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THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Travel
SUNDAY, MAY 30, 2010
BREAKING NEWS: DISPATCH.COM
Hotels roll out ‘Sex and the City’ goodies By Kristin Finan HOUSTON CHRONICLE
MIKE SIEGEL
THE SEATTLE TIMES
Boeing employees cheer as a 787 Dreamliner takes off from Paine Field in Everett, Wash.
Big plane offers ease, for a price up of the 787 interior. Craver said Boeing knows that any aircraft manufacturer has a built-in probPatience, America. The lem with its customers. Boeing 787 Dreamliner is “No one would choose to coming. sit for several hours on a Big windows. High ceilplane,” he said. “They’re ings. Overhead bins that bored or angry when using will hold those overstuffed our product.” carry-ons. Wireless enterThe company consulted tainment (and office with psychologists, cultural e-mail) at your seat. More anthropologists — and natural air so your face doesn’t feel like it spent six Disney — to improve the hours in the Sahara Desert. passenger experience without getting in the way of It’s coming. Someday. the revenue stream of their Maybe the end of this real customers, the airlines. year. In Japan. All Nippon The key is trying to get Airways gets the first 787. people away from the feelWhen will Americans be ing that they are being able to fly this Americanforced into a very large made aircraft on routes toothpaste tube. within America? The tour starts with an Someday. open lobbylike area at the It likely will be on an airline that doesn’t exist yet aircraft doorway. Sculpted design and LED lights give — the newly merged the interior a feeling of United and Continental awaiting approval from the height, width and light. Bathrooms are bigger. feds. Maybe late next year. Even the big bins are Still, the Dreamliner is psychologically calming. likely going to be part of The powerful hinges don’t your traveling for most of require Herculean strength the rest of your life. With on your tiptoes to close. more than 800 on order, it Up front, it’s a wonderful will fill the skies until well world of fold-flat first-class toward the middle of the seats and fat business-class century. seats that look like flying I had hoped to be flying regularly on the Dreamliner La-Z-Boy recliners designed by the Jetsons. by now — it’s two years Great! And how about the behind schedule. So I had to travel up to Seattle, Boe- rest of us? The future of flight might ing’s home, to take a look. be brighter and more colI came away impressed orful, but it comes with the — and disappointed. To see inside the Dream- nightmare of 17.2-inchliner, I didn’t board a plane wide seats. “In economy class, it is but instead went inside an office park. Boeing operates all about price,” Craver the equivalent of an interi- said. “And most passengers or furnishings showroom. Kent Craver, the “region- are not willing to pay a dime for extras, including al director of passenger space.” satisfaction and revenue,” showed me around a mock-
By Gary A. Warner
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
With Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte having returned to the big screen, a slew of hotels are trotting out Sex and the City 2-themed packages offering everything from drinks to shopping discounts to, of course, tickets to see the movie. Here’s a sample: Hotel Gansevoort: This Manhattan hotel’s “Girls in the City” package includes overnight accommodations, two Cosmopolitans poolside, free valet parking, discounts at neighborhood boutiques, VIP nightclub passes and a
These round-trip airfares were researched Thursday for travel on or after June 20. Fares are subject to limited availability as well as restrictions on travel dates, times and routings. For updates on low airfares from Port Columbus during the week, visit Dispatch.com/travel. CITY Atlanta
FARE AIRLINES
Boston
$170 WN
Charlotte
$186 CO, FL
Chicago
$158 CO, DL, WN
Dallas
$198 FL, F9, US, WN, YX
Denver
$178 DL
$108 AA, CO, DL, FL, F9, UA, US, YX KEY AA American AC Air Canada CO Continental DL Delta D1 Direct Air F9 Frontier FL AirTran NW Northwest UA United US US Airways WN Southwest YX Midwest
Fort Lauderdale $154 AA, CO, DL, FL, US, WN Honolulu
$681 AA
Houston
$238 WN
Kansas City
$98 YX
Las Vegas
