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Summer music festivals offer a fun way to hear the country's best bands, but between tickets, travel, food and accommodations, they aren't cheap. So we asked directors and promoters of some of the summer's top events for their favorite penny-pinching tips for festival-goers.

Five motels accused of jacking up the price of rooms as people sought refuge as Hurricane Dolly was bearing down agreed to settle charges they gouged consumers during a disaster. Five South Texas motel operators have signed settlement agreements on price-gouging charges, Texas Attorney General...

Business travelers who frequently spend nights away from home have likely noticed that their favorite hotels are paying them a bit more attention. The recession has taken its toll on corporate travel budgets and many hotels are doing everything they can to ensure repeat business. One way hotels...

Halloween is coming, so I'm going to kick off festivities by saying one of the scariest phrases in the English language: roadside motel. Norman Bates may be the drag queen emblem of all things horrifying, but across America, the stained bedspreads and mildewed corners of our country's motels are,...

Does this picture look homey to you? Travelodge, one of Britain's primary hotel chains, has just opened a property in Uxbridge, in far west London, that's made almost entirely out of 86 shipping containers. Each room was pre-fabricated in China (where else?) with a built-in bathroom, shipped to...

For part 1 of Beth Wechsler's 'Rants from the Road' series, click here.Call me spoiled. I like to take a shower in the morning. This is particularly appealing to me when (1) I need to wash my hair and, (2) I am going to be spending 7 hours attached to a microphone and standing at a podium. Like...

Sheraton and Four Points by Sheraton recently added a new revenue stream: a $200 fine for smoking when all of the chains' hotels become smoke-free by the end of 2008.According (subscription required) to the Wall Street Journal, Disney World will charge you as much as $500 if you light up in one of...