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Deals Travel: Rebates in "Paradise"

July 16, 2008 at 2:00 PM | 0 Comments

Everywhere we travel on our Internet adventures these days, we see articles about ways to save a buck on your next trip. Well, the island of Bonaire, in the Netherlands Antilles, has a new offer for both travelers and cheapskates. They're called Paradise Rebates.

Local businesses feel that you shouldn't have to pay luggage fees and surcharges, so they're offering rebates towards dining, accommodations, activities and vehicle rentals.

While the Tourism Corporation Bonaire didn't develop the discounts, the group is getting behind the effort, hoping to keep visitor numbers up while the economy is down. We're expecting to hear more from the island later this summer, too: As hurricane season ramps up, we wouldn't be surprised if the tourism board reminds us that the island sits outside of tropical storm range.

Related Stories:
· Paradise Rebates [Official Site]
· Tourism Bonaire [Official Site]
· Bonaire Travel coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: bradleyolin]

Eat-n-Sleep

Eat 'n Sleep Aruba :: Radisson Aruba Resort and Casino

September 6, 2007 at 11:45 AM | 0 Comments

Our Eat 'n Sleep feature profiles a restaurant in a random city and a hotel nearby. It's kinda like that old show "Dinner and a Movie" but you know, with restaurants and hotels. And better jokes.

Sometimes the best Eat 'n Sleeps happen in the same place. That's definitely the case at the Radisson Aruba Resort & Casino. The 353 luxury rooms at this trendy Caribbean hotel offer deluxe accommodations, ocean views, West Indian flair and island touches. It's the perfect place for a tropical escape, and four poster mahogany beds prove the ideal place to unwind after a day in the sun.

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World's Most Dangerous Airports

World's Most Dangerous Airports: Saba Island, SAB

January 17, 2007 at 4:59 PM | 0 Comments

For the next couple of days we are doing a quick fly-over of the world's most dangerous airports. Know a stomach dropping, palm sweat inducing airport we should check out? Send it along.

Saba Island is an idyllic, secluded, honeymoon destination. Travel and Leisure voted it the best island in the Caribbean. But before all you soon to be marrieds rush to book a post wedding trip to Saba, please make sure your partner to be can handle a ride on a Win Air DHC-6 Twin Otter.

The landing strip is a reported 1300 feet, which makes it one of the shortest commercial runways in the world. Furthermore, the strip is flanked on one side by steep hills, and on the other side and at both ends of the runway by cliffs dropping into the sea. This creates the possibility that an airplane might overshoot the runway during landing or takeoff and end up in the sea or on the cliffs.

Click here to check out a Saba landing video--looks like the sun can be rather blinding on approach to boot.

Related Stories:
· World's Most Dangerous Airports [Jaunted]
· Yrausquin Airport, Saba Island [Google Maps]

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