Tagged With "Consumer Reports"
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Re: Journey to Jordan: Amman and Jarash
I really enjoyed the pictures and the report! I'm looking forward to more. It's always interesting to realize that there was a Mediterranean world that was not so "European" or "African"
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Re: Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, California
Great report. Good to hear that the sales people were not like those portrayed in Pretty Woman! Did you spot any movie stars?
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Re: Madeira gets its ferry back
Apologies: an uncorrected version of the report appeared early this morning. Conflicting partial reports from earlier in the spring, along with difficulty in translation, led to the error. The corrected version appears above.
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Re: Everyone loves a parade and party!
Just another example of how warm and friendly people are around the world. No TV or Newspaper report. Lots of colours in their clothing. And I'm pleased to see the Bagpipes travel so well ! You didn't say if you fell under the spell of a curry meal. But a wonderful flavour of the day.
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Re: Macaroons in a Paris bakery
I'm not a big fan of macarons (sorry, world!) but among them my favorites are coffee and Fruits Rouges. I noticed recently that there is a caramel with sea salt one now available...will report on that in July.
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Re: Where Gumbo Was #14: A Sewer Journey
IslandMan - Good one ! Your island home of Malta is an interesting case in point of modern water and wastewater management. The limestone and clay geology there leads to rapid groundwater runoff during the winter rains. Because of this, precious water is reused after treatment in one of the two above ground sewer plants. Water has always been a very valuable resource on the island. Perhaps you might like to make a report sometime about the natural springs and history of the Maqluba doline in...
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Re: Way To Earn a Few Bucks for Travel
I'd be curious to see if Amazon Mechanical Turk is still accepting workers from other countries other than the US.I'll do some research and report back.
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Re: Staying In Touch on the Road: Part 2
This is a great report PHeymont!Exactly the step by step instructions we all need.Can't wait for parts 3 and 4.
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Re: Finishing college. Need help planning trip to U.K,
Hi everyone! I'm back. Just arrived at my parents home for Thanksgiving. Not had a lot of time to work on this trip since I last visited TravelGumbo, but some progress to report. I have a firm ticket reservation for Manchester, returning from Paris, though a few days off the dates we talked about. But 29 days in Europe! Whooppeee!! I have a guidebook from the Library which I'm going to go through this long weekend (one by Fodors). I think this will help. Anyone know of a good pocket size...
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Re: The Worst Train in the World
Jill, one thing I didn't think to say when I wrote this report is, consider buying 2nd class seats. I could see into the next car, as it swayed in the opposite direction from ours, and it was fitted with wooden benches, presumably bolted down and consequently a less harrowing ride. It may be more crowded but also more interesting.
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Re: Banksy Opens up a Bemusement Park in England
While we are anxiously waiting for Macs report, here is Dismaland's official trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2NG-MgHqEk
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Re: Touring Telemark County in Norway
A most interesting report and photos. I love the story of the building of the church.
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Re: New Orleans—Museum Highlights Young Voices of Resilience
Thanks for, in a way, welcoming me back. My last visit was a grim one, working as a volunteer preparing flooded houses for rebuilding (or demolition) a year after Katrina. In many ways, I've put off coming back, in part in anger at how little was done and how long it took, and in part a fear of finding something like New-Orleansland. While I know nothing can ever be the same...and many things shouldn't be...I see, both through the report and through the children, reason to return!
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Re: Banksy Opens up a Bemusement Park in England
I can't wait for your report Mac! That's one park I really like to see.
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Re: Banksy Opens up a Bemusement Park in England
I saw a report on this a few days ago and wondered when the lawsuit would be filed.
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Re: Food Tours of Sicily: Catania
Great trip report, Paul. The food was certainly interesting and diverse. We were in Sicily in 2014, but we did not visit either of your cities mentioned in the article. Your article made me realize the fun and learning you can experience on one of these tours. maybe next year. keep up the good work.
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Re: Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt seeing visitors again
The report I took figures from made that distinction, likely because some sources report report figures separately for Balearics and Canaries. In that light, I thought it useful to mention. Since the context was the thin margin for Spain over Greece, I will venture a guess that separating Greece's islands from the mainland would drastically alter the rankings.
