Travel
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Billionaire Clive Palmer To Make A Real-Life Jurassic Park
Here’s a story that’s almost too crazy to believe. Eccentric billionaire Clive Palmer (the same guy who’s building a new version of the Titanic) says that plans are being made for a real-life Jurassic Park, featuring, yes, live dinosaur clones! According to Palmer, he’s in talks with some of the same scientists who brought Dolly [...]
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11 of the Most Expensive Private Helicopters Money Can Buy
Yesterday we brought you a list of amazing private jets. However, they were pretty expensive, ranging from $25,000,000 to as much as $500,000,000. So chances are, those are a little out of your price range. Today, therefore, we’ve put together of alternatives to commercial airline travel that’s a little more attainable: private helicopters. Of course, [...]
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15 Insanely Expensive Private Jets (And The Billionaires Who Own Them)
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting pretty sick of commercial airline travel. They charge you a fortune for a ticket but still have the nerve to nickel and dime you with baggage fees and other nonsense. Then you get to the airport two hours before your flight so you can spend one and [...]
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The 9 Most Expensive Mega Yachts
One of the best ways to show you’ve done well in life is to buy a yacht. But how do you impress the other members of your yacht club? One way to do this is buy looking into the world of luxury yachts. These luxury yachts are expensive and extravagant even by the standards of [...]
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Virgin America’s Most Frequent Flier To Travel To Space
Rewards for frequent fliers can be anything from free flights, to expensive merchandise, to actual cash incentives. But Virgin America is set to trump every other airline with its new plan to reward its most frequent flier (that’s right, singular) between August 8, 2012 and August 7, 2013 with a sub-orbital flight on Virgin Galactic. [...]
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You Can Now Purchase Real Estate On airBaltic
Latvian airline airBaltic is already famous for offering passengers the opportunity to buy things like Mini Coopers during their flights. And now they’re adding an even more extravagant item to their in-flight shopping experience, to go along with the expected snacks and alcohol: Real estate. For around $36, passengers will be able to purchase vouchers [...]
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The Orsos Floating Island
Sick of the daily grind? Tired of the rat race? Done with not living on your own floating island? Well then here’s a product for you: It’s called the Orsos Floating Island. The price is still being determined, but it will give you, 11 friends, and 4 household staff members a place to dwell in [...]
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Topaz Super Yacht Is One Of The Largest And Most Expensive In The World
Sure, yachts are impressive enough already, but have you ever seen a superyacht? That’s what people are calling Topaz, which hit the surf for the first time fairly recently. It cost $624 million to construct, which makes it one of the most expensive yachts ever built. It weighs a massive 12,000 tons, and its construction [...]
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Singita Grumeti Reserves In Tanzania Named The Best Hotel In The World (Gallery)
Tanzania might not be the first place you think of when you consider luxurious vacation destinations. And yet, it is the location of a hotel that has been named “the best hotel in the world” two years in a row by Travel + Leisure, which bases the award on reader surveys. The name of the [...]
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30 of the World’s Most Incredible Swimming Pools
I don’t know what the weather is like where you live, but in my neck of the woods it’s been sweltering for about two weeks. Thus, I’ve been doing an awful lot of daydreaming about swimming pools, which has turned out to be both good and bad. It’s good because, with a little digging around [...]