$278 FL, UA, US
Los Angeles
$218 AA, DL, FL, UA, US, WN, YX
Memphis
$188 FL, US
Miami
$174 AA, CO, FL
Milwaukee
$158 AA, CO, UA, WN, YX
Minneapolis
$270 YX
Myrtle Beach
$318 UA
Newark
$208 CO, DL, UA, US, YX
New Orleans
$178 AA, CO, FL, UA, US, WN
New York
$188 AA, CO, DL, FL, F9, UA, US, WN, YX
Orlando
$150 US, WN
Philadelphia
$144 FL
Phoenix
$268 FL, US, WN
Pittsburgh
$206 WN
Salt Lake City
$258 WN
San Diego
$228 WN
San Francisco
$218 AA, CO, DL, FL, UA, US, WN, YX
Seattle
$218 AA, CO, DL, FL, F9, UA, US, WN, YX
St. Louis
$164 FL, WN
Tampa
$160 FL, WN
Toronto
$378 AA, AC, CO, DL, UA
Washington
$170 FL, WN
itans for two, daily continental breakfast, a red Plaza Athenee umbrella and a cake delivered upon arrival. (www. plaza-athenee-paris.com) Hotel Sorella CityCentre: This new Houston hotel’s package includes martinis at the Monnalisa Bar, a Sex and the City movie DVD, Sex and the City 2 passes, shopping discounts and a $20 gift card to Victoria’s Secret. Available through June 30; prices start at $218. Packages are also available at the Hotel Valencia Riverwalk in San Antonio and Hotel Valencia Santana Row in San Jose, Calif. (www.hotel sorella-citycentre.com)
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Brandon Shaw of Delaware and Stephanie Smithers of Perrysburg explore Torres del Paine National Park in the Patagonia region of Chile. Adventure-seekers should rent a jeep in nearby Puerto Natales and drive the park’s rough roads for an unforgettable experience, the couple says.
From left, Malorie Deakins of Lewis Center, Marcella and Joel Garverick of Mount Gilead and Melinda Deakins of Lewis Center hike the mud volcanoes of Baku, Azerbaijan. The travelers report that hiring a knowledgeable English-speaking driver will ensure that you get to see the many wonderful sights known only to the locals.
TRAVEL BRIEFS Travel ticker
Sex and the City book and DVD. Available through Sept. 7; prices start at $545. (www.hotelgansevoort.com) Affinia Hotels: Affinia Hotels in New York have a “Girls Getaway in the City” package that includes champagne, a canvas stiletto shoe bag, a Sex and the City book, shopping discount and a Sex and the City Hotspots Tour. Available through Sept. 6; prices start at $219. (www.affinia.com) Hotel Plaza Athenee Paris: This hotel, which was featured in the last episode of Sex and the City, is offering a package for fans that includes a Prestige or Presidential suite, Cosmopol-
Year-end airfares down The average airfare in the U.S. fell 7.4 percent in the last three months of 2009, the biggest year-over-year decline since 2001, the U.S. Transportation Department said. The average fare of $319 was the lowest in a fourth quarter since 2006. But it was 4.2 percent higher than the third-quarter average.
Clockwise from left, Sam, Mark, Wayne and Sammy Wirth of Pataskala pause at Cape Hatteras, N.C. The travelers suggest that when driving on the beach, lower the air pressure of your vehicle’s tires to 20 psi.
Cruise liner at Charleston For the first time, a cruise liner is permanently based on South Carolina’s coast. The Carnival Fantasy operated by Carnival Cruise Lines carries 2,056 passengers and is to make 67 calls in the next year. In the past, only a handful of passenger cruises have sailed from Charleston, and those were in winter. The State Ports Authority plans in a few years to have a cruise terminal in a renovated building on the water-
front. That would open for redevelopment the site occupied by the existing aging terminal, plus the surrounding area.
Park and a Confederate burial ground in Greater Grand Crossing.
Tours of gold mine offered
Wyoming will offer weekend guided tours this sumChicago is adding detailed mer of the Carissa Mine Mill information about its neigh- House at South Pass City, which was the site of a gold borhoods online. rush in the late 19th century. The city’s redesigned The tours offered by the travel website, www. explorechicago.org, features South Pass City State Historic Site will explain the develnearly 2,000 neighborhood opment of the mine from sites and facts, tourism 1870 to the late 1940s. officials said. Examples are a medieval — From wire reports armor shop in Norwood
Chicago expands website
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