- This Saturday, March 28 is Passport Day, when Regional Passport Agencies and local Passport Acceptance Facilities will be open to the public for select hours throughout the day. The event stems from the Western Passport Travel Initiative (effective June 1), which will require all U.S. citizens to present a passport or passport book when traveling from the U.S. to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda.
- Officials at Sweden's Ice Hotel have confirmed that they will begin to sell tickets for the company's space trips, which could launch (literally) as early as 2012.
- Within the next few months, the TSA will require passengers to list their birthday and gender when purchasing a plane ticket.
- Berlin hotels continue to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Ritz-Carlton in Potsdamer Platz is offering a "Remember the Wall" package for just over $400 per night. Guests (like those staying at the Westin) will receive a piece of the original wall, tickets to the Berlin Wall Museum, Gorbachev cocktails upon arrival, chocolate, a DVD of the movie Goodbye Lenin, and Rotkaeppchen sparkling wine.
Subscribe to RSS feed
Subscribe to RSS feed
Regarding "Goodbye, Lenin." What a funny movie! Put it in your Netflix queue!
They've still got bits of the Berlin Wall to give away? The number of chunks that have been handed out as gifts, memorials and prizes over the past two decades, the wall must have been twice the size of the Great Wall Of China.
On October 3 will mark 19 years of German reunification and will begin a series of events and festivities that will culminate point on November 9, when he was 20 years met the fall of the Berlin Wall.
So October and November are presented as the ideal months to visit the German capital, since the traditional attractions of the city adds the possibility of being part of a historic moment and it is expected that thousands of tourists from around the world reach the city of the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Platz.
Because of this great event, many airlines offer substantial discounts and accommodation booking sites like Clickbed.com offer
hotels in Berlin for € 20 or € 30.