Mike FriedmanWe’re back with another week of TWIT (This Week In Travel) notes. This week, we’ll see a bad week for Princess Cruises, a Las Vegas airline spreading its wings and a hotel where you could get seasick.
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A Bad Week For Princess
Wow. This week in travel was enough to make even a cruise fanatic like me think twice before stepping onboard. It started with the quarantine of the Diamond Princess in Japan, after hundreds of passengers were stricken with the coronavirus.
And it’s continued with the Caribbean Princess, which was forced to return to Florida after almost 10% of the people on board were diagnosed with symptoms that seem similar to those of the Norovirus.
Let’s hope that things improve over the next week.
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Allegiant Adds Three More Cities To Las Vegas – This Week in Travel
Ultra-low-cost carrier Allegiant Air is adding flights between three more cities and Las Vegas. The destinations are Fort Wayne, IN; San Diego, CA; and Tucson, AZ… The airline is opening the routes with introductory fares as low as $43 one-way.
Allegiant Air is an unusual carrier in that it tries to go where the people aren’t. They fly leisure passengers from smaller cities like Bangor, ME that doesn’t get a lot of service from the major carriers. They keep the fares rock-bottom but make up the difference on fees, such as baggage and seat assignments.
Of course, the problem with flying to small cities is that you only have so many passengers that you can carry, so they’ve been forced to expand into a few larger cities to maintain their growth.
Sweden’s Floating Hotels
Because who wouldn’t want to be in a hotel that floats, attached to land by a wooden bridge? I’m guessing that the temperature, though, is a little different from the standard overwater bungalows that you would stay in Bora Bora.
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