Just as the New York Times real estate section can’t resist creating an acronym for every sliver of neighborhood — DUMBO, Nolita, etc and so on — the travel industry can’t pass up a catchy nickname. In recent years, we’ve suffered through mancations, girlcations, staycations, momcations, culminating in the shockingly awkward edufuncations. Prepare for a [...]
Ryanair, Europe’s favorite budget airline, made headlines yesterday when they announced their intent to offer barstool seating for some flights. From the Telegraph: The low-cost airline would charge passengers less on “bar stools” with seat belts around their waists. Michael O’Leary, the chief executive, has already held talks with US plane manufacturer Boeing about designing [...]
At my most recent full-time job, I learned a lot about cruises and hotels. The latter knowledge remains useful — who doesn’t love a nice hotel — but the cruises? Bah. I’ve taken one, and I’ll never do it again. Inspired by the recent announcement that Disney was launching a Hannah Montana-theme cruise (without a [...]
There’s now proof that air passengers will eventually pay a fee for every single step of taking a flight. It’s not like we’re frogs unwittingly boiling to death; we know this sucks, but what’s to be done?
Time was, cultural immortality was granted to those who produced great works of art, impacted large numbers of people or otherwise made a significant mark on the world. Today, one need simply coin a stupid word in a bestselling book. At least that’s Dalton Conley’s strategy. In a bid for the New York Times bestseller [...]
It’s nearly impossible to tell the difference between Ryanair’s provocative + insincere and provocative + genuine cost-cutting proposals. That $1.50 charge to use the bathroom? Was never gonna happen. A tax on fat passengers, levied according to excess kilos? Headline bait. Today’s announcement isn’t as inflammatory, but it’s still pissing people off. From Reuters: Europe’s [...]
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Covering any odd travel announcement on April Fool’s Day is dangerous — particularly when you see yet another “unusual hotel” get ink. But this one-room crane hotel in the Netherlands is quite real. From Bloomberg: The crane went out of use when a larger industrial harbor was built nearby, and now its machine room has been [...]
Ryanair, Europe’s favorite whipping boy/cheap airline, made headlines and inspired ire for proposing a bathroom charge. In a brilliant move, the airline is not only taking the criticism on the chin — they’re turning it around. If this announcement is to believed, they’re offering €1,000 for the next great fee: Since we confirmed that we are [...]
I don’t know if they started it, but I nonetheless blame The Guardian. Their first so-called “TwiTrip” involved a douchebag, a Twitter account and Paris. Their second installment — San Francisco — just ended. How’d it go, Anna Pickard? Vicky Baker suggested cupcakes of any kind, and I did seek out one of the suggested cupcake [...]
