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Travel & Transportation

NYC with Kids on the Cheap (Downtown & Beyond)

July 14, 2010

This is the final post on New York in a three-part series that started with general travel guide NYC with Kids on the Cheap, and was followed by NYC with Kids on the Cheap (Uptown and Midtown). Here are our family’s favorite wallet-friendly destinations below 42nd Street and beyond the island of Manhattan.  (See the [...]

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NYC with Kids on the Cheap (Uptown & Midtown)

June 23, 2010

Traipsing around the funky adult playground of Greenwich Village as a twenty-something kid, I didn’t give Manhattan above 42nd Street a whole lot of respect. Yet this time around I discovered that — beyond the wide sidewalks and gentler housing prices — uptown has a lot to offer former party girls with broods of their [...]

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NYC with Kids on the Cheap

June 16, 2010

To wrap up our two jam-packed years of raising children in New York City, I wanted to share some of the ways we had fun in the Big Apple, without dipping into the kids’ college funds. In this three-part series, I’ll talk about general travel tips and our favorite low-cost or free things to do in [...]

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Airline Baggage Fees are Here to Stay: How to Minimize the Damage

January 14, 2010

Just when we finally got used to having to pay the airlines to bring our suitcases along, they are increasing the baggage charge. Continental Airlines announced this week that it will be raising its baggage fees to match Delta’s new higher baggage rates. The new rates are: First bag: $23 (paid online) or $25 (paid at [...]

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