Category Archives: New York

EscapeMaker.com’s Local Food & Travel Expo- April 14

Brooklyn, EscapeMaker, Food, Green, New York, Travel
a poster for a food expo
EscapeMaker.com will be holding it’s 2nd annual Local Food & Travel Expo on April 14.
I received a Press Invite to the event & will hopefully make it and then have Kim & Lucas meet me after the show preview to check out the expo.
The expo takes place in Brooklyn, New York at One Hanson Place in the historic and amazing former home of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank.
a tall building with many windows
1 Hanson Place
The event focuses on “green” getaways as well as local foods and trips within a day’s drive or train ride of NYC. Exhibitors will be from Brooklyn, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont & Transportation Companies.
A little about the show:
  • There will be over 50 exhibitors at the event where you can sample local wines, cheeses, fudge, chocolate, jam, juices and other regional farm-fresh foods.
  • There will be travel workshops like Hiking via Mass Transit, Canoeing/ Kayaking, Agri-Tourism and Green Travel 101 among others.
  • Lots of Prizes- all food & travel related
The event takes places at Skylight One Hanson at 1 Hanson Place Brooklyn, New York.
Tickets cost $13 and the event is from 12-5 PM
(Use code “edible12” or “emzipcar” to save $3 off of the ticket price)
Find out more about the EscapeMaker Local Food & Travel Expo here

Cunard’s Famous Trans-Atlantic Crossing Sweepstakes

Cunard, New York, Queen Mary 2, Southampton, Sweepstakes, Trans-Atlantic
a red and black sign

Enter For a Chance to Win a 7-day Trans-Atlantic Crossing on the Queen Mary 2

The Grand Prize Winner &  Guest Receive:

  • 7-day Trans-Atlantic Crossing between New York & Southampton on the Queen Mary 2
  • Premium Balcony Stateroom Accomodations
  • Roundtrip airfare and private town car service to your port of departure
  • One Night Hotel
  • Bottle of Veuve Clicquot Champagne
  • Massage Treatment plus access to aquatherapy pool at Canyon Ranch SpaClub

Enter sweepstakes by 3/31/12
Open to legal residents of 50 US States & DC
Must be 21 years of age or older at time of entry

To enter the contest fill out the entry form here

NY Times Travel Show Media Access

Javits Center, New York, New York Times, Travel Show
a large building with a large sign
The New York Times Travel Show is coming up this weekend at the Jacob Javits Center.

I wasn’t planning to go to the show this year but decided for fun to send in a request for media credentials. My request was accepted so I might as well take advantage and go to the show.

I’ve been to the show two times. I enjoyed presentations by some of the travel experts and TV personalities. I heard presentations by Andrew Zimmern , Samantha Brown, Ian Wright, Patricia Schultz and many others.

The show is from March 2-4, with the first day open only to travel professionals.
There will be lots of travel information from various tourism boards and tour companies, tips from travel experts at various seminars and cultural & culinary presentations on five stages.

I plan to attend the show two of the days. I am going to check out the travel professionals day for a few hours and one of the public days.
I am leaning towards going on Sunday since I’d like to hear Adam Richman (Man vs Food) & Brian Kelly’s (The Points Guy) presentations. I would also like to try to see the demonstration by Daniel Holzman of the Meatball Shop.

Find out more about the NY Times Travel Show here.

KLM- Connect with Meet & Seat

Amsterdam, Facebook, JFK, KLM, LinkedIn, Meet and Seat, New York
a plane with social media icons
Here is another interesting way to put social networking to use for travel.

KLM has started a new program called Meet & Seat.
It allows you to see who’s on board your flight and get in touch with other passengers by connecting your Facebook and/ or LinkedIn account to your KLM booking profile.

KLM says you can meet other interesting travelers and increase networking opportunities- “Choose for yourself whether you want to meet for a coffee before the flight, select adjoining seats or share a cab to the conference you are both attending”. It sounds to me like it could become another form of internet dating or hook-up opportunities!

Meet & Seat is available for:
  • Bookings with 1 passenger
  • KLM flights between Amsterdam and New York, San Francisco  and Sao Paulo
  • From 90 days until 48 hours before departure
  • Will be available on more KLM flights soon
Check out the demo video:

To find out more, Click Here

Hawaiian Airlines To Use JetBlue’s Terminal 5 at JFK Airport

Hawaiian Airlines, Honolulu, JetBlue, JFK, New York

Hawaiian Airlines will become JetBlue’s first airline partner to use Terminal 5 at JFK Airport in NYC. Hawaiian will offer daily flights to/ from JFK which will make travel to Hawaii much more convenient for the East Coast.

Starting in June- Hawaiian Flight 51 will depart JFK daily at 10:00AM and arrive in Honolulu at 3:00PM. Flight 50 will depart Honolulu at 3:05PM and arrive in NY at 6:55AM the following morning.

The Hawaiian Air/ JetBlue partnership will allow passengers to fly both airlines on a single ticket. Travellers will also be able to earn and redeem miles on each other’s flights starting with the NY service in June.

Shake Shack Grand Opening-Brooklyn

Food, New York, ,
a group of people walking outside a building

Burgers are one of my favorite foods and when I heard that Shake Shack was coming to Brooklyn, I was really psyched.

It just so happened that the grand opening was going to be on my birthday (12/20) so I figured I would go for lunch!

I e-mailed the restaurant and found out that Shake Shack would be opening around 11AM and some VIPs would be present for a ceremony. I arrived at 10:45 expecting a huge line but was pleasanly surprised to see only 2 people ahead of me.

a group of people standing outside of a restaurant
Waiting in line

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