The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a probe last year into six of the biggest online hotel booking sites, Expedia, Booking.com, Agoda, Hotels.com, ebookers and trivago over concerns that the websites were giving false impressions to customers.
The CMA's investigation discovered this to be true!
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At the beginning of August, the New Orleans City Council passed a ban on short term rentals of whole houses not occupied by owners. New Orleans is not alone in this measure with similar regulations in San Francisco, Santa Monica, and New York City.
Many laud these new restrictions since Airbnb-style rentals have been found to increase property taxes, have negative effects on historic neighborhoods and tend to push out working-class citizens who have long called the area home. Others are outraged by these new laws, saying that short-term rentals provide a new source of income in a gig economy and more affordable options for travelers of different financial backgrounds. When it opened earlier this year, Bungalows Key Largo, triggered excitement throughout the travel industry. Located on 12-acres just 63 miles south of Miami, the luxe property represented the first all-inclusive resort ever to set-up shop in the Florida Keys and travelers far and wide took notice.
But within months of welcoming its first guests, a fire at the resort which impacted its restaurant building caused the property's indefinite closure. Travelers have since been waiting eagerly for Bungalows Key Largo to come back online and it looks like the wait may soon be over. An empty airport baggage carousel clatters around and around. Everyone but you has hauled their bags off, and finally the horrible truth dawns: Your luggage is lost.
Getting reconnected with your bag is a big deal if you're hopping aboard a cruise that won't spend more than a day in any destination. Here, we offer tips for what to do if an airline or cruise company has lost your luggage -- and how to avoid it in the future. The last thing most of us think about when we plan a cruise is the list of elements that can go wrong before and during our vacation. But, as Robert Gallagher, Senior Vice President and CEO of AIG Travel reminds us, "…there are many risk factors unique to cruising." Flight delays caused by weather or a mechanical problem can keep us from arriving to our embarkation port in time. The airline can lose our checked bags. We can get sick before we board or, even worse, mid-cruise. We might even make a boneheaded move in a port of call that makes us miss the ship and need to catch up to the in the next port of call. Plus, a host of other general issues can scuttle a vacation, such as the illness or death of a family member, cancellation of plans by a travel companion, job loss, airline delays and lost baggage.
Those reasons and so many others are why travelers seek insurance coverage. It provides that extra bit of calm and control we all crave. More importantly, it prevents you from losing money due to unforeseen circumstances and travel emergencies, and insurance fees are typically just a small percentage of your vacation expenditure. MyFuncations Note: This is an excellent article. It was originally written for cruise travelers, but the information is so in-depth and timely it benefits all travelers. Please take time to read. Sidestep unnecessary fees. Airline fees aren’t going away anytime soon.
To avoid paying hundreds of dollars in fees (on top of rising airfare costs), here are some ways you can save. Want an assigned seat or more legroom on your next flight? It’ll cost you.
Last year, the United States Department of Transportation began requiring airlines to include government taxes and other mandatory fees in their advertised fares. Optional fees, however, are a different story. If you booked an airline ticket with a U.S. carrier this summer, you likely noticed a slew of relatively new fee options covering everything from checked bags to assigned seating. The world has so many precious and beautiful gems to see that it would take an entire lifetime just to glimpse them. Touristic companies made our lives much easier by giving us countless opportunities from which to choose. But visiting a place is not only about going in museums and buying souvenirs. There are many tourists that like going on the streets of the city they visit in order to see the true atmosphere of the place.
You hop in the car with your bestie. Put the top down. Crank up the tunes … and drive! You discover iconic spots all across this great land; stop for a bite to eat at diners along the way; chat it up with the locals; and stay at quirky motels - that’s the classic North American summer road trip.
To enjoy the magic of the holiday season travel agents offer 10 suggestions for trips to these incredible Christmas-themed destinations in the U.S.
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