South African Airways has announced that it will operate new non-stop service from New York JFK to Johannesburg beginning May 1, 2009. Flight SA204, which will now depart at 11:35AM and arrive in Johannesburg at 8:45AM the following day, opens up a host of online connections, taking more travelers to more of Africa through SAA’s Johannesburg hub.
There’s still time to squeeze the last sweet days of summer vacation, save a bundle, and scamper past attraction ticket lines with CityPass. Talk of stay-cations, day-cations, and zooming prices may have dampened early summer travel spirits, but big cities are always crackling with excitement, and ripe for a late-summer break. Best of all, CityPass offers a pocket-size booklet of admission tickets to a select collection of top-drawer attractions in 11 North American cities, priced to save about 50% of regular admission.
LocalEats, the new iPhone application recently launched by Magellan Press, combines the latest technology with meticulous restaurant research to help locals and visitors alike choose from among the 100 best restaurants in the top 50 U.S. cities, and then guide them to their dining destinations.
Fully one-third of leisure travelers embarked on a last minute trip last year, according to the 2008 Ypartnership/Yankelovich National Leisure Travel MONITOR, revealing a sizable necessity for impulse vacations by today’s traveling public. The newly released data also defines the average time frame of advanced planning for a last minute booking. On average, travelers planned late-breaking trips just 15 days in advance of their departure.
CityPass is making visiting the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island much more simple and affordable this summer. In addition to saving almost 50% to see the city’s selected most-famous attractions, New York CityPass ticket holders get a time-saving advantage: they move to the front of the line awaiting security protocols, bypassing general admission lines at Battery Park.
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