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What’s a back-to-back ticket? I’ve relaunched my weekly videocast as “Elliott Explains” — an effort to help simply the often confusing rules and terminology of travel. This week’s topic is back-to-back airline tickets. (Might as well dive right in to the most controversial issue, don’t you think?) Click on the screen to make it bigger, and join a lively debate.
Fake travel insurance. How do you protect yourself from a bogus travel insurance policy? In this week’s MSNBC.com column I offer six easy questions that will help you separate real insurance from a fake. Plus, what happens when your insurance claim takes forever to process (even if it’s legit)? Read this week’s Travel Troubleshooter to find out.
Cookie trouble. There’s an exciting week of blog posts, beginning with Hotwire’s problems with “cookie” pricing. You won’t want to miss the original post that kicked off the whole discussion. There’s a revealing Q&A interview with Jerry Watson, the president of beleaguered Prime Travel Protection. And guess which airline is starting to use e-mail for customer service feedback?
Hilton’s monster? Over at Tripso, I ask whether Hilton has just given birth to a monster. (The answer is “yes” — but it’s not alone.) You can read more of my Tripso postings from last week here.
Where are the elephants? Souvenirist has photos and a video of our trip to the Central Florida Zoo. The only animals that wanted to show themselves were the ones that couldn’t hide. Join us for the fun.
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