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A summer down-under adventure
In response to the Press request for stories of readers’ summer vacation, Rose Grelis sent the following story.
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Scranton Hilton sues vacation group for more than $30,000
The Hilton Scranton and Conference Center is suing a New Jersey-based travel club for more than $30,000 for alleged unpaid bills.Filed in Lackawanna County on Aug. 11, the Hilton is suing Getaway Weekend Vacations Inc., also known as Adventure Unlimited
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Coastal vacation scam artists take people’s money with promises of phony vacations. Many of these offers use words like “cheap Hawaiian vacation” to lure travelers.
Most people dream of taking a coastal vacation. They may hope for a cheap Hawaiian vacation package or dream of a coastal vacation resort weekend.
But many coastal vacation scams disguise themselves as legitimate offers. Police report an increase in coastal vacation scams in recent years.
The Internet spawned a new breed of coastal vacation scam artist wanting to cheat honest consumers out of their money. Anyone who types in cheap Hawaiian vacation package into a “Google” search engine will find over one million his.
The Federal Trade Commission reported 3,600 consumers scammed in 2002, amounting to $3. 5 million. How can consumers tell the difference between a coastal vacation scam and an honest cheap vacation package?
1. Many people operating coastal vacation scams will ask for a credit card or other financial information early in the conversation. Many of these so-called vacation companies want consumers to give their financial information online for a “cheap Hawaiian vacation. “
The desire by the company to receive financial information before the consumer feel comfortable doing so should indicate a red flag and a possible coastal vacation scam.
Many cases of identity fraud started with coastal vacation scams. Consumers receive their bank or credit card statements and find that in addition to their “cheap Hawaiian vacation,” charges of cash advances and purchases of high-dollar merchandise.
Consumers who fall prey to identity fraud should contact their local law enforcement immediately about the coastal vacation scam.
2. The company operating coastal vacation scams will offer the consumer very little details about the planned trip. The person on the other line, on the phone or on the Internet, will offer constant assurances the hotel in the cheap Hawaiian vacation package features Oceanside views, luxuries rooms and private balconies—very broad descriptions.
The “seller” of the coastal vacation scam may claim they stayed there many times but cannot give specifics.
The company asks the consumer not to contact the hotel or resort directly about the vacation package, another sign of a coastal vacation scam.
If the consumer cannot confirm the reservations with the hotel directly, the consumer should look elsewhere for a cheap Hawaiian vacation. Consumers should get the details and take charge of their coastal vacation and not fall prey to coastal vacation scams.
3. Coastal vacation scam artists use word like “free” or “vacation offer. ” Often these so-called “offers” include a daylong presentation before families can use their free tickets–a common coastal vacation scam technique.
If consumers cannot see the islands on their cheap Hawaiian vacation and must sit through lengthy presentations, the vacation may not seem so “cheap. “
4. The Better Business Bureau and other government agencies maintain lists of coastal vacation scams. Smart consumers check these lists and report any contact by these coastal vacation scam artists.
One of the more popular ruses offers a cheap Hawaiian vacation or a cheap family vacation package.
Fear of a coastal vacation scam should not keep consumers from seeking out great vacation deals, like a cheap Hawaiian vacation.
Many companies offer legitimate family vacation packages and an honest travel incentive program that saves families even more money on their vacation costs. Coastal vacation scams should not discourage travelers.
Ben Jordan an x-Fortune 500 executive turned coastal vacations scam buster. His love is helping people use the coastal vacations call center business model. For a FREE 3day/2night hotel voucher visit www. abccallcenter. com
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Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything from a seascape in Barbados to the takeoffs at Heathrow.
Even as de Botton takes the reader along on his own peregrinations, he also cites such distinguished fellow-travelers as Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Van Gogh, the biologist Alexander von Humboldt, and the 18th-century eccentric Xavier de Maistre, who catalogued the wonders of his bedroom. The Art of Travel is a wise and utterly original book. Don’t leave home without it.
We are going to Disneyworld this month. We will have a car, but I am wondering if there is a way to avoid the parking nightmare that is Disney.
Welcome to part 6 of our series on taking a cruise vacation. As you can see, just by the many segments on this topic, there is a lot to cover. The fact that you made it through the first 5 tells me you are really interested in going on a cruise or already have booked one and you are trying to learn more before you go.
A reader of this series on taking a cruise vacation emailed me through our website and asked if I would be covering the pre-boarding process. They asked if I would include it in my next article segment, specifically referring to registering online.
Before you are allowed onto the ship, you have to do what is called pre-boarding. Cruise lines call it different things, but that is a term I have commonly heard it called. This is the process by which you furnish all pertinent information to the cruise lines for you and your guests. This would include, name, address, passport information, that sort of thing. It will be during this process that you receive your ship card (also called the s-card). That card is your lifeline for the entire week. DO NOT LOSE IT! We will talk more about the ship card in another segment.
This pre-boarding process also takes away the cumbersome task of having to produce your passport each time you end up at a different destination. The cruise line does it once, and everyone is ready to go. Could you imagine having to check passports for over 1,500 passengers at every stop? You couldn`t. It would be impossible.
Cruise lines have made it easier to get through this process by allowing you, the traveler, to fill out most of the information online before you get inline at the cruise terminal. If you booked your cruise through the cruise line itself, or through a reputable travel agent, then they have a lot of your basic information. If you go the cruise line`s website you will be able to complete the process with the other information.
By filling out the other information now, online, it saves time for you and them when you reach the counter at check in time. What you will do online is basically the same thing the cruise attendant will type in when you register to gain access to getting on board. As you can see it is a huge time saver, for you and them.
On a side note, there is a fear by a lot of people when it comes to entering personal information online. No system is 100% hacker proof. Just make sure that when you are entering your information in online (and this goes for any website asking for personal information), you see the “https” at the beginning of the web address and not the usual “http”. The extra “s” stands for secure, meaning that the website is going to encrypt your data with 128-bit technology.
Now you know how to make your life and your passenger`s life a bit easier just to get on the ship. When you book your cruise, don`t forget to ask your travel agent for the web address to the cruise line`s, pre-boarding process.
By: Bruce A. Tucker
About the Author:Bruce A. Tucker is the Associate Director of http://www. Indocquent. com, an online resource that allows businesses and individuals to post their products and services for sale in 20,000 cities throughout 200 countries around the world. If you have a Blog and want to learn more about how you can earn extra income with Indocquent`s, Promos by IDQ campaign, visit their website at http://www. indocquent. com/index_files/promosbyidq. htm.
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