Category Archives: Travel

Ask the Expert: BookIt.com and Spirit Air

Do you know anything about bookit.com and Spirit Airlines? Their deals sound too good to be true. — Stanton, via e-mail I’ve done some research and bookit.com seems to be a good site with lots of information in addition to a booking engine. I’d give it a try and compare it to some of theContinue reading “Ask the Expert: BookIt.com and Spirit Air”

Tip: Choosing the Best Seat on (Almost) any Flight

Originally published in GPS.OutTraveler.com If you think it’s enough to just choose your seat on a flight using only the airline’s propietary website, oh grasshopper, listen well. Sure you may know the best seat on the flight(s) you take most regularly. But what about choosing seats on a new airline or one you fly infrequently?Continue reading “Tip: Choosing the Best Seat on (Almost) any Flight”

Travel Tech Roundup: “Wild” App, Euro B&Bs & Global Entry

Originally published in GPS.OutTraveler.com With over 100,000 apps for the iPhone alone and a blizzard of travel Web sites and booking engines to choose from, sometimes you need a guiding hand to show you the one or two nuggets that may actually make your life easier. Our occasional Travel Tech Roundup attempts to do justContinue reading “Travel Tech Roundup: “Wild” App, Euro B&Bs & Global Entry”

Tip: Best Day and Time to Buy Airline Tickets

Originally published in GPS.OutTraveler.com If you’ve gone online to purchase airline tickets, you’ve probably noticed the surprisingly large discrepancies in price depending on the day of the week or time of day that you search. This can be confusing and frustrating. Makes you yearn for the good old days of travel agents! Turns out thereContinue reading “Tip: Best Day and Time to Buy Airline Tickets”

Black & Blue and “Raide” All Over

Originally published in GPS.OutTraveler.com Black & Blue celebrates its 20th anniversary this October starting today and going through October 12, 2010. Raide means stiff or hard in French. You can translate the double-entendre in the title of this posting however you wish. But you may very well be stiff as a board after a nightContinue reading “Black & Blue and “Raide” All Over”

Cool Capitals Announces Chance to Win a Trip for 2

Story by Ed Salvato; originally published in GPS.OutTraveler.com Charge up that digital camera and whiten your smile! coolcapitals — a joint initiative between the tourism offices of: Amsterdam, Antwerp, Valencia, Vienna and Zürich to promote art, architecture, food, fashion and design recently announced the Two for You! contest. These capitals of cool want to sendContinue reading “Cool Capitals Announces Chance to Win a Trip for 2”

In Buenos Aires Get to the Pink Point

Story by Ed Salvato; originally published in GPS.OutTraveler.com Hot off the heels of becoming the first nation in Latin America to offer same-sex marriage rights to its gay citizens, Argentina announced another first — the opening of a new center for LGBT visitors to the capital district, Buenos Aires. Pink Point Buenos Aires is aContinue reading “In Buenos Aires Get to the Pink Point”

Q&A: Cheap Gay-Friendly London Hotels

Question from a reader about finding a cheap, but nice and gay-friendly London hotel. Question I am planning a trip to London in the next few months and am having a difficult time finding information on reasonable yet clean and modern lodging. While I realize that London is one of the most expensive cities toContinue reading “Q&A: Cheap Gay-Friendly London Hotels”

Get Your Gay on: LGBT Event Round-up

Lots of upcoming events and travel deals for gay and lesbian travelers — even armchair travelers — all over the world. Gay Travel Expo in NYC The New York City Gay Travel Expo takes place Wednesday May 12 from 4pm to 9pm. According to the event organizers: you can learn about new travel destinations, rediscoverContinue reading “Get Your Gay on: LGBT Event Round-up”