Cringing look at year’s oddest travel stories

by John Flinn
If travel in 2009 is anything like it was in 2008 – and we have every reason to expect it will be – you might want to think about staying home. With a rash of arm-sucking train toilets, Braille-reading air traffic controllers, real mother- snakes on real mother- planes and complimentary mushroom-soup shampoos, [...]

Governors talking about Anaheim-to-Vegas train

By DAVID MCGRATH SCHWARTZ Las Vegas Sun
LAS VEGAS—For more then 20 years, boosters have dreamed of and lobbied for a train that could travel from Southern California to Las Vegas at 300 mph.
The proposed magnetic levitation train line linking Las Vegas and Anaheim, Calif.—attacked by critics as a multibillion dollar pipe dream—has gained new life.
Near [...]

Room Rates in Las Vegas Get a Little Steep

Lately when we’ve been talking about Las Vegas we’ve only been talking about two things: the craptastic Believe show from Criss Angel and the amazing deals you can find at hotels on the Strip, thanks to the downturn in the economy.
But this New Year’s Eve is starting to look a lot like the Vegas heyday [...]