Tamperseal Travel Blog

TSA: Know prohibited items before you go

It can be difficult to keep track of what items you can and cannot tote with you in your checked bag or carry on. Here's a list from the TSA.

For a complete list of prohibited items, please visit the TSA Web site.

Sporting Goods:


                                                                    Carry On                        Checked

Baseball Bats	No	Yes
Bows and Arrows	No	Yes
Cricket Bats	No	Yes
Golf Clubs	No	Yes
Hockey Sticks	No	Yes
Lacrosse Sticks	No	Yes
Pool Cues	No	Yes
Ski Poles	No	Yes
Spear Guns	No	Yes

Would you visit a Nickelodeon-branded theme park?

We hope slime won't be involved... It seems the kids' network is teaming up with the City of New Orleans and Southern Star Amusement to bring a water and theme park to the southern city.

The planned park is part of the City of New Orleans' and Southern Star Amusement's redevelopment plans for a 65-acre lot once occupied by Jazzland/Six Flags in Eastern New Orleans.

Plans for the park include:

• water-based attractions
• renovation of existing attractions
• rides with major Nickelodeon character themes. (Think Dora the Explorer and Spongebob)

What do you think? We definitely have a feeling there would be tons of kids excited about this. It might be a great step toward bringing more tourists to the rejuvenated Gulf Coast city.

Read the full press release here.

Weekend Feature: Bag Bungee

You'll wonder how you maneuvered through the airport without it.

Bag Bungee luggage attachment system

Securely attach your computer bag or carry on to your roller bag, with the bag bungee two items move as one.

• Secures second bag coat or other item.
• Bag Bungee attaches easily to handle system on wheeled luggage.
• Works with both single and double pole telescoping handles.
• Item 12181

Jet Blue's Unliminted Travel Deal

It's the all-you-can-eat buffet of air travel.

JetBlue unveiled their All You Can Jet pass that offers unlimited travel for a month. The price tag? $599.

The pass is good on aseats booked at least three days before your scheduled departure. Taxes and fees are included on domestic flights, but not international and Puerto Rico.

You can buy your super travel passes through Aug. 21--or while supplies last.

Embassy Suites survey of business travel vets teaches newbies rules of the road

Sweet. You're fresh out of college, were lucky enough to land a job and now you're going on your first business trip. Now what? Embassy Suites tackled this scenario by surveying more than 500 business travelers and asking them for golden nuggets of advice and pearls of wisdom.

Some of the results:

• Thirty-three percent have spilled food or drink on their clothes en route to a client meeting; consequently, over half of respondents recommend business travelers always pack an extra suit.
• Our Take: Avoid major meals immediately before or en route to a client meeting and carry a stain remover.
  

• Nearly one in four (24 percent) have mispronounced a client's name or referred to a client by the wrong name; to deal with the situation at hand, 64 percent apologized profusely to the client while three percent turned bright red and ran away.
• Our Take: Practice makes perfect. Consult a name pronunciation guide before turning cherry red.

• While only nine percent of respondents have overslept and missed a meeting or business function entirely, 41 percent suggest setting two alarms for the morning of an important meeting.
• Our Take: Why just two? Hotel wake-up call, cell phone and clock radio alarm.
  

Delicious Maui travel deals

Looking to extend your love for tropical summertime fun just...a little...longer? Check out these deals we saw on NewYorkTimes.com. Looks like a good excuse for some PTO.

Here's the deal:

Kapalua Vacation Resort:

• luxury villas from $169 a night -  three-night minimum. Guests get a free upgrade and a $100 resort credit. The Fall Special is good from Aug. 15 to Dec. 19.

• Honua Kai Resort and Spa - This extended-stay property with hotel-like services is offering rooms for 50 percent off. The special is valid for Ohana, one-bedroom and two-bedroom stays  between Sept. 1 and Dec. 12. Rates start at $225 a night for an Ohana resort view room, based on double occupancy.

Feature Friday: Honeybee Luggage Tag

This honey bee luggage tag is cute for the kids or the kids at heart. We love it because it's not your run of the mill luggage tag--it has some personality!

Bee Luggage Tag Product Details:

• Dress up their luggage
• Bright, colorful tags feature friendly faces to help identify little ones’ belongings.

While we're talking about bees, did you know that in the past three years, one in three honey bee colonies has died nationwide? See what you can do to help save the honey bees.

Travel adventure junkies can now get their fix on Nat Geo Web site

Travel adrenaline junkies can now indulge in their need for extreme videos, photos and the like with Nat Geo's new online community.

The site's About us says it all: Nat Geo Adventure is a website that inspires people to get the most out of exploring the planet. With the help of brilliant videos, breathtaking photos and inspiring stories from professional explorers, adventurers and independent travelers around the world, Nat Geo Adventure focuses on things you can do - and enjoy doing. Join people from 196 countries sharing their experiences and making a difference.

How cool is that? We enjoy some of their catch-your-breath videos like this one where a base jumper plummets from a moving tractor trailer. It almost makes us want to grab some gear and scale a mountain. It's also another great example of how online communities are shrinking the planet. How else could you share your mountain exploration with someone from Spain?

American airlines adds air fare feature to Facebook

Now frequent American Airline travelers can search for air fares on Facebook. The airline recently added a fare-finding feature to Travel Bag, the company's business page on the social networking site.

If you're a fan of AA, you can share your stories with fellow travelers and search for the lowest fares without leaving Facebook. If you find a good one, you can share it with people in your network.

Would you use Travel Bag knowing that you would still have to visit the airline's main Web site to book your tickets? Well in this day and age people don't hold back when it comes to feed back.

Here's what users are saying about Travel Bag:

• They desire more flexibility with the tool
• Not sure why they'd go to Travel Bag if they need to make arrangements on American Airlines main Web site
• They wish it would include regional carriers while comparing prices

What do you think of the application?