Haven't Found an Affordable Place for Celebrating the Millennium? We Have the Solution!

Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, October, 1999 by Joseph L. Neukom

December 31, 1999. Except for two minor problems, it should not be difficult to enjoy a memorable vacation away from home that overlaps the most important New Year's Eve of the last thousand years. Those problems are: (1) air transportation, and (2) hotels. Both will be sold out down to the last seat and bed, and one of the two - air transportation - will be particularly iffy because of the Y2K problem, even if you are able to snare a theoretical reservation. Though no one expects airplanes to come crashing down from the skies, a great many observers expect backups, delays, canceled flights, and other chaos, because of the failure by various foreign countries to overcome the most dreaded computer glitch of all time. A canceled flight as far away as Italy or India can cause equipment...

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