hotels and accommodations
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- For more than a decade the couple has been envisioning the insides of hotels that are as close to home as Hunt Valley. But their company, Cauhaus Design, has a strong connection to another Maryland-based business, Marriott International Inc., and their influence can be seen across North America.
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- Pet travel is booming across the United States, with more travelers than ever taking along their four-legged friends on vacations near and far.
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- Flights and hotel rooms are booking up fast in New Orleans, as Baltimore Ravens fans scramble to join their team for Super Bowl XLVII in the Big Easy on Feb. 3.
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- Some Ravens fans have already booked their trip to Denver for Saturday's playoff game against the Broncos, while others are contemplating the cost.
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- Ocean City businesses are ready to compete for tourists next summer, some of whom may have lost their normal beach vacation spots in Hurricane Sandy.
- The Baltimore area will remain under a flood watch through Tuesday evening, with coastal flooding expected late Monday into Wednesday morning, according to the National Weather Service. The area will also endure heavy rain and high winds throughout the next two days
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- Two Harford County residents are among 10 Ravens Cash Fantasy scratch-off players who were selected for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel with the Ravens to the Kansas City Chiefs game, the Maryland Lottery announced this week.
- A note was found with the Pikesville man wanted in connection to his grandparents' death that read, "I am sorry for everything. Please forgive me," police said Tuesday.
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- Baltimore's top leadership called on the school system Monday to tighten oversight of its expenditures after a Baltimore Sun investigation found central office staff made at least $5,000 in inappropriate expenses on district-issued credit cards during the past year and a half.
- Baltimore City schools, despite tightening budgets and a perpetual rallying cry for more funding, administrators spent roughly $500,000 over the last year and half on expenses such as a $7,300 office retreat at a downtown hotel.
- City convention officials in the past fiscal year booked the third-highest number of convention room nights ever for future years as the economy improves and more people are traveling.
- A Maryalnd man convinces his wife to road-trip across the state in a Nissan Leaf, and they learn a bit about the state's electric vehicle infrastructure. And yarn stores.
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- Buying a ring for the marketing director of Radcliffe Jewelers was a challenge he readily accepted.
- In a turnaround from the recession, RV sales have been rising since 2010 and will likely be up 6 percent this year, according to the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association
- "The journey is the destination," says the car commercial voice-over.
- Consumers can donate hotel reward points to families of wounded veterans
- About 2,400 unionized Baltimore County public employees are set to return to work Monday without contracts following disagreements about workers' contributions to their health care benefits.
- Mario Armstrong, celebrity traveler
- The celebrated crab cake sandwich at Baltimore's Faidley Seafood gets some national TV love Wednesday night at 9 on the Travel Channel.
- When it comes to crime in Ocean City, police statistics show the same three-month spike year after year: in the summer, when Ocean City goes from a sleepy town of about 7,400 year-round residents to a town the size of Pittsburgh, with about 350,000 revelers on a given weekend.
- Money may be tight, but not enough for most of us to forego a summer vacation.
- Ocean City tourism leaders and businesses are optimistic tourists will come in greater numbers and with more to spend in summer 2012.
- Memorial Day weekend's beach-bound should remember to pack the essentials — including a bicycle or two
- Ocean City Md is top pick for Baltimore County executive Kamenetz
- Orioles: Centerfielder enjoys off-season trips to resort that offers sun and fun
- Alice C. Steinbach, an award-winning Baltimore Sun feature writer and columnist who won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for her account of a 10-year-old boy, died Tuesday evening of cancer at her Roland Park Place home. She was 78.
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- Court documents and statements by his family and others provide details of Majid Khan's journey from Baltimore County to Camp 7 at Guantanamo Bay, a detention center so secret that its location within the base is classified.
- The Laurel Moose Lodge is holding a "Legacy of the Moose" dinner and dance fundraiser to support youth throughout the Maryland, District of Columbia and Delaware region. Dinner/dance is March 3 at 5:30 p.m. at 3340 Laurel Fort Meade Road.
- It is clear, however, the county isn't likely to get authority for a room tax — authority granted to the state's other counties – because at least one person who represents the county in Annapolis is opposed to it. The reason is a simple opposition to any tax, even if that tax ends up being paid in spades by the people they represent.
- This past Friday I took off work and traveled to Annapolis to meet with Harford County Delegates on Tourism day to ask them to please introduce a bill for a tourism dedicated hotel tax. Harford County is the only county in Md and the surrounding 3 states without such a fee.
- Valentine's Day travel: Spas work out the kinks in your relationship
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- Baltimore chef first visited for her honeymoon and now enjoys holiday visits
- Officials say they are determined to bring more unified perspective on issue
