural body clock tends to become confused...
Prepare to Pay £10 to Straddle the Greenwich Meridian
January 31, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
Beginning in March 2010, visitors to the Royal Observatory Greenwich will pay a fee to visit the Meridian Courtyard, home of the Greenwich Meridian Line. Other facilities at the museum will remain free.
Maritime Greenwich is a World Heritage Site that includes
“… the Old Royal Naval College,...
UK Hotel Must Pay Damages for Wrongly Banning Gays from Sharing Room
January 27, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
While a small hotel near Penzance, a town in Cornwall, argued that they were following their personal views in banning non-married couples from sharing their double rooms, two men from Bristol successfully sued and won damages.
Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy had tried to rent a double room from Peter...
Disney Launches Insanely Large, Insanely Expensive Cruise Ship
January 27, 2011 | Kid-Friendly, Travel News | Read More
It’s been a long time since a truly jaw-dropping cruise has set sail. Feast your eyes on the “Disney Dream”, Walt Disney’s new 4,000 passenger cruise liner. If you’ve ever wanted to take the entire family on a cruise, this is the one to take them on. According to the...
Chris Sands
January 26, 2011 | About Us, Local Experts | Read More
Chris’s love of travel was kindled during long childhood train trips from Louisville to Miami on the now-defunct Amtrak Floridian Line, and fully ignited during a stint in the Navy, when he was able to spend time exploring the cities of Italy and Israel. His fondest memories of the latter country...
Virgin Airlines Treats Heathrow Like Shoddy Contractor; Witholds Funds
January 26, 2011 | Offbeat, Travel News, UK | Read More
It’s a common practice for homeowners to withhold the final payment for renovations until the general contractor completes a “punch list” or items that weren’t fixed in the first go-around. Virgin Airlines had to deal with thousands of angry and upset customers at Heathrow Airport during...
Andrew Benson
January 26, 2011 | About Us, Local Experts | Read More
Andrew has lived in Argentina on and off for the past thirteen years. Since 1998, he has written, co-written, or updated the Rough Guides to Argentina, Buenos Aires, Chile, South America, Greece, the Greek islands, and France. He has also authored or co-authored books about Portugal, Barcelona, Gran...
The Three Cunard Queens Grace NYC for Second Time Ever
January 26, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
New York City hosted an event that is about as rare as Halley’s Comet: Cunard Lines docked each of its three largest ships in the city, only the second time it’s been done. The three are the Queen Mary Two, the Queen Victoria, and the Queen Elizabeth.
The three each have names that are well...
Bio-Dome 2: An Aquatic Hamster Ball With No Hint of Pauly Shore
January 26, 2011 | Eco-Travel, Offbeat, Travel News | Read More
If you are too old, too young or too careful with your time to have ever wasted an hour and a half on the 1996 “cult classic” Bio-Dome with Pauly Shore and Not-Alec Baldwin, you won’t get the title. Which is fine, because you should still be excited about the Ark Hotel, a concept authored by...
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