Travel News and Stories for 11/11/2009 : Kathika Travel Website

By newsdesk on November 11th, 2009

Below is a list of travel news and stories for 11/11/2009

From Swimming Pools and Saunas to Daggers and Felines, The Best and Worst Airports in the World
Folks who do catch some shut-eye between flights rank the world’s airports according to snooze-ability (the rather straightforward motto for SleepingInAirports.net is, "Looking to save on hotel bills? Why not sleep in the airport!").
http://abcnews.go.com

7 Historic Hollywood Landmarks
Whether it’s Grauman’s Chinese Theater or that iconic nine letter sign, Hollywood is rife with historical landmarks. Here are seven that had a small part in making Hollywood the movie capital of the world.
http://www.mentalfloss.com

Queen Mary’s little gas problem
When Mel McBeth and his wife booked a cruise on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 last year, they weren’t expecting any additional charges. But that’s exactly what they got when the cruise line helped itself to another $180, which it claimed was a fuel surcharge, on the day they paid for their vacation.
http://www.elliott.org

Victim of seatback police: “It felt like we had somehow landed in a World War II movie”
Beware of the airline seatback cops. They recently nabbed Cheryl Smith, and they could be coming for you.
http://www.elliott.org

TSA Stops Medical Supplies for Cape Verde?
Over the weekend, an article ran stating that TSA Officers in Boston had stopped medical supplies from traveling in checked baggage to Cape Verde.
http://www.tsa.gov

Niagara Falls: New Niagara Airport Has Free WiFi But No Flights
If Pam and Jim’s wedding on The Office got you feeling all warm and fuzzy inside, then a new airport wants to help you experience Niagara Falls for all its worth. The Niagara Falls International Airport is almost ready to go as the finishing touches are being completed on the almost $32 million terminal.
http://www.jaunted.com

Hurricane Ida Is In Your Caribbean, Messing With Your Cruises
You know the cruising season has begun when the hurricanes and tropical storms lay into the Caribbean; it’s just a hazard of the peak season. Still, this week we’ve been watching the progress of Hurricane Ida, which began way down in Central America and worked its way due north, eroding beaches in Cozumel and Grand Cayman before just not being downgraded back to Tropical Storm in advance of landfall in Mississippi.
http://www.jaunted.com

Feeling hungry? World’s scariest foods
Welcome to our international culinary chamber of horrors.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com

Wife/mother/worker/spy: When Jet Lag Comes With the Booty
After traveling through three foreign countries, a mother sees jet lag in a whole new way.
http://www.nytimes.com

How Technology Is Indelibly Changing the Ways in Which We Travel
When Google Street View recently hit the roads of my native Canada, it blew my mind. Here I was, sitting 6,426 kilometers away at my desk in Aarhus, Denmark staring at my green aging front door in Toronto, Ontario, as if the time and space between us was a figment of my imagination. As I peered into my laptop’s glass screen, looking for hints of familiarity, I was struck with a feeling of unease.
http://www.vagabondish.com

Remote African nation saves rare giraffes from extinction
Niger doesn’t get in the news much. This landlocked Saharan nation doesn’t have much in the way of national resources, is listed by the UN as one of the world’s least developed countries, and yet it has a serious attitude towards conservation.
http://www.gadling.com

Today’s debate: Is Oasis of the Seas too complicated for a first-time cruiser?
There’s never been a cruise ship with as many onboard diversions as Royal Caribbean’s soon-to-debut Oasis of the Seas. But there’s a corollary to that statement, say some Cruise Log readers: There’s never been a cruise ship that has required quite as much advance planning and knowledge to experience fully.
http://www.usatoday.com

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