Marilyn Lennehan and her husband Jim were enjoying their La Cabana timeshare six years ago in Aruba when they heard a presentation from a BlueGreen Vacation Club representative. His spiel of how they could be…
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has fined Southwest Airlines $200,000 for advertising cheap rates that it failed to provide. The fine, according, involved its “Luv A Fare Sale” from earlier this year when the airline…
Selling or donating your timeshare, or hoping to land a great deal on a vacation getaway? You might be particularly vulnerable to certain scams, Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner William M. Rubenstein and Attorney…
United Airlines threw off a Niantic woman from a midnight flight to Hartford on April 9 because she was acting sleepy. Mary Montesi, 46, said she could not believe that the pilot of the United…
The Federal Trade Commission has warned 22 hotel operators that their online reservation sites may violate the law by providing a deceptively low estimate of what consumers can expect to pay for their hotel rooms….
A Transportation Security Administration officer looks at a simulated image from a backscatter machine at Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Neb., in June 2010. The TSA removed the X-ray body scanners from major airports, planning to…
JAPAN Part 2: CONVERSATIONS IN THE NOW In last week’s column, Japan Part 1: LIVING IN THE NOW, I wrote about letting go of the need to know the future. I learned that children…
JAPAN: Part 1: LIVING IN THE NOW I just returned from Nara Japan where I visited my pen pal, Yumiko (since 1978) and her family for my fourth time. They live in a valley of…
If you think that security searches for pen knives and razor blades is a waste of money and your time, you have agreement from the man who should know: The former administrator of the Transportation…
The following account was written by Laurie Escudero Of Granby involving Berkshire Concepts of Mass. Connecticut officials had put out a warning about this company last fall. I contacted Berkshire and a person there –…
“Three South Florida women, all elderly and with medical problems, say Transportation Security Administration officers made them take off their clothes during the screening process at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport last week,”…
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has fined the online ticket agent Orbitz $60,000 for violating federal aviation laws and the Department’s rules prohibiting deceptive price advertising in air travel. “Consumers have a right to…
by Michael Grabell A sign at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint instructs passengers about the use of the full-body scanner at O’Hare International Airport on March 15, 2010 in Chicago, Ill. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) The…
The recent surge of bedbug reports has many travelers on edge, but these creatures are not invisible and a vigilant hotel guest should have no problem avoiding the bloodsucking pests. Hotels.com spokesperson Nicole Hockin, author…
Due to lousy teeth from childhood on, Anna Baker was facing a difficult decision as an adult: get dentures or spend more than $50,000 for implants. But after seeing a story on CNN about a…