Denver Travel Guide
6/24/2008 at 3:15 PM
Tags: Christina Szele, Drugs, Drug Travels (all tags)
Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation is a Colorado-based group that says marijuana is less harmful than alcohol. And what better time to get that message out there than after a boozed-up passenger got thrown off her JetBlue flight at DIA.
Says SAFER Excutive Director Mason Tvert:
Adults should be allowed another option for relaxing and dealing with their anxiety when they fly. It is irrational and potentially dangerous policy to continue allowing passengers to get drunk before and during flights while prohibiting them from simply making the safer choice to use marijuana prior to boarding.
We can think of at least one travel guru would probably get behind this effort: Rick Steves. And come to think of it, SFO already has one pre-boarding pot lounge. Book those flights now, Snoop!
Related Stories:
· SAFER [Official Site]
· Group Calls for Airport Marijuana Lounges [KUSA]
· Nicotine Fiend Flips out on JetBlue [Jaunted]
[Photo of Snoop's 2006 arrest at BUR: US Weekly]
by pbb
6/06/2008 at 4:30 PM
Tags: Missed Connections, 2008 Candidates Travel, Restaurants, Bars, Gardens, Botanical Gardens, LGBT (all tags)
The Democratic National Convention won't happen till the last weekend in August, but campaign staffers were finally able to take a brief travel break with the media anointing of the Democratic nominee for president.
While political road warriors take a break, we're thinking ahead to the convention--and the delightful Dems coming to the Mile High City. Drinking liberally? Try dating liberally:
Hambrger Mary's :: Tasty burgers and stalk-y patrons tantalize at this LGBT-friendly restaurant with a full bar. 700 E. 17th Ave.
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by egw
3/05/2008 at 3:35 PM
Tags: DEN, WiFi, Free WiFi, DIA (all tags)
Apparently the reporters over at the Denver Post don't read Jaunted. If they did, they'd have heard months ago that Denver International censors the web. But we suppose if you haven't heard, it's breaking news to you.
Here's the scoop. DIA implemented Webwasher, a filtering product, after it made its wireless network free. Ostensibly it's to keep bored people from looking up porn, but the filters are also blocking gossip sites like Perez Hilton and Jossip as well as geek fave Boing Boing. We'll concede that Perez may not be embodiment of gentlemanly discourse, but he's hardly worth censoring.
Amazingly, some of the Denver Post's more puritanical readers think it's a good idea for the airport to implement this heavy-handed filtering. Us? We'd rather be left alone--and free to surf the whole Internet as we see fit.
Have your own travel-related web censorship tale? Take a screenshot and let us know.
Related Stories:
· DIA Keeps WiFi on the Mild Side [Denver Post]
· Denver Airport, Hotels Censoring the Web [Jaunted]
· Is United Blocking Jaunted? [Jaunted]
by pbb
12/13/2007 at 1:00 PM
Tags: DEN, WiFi, Free WiFi, Hotels (all tags)
Denver International Airport recently showed up on our Airport Wifi Guide thanks to its good decision to make Internet access free to all. Which sounds great, in theory. But Jossip reports--via a reader tip--that DEN is censoring the web, blocking access to the oh-so-pink gossip site.
But airport isn't the only place you'll find overly aggressive firewalls. Another friend of Jaunted reports that our sis site, HotelChatter, is blocked at some Drury Inns and Comfort Inns.
What kind of free access to the web is that, people? Granted, we wouldn't want to inadvertently peep over someone's shoulder at the airport to see the latest videos on PornoTube. But if you're gonna give us the Internet for free, give us the Internet for free!
Related Stories:
· Where Have All the Jossipers Gone? [Jossip]
· Denver's Going Free [Jaunted]
· Airport WiFi Guide [Jaunted]
[Photo: Jossip]
by pbb
12/06/2007 at 2:00 PM
Tags: Airport WiFi, Airport-WiFi-Map, Airport WiFi Guide, Free WiFi, DEN (all tags)
Contribute your airport wireless report by leaving it in comments, uploading your airport photo to Jaunted Flickr Photo Pool, or via email, and we will add it to our U.S. Airport Wireless map.
