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Here are even more tips, tricks and bargains for the Las Vegas Strip. There is more transportation information, Dining and Drinking, free and interesting things to do, good websites and more.

First, a note on asking for room upgrades. Ask if they have any complimentary upgrades. That means you are asking for a free upgrade. Otherwise they will probably just tell you the cost to upgrade, which may be… Continue reading

Since we are leaving next week for Vegas, I thought I would share some tips, tricks, discounts, websites, etc that I have picked up while planning this trip.

Airfare:

By checking Travelocity, Airfarewatchdog and other airfare sites, I ended up getting very good priced tickets: $254 air from Dayton (+taxes, $601 for 2). We will take carryons only = no charge. We live in Fort Wayne, but I… Continue reading

We go to Chiang Saen on the Mekong River and take a longtail boat ride. We stop at Don Sao in Laos for some Snake Whiskey, we go to our hotel, Phowadol Resort and then we go to the Chiang Rai night market. Continue reading

Our Smartours Amazing Thailand trip. This is the first half of our day where we meet Uncle Gao at his Pineapple Farm, see Phayao Lake, eat Dancing Shrimp and visit Mae Sai, the border town to Myanmar. Continue reading

Day 2 of the Northern Thailand part of the Smartours tour (ending [Sukothai] in Chang Mai). Today is Sukhothai, ancient ceramic kilns, textile museum, Lampang and Wienglakor hotel. Continue reading

Traveling from Bangkok to Chiang Mai. Ayutthaya, Lopburi monkeys, Topland hotel and more on this day. Continue reading

Here I sit, in Lampang, Thailand at the Wienglakor hotel. It is supposed to be one of the best in town. It is fine, but a little run-down. Continue reading

We are in the middle of a 3 day road trip from Bangkok going to Chiang Mai (Chiang Rai, Ayutthaya, Sukothai, Lampang, Mae Hong Son, etc). We just have brief overnights and the rest of the days are traveling and touring. Continue reading | 1 Comment

Today in Bangkok we went to Siam Paragon mall, took the skytrain and had a thai massage. Continue reading

We are having a great time! Nice hotel (Century Park)  and good breakfast and then sightseeing at some temples and then lunch. Then we went off on our own in tuk-tuk and went to khaosan road to look at the hippies  (travelers) Having a beer and internet. No internet in Century Park hotel. Continue reading

I went to Thailand in June, 2001 for a month with Adventure Center travel. I went on a 14(15?) day Northern Thailand trip with them and then went directly on the 14 (15?) day Southern Thailand trip. Continue reading | 1 Comment

We are going to Thailand and I’ll write about our trip and include tips, tricks and useful info. And I’ll give opinions of tours, hotels,etc that we use while there. Continue reading

Review and how to use the Creative Zen Video and Audio MP3 player Continue reading

We just got back from the Magic Kingdom and I will pass on some tips that I found online and/or discovered myself.

1. The biggest thing we found out was that if you rent a wheelchair for $10, you can go right in (or almost) for most of the rides by using the handicapped entrance. Mom can’t walk long enough to do Disney so we rented a wheelchair. And

My experiment with ‘flittring’ (taking pictures as it happens and uploading to flickr, like twitter but with photos) is working very well. My husband is thrilled to be able to see what we are doing as it happens.

I decided to keep my real time phone camera pictures separate from my Kodak pictures so you can see my digital camera pictures at my Flickr set called Florida 2007