All About Birds is a bird guide that will be appreciated by anyone who loves to observe birds. “Birders” are a growing trend in the travel industry and I’m one of them. This website has information on 585 species including turkeys which will be on most American’s dinner table this Thursday. On this site, you [...]
Just launched today, Want Me Get Me is a free members-only hotel booking site that aims to give travelers exclusive access to perks and amenities usually reserved for celebrities, rock stars, and platinum rewards status priority guests at the world’s best hotels. For the first time, travelers pay standard hotel room rates and get to [...]
Here’s a cool new frequent flyer/reward points service called UsingMiles. The site helps you manage and redeem your miles and points from the multitude of loyalty programs. Roughly $16 billion in miles expire each year, often because consumers find it too confusing and time-consuming to keep track of all their various membership and loyalty programs. [...]
My dad sent me this link which is similar to Google Earth but it’s much easier to use and faster. All you do is type in ANY ADDRESS – ALL OVER THE WORLD and see this unbelievable technology. Enter old addresses of places you used to live at and see what they look like now [...]
Smarter Travel Media launched a really cool website last week, called Tingo. It’s the only site to automatically rebook travelers’ rooms when rates drop – and then refund their credit cards immediately after their stays. Think of it as the “set it and forget it” of online travel. So no matter how far out you [...]
Ever since United and Continental merged their computers the hold times at reservations have been horrific. So if you are tired of waiting on hold for them, other airlines or any company for that matter give lucyphone.com a shot. It’s an ingenious FREE service. All you do is log on to their website, type in [...]
I recently flew from Toronto to L.A. on American Airlines and that flight now has Wi-Fi thanks to Gogo. I almost always use it so when the captain announced we were descending rapidly because we were about to hit severe turbulence due to an unusual strong Jetstream the first site I logged on to was [...]
On Sunday, I spoke at Jetset Social in downtown Los Angeles. I was first taken back at how amazing a job the JetsetExtra.com crew did and then secondly how many of the panelists and audience members had never heard of . It’s one of the newest and most popular social networks that’s driving a ton [...]
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