Wanderlust Journey

Going on a cruise? Here’s a tip that will guarantee you walk away from the casino a winner – charge your chips to your stateroom. Many cruise lines will let you charge your chips to your stateroom because they want you to have easy access to gambling money! So they’ll offer it as a convenient […]

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Normally, the Middle Seat on an airplane sucks… but the Middle Seat column on the WSJ is pretty good and last week they shared some money saving tips about buying airline tickets. Many of these tips are well known, having been passed from frugal flyer to frugal flyer, but I still enjoy reading them because […]

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A week ago, Mouse Planet reported that Disneyland was planning on limiting the number of roaming characters, they’re known as “walkarounds” or “atmosphere characters,” in order to increase their PhotoPass sales (they’ve since backed down). Atmosphere characters just wander the park interacting with guests, which includes photographs. When you take your own photo, you don’t […]

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It’s a modest record compared to other ports but Baltimore saw off 210,549 cruise passengers in 2010 on 91 cruises, an increase from 2009 where 167,235 passengers departed on 81 cruises. It’s really convenient to cruise out of your home city but you do pay a small price for that convenience. Most of the cruises […]

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The most appealing thing about Southwest’s old Rapid Rewards program was how easy it was to understand. You flew eight round-trips and you earned a Rapid Rewards voucher good for a seat on any flight, subject to seat limitations and blackout dates. It doesn’t get any easier than that. Now, Southwest is migrating towards a […]

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Alex at Marginal Revolution shared a photo of what Delta’s been doing to figure out how to compensate bumped passengers – they’re having customers bid when they check in. Gone are the days when they try to guess… throwing out free flights, $300 vouchers, $500 vouchers, etc. Now they’ll just pick the cheapest and work […]

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Over the holiday break, we spent a night at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Donald C. Duncan House at Polymath Park in Acme, Pennsylvania. We were there to celebrate the thirtieth birthday of one of our good friends and the Duncan House was a fantastic venue to do it. The Duncan House is a prefab […]

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As a part of the austerity measures in Europe, the Italian government has cut funding to Italian cities. This cut has led the city of Rome to institute a new hotel tax of €3 per person per night at four and five star hotels, €2 for lower categories with children exempt from the new tax. […]

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