november2011

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Reasons

We’re

Obsessed

With Travel

Right Now

❯❯ CITYFILES | Travel News

A 74-day

cruise!

Are you available Jan. 16-Mar. 31, 2013? The Grand

South America

Exploration sails from

Miami to Cape Horn and back.

crystalcruises.com

Ecotourism with greenloons.com

On our bucket list: Greenloons’ Antarctica Classic Package—

penguins, orcas, and leopard

seals oh, my!

15 new galleries at NYC’s Met1,000 works from the Arab lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia. Opens Nov. 1. metmuseum.org

The new Shangri-La

Hotel, Paris

The hotel’s Suite Impériale—once

the pad of Prince Roland Bonaparte,

Napoleon’s grandnephew—is

listed with

Monuments Historiques

because of its castings, gilt work, and carvings. In a word, stunning.

shangri-la.com

An 1889 schoolhouse turned boutique hotelOpening next month in Park City, Utah: a luxury 12-room hotel. Washington School House is one of the last original schoolhouses in the U.S.—and newly reno’d by three San Diegans. washingtonschoolhouse.com

3.5 million lights at The Mission Inn in RiversideBehold the 19th Annual Festival of Lights. Free! From Nov. 25-Jan. 8. festivalofl

ightsca.com

Wine plus indie cinemaThe fi

rst Napa Valley

Film Festival pairs 75 new movies with the region’s food and wine. Two thumbs up! Nov. 9-13. napavalleyfi

lmfest.org

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ERIN MEANLEY

“Cuddle Class” on Air New ZealandTo go LAX-Auckland, book the economy class Skycouch, a.k.a. “Cuddle Class”—couples buy two seats and pay half price for the third in the row. airnewzealand.com

Global entry

Skip the line at customs and enter the U.S. via automated kiosk! Apply at

globalentry.gov.