Denver International is changing its ways. No longer will you have to park yourself outside the Presidents Club because the airport has just opened up its wireless network to everyone, in all terminals.
Not surprisingly, network traffic has increased ten-fold since access went from $8 a day to free, an airport spokesman says. You'll have to click through a couple ads to use the web, but there's no need to fork over any personal data.
We're always happy to see a big airport join the ranks of free Internet providers. While the cash that pay-for-play systems bring is nice, airports are realizing that giving travelers what they want is worth more than a little ancillary revenue. Find more places that let you surf for free on our Airport WiFi Map.
Have your own airport WiFi story to share? Let us know.
Related Stories:
· DIA Sets Wi-Fi Free [Denver Post]
· Best US Airports for WiFi [Jaunted]
· Airport WiFi coverage [Jaunted]
by pbb
11/21/2007 at 1:00 PM
Tags: Skybus, Low Cost Carriers, LCCs, New Routes, GSO, FTG, DEN (all tags)
At FTG; Skybus actually flies newer planes than this...
Could Skybus be making a play for Colorado? And even if not, might other airlines jump ship from Denver International? The board of Front Range Airport, just five miles away, recently voted to pursue passenger airlines, though the airfield currently doesn't have any commercial flights.
After Skybus inquired about service last year, officials at Front Range started considering the possibilities of bringing at least one low cost carrier to the airport. They'd need to beef up both existing runways and create a security checkpoint so that TSA workers would be able to screen potentially dangerous pies.
While that would be fairly spendy, it wouldn't be the first airport to lure Skybus with cash. Piedmont Triad International will start dolling out incentives January 1.
The trouble with declaring Skybus' future in Colorado--besides the fact that the airline is probably constantly considering different airports for service--is that Front Range is so close to DEN. (Both are about 30 miles from downtown.) Oh, and we should also mention that Southwest started serving Denver International in 2006. Which would you rather fly to: A big commercial airport or a landing strip with one gate?
Related Stories:
· Front Range Seeking Passenger Seating [Denver Post]
· Rampant Speculation: What's Skybus Up To? [Jaunted]
· Skybus coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Bruce Quackenbush]
by pbb
6/13/2007 at 9:04 AM
Tags: Airport WiFi, DEN, WiFi, Free WiFi, Airport Restaurants (all tags)
Awhile back, we called out Denver International Airport for charging for Internet access. True, a bunch of business road dogs love the place--and we're beginning to like it, too--but we could never truly love a place that charges for 'net day passes.
Luckily, when we dropped in recently, we found a free WiFi hotspot. Truth be told, we went up to the Presidents Club in Concourse A to pull a Wendy Perrin. That's when we picked up a signal for a network called "MesaVerde." A quick walk downstairs revealed this to be the hotspot of a restaurant in the concourse of the same name. So there's the trick to DIA: pay for AT&T WiFi or sit outside Mesa Verde soaking up the bandwidth for free.
Related Stories:
· Airport WiFi coverage [Jaunted]
· WiFi Wednesday: Mile High Edition [Jaunted]
by pbb
6/04/2007 at 4:51 PM
Tags: Travel Safety, Travel Health (all tags)
A man with a drug-resistant disease gets on two transatlantic flights in a matter of weeks, exposing unwitting passengers to his possibly deadly germs. It's summer blockbuster season! Unfortunately, that tale doesn't start Clive Owen or Nicholas Cage, but rather one Andrew Speaker, currently being held in federal quarantine in Denver with nasty cases of tuberculosis and hubris both.
Speaker knew he had tuberculosis when he was taking off to Italy for his destination wedding and honeymoon last month; when tests showed he had XDR TB, a contagious form of the classic invalid's bug, the U.S. forbade him to fly back commercially for fear he would infect fellow passengers, according to Reuters. Speaker and his wife defied those orders and flew back through Canada, then rented a car and drove back to the U.S.
Speaker claims he was told by doctors that he shouldn't fly, but was never legally prohibited from doing so (even though doctors still haven't identified where he might have caught XDR-TB from). Ironically, his new father-in-law works for the CDC, even while Speaker is blaming the agency for giving him incomplete information. Welcome to the family, son.
Related Stories:
· TB patient's family defend controversial travel [Reuters]
· Travel Safety [Jaunted]
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