Vacation News Archive

'Gays and Lesbians Provides Luxury Vacation and Unlimited Memorial Day Fun in San Diego (PR Web)
Oh! Vacation annouces a Memorial Day weekend Vacation to San Diego for Arizona's gays and lesbians. [PRWEB Jan 15, 2006]

'Vacation the real work for parents (Bradenton Herald)
After a Vacation on some sun-kissed sands or snow-capped peaks, many of us would rather be on the losing end of a red-hot poker than return to work. But there is one subset of employees for whom returning to work can provide the blissful respite they hoped their Vacations would offer. They are called parents.

'Eid vacation fever still grips city dwellers (News From Bangladesh)
Government offices, banks and other institutions open Sunday with the end of a five-day Eid and weekly holidays, reports UNB. People, who went home for celebrating the Eid-ul-Azha with kith and kin, started returning to the capital to resume their respective vacation from Sunday.

'Florida No Vacation For Miners (KTSM)
So much for a Florida vacation. UTEP's fun in the sun turned into disappointment and frustration as Shalana Taylor turned an ankle and the Miners lost to Central Florida 61-56.

'Travel: We're looking for readers' vacation pictures (Louisville Courier-Journal)
We're looking for readers' vacation pictures to use in future editions. E-mail your photos to travel@courier-journal.com. They should be at least 200 dots per inch and a minimum of 6 inches wide.

'Kerala expats can ferry their cars back home on vacation (Khaleej Times)
DUBAI ? To bring your own car back home from the UAE when you are going on vacation and bring it back while returning sounds expensive and looks like a dream for most of the expatriates. But for the Kerala expatriate community, it is coming close to reality.

'Britons prefer relaxing, sex on vacation (UPI)
LONDON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Britons on vacation would rather lounge around relaxing, doing nothing, more than anything else, a survey finds. A survey of 1,800 British people by Real Holiday Reports.com found that 45 percent preferred to relax while on vacation, while 24 percent wanted to have sex.

'Search engines going far beyond maps (USA Today)
Amazon.com, Microsoft and Google's newly evolving local search and mapping services, where the photographic images are typically rendered as search results, make it easier than ever to scout out everything from vacation destinations to a new hairdresser.

'Prize winter vacation takes Seattle family by surprise (Grand Forks Herald)
A Seattle family has left the cold Northwoods after being surprised with a winter camping vacation that will be featured on a reality TV show. Craig Matthews, his wife and two teenage children applied for a free mystery vacation through a Discovery Channel show. Instead of landing in a warm, sunny spot, woods and a dogsled greeted the Matthews when they took off their blindfolds.

'Action Line: State law firm says vacation policy must be honored (San Jose Mercury News)
Q I remember reading in your column some time ago that in California, it is against the labor law to have a company policy that effectively says ``use it or lose it'' with respect to earned Vacation time.

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