Monthly Archives: January 2010

Use new Fodor’s 80 Degrees quiz for spring break

This week, as the weak winter sun did its best to warm my home state of Idaho, my husband and I began looking for a place to go with our kids (ages

More airlines make large passengers buy two seats

Youre paying to check your belongings, so why should other peoples excess baggage  get a free ride? Thats the question being asked by a growing number of travelers. As airlines look for

Cruise trends: Higher prices, single studios

If you’re planning a cruise vacation in 2010, get ready for higher prices, better entertainment, water parks, and one of the most innovative concepts to come along in awhile: Rooms designed for

N’Orleans Carnival parades adjust for Super Bowl

which sees more than 70 parades roll through greater New Orleans before Fat Tuesday — is getting one more. The Saints-crazed city plans to celebrate the team’s first-ever trip to the Super

Michigan modern architecture a draw for travelers

Stop by the Minoru Yamasaki-designed McGregor Memorial Conference Center at Wayne State University in Detroit and its halls are open for a stroll through what’s considered a masterpiece from the World Trade

Vancouver emblem has curious past

The emblem of the Olympic Winter Games is a colorful humanoid with arms spread wide, a contemporary interpretation of a stone landmark called an inukshuk with a history stretching back more than

Ecotourism in the wrong room?

Set in a private nature reserve spread over 1,000 acres of Central America’s last remaining lowland tropical rainforest in Costa Rica, Lapa Rios Ecolodge overlooks the pristine point where the Golfo Dulce

Ship comes in for solo travelers, industry says

If you’re fancy free and love to wander, the price might finally be right to travel solo. Instead of punishing travelers who prefer to go alone with hefty surcharges, the travel industry

World’s strangest movie theater snacks

Kick back at an open-air screening or in a movie theater Bajan-style by ordering the local answer to nachos: some salty deep-fried fish balls made from fresh-caught flying fish. And forget a

Cypress Gardens park in Fla. to become Legoland

Legoland will open a new park in Florida in 2011 on the site of the old Cypress Gardens attraction, which closed last fall. Merlin Entertainments, the owner and operator of Legoland, said