Travel

Posted November 24, 2008

After defeating the Michigan State Spartans 49-18 on Saturday, the Penn State Nittany Lions looks to be heading to the 2009 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Penn State Rose Bowl Travel Packages including roundtrip airfare from Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are all on-sale and ready to book now!

Posted November 6, 2008

The 2010 Vancouver Winter Games are now just 15 months away. Can you believe it? Sports Traveler is gearing up for this great event by offering you three Vancouver hotel options that are available for purchase now.

Check out our new property The Plaza 500 located in Vancouver’s popular West End district.

All reservations include airport shuttle transfers, breakfast daily plus a welcome dinner and access to hospitality area with snacks/drinks/maps, TVs, etc.

The Plaza 500  is an upscale hotel located in Vancouver’s posh West End. It is situated across the street from Vancouver City Hall and the City Square shopping Square. At a height of 17 stories this property gives travelers the chance to gaze down upon the city below them, the mountains to the north and east and the ocean to the west. A great central location to stay during the Vancouver Games!

Additional lodging is also available at the Ramada Suites and Blue Horizon. View all of the Sports Traveler Winter Games Hotel Rooms in Vancouver.

I can hardly wait to see the Figure Skating events and Hockey games. If you want to take a preview tour to see the best figure skaters in the World definately join me and your fellow Sports Traveler’s in Los Angeles this March for the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships !

At the 2010 Vancouver games, hotel rooms are going to be tough to find. I know the event tickets haven’t yet become available, and that might be holding some of you back in making your reservations, but I would like to give you a good suggestion… Choose lodging ahead of time around the events that you would like to see, otherwise you most likely will not find a place to sleep! The most important part of your trip is where you lay your head at night no hotel room and it won’t matter what tickets you end up with, you probably won’t be able to use them. Book early and get the best prices now!

Posted October 29, 2008

Sports Traveler is getting ready for our favorite time of the year. no, not Christmas Bowl Season!

It s so much fun hearing from college football fans ready to travel all over the US to see their team play. At Sports Traveler we already have a lot of Bowl Game options ready to book. I know it s early and we don t know the teams yet, but you can start making your plan ahead of the rest today!

The top bowl game is going to the College Football National Championship game in Miami Florida. Miami is one of the best places to be in January. Actually, I can t think of any place better to be than Miami in the winter. From the hot hot South Beach area to quiet areas of Ft. Lauderdale everyone will find something fun to do. Maybe think about extending your trip to the Keys for a few days after the game on Jan. 8th, and making a vacation out of your Bowl Game Trip. Our full service travel desk can help you plan every part of your trip from start to finish airfare, rental car, extra nights in different Florida cities, etc.

Don t understand how the whole BCS Bowl Game system that determines what team goes to the BCS National Championship Game? Our travel and sports experts break it all down for you here:

The first BCS standings came out this week and Texas. Alabama. and Penn State are your top 3 teams.  Including Texas, there are four teams from the Big 12 South who are in the top 8 in the BCS Standings.  Texas, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma are all legitimate contenders.  Since these teams are in the same division, only one can qualify for the Big 12 Championship .  The winner of the conference clinches a BCS Berth and how the season is progressing, one of these 4 teams will be in the National Championship.

Posted October 26, 2008

Disappontment doesn’t really decribe the plight of this years Cubs Fans… it’s more like an angry sadness. This time around we had a great team with a great record. We had broken what we thought were all the curses the last being the re-formation of the West Side Rooters (can we all say OOF WAH!)

I’m now a member of the Rooters which is the original fan club of the Chicago Cubs. Founded in 1908 and kicked out of the ballpark for being too rowdy back in the day, cheering and yelling was considered unsavory… thank god I live in 2008! Anyway, after the Rooters were banned from attending Cubs games the Cubs stopped winning Championships. This is way before the goat and the Bartman ball. We have broken all the rest of the curses so our friends down at Harry Caray’s thought maybe this was the last curse that was standing between the Cubs and their World Series title.

The Cubs let the Rooters back in the stadium this season but for some reason the end result was still the same. Although one could contend that the Cubs did have the best record in baseball this season and did make it to the playoffs. Sure… but the result was still the same. So I don’t get it. What happened? Maybe the West Side Rooters need one more year of OOF WAH’s to really finally break this curse? Maybe there is another curse out there that Cubs fans don’t know about?  By the way, I have a great section profiling the Rooters in my book coming out next year called Sports Traveler Chicago.

Despite the disappointment of the 2008 season, we have already begun planning our tour packages for the 2009 Cubs Season and Cubs Fans from around the world are already making their reservations requests. Why? Because we always have hope. My grandfather believed in this team and so do I. There is nothing like being at Wrigley Field on a warm Saturday afternoon with a nice lake breeze and sunshine. The history of the place just gives you this special feeling. It’s not a fancy glitzy stadium and it shouldn’t be. It’s historic and old and full of great memories. It’s going to be a cold winter here in Chicago again and I can hardly wait for Baseball to be back here in the city.

So if you are a Cubs Fan, join us in Chicago in 2009. If your not, join us to cheer your home team play mine. Maybe whatever curse it was lasts only 100 years and the 101st year is the when we get to break it? Hope so…

Anbritt

Posted October 14, 2008

I have recently completed a book devoted to traveling to Chicago for sporting events. The book is called Sports Traveler – Chicago (Lake Claremont Press) and it will be in bookstores nationwide in February 2009.

Do you have a special memory of the first time you walked through the gates at Wrigley Field or Soldier Field? Do you have a favorite place that you visited while in Chicago that you would like to share with your fellow sports fans? Post it here and maybe we will pick your memory for the book!