Inc.com has a new blog - Quick Hits – filled with tips, discounts and freebies for business-related tools, services, and products.
Looks like travel tips are on the agenda as well: this week’s blog entries include a review of the pricey Visa Black Card (it includes concierge service) and a link to my recent MSNBC.com column Money Saving Tips for Tightwad Travelers.
Two items caught my eye today that seem like encouraging steps in the right direction.
From the Airline Biz blog, - a note about Continental Airlines saying they’d make it a policy to let passengers deplane if they’d been stuck on an airplane for more than three hours.
And from the Chicago Tribune: an article about how United and other airlines are (finally? once again?) paying attention to cleaning their airplanes more often.
One summer, when my travel budget was really tight, I took my mother with me on my work-related road trips. Not because she was great company, but because with her in tow I could get a senior discount on motel rooms.
As you can imagine, there were some serious downsides to that scheme, but at the time it seemed to make sense.
I’ve wised up over the years and found other ways to cut travel costs. And so have the folks who were kind enough to share their “tightwad travel tips” for my Well-Mannered Traveler column this week on MSNBC.com.
One frequent traveler says she picks up magazines other air passengers have left behind. Another says she gets cheap hotel rooms by asking for the “flagpole room.”
Read the full column – “Money-saving tips for travel tightwads” -complete with this cool illustration- on MSNBC.com and send me your tips so I can put them in a future column.
(Column illustration by MSNBC.com’s Duane Hoffman. THANKS!)
A couple of tasty tidbits for hungry, thirsty travelers:
Free drinks on JetBlue
JetBlue Airways is partnering with Stirrings (they make all-natural cocktail mixers) to give each passenger traveling on Sunday, February 1, a free cocktail. They say it has something to do with football….
New restaurant at LAX
Today (Thursday, January 29th) Gladstone’s, a popular Malibu seafood restaurant, is opening its first airport location. Look for it in Terminal 3 at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
Fresh squeezed at SAN
It’s also opening day for Jamba Juice in Terminal 2 at San Diego International Airport (SAN). To celebrate, they’ll be giving out coupons and free juice samples. And at 11:30 they’ll be demonstrating airplane stretch exercises - to music…
File under: be careful what you wish for.
A traveler who wrote to complain to Virgin Atlantic owner Richard Branson about the food on a recent flight has been invited to pop on over and help pick out food and wine for future Virgin Atlantic flights.
The letter – which included pictures of the offending food – was really funny and was quickly “e-forwarded” around the world.
Real all about it – but not before dinner – here.
Italian-inspired art & Massage-0-Matics at Schiphol, and more SXSW music at Austin-Bergstrom. http://www.bit.ly/9HIlu5 2 hours ago
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