Travel

Wish to join a group tour of Japan in May/June 2009. Central or northern Japan better for landscape and scenery?
Can’t decide between Honshu or Hokkaido.

u can contact this agency.
check for the price n
were u wanted
to
go…

http://www.sunway.com.my/travel/main.asp

http://www.reliancetravel.com/contact_us.html

hope this will help u..

Has anyone ever went on one of those cheap vacation deals where you are required to attend a tour/sales seminar during your stay? Are these things really high pressure and long or is it worth it for the cheap vacation?

It’s really not worth going in my opinion. I have done this when I was going to be in the area anyway, but these do tend to be high pressure sales pitches for something I would never consider buying into. I’d much rather just pay for a vacation and do exactly the things I want to be doing.

In buying airline tickets,how do i get the cheapest and which of the two offers the cheapest rates?

If you are flying domestically then a good idea would be to go on sites like orbitz or expedia to check the cheapest carrier and then book it directly on that particular airline’s website- that way you are saving the convience fee and when you need to make future changes the airline wont give you a hard time that you purchased the ticket thru a 3rd party!
Now is the important thing- when it comes to international flights (mostly Europe, Asia, South America) then Airline Consolidators have MUCH CHEAPER prices and offer lots of seasonal discounts as well!!! One of them is AMTA (American Travel Abroad)- 773-467-0700 but there are many other ones as well…. Most of the time they won’t sell their tickets directly to the passengers but they distribute them among travel agents (who add about $30 mark up to them) but still they come up to be cheaper them on the net. Try to find a good airline conslidator or contact your local travel agent and ask them if they are booking thu consolidators! Good Luck

I am looking to go to one of the smaller, less crowded ski resorts in the lake tahoe area. I am trying to avoid the larger ski resorts, ie Northstar, Heaveanly. Preferably it would have good ski classes and a good selection of runs. I am a intermediate to advanced skier but will be going with other less experienced people. Any recommendations or comments?

My choice would be Sugar Bowl, especially if you live to the North of Tahoe. Excellent snow record, and some terrific intermediate runs on Mount Judah. The new condos at Sugar Bowl village look great as well.

I imagine they get as many days of vacation as there are days between the end of a school year and the start of the next? I’m asking because I’m doing some career exploration.

I am a teacher in the state of TN. In our city, we are on 9 weeks. We get a week’s vacation for Fall Break; we’ll be out on the 19th through Jan 5th for Winter Break. We’ll have another one in the Spring – one week and then summer. I usually teach through the summer. Summer school starts at 7:30 am and ends at 12:00. I still have time to do what I want to do. Summer school lasts through early July and I have about 6 weeks before school starts again. I find that enough time for me to get rested. In addition, we have our sick and personal days.

I am a big fan of technology and have heard that in Tokyo that you can go on free factory tours of big technology companies. I would like to know which companies offer these free tours, which are free, which are the best, which are in English. Really, any info on Tokyo Factory Tours would be great – I am going later this month. Thanks

Unfortunately, there are no factory tours in Tokyo because the companies in Tokyo operate offices instead of factories.
Well, the closest thing to a factory tour that I can think of it the ANA maintenance place.

However, if you could travel out of the Tokyo area, there are interesting tours in Sendai, Aichi, and Hiroshima.
Sendai has the Nikon factory tour.
Aichi has the Toyota factory tour in which you can see Toyota cars being assembled.
Similarly, Mazda offers a factory tour in Hiroshima.

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If you’re a big fan of tech, I can recommend a few places to go to in Tokyo.
1) You can visit the Miraikan, which is a very interesting museum that displays innovative and experimental technologies such as ASIMO and model Maglevs.
2) There are many showrooms in Tokyo which feature products and concepts from famous manufactures such as Canon and Sony.
3) You gotta visit Akihabara!

Plz help me guyz figure out the negative aspects of tourism, especially on poor countries.(Like Amazon areas in Brazil, where people are poor but they have attractive landmarks, and tourists come and go each year) What negative spots can these tourists leave?

dropping rubbish, Cutting down trees to make way for holiday homes. And in some places, erosion of soil and excess fumes from tourist’s cars.

in america, our summer vacation’s like 2-3 month long.
however, my cousins who are in china, she only had 1 month of vacation and she had to go back to school . & she needed to go to a dorm . as in the dorms college students go too .
Shes the same age as me, so shes in 10th grade too .
what about other countries? are there even shorter then 1 month? are there some countries who dont even have summer vacations for their students?

In Australia you usually get 6 to 7 weeks holiday depending on what school you go to and what state you are in.

If someone is not planning on overstaying their tourist Visa in USA but has a job here. Could that person go back to his country and come back to the US without consequences?
Would inmigration find out that they were working?

You become a illegal alien, and you can get up to 1 year in prison, and ban from the U.S. for 10 years to life.

Deport illegals, and keep the dream alive.

I live in missouri and i get a week off of work and need a nice short vacation! If you know of anything for less then 200$ i would be realy happy i dont care where or for how long just as long as it is under 200$ Thank you!

Branson missouri is pritty aforadable so go to there site and they can probaly set you up with a small cheap package with a hotell and a show. Goodluck!