Travel articles Disney Water Slides
Disney World resorts have some memorable water slides, from the shipwreck at the Yacht and Beach Club to the roller coaster at the BoardWalk Inn. If you'll be spending a lot of time at the pool, check out these pictures of water slides at Disney World resorts. Room at the Inn: Finding hotel deals in 2009
It's an understatement to say that location is everything. The economic crisis is not affecting all markets equally, so just how great a bargain you find will depend largely on where you look.
Spring Break
Whether you're heading to snowy slopes or sandy shores, you'd best be booked now for a family Spring Break.
For school-age kids in the US or Canada, "Spring Break" usually means... Who Wants a Pleistocene-Era Backyard?
While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
Scuba Diving in Aruba
Pictures of scuba diving in Aruba.
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