**Discount for Jaunted Readers**: Because we love you and apparently LUXE does too, we're giving you 20% off on the LUXE City Guides Online Store products. These include 31 city guides from LA to London, from Paris to Phuket, and gift box sets too. (Check out the LUXE Bespoke service where you can choose which city guides to place in a exquisite handmade box.)

Just go to LuxeCityGuides.com and browse the online store.

When you have chosen your product, enter the promo code "JAUNTED" at checkout to receive the discount. This discount will only be available until July 17 so don't delay! (Sorry, the discount is only good for the online store, not mobile apps.)

We've already waxed philosophic about these awesome, pocket-size guides already here, but trust us when we tell you that they're ideal for city-hoppers who want to know what's hot for where to shop, dine, drink, walk and even grab a coffee.

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· Luxe City Guides [Official Site]

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We know, we know, guidebooks are on their way out and pretty soon, the younger generation coming up will ask us what it was like to travel with guidebooks once.

But we've always been a fan of LUXE City Guides for their slim, very portable design and fun accordion-style fold-out pages. Oh, and also their witty prose which tells you both what's in right now and what's way, way, out. These guides are perfect for the traveler who gets the shakes at the sight of a Visitor Welcome Center. As their tagline reads, "Stylish, Brutally Frank and Sometimes, Frankly, Brutal."

Check out their overview of London for a taste of their wit:

Hey there Georgie Girl...what's with the Russian accent? She may be gripped by masspiration, new monied affluenza and a serious outbreak of chainstore-itis but fret not this dolly hasn't been around for over 2,000 years and not learnt a trick or two.

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Are your bookshelves packed with old guidebooks that are useless now that your trip is over? You can recycle them and make a quick buck by reselling the travel guides on the website GuideGecko.

It won't cost you anything to hawk your tomes through the travel e-bookstore, though GuideGecko takes 15 percent of the profits from whatever you sell and there's a 99-cent closing fee. You get to decide the list price and the shipping costs.]]> Jennifer Kester 2010-02-11T13:00:15-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/1/28/9393/59159

Over the last year, we've slowly chipped away at the size of our luggage on trips by peeling away guidebooks and maps. And now that we're down to the absolute minimum, we thought we'd share the steps which led us to traveling sans clunky extras.

First, we went to Hong Kong and Macau and hauled a TimeOut guidebook, the small Wallpaper guidebook, the Luxe fold-out guide (to find the hip places), a Moleskine City Notebook to HK, and a fold-out map. On top of that, we were still packing a laptop, phone, camera and Flip video cam with all of their chargers and accessories. We didn't use half of them! ]]> JetSetCD 2010-01-28T11:27:24-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/12/10/0043/2944

We found another iPhone Travel App to add to our list of the Best Travel Apps that debuted this fall! It's called GateGuru, and it just arrived in the iTunes App store on Monday in both paid ($1.99) and Lite (free) versions.

It's practically a must-have for frequent flyers, and we're already having fun messing with it, since it's like a successful mixture of Yelp, Foursquare and FlyerTalk. The Yelp component is strongest, in that GateGuru's main function is for users to add and review airport amenities like ATMs, restaurants, first class lounges and children's play areas in the top 85 US airports. This way, when you're stuck at LaGuardia's Central Terminal, you'll see that you've got an amazing four Au Bon Pains to choose from, in addition to which one is best and which ones are before and after security. ]]> JetSetCD 2009-12-10T08:49:41-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/11/24/16243/812

The newest Zagat Guide on airlines is up. 5,900 fliers averaging 17 flights per year were polled about 16 domestic and 66 foreign airlines. After all the results were tallied the major US winners - rated on comfort, service, and food - turned out to be Virgin America and low cost carrier Midwest Airlines. If you're just flying coach your best bet is apparently JetBlue, which tallied up 19 out of 30 points. And if your top concern for some reason is your luggage, Southwest should be your airline of choice. Full results are posted at the Zagat site.

In contrast to when we covered this survey two years ago, travelers also found room for some grudging compliments: "consumers feel some marginal improvement in comfort and service." That's actually fair given how airlines have been consistently improving at last their outward numbers. We never tire of telling you that civilian aviation is the safest it's ever been, while September had the highest on-time rate since 2003.]]> Omri 2009-11-24T17:09:54-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/11/19/1485/6521

Do you enjoy writing about travel just as much as you love reading about other's adventures? Or perhaps you just dream of getting paid to travel. Whatever you motivation, Rough Guide, in conjunction with Hotels.com, WorldNomads.com and Intrepid Travel, might have the perfect, Tokyo-bound deal for you.

It's a travel writing scholarship of sorts, except you don't need to be a student. In order to win an all-expenses-paid, week-long trip to Tokyo for the purpose of updating the Rough Guides Tokyo book, along with travel writing instruction from Rough Guides writer Simon Richmond, you must be 18 and up, be a non-professional writer with a love of travel and a valid passport, and available to travel in February 2010. ]]> JetSetCD 2009-11-19T14:49:30-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/