Luxor's Play Playground
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Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas has a new way for business and leisure guests to unleash their inner child. Play Playground, a venue sporting eye-popping colors, is filled with nostalgic games and fun physical challenges designed to please people 21 years and older and corporate groups. Instead of virtual reality or arcade games, Play Playground features 20 activities mostly based on memory and puzzle solving and geared for friendly competition, team building and sharing on social media. These activities include Perfect Popper, a timed competition where players place large objects of various shapes into corresponding holes, and Bullseye Bounce, where participants suit up in Velcro, jump on a trampoline and then throw themselves against a wall. The 15,000-square-foot venue also features two bars, VIP mezzanines and private event spaces for groups. AAA Members can save at Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas with the AAA rate.
Carnival's Celebration Key
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Guests on board Carnival Cruise Line will find a destination tailor-made for their individual preferences when they call at Celebration Key, an exclusive destination opening in July 2025 on Grand Bahama Island. Celebration Key will feature cabana rentals, multiple food and beverage venues, the largest freshwater lagoons in the Caribbean, and a white-sand beach. Opportunities for rest and leisure will be available in five distinct areas called portals. The Family-Friendly Portal will hold diversions, such as racing slides and sports courts, while the Adult-Friendly Portal will sport a swim-up bar and DJ. The Private Club Portal will provide a luxury retreat experience, and the Retail Portal will display beautiful artwork and items made by local artisans. To book a Carnival Cruise vacation, go to AAA.com/Carnival.
Couple enjoys Aruba beach accompanied by pink flamingos
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A new travel entry innovation in Aruba is designed to make arriving at Queen Beatrix International Airport a hassle-free experience. The Aruba Happy One Pass (AHOP) is a digital travel credential platform that enables visitors to hold their data on their personal mobile devices and share it directly with immigration officials. Travelers who complete preboarding verification can cross border checkpoints without providing their physical passports. Instead, biometric checks at immigration match visitors with their passport images via facial recognition, thus cutting wait times and reducing the risk of error, identity theft or fraud. Please note that physical passports are still required for traveling; immigration officers can ask for one at any time.
Visitor to Belgium enjoying a bite of Belgian chocolate
Beginning in 2025, Adventures by Disney will offer new, family-friendly river cruise itineraries in Holland and Belgium, including a special tulip tour departure, Holland and Belgium: Tulip Season River Cruise. This April voyage will showcase the spectacular flower season through activities, such as walking among Keukenhof’s brilliant display of 7 million spring-flowering bulbs, visiting Hoorn and its tulip farms, and attending the Floralia flower show. Each Holland and Belgium cruise promises to immerse guests in Old World culture with canal rides through historic neighborhoods, tours of Royal Delft and a pottery activity, visits to renowned museums to see art by Dutch masters, an education about Belgian chocolate, bike rides past 18th-century windmills, a scavenger hunt at a castle, local food and drink samples, and more. The eight-day voyages, offered in collaboration with AmaWaterways, will be led by Disney-trained Adventure Guides. To book an Adventures by Disney vacation, go to AAA.com/AdventuresByDisney.
Tompkins Harrison Matteson, Trial of George Jacobs, August 5, 1692, 1855.
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Few events in American history are as bewitching as the notorious Salem Witch Trials during which 25 innocent women, men and children were wrongly convicted and subsequently executed for the “crime” of witchcraft. Opening July 6, 2024, at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, The Salem Witch Trials 1692 is an ongoing installation that will illustrate this tragic story through court documents, a dramatic painting and personal possessions, including a walking stick, carved loom and hand-written petition, from those directly involved. Visitors learn how the notorious trials, which began with accusations by four young girls, reflected a community living under clouds of suspicion and fear.
Learn more about Salem and plan your getaway by visiting Trip Canvas.