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Oct. 4, 2014: A Courtyard in Marrakech
Mac, will you by any chance be going to Taroudant? I was there briefly years ago and am thinking of returning for a longer visit. Wherever you go, I'll look forward to your report and in particular, about your experiences in smaller places.
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Re: Route 66 - Pasadena to Needles
I n the mid-90s the National Park Service sent a team of professionals to do a survey of surviving road and features of the entire route, Chicago to the Santa Monica Pier, with my husband as illustrator for the report. I don't know if it's generally available but it might be interesting reading for someone with more than a casual interest.
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Re: A Visit to Saudi Arabia: Part II
Very interesting to see this report since I worked for a Saudi company from 1978 to 2013 but I think I made my list trip there around 2005 or so -- things have changed quite a bit! Here's an example of how downtown Jeddah looked in 1979.
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Re: Visiting Patagonia. 1) El Calafate, Argentina
Wow Karl!! You have really upped the ante with this!! It has always been on my (our) list and your excellent report just wants me to empty the piggy bank!! I LOVE the clouds....
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Re: GPS v. Sicily = WTF
Sounds like your GPS just wants you to have the most interesting trip! My wife and I refer to the GPS as Sybil, a nickname we gave after one we used in Chicago kept taking us into dead-ends and up wrong-way streets until we became skilled at interpreting her prophecies...as Heraclitus described an ancient Sybil: The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god. Enjoy the rest of...
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Re: On the Beach: A sculptural homage to La Barceloneta (Where Gumbo Was #34)
Jonathan L did indeed identify the location...the e-mail was overlooked while writing the report!
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Re: Republic of San Marino
Great report and photos! I'll make sure that I add San Marino on my ever expanding travel list.
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Re: Top 7 Things to do in Avalon – Catalina Island
Thanks Samantha, great report! I'm from Southern California and I sure miss going to Catalina. My favorite thing has to be watching the flying fish as you take the ferry across. They used to rent motorboats to go around the island yourself, which was cool. Do they still do that?
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Re: Dismaland - the new 'post-apocalyptic' bemusement park in England
That's a terrific report, Mac -- I feel like I've been there! So this is what Disneyland is like to someone who's on a "bad trip". There's satire, and then there's a rip off of intellectual copyrights that supposedly the western world has agreed to abid with. I can't see Disney not going after these guys. Unless you didn't have to pay anything to get in, there's quite a few pounds switching hands and Disney definitely wants it share. And PHeymont, I'm surprised an adult who likes Las Vegas...
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Re: Yellowstone National Park in Winter
Thanks so very much for making us a part of your fascinating road-trip by sharing your visit to this unique place at such a special time. It's so rare to actually talk to someone who visited Yellowstone in the winter, much less to read such a wonderfully written report and to share in your experience through your beautiful photos. I'm sorry you didn't get to see wolves in the wild, but in this you are not alone. As many times as I've been in the wilderness, I've yet to see them (though I was...
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Re: Signs of Boston
Fascinating and excellent photos of all the shops - what imagination some folks have!! Thanks for a great report Dr. F.
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Re: Budget airlines pushing seat squeeze on new planes
Thomas Cook do charter flights - they sell you a complete vacation. Hotel, food, car rental, adventure tours from your hotel and flights. Probably find something in there that's not up to scratch. But complain ? No... not I. I'm looking forward to your report from Berlin. Maybe we'll do a long weekend from Liverpool to Schoenefeld (nr. Berlin) Easy Jet do it for £25 - £45 each way. And for that price I'll sit on the wing for 2 hours !! Would TravelGumbo sponsor you to write a report on this...
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Re: Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
While this report is interesting in one regard, I find myself disturbed by the discussion of Woodrow Wilson that leaves out so many negative aspects of Wilson's legacy. Negative enough that students at Princeton have been trying to get his name off buildings. Wilson was a racist. A member of the KKK, or at least a friend. He showed Birth of A Nation, a racist, pro-Klan movie in the White House. He segregated the civil service, which had been one of the ways that Black workers had been able...
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Re: J. M. W. Turner in San Francisco
It sounds appealing but I also have a summer of commitments... But please do report back on what you find, PM! I love Turner's work.
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Re: Portland, Oregon — Part I - Eating
Great report on our trip. We'll be back and good to have your notes to refer to. Craft beers next time!
