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The airlines have been hurting something awful for, like, seven years. And naturally that pain has been transferred to you, the consumer. Here are some tips from travel guru Pauline Frommer (that I picked up from her talk at the Atlanta Travel and Adventure Show) on how to fly cheap:
In the midst of the “Eat, Pray, Love” craze, spiritual quests seem like they’re a dime a dozen. But the price of actually pulling one off can be much steeper. You don’t necessarily have to be loaded, though, to swing a spiritual sojourn. Convents and monasteries, such as Orval Abbey in Belgium, offer travelers places to crash that are often cheaper than standard hotels.
The other day, I was chatting with a co-worker about The New York Times’ list of “31 Places to Go in 2010.” We agreed that Sri Lanka sounds like lovely place to see, but that — seriously, after Tightwad 2009, who has the cash for that kind of trip? After I got back to my desk, I was tooling around the Web and came across an amusing retaliation list: “10 Places Not to Go in 2010,” which includes Pakistan, Scranton, Pa., and my personal favorite, Rotorua, New Zealand, a place that, because of its geothermal activity, reeks like “cheesy feet.”
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