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[Contest] Win 2 Free Tickets on a Sydney New Year’s Eve Cruise

19. November 2009

We're giving away 2 free tickets on a Sydney Harbour New Year's Eve cruise!! All you need to do is answer one question: why should YOU win?

Oberammergau Passion Play

19. November 2009

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The 2010 Passion Play in Oberammergau, Germany, is a once-a-decade event that takes over, consumes, and essentially overwhelms the entire town of Oberammergau. Once every 10 years, more than half of this Bavarian village's 5,000 inhabitants take part as actors in the world-famous Oberammergau Passion Play. This may be the world's most famous play... that you have never heard of!

Matsuri in Las Vegas

10. November 2009

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What's the latest in Las Vegas shows? It's called Matsuri, at the Imperial Palace on the Strip. Matsuri means "Festival" in Japanese, and that's exactly what this show feels like - a festival of Japanese dancers and acrobats, full of dazzling color and bravado. For a limited time we're giving away 2 free tickets to Matsuri...

[contest] Win 20 Free Nights at any Hampton Hotel!

21. October 2009

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[contest] Win 20 Free Nights at any Hampton Hotel!

Editor's Note: The contest is now closed. Thanks again for contributing such fantastic answers, and stay tuned for the announcement of a winner! Enter our Hampton Hotel contest to wins 20 FREE nights at any Hampton Hotel (you'll have 1,700+ locations to chose from... Manhattan to New Orleans, San Francisco to San Antonio, Puerto Rico to Mexico to Canada and beyond!). And you'll receive a $200 Viator.com gift certificate. All you need to do is answer one question: What do YOU wish in life came with a 100% guarantee?

[contest] Win 2 SF Helicopter + 2 Academy of Sciences Tickets!

20. October 2009

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[contest] Win 2 SF Helicopter + 2 Academy of Sciences Tickets!

[Editor's note: The contest is now closed! Thanks again for entering, stay tuned and we'll announce a winner soon.] We're giving away two free tickets on a San Francisco helicopter tour plus two free tickets on a behind-the-scenes platinum tour of the California Academy of Sciences. We are asking everybody who enters the contest one simple question. Why YOU?

Google & The Infinite SEO-PPC Loop

15. October 2009

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A while back, we had a meltdown about some really awful Google Local and Google Map results. We were clearly not the only ones complaining - in fact, here’s a good article from Danny Sullivan speaking to Sergey Brin about the problems with Google maps and local. Can you tell I’m about to complain about Google [...]

Q&A with Lonely Planet’s Tony Wheeler

2. October 2009

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If Tony Wheeler didn't exist, we'd need to invent him. You'll know Tony if you've ever hauled a backpack around the globe with only a fuzzy itinerary (Asia?? why not!) and a money belt stuffed full with everything except money. Along with shoes and toothbrush, the only other required piece of gear was the guidebook. Inevitably it was a Lonely Planet guidebook.

Viator.com Wins 2009 Travolution Web Award

1. October 2009

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Hard to believe 2009 is slowly, inevitably coming to an end. Last time we looked at the calendar it was early summer, somehow it’s slipped into autumn. And that means the 2009 awards season is coming to a close. With a bang! We’ve had a good run so far this year - both Viator.com and the [...]

Surfer Mutiny at British Airways

27. September 2009

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Editor’s note: We originally posted this back in 2007, when BA first announced their surfboard ban. Since then the world’s surfing community has been boycotting BA over its policy. Just last week BA announced that from October 9, 2009, it will start carrying surfboards again - as long as they’re 6′ 3″ or less in [...]

Q&A with CheapOair

27. September 2009

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Editor’s note: We were looking for some cheap airfares recently and came across the travel website CheapOair.com, which specializes in cheap airfares. We were intrigued, so we sent them some questions. Erin McBride, their Director of Social Marketing, was kind enough to reply. Q: In a nutshell, what is CheapOair? How is it different from all [...]