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Spring Break Travelers Flock to Ft. Lauderdale

April 9th, 2009 No comments

It’s that time again and college students are enjoying their annual Spring Break. Away from exams and writing long papers about Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe. Smart college students really get an “A” and move to the head of the class when they choose parksleepfly.com for their Spring Break trip to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Because they know they will save money on a package deal that just can’t be beat – and that they’ll stay in a great hotel that’s near everything they’ll want to enjoy while they are in Ft. Lauderdale.

Choosing parksleepfly.com means that your car is safely parked at an off airport parking facility during your Spring Break vacation. You don’t have to worry about asking a fraternity or sorority member to take you to the airport – only to have them not be able to do it at the last minute. Cabs are expensive and sometimes they simply don’t arrive on time – if they arrive at all. Having the control of driving you and your friends to the airport makes your trip a real breeze. You can leave when you arrive when you want and leave when you want.

College students staying in Ft. Lauderdale have several hotels to choose from in the parksleepfly.com family. Not every hotel is accepted in the parksleepfly.com hotel. When a hotel is a member of the parksleepfly.com family you know you’ll be staying in a quality hotel with excellent customer service – and great amenities like a complimentary continental breakfast and free wireless high-speed Internet in each room.

Customers staying at the Hilton Garden Inn Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood Airport enjoyed their stay. Many have given them a five-star rating. It’s easy to see why:

This hotel is minutes from the Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport, Port Everglades Cruise Port, Las Olas Boulevard boutique shopping, Sawgrass Mills, Dolphin Stadium and the lovely South Florida beaches Spring Break students love so much!

The Hilton Garden Inn exceeded my expectations in customer service, cleanliness, and started our cruise off on a very good note. I will parksleepfly.com and this hotel again. Sincerely, Mark Gilley.

- Mark G.

Hotel was above expectations and the staff very attentive and helpful.

- Joan L.

Also in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida are the Hampton Inn & Suites Fort Lauderdale – Airport South FLL and Residence Inn Ft. Lauderdale Plantation. Each of these hotels has been popular with parksleepfly.com guests.

B&B Guests Earn Rewards 10 Times Faster Than Leading Hotel Chain

March 26th, 2009 No comments

If you are looking to pile up free-night rewards from frequent stay programs when you travel, we’ve found that you can get more bang for your buck staying at a bed and breakfast. Here’s a little test we did:

Rewarded 10 Times Faster than at Marriott

Picking up the phone, we called Marriott Rewards with a standard request to earn a free stay. We asked about booking a $209-per-night room at the Marriott Suites, which would get us a total of 627 points per night. In order to compile enough points to get a free night at their lowest level, we would need 7,500 points. That means we would have to spend $2,500, staying about 11.9 nights in order to get that free night reward.

Now we’ll check how travelers can earn a free stay at B&Bs nationwide, in addition to a few other B&B-related values. Bed and breakfasts are hard to beat when it comes to unique lodging, hospitality and what you can get for your hard-earned dollar. If you are interested in making your money work better for you, take into consideration a couple of items:

Across the nation, more than 1,500 B&B inns will give guests a free second-night stay with the purchase of the first night. They do this for a simple reason. They want exposure for their property. The typical bed and breakfast doesn’t have the large advertising budget that a standard hotel does. So, they look to earn word-of-mouth exposure and added promotion through this popular program.

At iLoveInns.com, the site that runs this free-night program, travelers can save $140 on an average two-night stay. Think about the numbers above that we quoted from Marriott Rewards. How much more can you stretch your travel dollar than using it to spend 11.9 nights in order to get that free night?

Depending on the individual bed and breakfast or country inn, a traveler can save as much as $650. Plus, the buy-one-get-one promotion is an immediate reward.

You can save even more when you take into consideration your meal expense. The bed and breakfast, after all, comes with breakfast. But many inns also take it a step further an offer various free business services and such items as free drinks or snacks (and not with a mini-bar price).

Money and Memories Go Further with Bed and Breakfast Trips

Now that you know you can save more from a bed and breakfast, consider a typical inn and what it provides. For example, look at this California Bed and Breakfast, the Inn at Seventeen Mile drive located in the Monterey Peninsula.

Choose from rooms with views of the sea or garden in the main house of this three-building bed and breakfast. Or, enjoy the oak and redwoods in the chalet and cottage rooms. Unwind in the spa beneath the towering trees or the gardens whose guests also include the occasional deer and monarch butterfly. Maybe sip some champagne near the fountains and koi ponds. With the Buy-One-Night-Get-One-Night-Free program, guests will save anywhere from $145 to $290 at this lovely property.

