Chrissy Cruiser wrote:
>On 28 Apr 2005 18:03:31 -0700, callaloo wrote:
>
>> Until recently, I had been a Conde Nast Traveler subscriber for several
>> years. One year, I received one of their surveys, asking me to rate top
>> hotels all over the world. Well, I hadn't been to many.
>> However, when I looked at the Costa Rica section, I was asked to rate 3
>> hotels in San Jose. First, there are no five-star properties in San
>> Jose. However, one of those listed was a rundown hotel known (and
>> publicized in guidebooks) as a hangout for prostitutes (legal in CR).
>> How they whittled down the choices to inlcude that one, I'll never
>> know. I imagine guys who checked that choice might have given away some
>> information that they wouldn't like to be known.
>> I sent the magazine an e-mail, thinking how'd embarrassed they'd be if
>> the hotel turned up on their gold list. No reply.
>
>LOL, that's hilarious! CN has a reputation for being "upscale" Well, to me
>upscale doesn't mean they are going to put something like that in their
>mag.
I'll tell my own CN story, even though it happened years ago. We
subbed to CN TRAVELER and read about a beautiful resort on a gorgeous
island in the Caribbean. Our vacation plans suddenly went south when
a hurricane very badly damaged part of Central America, and our resort
with it, so we decided to trust CN TRAVELER. Bad move. The place was
a dump, literally. I've never seen so much kitchen refuse in a place
that was supposed to have tourism and travel as its bread-and-butter
economy.
I cancelled my subscription when I got back home. I've never trusted
anything a paid travel writer has written since that time.
>Now we have Citibank, when you bank online with them, allowing 3rd party
>cookies to be set on your PC. Yep, that's right, they allow data miners and
>collectors, without your knowledge, into your PC so they can track who you
>pay, what you pay and God knows what else.
>
>Oh, sure, you can "opt out" but how are you supposed to know to do that if
>they don't tell you , in the first place, that you're being invaded?
>
>Point being, "upscale" ain't always "upscale".
That's a giant leap of topic, isn't it? I'm not sure I follow your
rant. What does Citibank (and what they do or not) have to do with
vacationing?
Karen
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