On the heels of losing its license to operate in one of its largest markets late last year due to safety concerns, Uber is in the news again. This time …
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Ground Transportation (Bus, Lyft, Subway, Taxi, Train, Uber, etc.)
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Airports
15-Year-Old Gets Through TSA Checkpoint At MCO Without Ticket, Tries To Use Drink Coupon
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegBack in October, we wrote about a woman who had managed to get past the TSA Security checkpoint at Orlando Int’l Airport (MCO) and board a Delta plane, despite having …
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AirlinesTravel
American Airlines Is The First To Launch Mobile App Passport Scanning
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegSlowly but surely, an international flight is getting easier and saving us time. While Global Entry has become a huge time saver for U.S. citizens returning from overseas, Airlines have …
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Disney, Universal & Other Theme ParksTravel
The One Hotel At Walt Disney World Where You Probably Can’t Stay
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegWalt Disney World covers 43 square miles. To put that into perspective, it’s roughly the size of San Francisco, or about twice the size of Manhattan. It’s a good thing …
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Funny Stuff
Hey, Global Entry Program, How Does A Problem Like This Even HAPPEN?
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegIt really doesn’t matter who’s in charge, the government is always a hot mess. No one knows that better at the moment than a guy named Sherman K. Sherman just …
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Parks/Nature
Ever Wanted To Be A Real Mermaid? This Weekend Camp Taught By Weeki Wachee Mermaids Can Make It Happen!
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegSome little girls and not-so-little girls (and occasionally not-so-little boys, too!) would LOVE to be a real-life mermaid (or merman). Well, grown-up merfolk wannabes, you CAN, because historic Weeki Wachee …
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Disney, Universal & Other Theme ParksGround Transportation (Bus, Lyft, Subway, Taxi, Train, Uber, etc.)Rental CarsTips and Tricks
The History of Avoiding Parking Fees At WDW Parks (And Our Suggestions Of What To Do Nowadays)
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegThe charges to park at Walt Disney World’s theme parks have gone up every year (sometimes more than once a year) for just about as long as WDW has been …
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You’re shopping around for flights and have a choice of flights at 6:15am or 7:01pm. The 6:15am one is cheaper but you’d have to wake up at way-too-early o’clock and …
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Airports
Update: The Time It Now Takes To Get A U.S. Passport Or Global Entry
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegLast July, I wrote a piece about how the government has just quietly tripled how long it would take to get a passport. About six months have passed and although …