Archive for the ‘Fall Travel’ Category

Stephen King’s Sold Out Halloween Tour, Laptop Searches and Flier Mile Changes

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

If you’re trying to book last-minute Halloween travel, act fast. Bangor, Maine’s “Tommyknockers & More” tour , a bus ride touching on popular locations featured in Stephen King’s best selling novels and movies, has already sold out.

If you travel for personal or business reasons, you may be surprised to find out laptops are just as vulnerable to airport searches as are suitcases. CNN.com reports: “Seized laptops and copied hard drives seem like business travellers’ apocryphal stories, but the issue was recently brought to light by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives. Their informal survey of 2,500 international members found that 90 percent did not know that U.S. customs officials had the right to scrutinize, copy or even seize laptops without having to give a reason.”

According to GridSkipper.com, frequent flier customers should use their miles or lose them. Both U.S. Airways and Delta are changing their mile expiration between December 31, 2006 and January 1, 2007.

Haunted Hideaways

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Ulster Park, NY, in the Hudson Valley, hosts a spine-tingling haunted house complete with headless horseman hayrides that span an entire mile, a labyrinth-styled corn maze and loads of family fun. Tickets are just $25 plus tax, recommended for children eight years of age and up.

In Greensboro, North Carolina, you don’t dare miss The Woods of Terror, winner of MSNBC.com’s Top 20 Scarefests and rated Number one by Clear Channel Radio in Triad, NC. Your tour of terror includes 15 heart-stopping attractions including the Boneyard, the Black Hole, the Tomb, the backwoods Slaughter House and the Haunted Gold Mine.

If you’re near Saint Louis or Southern Illinois, you’ll have a devilish time at Scarefest 2006. Scare yourself silly at the area’s biggest and best haunted houses including the Crematory, Tombstone Haunted Ghost Town, The Darkness or Silo-X.

In other travel news:

- Frequent travelers to Mexico or Canada may soon be paying $20 for a credit card-sized travel document in lieu of a passport.
- Disney announced the launch of a healthier menu limiting fat, sugar and calories

Trick or Travel

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

While most hope they never see Hell, millions of people are planning visits every year. Hell, Michigan, just 20 miles from Ann Arbor, is looking to transform its quaint neighborhood into a Halloween mecca. At least you can say you’ve been to Hell.

How would you like to experience something truly chilling? Why not plan a tour of a haunted bus or walk a historic cemetery by lantern light, learning burial customs and superstitions. You might also want to visit Naperville, Illinois for a spectacular dinner and ghost tour at the Haunted Mansion. Tell Casper we said ‘hi’.

For a completely original and creative Halloween expedition, visit the Netherworld Haunted House in Norcross, Georgia. Here you’ll find professional actors, monsters and Hollywood-style special effects. Guest enter curious and exit through a whirling Vortex filled with fear and disorientation.

In New York, tortured lost souls and Lucifer’s Rejects spook visitors at Trapped in Purgatory. You’ll get in the Halloween spirit with strobe effects, animated characters and fog machines. There’s afternoon events for the kids, too.