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Here’s a list of the Coolest New hotel Pools from AOL Travel
1. Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
2. The Villa by Barton G., Miami
3. Gansevoort Park Avenue, New York
4. Al Bustan Palace InterContinental Muscat, Muttrah, Oman
5. The Olsen, Melbourne, Australia
6. Four Seasons Maui at Wailea, Hawaii
7. W Hotel, Fort Lauderdale
8. Thompson Toronto, Toronto
9. La Mamounia, Marrakech, Morocco
10. The Joule, Dallas
Below is a list of Top 10 Honeymoon Destinations from AOL Travel by Annie Scott.
1. Best Honeymoon Destinations: Bora Bora
If you want to be somewhere exotic and secluded, Bora Bora may be just what your heart desires. You can stay in a little hut over the water with a glass floor through which you can see fish, and have breakfast brought to you each morning by canoe. They specialize in romance in Bora Bora and have amenities from hiking and fishing to luxurious spa rituals.
A LONDON restaurant is asking customers to pay only what they want for meals in a bid to beat the credit crunch.
The Little Bay restaurant in central London will present diners with absolutely nothing when they ask for the cheque during February, leaving it up to them to decide what the meal was worth.
“Anything between a penny and 50 pounds ($111) will make me happy, it’s entirely up to the customer to decide,” restaurateur owner Peter Ilic said.
A TEENAGE girl has suffered a dislocated jaw as ten half-tonne bulls kicked at screaming spectators during Mexico’s chaotic version of “Running of the Bulls.”
The tradition, enacted in a handful of Mexican towns, traces its roots back to the centuries-old Pamplona bull-run in Mexico’s former colonial power.
But unlike Pamplona, where a pack of bulls chases people for a few minutes down a carefully cordoned-off path, in Tlacotalpan the beasts are let loose to rampage through the streets for hours as crowds taunt them.
ATLANTA – Hoping the price cuts will woo cash-strapped travelers, the nation’s tourist destinations are taking a page from the retail playbook, offering deep discounts and freezing gate prices.
There are free stays offered at Walt Disney World in Florida and coupons worth $15 at Pennsylvania’s Hershey Park. The Georgia Aquarium, the world’s largest fish tank, is holding admission at last year’s prices.
Although Carnival (Carnaval in Portuguese) is celebrated in towns and villages throughout Brazil and other Catholic countries, Rio de Janeiro has long been regarded as the Carnival Capital of the World. The Rio Carnaval is not only the biggest Carnival, benchmark against which every other carnival is compared but also one of the most interesting artistic events on the Globe. Pretty much everyone has heard of the Rio Carnaval. Foreign visitors to it alone number around 500,000 every year.
DALLAS – American Airlines is limiting the number of passengers on some planes while it orders additional life rafts needed in case of a water landing like the one made this month on the Hudson River by a US Airways jet.
American will allow no more than 228 people including passengers and crew on its Boeing 767-300 aircraft, which normally holds 236 people including a crew of 11, spokesman Tim Wagner said Wednesday.
The planes are mostly used on flights over the Atlantic to Europe, and to Latin America.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Mardi Gras in the U.S. means New Orleans. In South America, it’s Brazil, and in Europe, it’s Venice.
But in the Caribbean, Trinidad is the place to be for carnival, with a celebration of culture, calypso and cuisine, complete with parades, elaborate costumes, bands and masquerade balls.