When you get off your plane and need a place to sleep in Stockholm you can now sleep… on a plane.
Stuck at the Airport? Sleep in the Cockpit
Most travelers dread the idea of staying overnight in an airplane. But soon people arriving in Stockholm, Sweden, will be able to get a good night’s sleep in the cockpit of a jumbo jet.
A hostel slated to start taking reservations in December will give backpackers a chance to pay for a night in a refurbished 1976 Boeing 747-200 at the Stockholm-Arlanda Airport in Sweden.
ProfessionalTravelGuide.com has created a list of some of the world’s largest, like the world’s largest burger.
America has always had a reputation for excess. From budget deficits to SUVs and all-you-can-eat buffets; if you can make it larger, that’s how we want it.
Thankfully for super-sizers everywhere, the spirit behind that reputation has not been lost on Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Pennsylvania. Hungry? Order ahead for their 100-lb/45-kg burger. Of course, there’s always the 6-lb/3-kg or 3-lb/1.3-kg version if you’re a wimp.
Best airline, airport for business travelers?
Portland International Airport and Virgin America are favorites among business fliers, according to the results of Conde Nast Traveler’s most recent poll of road warriors — published in the magazine’s October issue.
US House of Representatives Passes “Travel Promotion Act of 2008″
The “Travel Promotion Act,” H.R. 3232, introduced by Representatives William Delahunt (D-MA) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) and co-sponsored by 243 additional members of the House of Representatives, establishes a public-private partnership to promote the United States as a premier international travel destination and communicate US security and entry policies. The bill specifies that travel promotion would be paid for - at no cost to US taxpayers - by private sector contributions and a modest fee on foreign travelers who do not pay $131 for a visa to enter the United States. Nearly every developed nation in the world spends millions of dollars to attract visitors.
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October 2nd, 2008 at 5:29 am
Yeah, good luck with that trying to attract travelers to the US thing… Especially when they’ve made it clear that they’re ready to seize electronic devices, laptops, cameras, etc at the airport for an unspecified period of time, decrypt and copy the contents. And then there’s the whole Homeland Security paranoia, “everyone could be a terrorist.”
Doesn’t give me incentive to travel to the USA at all.