Tag Archive: new york

Four Places To Eat Down Under The Manhattan Bridge

We don’t need to tell you that hiking across the 126-year-old Brooklyn Bridge is incredibly popular with visitors to New York. But once you walk out the door of Lower Manhattan hotels like Gild Hall or the Millenium Hilton, it’s a more than two miles to cross the bridge and get back. To us, that’s…

Airtran, Virgin, & Southwest Offer Scary Good Sales

There have been all sorts of spooky airline deals coming in this week leading up to Halloween. Three airlines in particular have given passengers plenty of reasons to hop a plane and fly like a bat out of hell across the country. AirTran: The low-cost carrier wants you to skip raking the leaves and get…

Travel Blog Exchange 2010 Is Coming To New York City

This past July travel bloggers from around the world flocked to Chicago, Illinois in order to celebrate, interact, learn, and network at the first ever Travel Blog Exchange. This event covered such topics as “what is the difference between travel journalism and blogging” and “using your trip video footage to become a vlogger” just to…

Guest Nomad: Tourist Happily Trapped In NYC

This week’s “Guest Nomad” is Laura Kyle. Laura is an SEO and travel writer living in Texas’ weirdest city, Austin. Most of her work can be found on Vacation Rentals.com, the #1 site for vacation rental deals. Tourist Happily Trapped In NYC It’s okay to be a tourist when you’re little. Pointing your finger up…

A “Real Deal” This Fall In New York

What is better than New York in the fall? How about saving some cash while enjoying various attractions throughout the five boroughs. NYC & Company, which is New York City’s official marketing, tourism and partnership organization, has compiled an impressive list of 140 great things to do while the leaves change color and the air…

Oyster.com Takes Hotel Reviews To A Whole New Level

Well it is about time. That was my first reaction when I visited the website Oyster Hotel Reviews (which launched earlier this year). For years now I have been telling people that hotel websites and companies like Travelocity, Priceline, and Expedia have been kind of deceitful and misleading to the basic travel customer. These sites…

Guest Nomad: Five Steps To Becoming A Better Backpacker

As much as I love to write about travel, another thing I enjoy to do in my spare time is read other traveler’s articles, blog posts, stories, advice, and experiences. So that is why I have added a new “Guest Nomad” feature on my site starting today. Each week I will showcase someone that is…

A Clip Show: My Top 10 Articles

I have been fighting the flu all week. But today it just has hit me so hard and I have been bedridden most of the day. So I felt the need to break out the old clip show idea for today’s update. According to one definition online, “A clip show is an episode of a…