Hard to beat an excellent experience and an excellent value. When you’re trying to decide how to find that next free-night perk, take a look at a property like that California bed and breakfast. The B&B free-night program is a superb travel value.

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Valuable Tips On Travel safety

March 24th, 2009 1 comment

Traveling, like most Americans do, is just one of the things that I love doing frequently and that’s something I’m sure you’d love to do, too. If you want to take a vacation break, it doesn’t actually mean that you’re guaranteed with safety. When we plan a vacation, we are too pre-occupied with what we are escaping from, like a job and all the accompanying stress, but there is always danger looming wherever we go. Today, I’m going to give you a few safety tips so that you can be assured that you’re safe on your trip.

It is most likely that you would carry a case with you when you journey but see to it that putting your address in your case is something that you would never do. Your luggage might have a tag on it so make sure that only your name and telephone number are written in case it gets lost. By putting this, you re sure that when someone wants to return it, the individual would call.

Putting your full postal address on it will only get your home into difficulty since the thief would think that there are more great stuffs at your home when he tends to find out some worthwhile things in your case. Simply put your first and last name to assure your safe journey.

Keep your luggage clear of essential documents. Clothes and other things that you can risk losing are the only things that should be kept in your luggage. worthwhile and precious things like passport, credit card and other documents should never be kept inside baggage. As mentioned earlier, once somebody gets hold of this, he can have the full information about you.

Be less boastful about your cash: Usually, those who love to show off to the people that they have all the luxuries are those travelers who have the most debts. If you wear some flashy expensive jewelry, you’re more likely to be pursued by a robber and ending you up in a place and predicament where you never wanted to be. In the sense of traveling, you are just one of the travelers roaming at the airport and so no one would really care about your appearance thus you don’t have to be flamboyant. Take into the consideration the thought whether you really care enough about the way people look and with regards to their style.

Check the contents of your billfold: It is a good idea to keep your wallet clean of all the junk chits. According to [travel] gurus, it is better to travel light and not carry multiple credit cards and papers which are best left at home in a secure place. Just carry at least one charge card. When you do bring one charge card, make sure that you note the telephone number so that if it does get stolen, you can call and cancel ASAP.

Considering all of the many available tips with regards to traveling and safety, your judgment at its best is needed for you to choose what’s effective and what’s not. The most critical point to remember is not to flaunt or carry things, which are worthwhile when traveling. If you can follow the tip that is to carry only the things that you can afford to lose, then no doubt that you will be one of the safest travelers ever known.

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The Secret Savvy Travelers Know

February 12th, 2009 No comments

Psst! Wouldn’t you like to be able to take a longer vacation or have more spending money while on your trip? Then you need to know the top-secret of savvy travelers: use off airport parking facilities. When you part at off airport parking, you save up to 50% off what …

Death Valley Castle

November 23rd, 2008 No comments
by Penelope SanMateo

Now why anyone would want to live in Death Valley is beyond me but here but Albert Mussey Johnson decided to built his vacation home in Death Valley. It was supposedly built with the money from the gold mine that he had backed but in fact, there was no gold mine and so it was certainly not built with funds from one.

Walter Scott was a miner, a dreamer and apparently a scammer to boot. He convinced Mr. Johnson to invest in the gold mine in Death Valley. It was probably going along just fine (with Scott getting his money from the investment) until Mr. Johnson decided to visit. He thought a tour of the mine would be a good idea. It was hard to do since there wasn’t a mine to see.

It was lucky for Mr. Scott that Mr. Johnson became enamored with Death Valley. Because he liked Mr. Scott and thought that Death Valley was truly spectacular he and his wife decided to build a vacation retreat in the valley. It was called Death Valley Ranch but was known to the locals as Scotty’s Castle.

The rich and famous came to the retreat when it became a tourist attraction. They wanted to see the retreat built by one of California’s richest gold miners. Of course, had he told that it wasn’t from the riches gained from the non-existent mine there wouldn’t have been nearly the attraction to it that there was at the time.

Daily tours are available on the hour of the castle and the living history exhibits and the displays inside the house. These guided tours will help you understand the lifestyle of the Johnson’s.

The second tour available for you while you are at the castle is of the underground area. It shows you the technology used to provide electricity to the castle. There is a 1/4 mile tunnel system that runs under the castle that you will be able to see.

The National Park Service is in charge of the castle now. It uses some of the underground area to preserve Scotty’s Castle. Technology from the past is working with technology of today to keep the castle in good condition.

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