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London, luxury hotel deals, tragedy in Israel

So in London I'll be staying at a Korean B&B: House of Elizabeth - the website is not English though. It's kind of like a hostel but they do have a "suite" that's going to cost us 90 GBP a night. It has a private bathroom. The location is supposed to be good - near Victoria Station. The food will be rice and side dishes in the morning. For dinner you can cook yourself Ramen noodles and they have rice. We're assuming we can bring our own stuff to cook if we want since the noodles aren't all that healthy.

And here are a couple of articles I thought were worth sharing:

Interesting article here about travel deals for luxury hotels as corporations and individuals are not going to fancy resorts like they used to:

For example, Four Seasons hotels in New York, Miami and Scottsdale, Ariz., have been offering a third night free. For Christmas, the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Florida has a family holiday package that offers two connecting rooms for the price of one (starting at $249 a night), as well as access to the resort’s kids’ camp, which normally costs $65 for each child. In Miami’s South Beach, the sleek Angler’s Resort is now offering rooms on the weekend of Dec. 26 for about $260 a night, almost $200 less than the price quoted a little over a month ago, while the popular Hotel of South Beach, which reported being completely sold out for that weekend a month ago, now has rooms available starting at $267 a night, rates more comparable to what the hotel charges in the off-season.

In the Caribbean, the Bitter End Yacht Club on Virgin Gorda, which rarely offers discounts during the high season, is offering 25 percent off through April for travelers who book its seven-night Reefing the Rates deal by Jan. 5. CuisinArt Resort & Spa in Anguilla is handing out $500 resort credits to guests who stay five nights between Jan. 4 and March 2009. Caneel Bay on St. John and Little Dix Bay on Virgin Gorda are offering a fifth night free from Jan. 3 through April. And Parrot Cay, on a private island in the Turks and Caicos, is offering seven nights for the price of five between Jan. 10 and March 12. That brings a weeklong stay in a garden-view room to $3,875, down from $5,425 — a deal that can be combined with an “early bird offer” of breakfast and dinner for the week at no extra cost, if booked by Jan. 31.

This article caught my attention because it's about travel agents hurt in Israel. Apparently the driver was trying to race another bus and lost control. I hope he gets in big trouble.

Posted by James Trotta at December 17, 2008 11:48 PM