5/14/2008 at 1:36 PM
Tags: Festivals, Bars, Alcohol, Booze, Nightlife, Summer Travel (all tags)
Tales of the Cocktail, the booze-focused "conference" for bartenders, restaurateurs and, uh, enthusiasts, runs July 16-20 in New Orleans. With seminars, demos, dinners and hobnobbing, it's like a giant cocktail party without the black ties and annoying co-workers.
One day passes are available for $175 and include four events and nighttime drinks. You can also just pick and choose a couple events, hanging at the festival as a smaller part of a New Orleans vacay. Tickets range from $25-$75, depending on what you're attending.
If you really wanna get serious, the Founder's Day pass gets you into everything and goes for $625. Seems steep, yes, but it's probably less than your bar tab for five days in NoLa would be.
Festival headquarters is the Hotel Monteleone in the French Quarter, and we can tell you from experience that it's the best place to stay for the event. Aside from giving you easy access to the Carousel Bar and festival seminars, it's also got discount rooms available if you book early.
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· Tales of the Cocktail 2008 [Official Site]
· Jaunted in New Orleans :: Gray Line Cocktail Tour [Jaunted]
· 120-Hour Cocktail Party Coming to New Orleans [Jaunted]
by pbb
5/07/2008 at 9:00 AM
Tags: Celeb Travel, Lindsay Lohan, Night Clubs, Clubs, Nightlife (all tags)
Lindsay Lohan was slapped with a $10,000 lawsuit for taking a girl's coat at a club home with her. 22-year-old student Masha Markova left her family-heirloom mink in a communal coat bin at the Chelsea club 1Oak on a night out in January. The coat disappeared, only to turn up on Lohan several days later in the tabloids.
Markova eventually got the coat back but is suing for damages done and looking for an apology from the star.
We at Jaunted don't condone the stealing of coats, but there's a caveat traveler: If you're going to bring a fur coat out with you, don't let it out of your sight! (But if you do, come up with a cool story for how you lost it.)
Related Stories:
· Lindsay Lohan Discovers Tokyo Club Scene [Jaunted]
· The Chateau Marmont's Eloise [HC]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: The Superficial]
by egw
5/01/2008 at 10:00 AM
Tags: Clubs, Nightlife, Night Clubs (all tags)
Barcelona's nightlife is notoriously hot and there is something to satisfy even the most professional partiers. But there are so many events happening simultaneously you can easily get overwhelmed and find yourself where many young travelers do: Running the Las Ramblas strip and eventually sharing pints with other foreigners at the the Old City's Travel Bar, a pub-ish backpacker den that should be avoided at all costs--unless you need to take advantage of its free WiFi.
Instead, we went in search of BCN's funkier side and sussed out two eclectic parties that kept us groovin' way too late (on a Wednesday, no less).
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by CourtScott
10/04/2007 at 1:00 PM
Tags: Embedded Travel Guides, Japan Travel, Osaka Travel Guide, Bars, Nightlife, Osaka-Embed-Map (all tags)
Embedded Travel Guides: We are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then stealthy embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.
We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from other sorts of embeds. At the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.
Our man in Osaka is AJ McGuire, and, wow, does he have stories to tell.
Nightlife in Osaka will teach you what your Learn Japanese in 24 Hours tape couldn't. While there are enough foreigner bars to stay in an English-language bubble and still have a decent Saturday night (some of my friends have been doing this for years), it's a far better thing to let the drink drop those inhibitions and push you to trot out some phrasebook communication. You won't regret it.
A good starter while you're still lucid and timid is the cozy Gorkha Bazar, a Nepalese bar and grill that serves as a hangout for the multilingual and a more diverse crowd of gaijin than the usual crop of English teachers. Barman Diwarker Thapa speaks four languages, and the happy hour plate is the best value in town for pre-booze munchies. And it's convenient to the Tani-9 zone of love hotels so Gorkha might be your last stop of the night, too.
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by Judson
9/04/2007 at 8:50 AM
Tags: Celeb Travel, Nightlife, Night Clubs, LAX, Britney Spears (all tags)
Hey, those three-letter airport codes are pretty catchy. Why say you're from, for example, Providence when you can "represent for the PVD"? But the more non-airport places use them, the less snappy they become, as this weekend's opening of LAX, at the Luxor in Las Vegas, proves.
The club--which reportedly paid Britney Spears $100,000 to make an appearance on Friday night--is an offshoot of a club by the same name in Los Angeles. You know, where LAX the airport is. Now the Luxor is cashing in on the name recognition of the original--featured several times on MTV's "The Hills"--to draw crowds to its LAX.
We're just wondering why any club would want to be associated with a place where you have to take off your shoes, get searched and wear a seatbelt.
Related Stories:
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]
· Las Vegas Hotels [HotelChatter]
[Photo: JustJared]
by egw
7/25/2007 at 3:31 PM
Tags: Nightlife, Budget Travel (all tags)
Who doesn't like to go out on vacation? Just because you have a limited budget doesn't mean you don't deserve to have a good time. Don't let your appetite for fun attack your wallet -- like a traveling businessman who recently dropped over $200,000 in one night at a London club.
The unnamed partier entered the nightclub Crystal and ordered a $50 bottle of wine... and kept drinking, up to a "Methuselah" of Belvedere Vodka (a bottle the size of eight), all night. Save money on your trip to London by hunting bargains with this Budget Travel article on London's secret savings.
Jaunted Tip-- Visit clubs where admission includes a drink or two, either all the time or on selected nights.
Related Stories:
· London Travel [Jaunted]
· Hotels in London [HotelChatter]
[Photo: neosplit]
by egw
7/02/2007 at 8:57 AM
Tags: Celeb Travel, Nightlife (all tags)
Another piece of old New York closed its doors this weekend. The Copacabana, a dance club founded in 1941, is a casualty of subway expansion to the West Side. Good news for Rio de Janeiro (whose chic Copacabana district inspired the name), but bad news for fans of Latin music and disco nostalgics.
The nightclub inspired the Barry Manilow song of the same name, and is thought to be the model for The Tropicana, the club Desi Arnaz runs in "I Love Lucy." It's also the site of a real-life scuffle between Yankees (including Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra) and patrons angry at performer Sammy Davis Jr.
The surviving district down in Rio still serves as the playground for stars staying at the majestic hotels along the city's shore (including the Copacabana Palace). The real Copacobana will host one of the eight Live Earth concerts on July 7. And unlike the club, it can't be packed up and moved to the Bronx or Brooklyn, as the bar's owners have suggested may happen.
[Photo Credit: Luisito Rosario]
by egw
6/20/2007 at 2:58 PM
Tags: Nantucket Travel, Nightlife, Bars, Jaunted Field Trips, Nantucket-Travel-Guide-Map (all tags)
Nantucket Travel Guide Map
Once on Nantucket you are going to want to find a nice spot to soak in the nightlife. Yes, it is a quiet island, but that doesn't mean there is nothing to do once the sun goes down. With the uber-rich summer crowd co-mingling nightly with the twenty somethings looking to make a boatload of cash in local restaurants, bars, and hotels, you are bound to find some party action, if you know where to look.
Whether you need a drink to recover from your hectic workweek, bask in the glow of your glorious summer island retreat, or put up with the onslaught of men in pink shirts and critter pants--point is most folks on Nantucket need a drink.
Three spots to enjoy the Nantucket Nightlife.
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