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Museum Day showcases culture at no cost
Alas, another Labor Day has come and gone — time to say goodbye to beach reads, blockbuster movies and big, bumbling crowds baked to a crisp by too much summer sun. It’s time instead to start thinking about fall travel, that stress-reducing shoulder season when crowds shrink, prices drop and more sophisticated pleasures prevail.

  
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World's splashiest pool cabanas
Welcome to the world of high-tech, super deluxe, seriously swanky hotel cabanas. Many of them are now designed to be serious extensions of your guest room and then some.

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Dressed down for dressing down
Gone are the days of men in suits and women in dresses. The recent flap over Kyla Ebbert's skimpy outfit on a Southwest Airlines flight has the Well-Mannered Traveler wondering if the carriers should develop dress codes.

  
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The Repulse Bay
Luxurious long-term lodging
No one enjoys dragging a suitcase around the airport. But, as business travelers know, it's living out of luggage for months on end that can be real torture. Unless, that is, they are doing so in a luxury corporate apartment.

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Guatemala Air/Hotel, $970
Antigua, Guatemala City, Lake Atitlán, and the lively market of Chichicastenango are among the package highlights.

  
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Awesome! Maui with teens!
Want to guarantee that your teens will remember your family vacation in 10 years? Or 20? Or 50? Pull out all the stops and give them experiences they can’t get at home. Challenge them — and yourself — to do things never done before, in a spectacular setting that resonates with all five senses.


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Thomas P. Peschak
Scariest shark dives
Today, there are scores of jaw-dropping shark-sighting hotspots in the Bahamas and beyond, with guided tours ranging from simple, inexpensive snorkeling trips off the coast of Mexico to swanky seven-day yacht-propelled scuba excursions in the Galapagos Islands.

  
Cruise lines avoid damaged Mexican port
Carnival Corp. has no plans to return to the Mexican cruise port at Majahual until at least the spring of 2009 due to extensive damage from Hurricane Dean, the company said Tuesday.

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Readers share photos of their sensational Las Vegas adventures

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Video: Island comes alive
when Indian summer sets in

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The Perrin Post

Tips for finding the lowest fares for the holidays and year-round

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Round-trip air and 6 nights'
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  Well-Mannered Traveler

After recent flaps over outfits,
maybe it's time for dress codes

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The season's color spectacle is just around the corner! Send in your best shots of fall foliage.

  Rob Lovitt on fall travel

Five drives — and diversions —
to catch fall's transformation

  Christopher Elliott on service

Unfair practices the
travel industry must fix

Sin City revealed
Readers share photos of their sensational Las Vegas adventures
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