Life Style / Travel Glossary

Airport Access Fee: A fee paid by the car rental companies to the airport authority, for the use of shuttle vehicles, etc usually passed on to the consumer.

Airport Check In Counter: Every air terminal located inside an airport have a location designated for passenger and baggage check-in. Many check in counters are now combined with automated check in machines.

Airport Code: Three-letter codes used to identify airports.

Airport Transfer: A transport service to/from an airport to hotel, etc, normally prepaid as part of a package tour, but available separately as well.

All-Inclusive: Should mean a plan that includes all meals, drinks, tips, service charges, accommodations, some watersports (usually non-motorized), etc. Not all plans are equal be sure to inquire as to jus . . . View Full Definition

Allotment: A certain number of rooms, cabins or other items held by an operator to sell, usually by a certain date.

Amenities: Services and extras offered by a travel supplier.

American Plan: A hotel's meal plan that usually includes all three meals each day.

Amidships: Toward the middle of a ship usually the stabilest part of the vessel.

Antebellum: Describes a building and/or period of time prior to the civil war, such as an antebellum mansion on a cotton plantation in the southern us.

Anytime Dining: Princess cruises' flexible, evening dining program that allows passengers to select from a variety of onboard restaurants during their cruise, as opposed to their 'traditional fixed seating' program.

Atrium: An interior, often sky-lit, multi-deck, open area of a ship. Typically, atriums are centrally located near elevators, shops, restaurants, cafés, and guest services. Shipboard atriums can ext . . . View Full Definition

Atrium Cabin: Something new to the industry (available only on the largest royal caribbean ships and cunard's qm2), atrium cabins offer passengers windows that face the ship's interior, overlooking the ce . . . View Full Definition

Attraction: General term to include anything a visitor might be interested in seeing.

Autobahn: High-speed equivalent to the us interstate highway system, in germany and a few other european countries.

Availability: The actual inventory of seats that are really available to be sold at a certain fare. Just because a fare is presented as ' available ' between two cities does not mean seats at that rate ar . . . View Full Definition

B and B: Bed & breakfast; usually a quaint, country-style accommodation with a small number of rooms, that includes breakfast each morning.

Back-To-Back Ticketing: Booking two overlapping round trips with opposite origin and destination points, where both bookings meet restrictions required to obtain a discount fare (such as a saturday-night stayover); . . . View Full Definition

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