Travel articles Pop Century
Disney's newest value hotel, the Pop Century Resort, plays around with pop culture icons from every decade of the 20th century. The resort is decorated with giant versions of memorable items like the Rubix Cube and a Mickey telephone. Who Wants a Pleistocene-Era Backyard?
While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
Do you need a gym at your Disney World resort?
Take the Disney World Hotels test, a quick and fun quiz that helps you select the best hotel for your next trip. This question is: Do you need a gym? C.M., Ankle: Bedbug Bites
C.M.'s Ankle: Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs. 20 Largest Hotels
These are the biggest of the big ones. The largest hotels in the United States. And seventeen of the twenty are in Las Vegas.
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