Cleared for take-off?

Ah, cell phones - we all can’t live without them, but do we really want cell phone use cleared for take-off? The last bastion of relative peace in business travel - flight time - may soon be a thing of the past, with some airlines already offering in-flight Wi-Fi - and others in the testing phase of in-flight cell phones.  God [...]

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Etiquette police, please!

When did we become so much more important than everyone we’re traveling with? Now, I’m not talking about us of course — not you and I; I’m speaking in that royal-we kind of way. And I’m talking about those folks who seem to think the airline, all airline and airport employees, and their fellow travelers are [...]

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A horror then is a fond memory now

I don’t know about other people, but our travel horror stories often turn out to be the tales we relish retelling later. Again and again. Like this one… We had just arrived at our hotel in Athens. From our balcony we had a wonderful view of the Acropolis, with the Parthenon in all its glory. I [...]

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Lipstick on a pig: Sheraton Nashville Downtown

I’ve always loved that saying, “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig.” After our two-night stay at the Sheraton in downtown Nashville (across from the state capitol) I can say with some fervor that I have finally seen that lip-sticked pig. Just because a hotel has swapped out some linens [...]

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Bacterial baggage

Looks like a lot of us are leaving more behind in our hotel rooms than the random pair of socks or the power cord to our cell phone. According to a recent study by the researchers at the University of Virginia, a third of the folks they studied who had lab-confirmed rhinovirus colds left behind more [...]

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