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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Protecting Your Luggage in the Hotel Lobby
What traveler among us hasn't gotten off a long flight and arrived at our hotel, glad to hand over our suitcases to the bellhops who greet us at the curb with their brass-trimmed luggage carts? For short stays in the hotel lobby, this is a welcome convenience. But if your check-in is somehow delayed -- by excessively long lines, for example -- ask that your luggage by placed in a secure room while you wait. Hotels often take no responsibility for luggage on luggage carts, so if your stay in the lobby will be more than a few minutes, you'll want to make sure that all of your belongings are safe. Of course, even a locked storage area isn't completely safe, so if you have anything of particular value, it should stay with you or be placed in the hotel safe. Use the same strategy when you check out of the hotel.
The All-New Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ANNEX NYC is now open and offering a fun chance with their "Friends & Family Ticket Offer" for you and yours to party like it's $19.99! Get your holidays ROCKIN! Using advanced audio and visual technology, connect with the legendary artists that changed our world and immerse yourself in the greatest moments in rock and roll. Come discover the movements ignited by music revolutionaries like Lennon, Madonna, Hendrix and Dylan. Plus, for a limited time don't miss the feature gallery on The Clash!
To get this discount: purchase your tickets online at ROCKANNEX.COM, by phone at 866.9.ROCKNY (866.976.2569) or in person at 76 Mercer Street (between Spring & Broome), using discount code: ROCK1999.
We've blogged numerous times before about taking great vacations photos (for a full round-up of these tips, see The Aloha Insiderarticle in which we consolidated our various prior postings). Now, with the holidays approaching, when photo-snapping opportunities abound, it seems worth adding a few more insider tips related to photos:
If you haven't gone digital yet, here are a number of good reasons to consider it now:
Going digital provides lots of easy options for storing your photos. You can save them on CDs, DVDs, your computer's hard drive, memory cards, online (at sites like mozy.com, xdrive.com, or carbonite.com ). Choosing at least 2 of these options means that you'll always have a back-up somewhere, and thus makes your photo collection much, much safer than just having it in albums or shoe boxes.
Digital photography provides lots of ways to view your photos. For example, you can assemble slide shows for your computer (we like using them as screensavers), or print them out and put in traditional photo albums.
Going digital makes your photos better because it is so easy to crop, sharpen, make lighter or darker, delete red-eye or otherwise tinker using photo-editing software (like iPhoto or whatever came with your camera).
When you save your photos on your computer, be sure to organize them into folders with names that make sense to you (e.g. "NYC Trip"); if you have time, rename the photos, too. Some photo-editing software also allows captions -- use this option if you want more information/detail than the file name allows.
There are countless big, bold ways to mark the holiday season in Boston. Tonight, for example, you can join the crowds at Boston Common for the lighting of Boston's "official non-denominational holiday shrub" (their words, not ours!). Want more tips on what to do and what to see in Boston this month? Check out our editors' top holiday picks for each day this month.
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