Hawaii Travel Guide
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It's Friday; Go Ahead And Daydream About 5 Nights In Hawaii For $499
Whenever we're stressed and have to go to our happy place, we picture the beaches of Hawaii. But now, probably thanks to how hard the recession has hit tourism to the islands, everyone has a chance to actually go there, thanks to Travelzoo's $499-for-five-Hawaiian-nights package.
The deal includes round-trip airfare to Honolulu, where you'll be greeted with a lovely-smelling lei and thus the right to brag that you got "lei'd" in Hawaii, like tourists do for days after their arrival. Your accommodations will be at the Castle Ocean Resort Hotel Waikiki. And if you want to upgrade to an ocean-view pad, the hotel gives you the option for $25 and up per person.
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A Few Thousand People Would Like to Reunite This Nice Family With Their Camera
Do you know the nice looking family in the photo above? If you do, please tell us how to contact them, because there are a few thousand people who want to reunite them with their lost camera. If the internet can be trusted (of course it can), they lost the camera while on a recent vacation in Maui, and some random person found it and looked at the photos on the memory card. He or she then decided to share one of the photos on the social media site Reddit in the hopes that the vast community of Redditors can make the magic happen once again and locate the owners.
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Exotic Voluntourism At The National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kauai
Love nature and digging in your garden? Have we got a volunteer vacation for you! The National Botanical Garden on the island of Kauai in Hawaii has been dedicated to preserving tropical plant diversity through research, education and by creating a safe haven for at-risk plant species for more than 30 years. Their headquarters at The McBryde Gardens features native Hawaiian Flora, orchids, palm trees and flowering trees that were wild-collected from tropical regions around the of the world.
Visitors to this eden are able to explore the garden via paths and bamboo bridges that cross over the park's natural streams and waterfalls. The garden is always looking for volunteers for the long-term or on a "vacation and volunteer" basis. There are endless opportunities available year-round using a variety of skill-sets. But that's not to say you need any special skills to help out, the garden's staff provides on-the-job training for newbies.
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This Is How You Lose A Million Dollars
Chasing Racers is back, with a brand new Amazing Race 14 mashup. This map will update the morning after every new episode. Send along tips, rumors, gossip, locations and spoilers to our map editors, become a member and comment on the stories below and add to the Jaunted-Flickr photo pool to get in on the fray. Remember to zoom in, out and around on the map--with so much happening in each episode, it's easy to miss a map point.
This week, it's the finale of The Amazing Race 14. Eleven teams set out on a race around the world, covering three continents, nine countries and over 40,000 miles in a three week filming period. Eight teams have fallen by the wayside, and only the top three remain in this tight competition. Who has what it takes to cross the finish line and win the million dollar prize?
LET'S FIND OUT!
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Chasing 'Lost' Season 5: Follow The Leader
Just where in the world is LOST? Each episode, we're looking at the real and fictional locations of LOST from a travel perspective, and plotting them on our Google map. Be sure to check out all the map points, updated weekly!
This week, we get lots of action and less head scratching. We're finally getting some answers, kinda. Last episode, Eloise shot her son, Daniel Faraday, not knowing that he was her son and also from the future. Jack and Kate get dragged into camp, and try to explain their preposterous story -- which Eloise believes. Richard Alpert busies himself at the top of the episode by building a model ship in a bottle. Since we know you've been dying to learn the secrets of building unlikely things inside bottles, you may want to check out eHow's step by step explanation of how to make the magic happen.
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Sip Pre-Flight Mai Tais Upstairs In Delta's Newish 747 To Hawaii
It’s been a long time since you’ve been able to fly a 747 domestically. However, thanks to the merger between Delta and Northwest, planes have been shuffled around, and the combined airline has decided to start flying one of these big birds between Atlanta and Honolulu. Obviously flying to Hawaii from Georgia aboard a 747 is a little different than a traditional domestic run from Altoona to Ypsilanti—but we still think it’s neat.
The online frequent flier community has been waiting to see what the first class service would be like aboard this big guy. All the former Northwest 747s have World Business Class seating—although they don’t exactly market tickets for these seats as such. You're getting an international business class seat, but your meal service and amenities will be a little more like domestic first class—even though the nine hour trip to the islands is farther than most flights from the east coast to Europe. That means a big goose egg when it comes to in-flight pajamas.
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You Flew Here, We Grew Here: NYT Falls for North Shore Bad Boys
Most surfers have a reputation for being peaceful and laid back, but that hardly describes the scene on Oahu's famous North Shore, if a recent New York Times story is to be believed. The paper of record introduces us to a menacing but handsome gang of local surfers known as the Wolfpak, who are known to resort to violence and intimidation against visiting surfers who don't show the proper respect for their rules of the waves. Surf gangs are nothing new, and protecting breaks from interlopers is as old as surfing itself, but the Wolfpak holds particular power on the Banzai Pipeline because every pro surfer worth his Sex Wax is pretty much required to be proficient in its massive winter swells.
