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| Let e-books be your guide - Boston Globe Posted: 19 Nov 2010 10:41 PM PST All iPad users: Leave that hefty travel tome at home and download an interactive electronic guidebook for your next adventure. Lonely Planet has released e-books for three cities and a dozen countries, including Japan, Britain, Thailand, Italy, and New Zealand. Each e-book features thousands of hyperlinks that direct you to hotels, restaurants, and attraction websites and detailed maps with imbedded points of interest. You can bookmark pages, take notes on travel highlights, and search for specific information. The only catch: You need to be online to access all links. You can download the e-books through iTunes. Prices from $12.99 to $17.99. www.lonelyplanet.com/ebooks CheapCaribbean.com has launched its new Bazaarvoice Ratings and Reviews feature to benefit the beach-bound. Travelers looking for feedback on a resort can visit its main page at CheapCaribbean.com and find an overall "palm tree'' rating (from one to five), a detailed ratings summary, and a link to reviews by fellow travelers. People booking a CheapCaribbean.com vacation are asked to rate their trip when they return, offering feedback on value, service, beaches/pools, dining options, and room comfort. They can even share photos and videos. The reviews cover hotels and resorts only in Mexico and the Caribbean. To date, travelers have provided more than 10,000 posts. www.cheapcaribbean.com For a winter getaway, head to Camelback Inn in Arizona's Sonoran Desert, where the daily highs average 75 degrees. Located on 125 acres in Paradise Valley, the inn offers private hiking trails and meditation areas and 453 guest rooms and suites. The Scottsdale property, a JW Marriott Resort & Spa, also has six all-weather lighted tennis courts, two 18-hole golf courses designed by Arthur Hills, and a spa offering loofah treatments, an adobe clay purification wrap, or a traditional massage. Five restaurants serve everything from Southwestern fare with a Mexican twist to American steakhouse cuisine with a French influence. Children can hang out at the kids' pool or playground. Rates from $279. 800-242-2635, www.camelbackinn.com KARI BODNARCHUK © Copyright 2010 Globe Newspaper Company. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Your Black Friday 2010 Guide - YAHOO! Posted: 19 Nov 2010 10:10 AM PST For those serious holiday shoppers Black Friday 2010 is around the bend as it comes as no surprise that Black Friday deems the busiest time for great deals, awesome steals and bargains like never before. But are you prepared? With this strategic Black Friday game plan you are one step closer to your successful Black Friday goals. Map out a plan. This is where the blueprints are created. Master a plan, based on Black Friday sale ads, from beginning to end. Early bird specials are the best deals of the season so timing is everything depending upon what store opens up first. Once you have a list of stores, and which one to hit first to last including a brunch in between, write it down and map it out - with a map. Also, it is wise to use a GPS if needed. Gathering coupons. Cut or print out all coupons that appeal to your shopping needs. Be cautious of Black Friday ads that share detailed information without a coupon. You could call a local store to assure of the offer's authenticity. After gathering coupons stick them inside of your purse. Support has arrived and the more, the merrier. Collect a couple of good shopping buddies to take the Black Friday journey of incredible markdowns and price slashers. Once you know how many are going, plan accordingly. Good music, beverages and snacks, don't leave home without them. Grab a good CD, couple of them, and either bring a full cooler or stop by a convenient store on the way to department stores. Another good idea is to simply take some coffee in a travel mug. These are some of the things that gives a shopping trip flavor. Warm jacket, gloves and hat may be required during the a.m. hours of Black Friday, when the stores open up for business. Most of the time, even in the southern states, Black Friday can be a frigidly fierce beginning to the holiday season. Luggage of a purse to pack away that jacket, gloves and hat is not such a bad idea. Instead of lugging around your jacket, gloves or hat to each store simply tuck them away inside of your purse and continue with that Black Friday shopping. Use a purse that they would fit into. You may not regret it. Trunk space is a must if you plan on packing the purchases inside of the trunk. Clean out the trunk of the car. While you are at it you might as well clean out the front and back seat too. Make sure that there is plenty of foot room. Every inch counts on Black Friday. Wearing comfortable shoes matters on Black Friday. Whether sneakers, loafers, flats or heels, anything that can avoid blisters is your best bet. It is perfectly fine to wear dressy shoes, as long as they offer proper support for the make of each foot. Take cell phones, talk radios or anything you can use for communication. Talkies can be used inside of shopping locations for one shopper to communicate with another. Cell phones are handy if you need to contact someone whether sale related or not. Plus, it is good to have a cell phone in case of emergency. Medication, whether prescription or over the counter, should never be left behind. For instance, if you need an inhaler at times, don't forget to put an inhaler inside of your purse. Or if you end up with a headache and may need an over the counter headache reliever. Make sure that is accessible as well. These 10 things to do when preparing for Black Friday can assist in making it one of the best shopping days of the year. So, eat plenty of turkey on Thanksgiving Day, get plenty of sleep on Thanksgiving night to wake up in the dark to take on each store, as planned. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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