Have you played around on Wanderfly.com yet? If not, you should. Because it's pretty genius, it's free, and...umm...you might recognize us hanging out over there as one of their new Wanderlist Curators. Simply put, what Wanderfly does is let you browse destinations based on what you want to do there and how much you're willing to spend on the whole shebang. You can easily get sucked into the site, just looking at the large-format photos of tropical beaches and mountain getaways, which is where the curation comes into play.

We've plucked out the Top Ten Celeb-Favorite destinations around the world, results sucked from our own obsession with where people are going and, of course, past stories right here on Jaunted.com, the Pop Culture Travel Guide.

Check out our glorious list over at Wanderfly RIGHT HERE, and we can't forget to mention our other, illustrious company. Wanderfly also has a range of curated destinations lists from the likes of Refinery29, Mint.com and Mashable (Most tech-savvy cities, of course). See them all here.]]> JetSetCD 2011-06-13T17:37:29-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/3/14/231118/187

Have you ever been inside the Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Clubhouse at London-Heathrow? It. is. insane. We mean insane in the best way, of course. There's a hot tub, a pool table, old school Atari game tables, a free Bumble & Bumble salon, an outdoor deck, a sea of Eames lounge chairs and waiters who will bring you a proper teatime setup.

As you can imagine the services available are numerous during your couple hour stay in the Clubhouse, but Virgin Atlantic has gone ahead and added one more: bespoke shoes. For one month only, from March 18 to April 18, there will be a representative from Finnish cobblers The Left Shoe Company on hand to custom fit Upper Class passengers. The idea is traditional, but the process is quite futuristic: ]]> JetSetCD 2011-03-15T12:14:46-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/3/2/1219/70855

Steven Frischling—airline geek, professional photographer and travel security blogger of Flying With Fish—just returned from Lufthansa's first A380 flight between Frankfurt and New York. While camped out at FRA, he did some special snooping for us...behind the velvet ropes of the First Class Terminal:

For the vast majority of travelers, the single most stressful portion of air travel is the experience of the airport. Airport terminals are crowded, noisy places, where security lines may move at a snail's pace and security screeners may be less than polite, not to mention that it's rare to find a comfortable seat and the food options are dismal.

For the privileged, however, Lufthansa has a solution to all of these common traveler complaints, and more; it's the First Class Terminal on the grounds of Frankfurt International Airport.

Lufthansa's First Class Terminal (FCT) is technically not a lounge, or even located in the main terminal; it's actually an independent terminal completely dedicated to meeting the needs of (and pampering) first class passengers flying internationally. Simply put, it's an experience of multiple upscale services, as well as serving as a haven from the usual stress of traveling. ]]> flyingwithfish 2011-03-02T09:31:34-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/1/18/1352/58475

It may be freezing in New York City right now, but that doesn't mean the cruise ships will stay away...especially when there's things like fireworks promised. The three current Cunard ships—Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth were in the Big Apple on Thursday for just such a thing, a "Royal Rendezvous," if you will, and to herald the very first NYC visit of the Queen Elizabeth, which only hit the waves a couple weeks ago (after Queen Elizabeth II herself did the honors). So of course we hopped onboard for a whirlwind tour of the massive ship, only hours before her 2,000+ passengers continued on their Around-the-World voyage.

The MS Queen Elizabeth is the second largest Cunard ship ever built, after the Queen Mary 2, and it's sort of replacing the recently retired historic liner Queen Elizabeth II, who made her final NYC departure during the first Royal Rendezvous, in 2008, after forty years and over 700 stops in New York. She, in turn, replaced the RMS Queen Elizabeth, a liner-turned-troop ship-turned-liner during World War II. But now we're getting carried away...]]> JetSetCD 2011-01-18T09:46:58-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/9/24/14357/9567

Japan may delight in having vending machines for almost everything, but there's one you can't yet find there: the Gold To Go gold bar-dispensing machine. Introduced only a couple years ago, they've been slow to roll out. They have appeared in a few places around the world, however, and we know where to find them when you need a solid gold fix.

Three Places to Find the Gold Bar Vending Machine:

· Frankfurt, Germany
Since the Gold To Go machine was invented by a German, it only makes sense for him to debut it in his home country. The first machines took up residence in two Frankfurt hotspots: Frankfurt International Airport and the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof (main train station). Both are humongous transportation hubs, where people may be walking around with lots of cash and the will to pass some time playing with, and buying from, the Gold To Go. Options can cost as little as 40 Euro, but the prices are continually updated via an internal computer which monitors gold value.]]> JetSetCD 2010-09-24T14:46:02-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/9/15/10478/3263

$1,400 for a red crocodile travel wallet—would you pony up the money for it? Now, what about if we told you that it's a Tiffany & Co. wallet, and remember that it's real crocodile? We're just wondering, because that's one of the star items in the new Tiffany leather goods collection, designed by leather experts Lamberson Truex. And we have a feeling that now that the little blue box with the white ribbon can contain such a wallet, Tiffany isn't too far off from manufacturing luggage.

Just to be fair, this travel wallet is so pricey because of the croc; their other travel wallets average $500, so it's still nothing close to a bargain piece of travel gear. ]]> JetSetCD 2010-09-15T11:49:49-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/8/19/10219/5658

Hugh Grant and Elzabeth Hurley prove that exes can still be friends. Ten years after their infamous break-up, Hugh flew to Nice, France to hang out with Liz, her son Damien (who greeted him at the airport), and her husband Arun Nayar.

Not long ago, Hurley addressed her relationship with Grant, saying, "Sometimes Hugh and I can get morbid and say we could have had five children by now because we were together since we were 21 but there was never a time when either of us wanted it."

The Daily Mail reports that Liz's family and a group of their close friends are currently staying at Elton John's villa in the French Riviera. ]]> cmb 2010-08-19T14:31:24-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/