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Re: Are ATM's at European airport going to cost you more?
The article linked is 7 months old and I still see a Barclay's atm in Heathrow terminal 5, 2 at Gatwick, despite the author's report to the contrary, also at Luton. It may be that there are fewer options than previously, but it doesn't appear quite as dire as he suggests.
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Re: Studies: travel abroad=more creative, outgoing, smarter
Not only is travel good for the mind, it good for health as well. The report commissioned by the US Travel Association also quotes previous studies that show women who travel twice a year have significantly reduced chance of heart attacks or coronary death and men who didn't take a vacation had a 20 percent higher risk of of death.
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Re: A Marvelous Food Tour in Krakow!
Another colourful and indepth report from a beautiful city. An inexpensive and friendly location. I wish I'd booked more time there.
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Re: When the Going Gets Rough, the Tough Go Sailing
We wore our full foulies (foul weather gear) and PFDs (personal flotation devices - life jackets). This was on a day when the America's Cup race was cancelled due to conditions. Our fleet can report that neither boat nor crew were lost. " Semper Paratus "
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Re: A Quiet Irish Island
Thanks for the glimpse of a place with so much more than I might have guessed, and for the personal touches that make it so much more than a "trip report."
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, July 17th, 2014:Boeing Dreamliner
Thanks for the report! Ive been waiting to hear about it from somebody I know! How about the wings? Can you see the difference from the inside of the cabin in movement?
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Re: London Hits Visitor Record, Manchester Wants More
I'm not sure if all of their reasons to why tourism is up in Manchester are right, but at least some of them are. I think the main reasons tourism's up is that people are discovering how nice a destination it is and how inexpensive the city can be compared to London. And they tell their friends. Visit Manchester has really done a great job promoting the city and it's paying off. Here's a trip report from Gumbo! https://www.travelgumbo.com/blo...ty-will-surprise-you
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Re: Airfare bill would roll back consumer protection
With the continuing unbundling of fares, it's important that people get some idea of what their flight will actually cost. I don't understand the airlines opposition to it. Most of them use the same tactics and it's unlikely someone won't fly because their true fare is revealed (though a few might not). People need clarity to make well-informed choices.
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Re: Airfare bill would roll back consumer protection
It was a task to compare fares before the law, so I hope it doesn't revert back. Gotta love the name of the new bill. I guess it's opposite day again.
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Charleston's Grand Mansions: Middleton Place
On a recent visit to Charleston, South Carolina, I bought a 2-day pass, called the Charleston Heritage Passport , at the North Charleston Visitor Center near the airport, and planned to include as many of the sites it offered of...
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San Marino
This past May I was able to satisfy a childhood dream of visiting San Marino. After completing a fourth grade report on this place we finally spent a night there. This also comes after traveling in Italy since 1980. The republic is a beautiful place...
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Peer to Peer Travel Expands
A plethoria of Peer to Peer travel sites changing the way people travel. http://travel.france24.com/content/peer-peer-travel-redefining-landscape-report
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Vacation Day HOARDERS; What are you waiting for?
According to Expedia's annual Vacation Deprivation report (yes, they really call it that!), Americans failed to take 577,000,000 vacation days they were entitled to last year. While some people may be saving for a longer trip, most of it just expires....
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We Love our Travel Gadgets--And We Take Them with Us
TripAdvisor has published a report on how we travel, and found that 85% of us take our smartphones along on vacation, and 61% use social media while traveling. Not surprised, are you? REPORT
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Selling Toronto Island terminal to fund more flights
Porter Aviation, which built and owns the Toronto Island Billy Bishop terminal featured in Gumbo's Where in the World Puzzle #71 , is selling the terminal to an investment group. But no fears for the convenient downtown airport—Porter is getting...
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Washington Oaks Garden: a Peaceful Paradise in Florida
With all that Florida has to offer, you'd think it would be hard for anybody to pick a favorite place in the state. In my case though, it's not. By a mile,my favorite place is Washington Oaks Gardens State Park. Washington Oaks is one of the most...
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Will foreign transactions fees fade away?
Foreign transaction fees, that annoying 3% (usual rate) that your card issuer charges to translate your 100€ hotel room into dollars, seem to be fading...but slowly, according to a survey by creditcards.com. The fees, which can add up to a...