The best online travel sites

If you're considering a cruise or an organised tour, a good place to start shopping is at , which debuted in seven countries including the UK last year with the goal of incorporating every travel website on the planet into its 'social search engine'.

For example, you can call up a list of cruise lines that belong to the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators, but it's up to you to know how those lines differ from lines that aren't members.

Its deal analyser technology promises to spare you from having to sift through reams of fine print by presenting the key criteria for each listing - price, savings off brochure price and terms of booking (for example, dates of stay and deadline for booking) - in just three lines of type.

This powerful solution is the first of its kind, offering you up to 6.0 Terabytes (6000GB), as well as the option to have RAID 5 capabilities; giving you an excellent combination of HDMI movie playback (1080p) and easy disk management.



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Cubans welcome rule changes on travel to island

No to the Cuban-Americans coming to the travel agency seeking to visit ailing parents, the ones trying to get to funerals on the island, the ones hoping to be by a loved one's bedside after an accident.

Obama has pledged to sign the legislation, which would allow Cuban-Americans to travel to the island once a year to visit relatives for an unlimited amount of time and spend up to $170 a day while they're there.Currently, family visits are limited to once every three years for no more than 14 days.

Daily spending is capped at $50."With those limitations," Asela Prado said, "you feel like a prisoner."The legislation would also expand the definition of family to include first cousins, aunts and uncles rather than just parents, siblings and grandparents, allowing many more people to travel to the island.Many here in Miami, the global center of Cuban expatriates, welcome the possibility of loosened rules, though some insist they will not visit the island again until it is free from Communist rule.Outside the Versailles restaurant in Little Havana, 55-year-old Pedro Lopez dreams of returning to the island he left 30 years ago."The smell, the streets, the things I saw as a kid, the friends," he said, remembering his youth.

She'd like to visit her brother, nieces and nephews more often, but it's her clients who have more compelling needs.She gestures to the chair on her left in the small office with posters of Cuba in shiny gold frames on the white-paneled walls."A man cried in that chair.



Source: http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/20090224/APA/902241987?Title=Cubans-welcome-rule-changes-on-travel-to-island

The best last minute travel deals and bargains

The best last minute travel deals and bargains

2009 will be awash with cheap deals - catch up on the latest news and and deals in the market as they are published

The Times rounds up its pick of the including eight nights in the southern Indian state of Kerala

from £565 or a saving of £400 on a week in a catered chalet with its

own pool in Tignes, now £504 including flights from Gatwick, on March 8.

Ten nights for the price of six from , plus a free day at the site's spa, for visits on or before Jun

26 to Camping le Ranolien, Brittany - now from £473 for two adults and two

children in a two bedroom home, includes ferry Dover to Calais.

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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article5314276.ece