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Holiday Inn is offering a free night at various properties in Aruba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and St. Thomas. Minimum stay requirements vary by destination.

Here's how coaches, families, friends, and players of Little League Baseball or the LPGA can receive 15 percent discounts at Choice Hotels. Plus, Choice Hotels guarantees its best rates when you book on its website.

Microtel Inns & Suites offers 20 percent savings when you book 14 days or more before your stay.

Loews hotels and resorts is offering 30 percent off your stay of three nights or longer this holiday season. Also offered are advance purchase discounts.

Save up to 30 percent off the best rates at Best Western hotels throughout Europe when you book 21 days in advance. Also, book online to ensure the best rate.

Book ahead with Hilton Garden Inn and receive up to 25 percent off the best available rate. Or, receive breakfast for up to four people when you book the Holiday Bed 'N Breakfast package.

Apollo Belvedere / Photo: alun salt A traveler/philosopher shares his motivation for creating The Big View, a hub of classic philosophy and new ideas that may be critical for humanity’s future. “If life is a journey, then philosophy is like a compass. It helps us to find our way through the jungle of possibilities that life presents.” With these words, Thomas Knierim articulates his reason for creating The Big View , a website with the goal of “rendering a bird’s eye perspective on various philosophical topics, hence, the name.” Topics as diverse as Space Time , Buddhism , and Greek Philosophy are all presented clearly…and more importantly, concisely

My wife bought me a Garmin GPS for Christmas last year. After showing her Google Navigation on my G1 , she asked if her gift is obsolete

A significant development is the announcement by cost-cutting upstart airline AirTran that it will begin flying to far-off Aruba , from Atlanta, starting mid-December. This makes the fifth tropical destination for the cheaply-priced AirTran (which has earlier begun flying to the Bahamas , Cancun , Puerto Rico , and Jamaica ), and a far more remote destination -- nearly two hours more of flight time -- than any of its Caribbean routes to date, and leads me to speculate that we will soon be seeing more such lengthy itineraries, and an end to the self-imposed limitation of domestic destinations by pioneering Southwest Airlines. You have only to recall that the president of Europe's Ryanair, the cheapest of all carriers, has spoken of his eventual aim to fly trans-Atlantic

Have you ever had your credit card rejected overseas? It's probably not due to bad credit, but the different validation systems used.

A computer glitch in Atlanta has set off a wave of delays across the country, and numerous airlines have already canceled flights. Watch this space for updates.

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