Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / July 2003

Charming Bed and Breakfast in Arles (Provence, France) in a XVIII
house.
A very charming b&b in France to visit roman archeologic remains... or
discover provence...

Looking Charters or deep discount flights JFK/LGA to Cancun and return.
available almost any time during August any time
Staying 7 nights.
Thanks

There were recent threads in rec.travel.air, in which posters
argued, especially Vitaly Schmatsky, that CO does NOT have
Business First on domestic flights.  Their arguments were based
entirely on their MISREAD of the Continental webpage cited by

Has anyone ever gone to Japan by themselves on vacation without knowing any
Japanese? What were your impressions, getting around and such?
Has anyone flown there on Delta? How was the service and the flight and all
that?

Will be going IAH\OAK next month (almost 4 hr flt).  Seems I get a
"snack".  Going out - will arrive 11:40 (not lunchtime). Coming back -
will pass the dinner hour.  Snack?  What snacks??  Or should I take
my own?

Hi all  Yesterday, having nothing better to do, my wife and I decided to
check out the new Bart extension to SFO.  This has been ballyhooed for years
as the savior of public transportation to and from the airport.  The results
were somewhat less that encouraging.

My wife made me read this.  Now you have to, too.  Make sure you don't
have coffee in your mouth.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mil.millington/things.html
Thank my wife, I didn't go looking for this.

Does anyone know why most airline websites, as well as Orbitz and
Hotwire, will only sell tickets if they are purchased using a credit
card whose billing address is in the country where the flight
originates?

in august I am flying from Zagreb to Atlanta and will rent a car for 3 weeks.
So far the best inclusive rates I found are on www.usa-carrental.com. They charge
780$ for an intermediate car/21 days/CDW+SLI included. By far better then
holidayautos.com.

Do they have anything going for them now?  I know they tend tobe only
on longer flights anyway, but what are they serving, coach level food
now?
I particularly interested in Continental and America's Third World

I'll be flying from Paris to New York soon and will need to rent a car for 3 weeks.
I was told that since I don't have a US car insurance that I will need to purchase
the "Loss Damage Waiver" when renting a car in NYC.
I checked Hertz, Avis, Alamo etc. and LDW seems to be arround ...

http://beta.xko.cz/danny/EUROPE-ITALY.swf
And it *is* on topic, also for rec.travel.air
Sjoerd

Friends will be flying CDG-AMS next month on Varig... since both France and
the Netherlands are Schengen member states, does that also mean for sure
that particular flight will not require customs/immigrations processing?
I.e., friends will just step off the plane and walk directly ...

I've never flown CO internationally (other than to/from Mexico and Canada
and those flights are similar to domestic flights from a service
standpoint).   Anyway - my question:
I will be flying CO from Madrid to Newark (Equipment listed is a Boeing

As the end of the article says - a 'good book' works just fine for
me...
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks