Stonehenge. The Egyptian pyramids. The lost city of Atlantis. These are the kind of travel mysteries that ignite the human mind and kindle the desire to travel.
Then again, there are travel mysteries of a more mundane nature that leave us yearning for more information. For example: Where does lost luggage go? Why are there no cruises from Boston to Miami? And why don’t most hotels have a 13th floor?
Writer Eric Lucas tackles these questions in a new article on Bing Travel, “8 Unsolved Travel Mysteries.” He also explains why your cell phone may not work overseas, why you have to be 25 years old to rent a car and what happens to all the shampoo, soda and toothpaste confiscated by the Transportation Security Administration.
Just in time for holiday shopping, you might be fascinated to learn where most lost luggage goes: Alabama. A store called “Unclaimed Baggage” sells the contents of suitcases that have parted company with their owners and can’t be identified. A recent haul, for example, included a Panasonic digital camera, a Garmin GPS and a Ralph Lauren sweater.Got a mystery of your own that you’d like us to solve? Share your questions in the comments section, and we’ll answer the best ones in a future article.
For an international flight, I was recently charged $150 for each of the two suitecases that weighed less than 70 lbs and more than 50. Had I packed a third suitecase and got 20 lbs from each of the two suitecases AND added 10 more lbs, I would have paid $200, for the extra suitecase, instead of the $300 I had to pay. What is the logic in that?
Fly Southwest.
I sympathize, and I dont understand either, especially when you did what you were suppose too...pay for and checked your luggage...now the question is - did you board the plane and wonder how in the world so many people got a way with more than 2 carrie ons, for free at that matter, they should of never got pass the gate agent, instead they board over their 2 bag BIG bags at that matter for free...as, we wait in the aisle trying to get past them trying to stuff and find a place to stow these bags...frustrating. then to get bumped in the head w/ bag in the mean time...
HAVE TO AGREE WITH YOU . THAT IS SO TRUE AND NOT ONLY DO THEY HOLD UP PASSENGERS ON THE AISLE BUT THEY HOLD US UP AT THE SECURITY CHECK POINT! THATS WHY THEY SHOULD ONLY ALLOW ONE BAG.
the author of this for got to mention that Norwegian cruise lines had 3 us flaged cruise ships that sailed around hawaii, about a year and a half ago they got rid of 2 of the ships and now only have 1 the Pride of America ofering 7 day hawaiian cruises (other hawaiian cruises must sail 5 days just to get to the islands).