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Book your tickets by Tuesday, May 6th for travel throught November 12, 2008
Akron/Canton $79
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Charleston $94
Charlotte $119
Chicago(Midway) $119
Dallas/Ft.Worth $119
Dayton $119
Daytona Beach $99
Denver $144
Detroit $119
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Houston(Hobby) $119
Indianapolis $119
Jacksonville $99
Kansas City $159
Las Vegas $159
Los Angeles(LAX) $159
Memphis $119
Miami $109
Milwaukee $99
Minneapolis/St. Paul $119
Moline/ Quad Cities $119
Newport News/ Williamsburg $79
Orlando $99
Pensacola/ Gulf Coast $99
Phoenix $159
Raleigh/ Durham $119
San Antonio $89
San Francisco $159
San Juan $125
Sarasota/ Bradenton $109
Savannah/Hilton Head $94
Seattle $159
Tampa $99
West Palm Beach $109
Wichita $119
Rihanna extended her star tattoo when she was in New York recently...
It's cute...
Saturday night, I'm lounging in BK with "The Lawyer" (P.Roberts) and "The Mogul" (L.Janell) we're thinking about what the night will bring us, well more like deciding what we will bring the night and so we decided to travel to SEA.
For those of you who are uninformed about this hotspot I'll take the opportunity to inform you. It's a Thai restaurant/ lounge in the Williamsburgh section of the most progressive city... yep...BROOKLYN!
We arrive at SEA only to find out that everyone else in Williamsburgh chose this exact hangout spot for tonight and we're faced with the ultimate headache of finding parking...as we circle the blocks...breaking our necks to find a spot... YES! he's coming out we got a spot, we pull in but we're all wondering the same thing "Is this a legal spot?" We thought it over briefly and was on our way inside.
The atmosphere was fun and very loud, lots of people obviously. We make our way to the bar area and order drinks and appetizers. The Village Steamed Dumplings were great, but the Pad Thai could probably win the "Best Pad Thai Award", if only that exists. The drinks were great and when the bill came it seemed like something was missing, that's how reasonable the prices were.
All in all it was a great trip... so good
that I'll suggest you take that trip to SEA... it's just that hot :)
SEA
114 North 6th Street Bklyn, NY
718.384.8850
Highlights of the night:
- L. Janell reconnects with her long lost friend
- We meet the Spanish version of "The Clumps"
- Some random guy threatens to "drop dime" on us for sitting down without being seated, as if no one ever told him that "snitches get stiches".
- The Mojito
← restroom dècor before "The Mojito"
restroom dècor after "The Mojito"→
and Drumroll please....
- The car was not towed when we got outside!!!!!!
Here's to a fabulous night at Sea
Have you ever been in the airport, at your gate most likely waiting to board only to hear an announcement over the intercom stating that your flight has been overbooked? I am almost certain you have because overbooked flights are a fact of life!!! But back to the point, the attendant goes on to ask if anyone would like to "volunteer" to give up their seat on the flight for some sort of compensation. Depending on the length of your travel, they may offer a voucher between $200 and $400; other times they offer a first class seat on the flight you're bumped too; or even a combination of both.
The question at hand... Is the "Voluntary Bump" worth it?
Ofcourse it all comes down to your individual situation, but if you can stand waiting around in the airport for an extra couple hours the "Voluntary Bump" may actually may be gratifying! (but ONLY for those with a flexible itinerary, time to waste and ultimately the willingness to sacrifice their travel plans for a possible weekend trip in puerto rico or first class flight to some random city they've been dying to visit.)
On the other hand, for all the play it safe, I'd rather not take the risk type of people the "Voluntary Bump" would never be worth it, but hey... to each it's own right?
What's funny to me is that their are some people that actually do this for a living, like making sure they're flight is overbooked and arriving at the airports with hopes of capitalizing on the "Voluntary Bump". They visit sites like www.seatcounter.com and actually research inventory management, (aka overbooking). These people know the markets with higher tendency of no-shows, they know the airports most likely to offer the best compensation, they mastered the system and they profit from it regularly.
So next time you have the "Voluntary Bump" option, it'll be up to you to make that nail-biting decision....
DEAL OR NO DEAL
The site allows you to purchase Kanye concert tickets and other performance-related merchandise, but that's not what makes the site cool. Get this, at the same time you can book your travel reservations for the event. Now that's hot!
I spent a while on the site and decided that it's worth talking about.
But I'll let you be the judge of that...
*photo courtesy of www.kanyestravel.com
I resent that every time I travel, something crazy happens. But I think what I resent more is the fact that anyone's travel that I am in any way involved, turns out to be some outrageous never-to-be-forgotten experience...
It hit me a couple weeks ago that I may have some sort of traveler's curse. I flew my bff Tevie Milan down to NY for her b-day and she had troubles at the airport. It bothered me because she always has completely seamless travel experiences and as soon as I'm involved it gets shaken up a bit.
Before this was Detroit...
Ironically I link up with Khaliah Jackson on the M60 (who knew there was a bus that took you to LGA?!?) We are pressed for time and wishing the bus speeds up it seemed like forever before we reached the US Airways departure door. We reached the counter and WHAT?!?
Ironically I link up with Khaliah Jackson on the M60 (who knew there was a bus that took you to LGA?!?) We are pressed for time and wishing the bus speeds up it seemed like forever before we reached the US Airways departure door. We reached the counter and WHAT?!?
Flight overbooked?... US Airways puts us on the next flight out to Chicago.. hoping we can make our original connecting flight. We get to Chicago and the door closed for our next flight 2 minutes before we arrived. So now we're getting frustrated because we HAVE to be in Detroit by the morning!!! When we're told the next flight wouldn't get us to Detroit until nearly 11am we move on to plan B then C and finally D... we got a Greyhound bus from Chicago to Detroit... it only took us an astronomical 8 hrs. :-( we made it however but this experience definitely goes down in history.
Not to mention the return..... a flight to Philadelphia when we needed to get to NYC... ended up taking Amtrak from PHILA to NY. We all came back to NY with some sort of ailment... from the Flu to Acute Bronchitis :-(
I don't know when I'll be back in Detroit after that. I did get to eat at Coney Island... but missed the hype that surrounds that place?
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