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Score 20% Off LUXE City Guides Until July 17

July 2, 2010 at 12:56 PM | by | Comments (0)


A couple Luxe guides from our private collection

**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.

Related Stories:
· Hotel Guidebook Picks: LUXE City Guides Recommend Only the Hotels du Jour [HotelChatter]
· Going Through Guidebook Withdrawl: How to Travel Lighter [Jaunted]
· Luxe City Guides [Official Site]

[Photo: Jaunted]

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LUXE City Guides for Both Young and Old Cynical Travelers

June 23, 2010 at 10:50 AM | by | Comments (0)

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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Resell and Recyle Your Old Guidebooks on GuideGecko.com

February 11, 2010 at 1:00 PM | by | Comment (1)

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.

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Going Through Guidebook Withdrawal: How to Travel Lighter

January 28, 2010 at 11:27 AM | by | Comments (0)

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!

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The GateGuru iPhone App Will Find All The Airport ATMs For You

December 10, 2009 at 8:49 AM | by | Comments (0)

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.

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The Winners And Losers of the Zagat 2009 Airline Survey

November 24, 2009 at 5:09 PM | by | Comments (0)

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.

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Here's Your Chance To Become A Travel Writer, And Visit Tokyo For Free

November 19, 2009 at 2:49 PM | by | Comment (1)

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.

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NFT Is 'Not For Tourists,' But It Is For Your iPhone

November 4, 2009 at 9:00 AM | by | Comments (0)

These days, it seems like not a week goes by without some new and hyped release of an iPhone travel app, of course today is no different. From the people who brought you the little black NFT Guides, otherwise known as the brilliantly-named "Not For Tourists," comes the shiny new $4.99 NFT iPhone app.

If you're at all familiar with the layout of a printed NFT Guide, then you'll be instantly comfortable navigating the app by fingertip; it's almost as if the books were designed based on the app and not the other way around. And yes—$4.99 is pricey, but we're talking about a book's worth of content here, when the book is usually about $12.95.

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Free Book For Women Travelers Teaches 25 Bandana Tips

October 15, 2009 at 1:18 PM | by | Comments (0)

Ladies will want to order a free copy of the conveniently purse-sized book 101 Tips for Women Travelers. The tips were compiled by Harriet Lewis, the vice chair of Overseas Adventure Travel, a company that caters to Americans 50 and older. Despite the company's audience, the tips don't target seniors. For that matter, most of the tips aren't even gender-specific.

Disclaimer for the guys: You'll find tons of good suggestions in the book that you can use, but you'll also encounter a few girly tips, like using panty liners to extend the use of your lady drawers and help you feel oh so fresh while you're on the go. But overall, the advice is good for all travelers. For example, fabric softener sheets pull triple duty by making the ripe clothes in your luggage smell good, repelling mosquitoes and warding off bedbugs. Then there are some super-specific recommendations that won't be applicable to most people, like be sure to sit sidesaddle on a camel to avoid getting a urinary tract infection.

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Attention Medieval Vikings: Visit Skotland At Your Peril

Where: Iceland
September 26, 2009 at 11:11 AM | by | Comments (0)

The modern travel guidebook genre is usually traced to Arthur Frommer's seminal 1957 book Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, but tips on making the most of your time abroad have been published in some form or another for centuries. A 13th century Viking travel guide, for example, highlights some of the potential pitfalls of visiting Scotland. A nifty story in the Telegraph points out that the Norse Vikings, as fierce as they may have been, were no match for some of the rougher tribes of Scotland and Ireland, who were said to butcher invaders on arrival.

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The CDC Adds Medical Tourism To Its Travel Health Guide

August 17, 2009 at 9:14 AM | by | Comment (1)

Nervous about traveling abroad because you might pick up some flesh-eating illness or other? Fear no more: the Center for Disease Control has just released the 2010 edition of the CDC Health Information for International Travel, the yellow bible which contains everything you need to know about staying healthy while you're outside the United States.

This new edition has got a section on medical tourism, so you can figure out which cheaper country is the safest to get your next bit of cosmetic surgery. It's also got advice on newly popular destinations that your local doctor might not know too much about, including Mount Kiliminjaro, India, China and Nepal.

At 540 pages in hardback, this is no backpack travel guide, but instead is something you have to digest thoroughly while you're planning your trip. And while we of course advocate traveling safely and healthily, we're not quite sure we'll be keeping this book at our bedside before our next trip abroad. Perhaps someone else could read it and tell us the important bits?

Related Stories:
· International Travel Health Guidebook Gets Updated [AJC]
· Medical Travel Coverage [Jaunted]

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Technology Gets Smacked Down by Old-School Guidebook in Moscow

May 26, 2009 at 5:11 PM | by | Comments (3)

The folks over at Condé Nast Traveler recently sent three writers on a mission to Moscow and gave each of them a different tool to use in completing some touristy activities. One writer was armed with an iPhone, the other was given a new BlackBerry Bold phone and the last writer was left with an old-school guidebook from Eyewitness Travel.

Interestingly enough, the writer saddled with the guidebook ended up completing the required tasks much faster than the other two with the internet at their disposal. And here's why:

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