Las Vegas continues to grow and evolve and here’s the news you need to know about the latest hotel developments and renovations.

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by leathMany people rent a car for their holiday. It gives you more freedom and flexibility in your choice of accommodation and makes it easier explore further afield in your destination. If you travel on a package tour, where transfers from the airport to your accommodation are an additional cost, the price of car hire may not be much more than the transfers. You can check prices by using a price comparison site such as Travelsupermarket or Traveljungle. However beware of the small print in car rental agreements and don't choose your rental firm on the basis of price alone. Many so called inclusive car rental prices still leave you with an excess of several hundred pounds if you rental car is damaged or stolen. Check that there is no excess to pay or that the excess will be refunded by the car rental firm. You also have to watch out for additional charges for a second driver which could be as much as £5 per day, whereas it's included free with some companies. It's a good investment of time to read the terms and conditions before you book car rental. If you book a hotel room and you end up paying a few pounds because you didn't bother to shop around more this pales into insignificance compared to being faced with a bill for a few hundred pounds with so called inclusive car rental.
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by rickThe contents of the hotel mini bar are changing with some new additions and some deletions. A boutique style hotel in the North of England striving to offer guests everything they could desire with the additional of a sealed box of sex toys in their mini bar. The chic Vincent Hotel in Southport is due to open in April 2008. The Scandic hotel chain will cease selling bottled water to guest in order to assist in the chains move towards becoming more environmentally friendly. Their 141 hotels will offer guests filtered and chilled tap water, both still and fizzy. Hotel mini bars do attract their fair share of criticism. I'm happy if I find a mini bar in my room as I can use it to store my fresh milk to add to my cup of my tea.. I prefer fresh milk in my tea and I can't stand having to open these tiny pots of UHT milk which I usually splash all over myself. What do you like or loathe about mini bars?
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I compared several providers’ offerings for vacations in spring to San Diego. Packages include airfare, four nights’ accommodations and hotel taxes. With the exception of the Southwest deals, sample vacations include additional taxes and fees for airfare.

Sample prices for May are:

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I compared several providers’ offerings for vacations to Paris in spring, testing departures from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Packages include airfare, accommodations, and hotel taxes. Additionally, Air France Holidays and Gate 1 Travel packages offer daily breakfast. Except for Air France’s offers, packages include additional taxes and fees for airfare.

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I compared several providers’ offerings for six-night vacations to Rome in spring, testing departures from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, though other departure cities are available. Packages include airfare, accommodations, and hotel taxes. Except for Air France Holidays, packages include all additional taxes and fees for airfare.

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In Las Vegas this weekend? Then break out your best green and head on over to one of these parties to get your Irish on…

Saturday, March 15:

The Auld Dubliner (Montelago Village at Lake Las Vegas) – Live entertainment from Celtic Storm Irish Dance Company (4pm-5pm), Finnegans Wake (5:30pm-9pm), Wild Celts (9pm-close) and wandering bagpipe players (7-10pm) with samples and giveaways from Smithwicks adn Jameson whiskeyCannery Casino – Live music from U2 tribute band Rattle and Hum ($5 cover)

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Four-night packages to Orlando in spring start at $284 from select cities, making a little escape to visit Mickey and friends more affordable.

I compared several providers’ offerings for Orlando vacations, testing departures from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Packages include airfare, four nights’ accommodations, and hotel taxes. All packages include additional taxes and fees for airfare.

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On my most recent trip to South Africa I met and fell into conversation with a Danish women at a local backpackers lodge who had been in the country for a few days, and who was, within a week or so, due to take up a voluntary appointment working for a month or two at Kruger National Park. The subject drifted to local crime, and as I gave her the usual dissertation that I spare no newcomer, I could see by the smile on her face, and a general look of indulgence, that she had me down as a paranoid local white racist with an historic distrust of black people. Even as I drew her attention to the 9ft high wall surrounding the property, the steel gate at the front door, and the loops of razor wire running the length of the perimeter, she still preferred to rely on her instincts, and the surface impression one invariably gets on arrival in South Africa. To prove this point she slung her day pack over her shoulder, popped her camera in her fanny pack, and set off downtown on foot. (more…)

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We’ve just got a new batch of interesting Las Vegas hotel deals, so we’ve put them on our main Las Vegas Deals page. In case you aren’t familiar with it yet, we update that page regularly with all the best airfare+hotel deals we can get hold of, and we’ve recently started adding special hotel-only deals on top of that same page. (more…)

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