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Fran Golden

Name: Fran Golden

Occupation: Travel writer/editor

Hometown: West Hartford, Conn.

Residence: Oberlin, Ohio

Website: getawaywithfran.com, budgettravel.com

Twitter: @getawaywithfran

Facebook: Fran Golden

YouTube: Fran Golden

Short Bio: Fran Golden is a well-known cruise and travel writer and contributing editor for Budget Travel magazine. She is the author of two dozen travel books including the soon-to-debut eBook, “Frommer’s How to Plan the Perfect Cruise.”

How often do you fly: At least once a month

How many countries have you been to: 80 and counting

How many continents have you been to: Six

Favorite American city: Boston, Beantown rules!

Favorite international city: Rome

Least favorite country: I usually find something fascinating wherever I go, so can’t say I have one.

Favorite World Heritage Site: Ephesus

Favorite airline: I tend towards Delta, but only because if you get to Gold status they upgrade you pretty regularly.

Favorite aircraft type: Anything with two aisles

Aisle or window: Aisle

Favorite airport lounge: British Airways, Heathrow

Favorite U.S. airport: Boston

Favorite international airport: Amsterdam

Favorite hotel: Hotel Raphael Paris

Favorite cruise line: The line I recommend to friends the most because it is so well priced is Celebrity Cruises, especially their newer, Solstice-class ships. But I personally have a lot of favorites.

Favorite island: Moorea

Favorite fancy restaurant: Clio in Boston

Favorite hole in the wall: The Feve in Oberlin

Favorite fruit: Passion fruit

Favorite food: Truffles

Least favorite food: Brains

Drink of choice (In the air and on the ground): Vodka Martini, straight up, extra olives.

Favorite travel movie(s): Easy Rider (love Jack Nickolson).

Favorite travel show(s): Michael Palin Around the World in 80 Days (and yes, I’m a Monty Python fan too).

Favorite travel book(s): Has to be Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger, the explorer and writer.

Right now I am reading: Life and Times of a Rolling Stone by Keith Richards and also, of course, Fifty Shades of Grey

Five things you bring on a plane: My Kindle, either The Atlantic Magazine or Vanity Fair, a newspaper, a bean-filled pillow, eye shades

What do you always seem to forget: Headphones

What do you want your loved one to buy you from an airport duty free store? Nothing, but if he gets a sudden urge to spend whatever he chooses I will love.

Favorite travel iPhone app(s): CNN

Most embarrassing/worst travel moment: Getting on the wrong plane and then having to deplane after the flight attendants announced the destination.

What’s your dream destination: Right now, I am craving a visit to one of the palace hotels in Rajasthan. But I have a lot of dreams.

Favorite travel website(s) – besides JohnnyJet.com, of course!: Cruise Log at USA Today, budgettravel.com, and frommers.com. Those are the ones I look at the most.

Best travel tip: Talk to the locals. It’s impossible to really get to know a place if you don’t.

3 Comments On "Travel Style: Fran Golden"
  1. Mike|

    I am a fan of Fran Golden who’s a great travel writer. I do read her write-ups at the Budget Travel magazine. Honestly, I got to know her more deeply by reading her biography.

  2. logcabinsinwales|

    I find many similarities with the pro Fran Golden. I’ve been to six continents. My favorite city is Rome and my favorite world heritage site is Ephesus. I just found out that he has two websites. I’ll surely check out the other one.

  3. jc|

    Thanks.I like Fran a lot.I like the the topics she writes.Thanks for sharing her biography her.

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