It has not been a happy summer for travelers, judging by the frustration and exasperation readers have expressed about recent travel news. Over these past few months, we at SmarterTravel.com have gotten so many insightful, funny, and thoughtful comments that we’re bringing you a roundup of discussions inspired by the summer’s most popular blog topics.Fees, Fees, and More FeesThis will be remembered as the summer of fees. Baggage fees, food and beverage fees, seat assignment fees, frequent flyer award fees, and others have surfaced almost daily. (Full post Readers Speak Out About Airline Fees…)
The Chelsea Hotel is one of the most famous – or infamous – landmarks in New York City. Starting as luxury lodgings at the beginning of the 20th century, the Chelsea gained even more notoriety the scummier it got. It became a flophouse for writers, artists, musicians, junkies, and assorted transients. Some famous, some infamous.
Chelsea Hotel Manhattan by Joe Ambrose is a far different take on the Chelsea than most books on the hotel. For one, Ambrose is a Brit.
More pet owners memorialize a departed pet through cremation, and choose Everlife Memorials’ pet cremation jewelry to keep a part of their cherished pet close to their heart forever.
Everlife Memorials–one of the leading Internet providers of funeral and cemetery memorial products–provides a line of pet cremation jewelry that includes pet memorial pendants in an array of designs and metal finishes.
In perfume-loving circles we talk about how scent can evoke powerful emotion and how it seeps into areas of the brain that language is too clumsy to enter. We know that perfume can wake up memories that might have otherwise slept for good. Well, listen up, friends: if you had a rough time of it in the mid-1970s, take my advice and stay far away from Revlon Charlie. Charlie came out in 1973 and was marketed toward the young, single, pants-wearing, tequila-sunrise-drinking working woman. (Full post Revlon Charlie ~ perfume review…)
It’s no secret that the airlines’ strategy for surviving the current profit crunch depends almost entirely on what the airlines call service or convenience fees—what consumers are more likely to refer to as nuisance fees or nickel-and-diming. By whatever name, they’re new and higher charges for services which traditionally have been offered on a no-cost basis. And it’s not just soft drinks, aisle seats, and checked bags that now have travelers reaching for their wallets. (Full post The New Reward for Loyalty: Frequent Flyer Fees…)
TX Technoluxury recently released a very interesting new collection at Baselworld, the Linear Chronograph collection. The 800 Series Linear Chronographs (pictured above) feature 47 mm titanium cases with hard black carbide treatments. They utilize natural rubber straps, sapphire crystals and patented, german engineered, 6 hand, 4 motor quartz movements. Both watches feature linear chrono displays, 2nd time zone functions, multifunction retrograde displays, date windows and superluminova on the hands and indexes. (Full post TX 800 Series Linear Chronograph Second Time Zone…)
Demeter has launched Swimming Pool, a new unisex fragrance: Dive Into The Pool A soft, watery, natural ozone scent… wrapped in a fresh cotton towel… Demeter’s Swimming Pool is the lingering memory of the pool water on the skin, not the pool itself. Savor the Summer, anywhere, anytime. Demeter Swimming Pool is available in 15 ml Cologne Mini-Splash, 30 or 120 ml Cologne Spray, and in matching bath & body products and Room Spray. (vi (Full post Demeter Swimming Pool ~ new fragrance…)
Last week, SmarterTravel.com asked readers to voice their opinions on an incendiary topic: whether or not obese airline passengers should be required to pay extra to fly. Controversy over how passengers who do not fit in one seat should be dealt with has been an issue with flyers for years. However, with the airlines adding extra charges for baggage and doing everything they can to eliminate excess weight on the plane (from ditching blankets and pillows to scrapping in-flight video systems) in order to save on fuel, it seems not unlikely that the airlines may be forced to confront the issue of weighty passengers head-on. (Full post Most SmarterTravel Readers Favor Making Obese Flyers Buy Two Seats…)
Strong jewelry sales helped spur Christie’s International performance in the first half of 2008 as total company sales rose 10 percent to GBP 1.8 billion ($3.5 billion.) The auction house said it had record sales results in each of the jewelry and watches; impressionist and modern art; post-war and contemporary art; and Asian, Indian and Arab art categories. Jew (Full post Jewelry Helps Spur Christie’s Sales..…)
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