Travel Deals

According to American Express Traveler’s consumer booking data from the month of September, travels have been up 11% compared to the same time last year on domestic flights and 16% for international flights. The same reports indicate that 40% of people plan to travel this upcoming holiday season and 88% of them staying in the US. If you’re planning on traveling during the Christmas season to vacation by the beach, head to Seven Stars Grace Bay Beach in Providenciales Turks and Caicos. You’ll enjoy a ton of sun, water sports, relaxing spa services and great dining. For a great airline ticket price, try to stay flexible with your travel dates. Look for airfares on websites that can compare many search engines at once. And try to compare prices between different days. Traveling on a Monday or Tuesday can save you a lot of money. Also, choose returning flights that are not as popular, with less traveling passengers on a certain date, you can score a better price. For example, traveling on the Tuesday or Wednesday before Christmas can get you a better deal on airfare, the same for the return the Tuesday or Wednesday after.

Language Mistakes

CNN posted online an article with findings from a new survey from 300 British travelers revealing common and funny mistakes travelers make abroad. The survey was conducted by Owners Direct, a company that advertises vacation properties. The article talked about a traveler in Greece calling an elderly woman a squid mixing up ‘good morning which is ‘kalimera’ with ‘calamari’. Or someone else who asked for her ‘head baked al forno’. ‘Al forno’ means food from the oven. All she wanted was a hair dryer. Many travelers interviewed admitted to having said they wished’ good morning’ instead of ‘good night.’ This survey found that 95% of respondents try to talk to locals in their native language. CNN says the most commonly used vocabulary was ‘hello’, ‘please’, ‘thank you’, ‘goodnight’, ‘where are the toilets?’ and ‘ a bottle of house red, please.’
For no mistakes in your vocabulary, head to Grace Bay Beach on your next vacation. Seven Stars Resort is the place to be for luxurious accommodations and unparalleled service. Head to Seven Stars and live the good life for a little bit.

Top Sunsets

Travel and Leisure posted the Top 10 most Romantic Caribbean Sunsets on their website. Here to share some on the list with you is Seven Stars Resort, a five-star hotel from which you can also view amazing, breathtaking sunsets. Peter Island Resort in Peter Island is part of this Top 10 most Romantic Caribbean Sunsets list because this resort runs a Sunset Tour for its guests. Participants are taken to the West side of the island and offered hors d’oeuvres and drinks as they watch the sun set over St. John. Mount Sage National Park in Tortola is next on the list at 1,716 feet high, the highest in the Virgin Islands. Jade Mountain in St. Lucia also appears online on TravelandLeisure.com. From this resort’s rooms that are facing west, guests can view the sky’s orange and red color palette. Next is Boqueron Beach in Puerto Rico known for its ‘green flash’ due to reflected light rays seconds before the sun disappears into the distance. Number five on the list is Eden Rock Hotel in St. Bart’s. for more on Top 10 most Romantic Caribbean Sunsets, visit TravelandLeisure.com. but for the very best sunset in Turks and Caicos, visit the luxurious Seven Stars Resort and Hotel in Grace Beach in Providenciales. You won’t regret it!

Space Tourism

Seven Stars Grace Bay Beach Resort found out that Russia charges private travelers $40 million to ride Soyuz spacecraft to spend a few days aboard the international space station. Virgin Galactic charges $200,000 for a flight to suborbital space and Space Adventures is asking for $102,000. About 360 paying passengers have signed to be the first travelers on Virgin Galactic’s trips. Seven Stars Hotel in Turks and Caicos found out that Washington licensed Jacksonville, Florida’s Cecil Field as the US’ eighth non-government spaceport in January. New Mexico’s Spaceport America where Virgin’s Galactic plans to have its base for space flights just completed a two mile runaway.

For a lot less green, you can have fun riding an airplane and landing in Grace Bay Beach for a wonderful vacation at Seven Stars Resort. You’ll love all the attention you’ll get from our staff who are there to make your vacation stay relaxing and blissful. The Seven Stars Hotel’s accommodations are comfortable, the food is delicious and the beach views are stunning. For an out of this world traveling experience you don’t need an aircraft, you need to travel to Seven Stars Grace Bay Beach Resort.

Phone Applications for When You Travel

These days the technology is getting more and more accessible. With iPhones and BlackBerry cellular phones being all the rage, there are plenty of apps or applications being created. One category Seven Stars Grace Bay Beach Resort is very interested in is of course the travel apps. There are plenty of different ones, from apps that organize your travel itinerary to those who convert your currency to those who help you translate ‘restrooms’ in any language. Take for example the Yelp app which is available on the Android and Palm Pre which helps you find places to eat, shop, drink and play with reviews. There’s also the Streetmuseum one which is created by the Museum of London and gives travelers an insight into the country’s history. Once you’re next to a featured location, all you need to do is hold you camera and you’ll see what that same spot looked like hudreds of years ago. MetrO is another great app for traveling folks. This one helps people travel through over 400 cities. It’s free and available on most phones like iPhone, BlackBerry and Palm. Plus, once you’ve downloaded a city, you don’t need a connection. On the MetrO app, you’ll find routes searchable by railway, subway, bus and Tram.

Traveling Bags That Will Save You Money

Traveling has gotten expensive lately, with fuel surcharges, blanket fees and baggage fees, it has gotten pretty ridiculous. It’s even expensive around the airport with having to purchase food in small overpriced cafes because they’re not serving food onboard planes anymore or rarely. But Seven Stars Resort and Hotel in Grace Bay Beach still want you to visit and enjoy the very best that Turks and Caicos has to offer so we’re here to help with a few bags that can help you save money. The roller such as Delsey’s newest 21-inch Helium Fusion Lite is just over nine pounds and is rolled around on inline skate type of wheels. You can get it for about $90 according to CNN online. There’s a backpack that’s great for traveling called the Reisenthel Mini Max. It can transform into a wallet-size pouch and tucked away in your suitcase in case you don’t need the extra bag on your way back from your trip or for later use. And keep looking on your won for lighter suitcases, because the lighter the weight, the more you can pack into one bag and won’t have to check in multiple bags and pay multiple times.

Celebrating the Wheeled Suitcase

US Luggage debuted its wheeled suitcase in 1970. According to CNN, Bernard Sadow had trouble selling his rolling suitcase idea. He showed the idea to department stores in New York City and to buying offices but everybody thought he was crazy to attach wheels to luggage. He was inspired himself with the idea when he was going through customs in Puerto Rico with two large 27-inch suitcases that were tightly packed and didn’t have any help with them when he saw someone moving a piece of machinery on a wheeled platform. So he attached four casters to the bottom of a suitcase and added a flexible strap and tried selling his new wheeled luggage with the suitcase trailing behind him. He finally impressed the vice president of Macy’s and Sadow applied for a US patent in 1970 and in 1972 he got the first successful patent on wheeled suitcases. It took almost 20 years for the next advancement in rolling luggage. Today’s luggage, pulled on two wheels with a retractable handle was invented in the 80s by Northwest Airlines pilot Bob Plath.
Pack your wheeled luggage and fly over to Turks and Caicos to stay at the luxurious resort Seven Stars in Grace Bay Beach.