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All the SeaWorld parks -- in Orlando, San Diego, and San Antonio -- have lowered their kids' ticket prices to just $5 through the the end of 2010. According to the promotional Web page, SeaWorldCares.com, as long as an adult buys a full-price admission ticket (currently $78.95 in Orlando, the...

Got $200,000 lying around? If so, you could be among the first commercial space travelers. The U.S. space program may have stalled, but that hasn't stopped billionaire mogul Richard Branson from advancing his vision of commercial space flight. This week, at a glitzy event in the windswept Mojave...

The New York Times has come up with a novel theory: People who are traveling this holiday will stay away longer to get lower airfares. Someone who leaves a week before Thanksgiving and comes back a week after will not have to pay the premium for an airline ticket to travel on the busiest days of...

If you're hoping to score some Major League Baseball playoff tickets, there's good news: The recession has made them cheaper. The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that "As of Monday, fans around the country seem to have decided that a Division Series ticket isn't worth what it...

The day after Thanksgiving is both the best shopping day of the year or the worst. Combine a store offering its lowest prices all year with a crowd of anxious, cash-strapped consumers who've been standing in line for many pre-dawn hours, and you're asking for trouble. Last year, we saw how...

Sports business reporter Darren Rovell at CNBC reported on September 15 that the New York Yankees are releasing their ticket prices for season ticket holders. The report notes that more than 80 percent of the tickets at Yankee Stadium will remain the same, but those able to afford the most...

TMZ reports that bartering isn't just for budget conscious ballers anymore.During a late night run for food, Snoop Dogg and Stephen Marley traded concert tickets, T-shirts and hats for 6 pounds of ribs, hot wings and several pizzas. It's rumored that as they pulled away a worker heard an impromptu...

Ticketmaster is facing a $50,000 fine and a change in how it does business after an Illinois Attorney General investigation found that the company had not clearly told customers they were paying marked up ticket prices. As part of the agreement, TicketsNow, owned by Ticketmaster, will also close...

Amusement parks, museums, and other tourist attractions often cut senior citizens and students a break on admission fees, but you don't necessarily need to be a cash-conserving retiree or a scrappy college undergraduate to take advantage of those deals. That's because the elderly threshold is...

When the mayor of your town suggests that individuals complaining of noise violations near an airport should sell their homes to deaf people, you know you have a character on your hands. But when he backs up a city employee who tickets resident vehicles in their own driveways you may want to call...