Jaunted - Tag: Video

Auckland: How to Look Good After a Long-Haul Flight: 8 Beauty Tips from Flight Attendants

EricRosen — 2011-01-11T11:48:13-05:00

All this week, Special Jaunted Correspondent Eric Rosen takes us on a whirlwind field trip to New Zealand’s Other Wine Regions. Sure, now that it’s summer down there they might be sipping on those tropical, grassy Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc’s we’re all familiar with. But as he finds out, there's much more and most if it is within an hour of New Zealand’s major cities. Here, he's back up in the skies for a chat with the ladies (and dudes) of Air NZ.

Ever get that un-fresh feeling on long-haul flights? We wondered how the flight attendants on Air New Zealand stay so perky and bright, even over the 13+ hours of a trans-Pacific flight. So we asked two of them on the delivery flight of Air New Zealand’s new 777-300ER, one of whom, Wayne, you’ll recognize from the new ANZ safety video, and as an ambassador for the new planes.

Here’s the tips they have for everyone (in video!), with all kinds of beauty and health secrets to get us to our destination, feeling good (and smelling good!) without DVT, bags under our eyes or a bad attitude:

Shanghai: Jaunted Braves The Shanghai World Expo

markj — 2010-06-09T09:35:49-05:00

When we arrived in Shanghai last week we told anyone that would listen that we planned on spending some time over at the World Expo. Immediately, everyone we told had the same ominous look on their face as they wished us the best of luck. Their grim look was followed by stories of heat exhaustion, endless queues, pavilion confusion, and yes, even folks faking disabilities to bypass long lines.

Could it be that bad? Worse, our Shanghainese friends promised. Don't even bother showing up on a weekend, if you go on a weekday get there at 7 AM—2 hours before opening—and prepare yourself for pushing, possible line cutting, and more. Then run to try and get a fast pass, or to make reservations at a couple of the most popular pavilions—China & Saudi Arabia for instance.

Could it really be this nuts? We had just read how the daily visitor numbers for the Expo were lower than expected. However, our contacts informed us that every family in Shanghai had been gifted one ticket to the Expo, and maybe the visitor numbers we heard were tourist numbers, not local.

Ok, so we needed to devise a plan that involved checking out the Expo without losing our sanity. That meant, avoiding the morning "running of the expo".

Frankfurt: Inside Lufthansa's Frankfurt Arrivals Lounge, with Private Showers!

JetSetCD — 2010-06-08T10:35:40-05:00

What's cooler than chilling with a scotch in a First Class departures lounge at an airport? We'd argue that it's that, plus then rolling into another lounge for a breakfast buffet after arrival at your destination. This can be had on a few airlines with dedicated Arrivals Lounges, and we recently popped into the newest, Lufthansa's Arrivals Lounge at Frankfurt Airport.

Having opened in the early part of last year, and as the only Lufthansa Arrivals Lounge in their entire route network, the hidden space down in the baggage claim is often overlooked. On a fairly busy morning with flights into FRA, we were joined in the lounge by no more than 12 other passengers, leaving plenty of space for spreading out our work and grazing the breakfast buffet. But first, it was off to the private showers downstairs!

WA: Uptuyu Adventures in the Kimberly Outback is the Anti-'Eat, Pray, Love'

juliana — 2010-06-07T14:00:49-05:00

"Eat Pray Love" movie doesn't hit theaters until August but we've already been besieged with press releases for EPL-inspired vacations. These trips typically involve eating lots of pasta, doing a ton of yoga and mucho meditation. But none of them have appealed to our stressed-out, Twittererd-out, iPhoned-out selves the way an indigenous tour in the Australian outback has.

The other month we attended a Western Australia media event in Los Angeles where a few WA hotel representatives and Outback tour operators had gathered to tell us what they had to offer. But we couldn't seem to focus on the hotels (which is part of our job ) because we were fascinated by Neville Poelina, the tour operator behind Aboriginal Adventures.

Quebec City: What It's Like at Quebec City's Wild and Wintery Carnaval

Chanize — 2010-02-04T16:35:12-05:00

Thousands of people are snowsuiting up and heading to Quebec City for Winter Carnaval, held this year from Jan.29 through Feb.14.

Despite frigid temperatures (it plummeted to -4F on Saturday), locals didn’t seem to mind the weather, instead numbing the cold with the potent Port and brandy-infused Caribou liquor

Rio de Janeiro: Thinking of a Master Plan: Snazzy Video Nabs 2016 Olympics for Rio

Victor Ozols — 2009-10-03T12:34:35-05:00

As an American, I was disappointed that Chicago didn't win the 2016 Summer Olympics, but I've got to admit that Rio looks like a pretty spectacular choice. I've never been, but watching their official candidate commercial yesterday moved it to the top of my list of dream trips. Today I happened upon the city's master plan pitch, and it really looks like Brazilian officials have thought this thing through. I'm not surprised the I.O.C. believed that South America in general, and Rio in particular, would be the perfect host for the games.

Virtual Travel: Lonely Planet on the YouTube Train

egw — 2008-04-28T14:00:01-05:00

Maybe Lonely Planet has been feeling a little isolated lately. The travel guide publisher just launched its own video site, Lonelyplanet.tv, and is looking for your videos of excursions far and near.

Of course, to be featured on the Lonely Planet YouTube channel you'll have to compete with a bikini'd man swimming in Antarctica, a "Hills"-worthy tour of Paris and (above) a belly-dancing, ghost-riding cabdriver who confidently declares, "I am not normal."

One bit of advice: Videos of you guzzling cacha�a and popping pills in a Brazilian hostel while on assignment, we'd imagine, won't earn you a five-star YouTube rating from LP.

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