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Vantage Deluxe World Travel Have an iPhone? Top 20 Travel apps!

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Top 20 iPhone Travel Apps: Forget Super Monkey Ball. New iPhone travel apps are changing how we interact with the world.
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Thanksgiving in the U.S.! How do other countries celebrate?

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This article talks about how the Chinese, Vietnamese, Jewish, Indian, and Koreans celebrate their version of Thanksgiving.
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Vantage Deluxe World Travel A quick word on an old in-flight comfort issue: popping ears. http://151traveltips.com/2009/10/07/18-prevent-earaches-while-flying/

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Have trouble with earaches when flying? Follow these tips!
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Happy Eustachian tubes, happy traveler! If you suffer from earaches while flying, try these tricks: A half hour to 45 minutes before takeoff, take an antihistamine or decongestant...
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Vantage Deluxe World Travel Just posted the results of our call for in-flight reading recommendations to the 151 Travel Tips blog (including some suggestions we received from our Twitter followers).

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Looking for a good book to pass the time on your flight? Here are ten books recommended by our Twitter followers and by fans of Vantage Travel’s Facebook page.
Winona Musgrove
Winona Musgrove
Yes, I always fill out the comment sheets when we return from a trip. I put down good or bad!
October 2 at 8:42am
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Vantage Deluxe World Travel Taking our India trip? The world's largest democracy is a beautiful & complex nation. We just posted some suggested reading for visitors (scroll down past the city descriptions, or check your suggested reading page in My Account).

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|Travel Notes| Climate| Money Matters| What to Pack
Winona Musgrove
Winona Musgrove
We took this trip and it is wonderful. Everyone I knew commented, why would you want to go to India?? It was so educational and interesting. Our places we stayed were wonderful. Our tour guide was not the best, he was like a little dictator but we did not let this ruin our trip.
September 25 at 6:48pm
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Ms. Musgrove: Hope you filled out your survey after the trip. We're always looking for feedback on our program managers. Thanks!
September 30 at 12:02pm
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Vantage Deluxe World Travel We're looking for some good book suggestions for trans-Atlantic flights. What are you reading on the plane this month?

August 24 at 1:51pm
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Any favorite titles, Pat?
August 26 at 1:32pm
Pat
Pat
I really enjoyed one that is based on fact. It is "The Innocent Man". His others are fiction. Some that I have enjoyed are: "The Partner", "The Summons", The King of Tarts, The Brethren, A Painted House". I plan to have one to read on the plane for our upcoming trip in 46 days.
August 29 at 10:14am
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Vantage Deluxe World Travel Gorgeous photos of Alesund, Norway, a favorite stop on our Grand Norwegian Coastal Voyage (http://www.vantagetravel.com/cbg10).

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Photos of Alesund posted to the photo sharing site Flickr. The photographers are not affiliated with Vantage.
Winona Musgrove
Winona Musgrove
We took the Norwegian Coastal cruise, it was not one of our favorite trips with Vantage. One night the sea was so rough a lady fell out of her bed, broke her hip. We had to leave her behind. Her son from USA flew over to be with her. Of course that had nothing to do with Vantage. The picture of us on this site is us with Fantage this past May. We were celebrating our 55th wedding anniversary. We did a river cruise, Across Europe to the Black Sea. A very nice trip.
September 8 at 2:12pm
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Ms. Musgrove, the Norwegian Coastal voyage is one of our most popular products right now, but we're always trying to make things better. Rough seas are something we can't really avoid. But I hope that you filled out your post-trip survey, especially if you had comments you felt would be helpful on other aspects of the trip.
September 16 at 6:01am
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Vantage Deluxe World Travel Built in the eighties by the Ceauşescu regime, the Palace of the Parliament (or "People's Palace") is a complicated symbol of the Romanian people. On one hand, it's the work of a brutal dictator. On the other, it's a curious source of civic pride for the people of Bucharest. You can visit it on our Eastern Europe & the Black Sea river cruise (http://www.vantagetravel.com/ebo09).

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The Romanian Parliament's web page about the Palace, in English. The Palace is a magnificent work of architecture and is the world's second largest building after the Pentagon.
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Vantage Deluxe World Travel Here's a fun feature of Google maps we were playing with today. Did you know you can search for all cameras showing live images on the internet of a given city? Here are the results we found for a favorite stop on many of our river cruises: Budapest, Hungary. Just click on any of the little picture icons to see what the camera at that location is seeing.

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Live web cameras in and around Budapest, Hungary.
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Vantage Deluxe World Travel Here's another gorgeous group of photos posted by users on Flickr (no association with Vantage). These are from one of our favorite destinations -- the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx, just outside the bustling modern metropolis of Cairo, Egypt.

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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.
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Vantage Deluxe World Travel Last minute deals time! Today, some sweet Fall deals on Amazon & Germany river cruises, Tahitian cruises & more.

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When you refer a new traveller, they’ll receive up to $100 per person off their first reservation and you’ll get $150 in Travel Credits – and more! Learn more about our Vantage Diplomat Club Referral Program.
Winona Musgrove
Winona Musgrove
We took the Amazon river cruise a couple years ago and it was the best. The ship only had 61 on it, all from Vantage and we loved it. We took the trip in March. Our guides were the best.
September 4 at 1:45pm
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Klaus Franz*, one of Vantage's many program managers in South America, brings deep knowledge and a great sense of humor to his job. Careful with that snake, Klaus! Find out who will be leading your trip. One of the most important features of any vacation is the staff who will accompany you...
Charlotte Stewart Dean
Charlotte Stewart Dean
We have had a terrible time with Vantage Travel trying to get our reservations straight. The call center salespeople assigned us the wrong departure date. Once that was corrected we got an additional charge of $890 tacked on. The published rate sheet for Vantage didn't show any justification for that added charge. Maybe Vantage is a good company, maybe not. These first encounters with them are not encouraging.
August 12 at 8:21am
Pat
Pat
Don't give up. We were unhappy with some things on our first Vantage trip and thought we would not travel with them again. However, we decided to will soon be on our 10th trip with them and planning the 11th. They are a good company! We've been very happy with them since the first experience.
August 15 at 10:46am
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Ms. Dean, thanks for your comments, and Ms. Forney for your support. We're in Marketing, not Customer Service, so we can't comment on Ms. Dean's specific case, but we can say this:
We do everything we can to simplify our prices. But with so many incidental charges that are not under our control -- government entry taxes, visa fees, port taxes, ... Read Moreand the like -- it is impossible to roll everything up neatly into a single price. Travel is a complex business, and any tour operator who tells you differently is being dishonest.
For this reason, it is extremely important for travelers to read the Terms & Conditions (posted on our web site & regularly updated) and all other "fine print."
When in doubt, ask one of our customer service representatives; they are there to help. Again, this is not a comment on Ms. Dean's case -- just a general word of advice.
We're sorry to hear Ms. Dean had a bad experience, but we've been in business over 25 years and have thousands of happy customers.
August 18 at 6:38am
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Vantage Deluxe World Travel "It is better to travel well than to arrive." -- Siddhartha Gautama

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Vantage Deluxe World Travel "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." -- Aldous Huxley

July 23 at 8:44am
Carol Carlson
Carol Carlson
Too often this is true.
July 23 at 1:08pm