Travel Stories and News 3/14/2009 : Kathika Travel Website

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Here’s a few interesting travel news stories we found across the web for 3/14/2009

San Francisco’s Orchard hotels are not an April Fools’ joke
The lengths to which companies in the travel industry will go to attract customers know no bounds. The latest jawdropper comes from San Francisco’s Orchard and Orchard Garden Hotel, which are charging $1 per room per night ($1. 16 after taxes) throughout the month of April. Rooms at these hotels normally go for $159 per night. To cash in on this hotel deal, get ready to book your room on Wednesday, April 1, at 10 a.m. You will have to use the promo code “Fool!”

The largest swimming pool in the world
According to Guinness World Records, the man-made “lagoon” at the San Alfonso del Mar resort at Algarrobo, Chile is the largest swimming pool in the world.

Buckingham Palace Tops List of the Least Green Buildings in London
Buckingham Palace, the main residence of British sovereigns for almost 175 years, leaks so much energy it could be a sieve. That’s the upshot of news reports from London detailing results of an energy survey of 170 buildings.

Bora-Bora: Over and under
Bora-Bora is a dream landscape just 160 miles northwest of Tahiti. L.A. Times photographer Bob Chamberlin caught both sides of this island where ultra-luxurious hotels have sprouted in the past few years — all designed to lure the world’s most affluent travelers to this fabled South Pacific island.

Boeing 777 safety measures ‘insufficient’ to prevent risk of disaster
The National Transportation Safety Board said that passengers could not be sure that the procedures, adopted by airlines flying Boeing 777s with Rolls-Royce engines, would work.