Bonus material: Look What's Happening at BudgetTravelOnline!

Blog party: To celebrate our website's first anniversary, BudgetTravelOnline General Manager Michelle Preli (top right) invited four premier travel bloggers-Erik Olsen of Gadling, Mark Johnson of HotelChatter, Joshua David Stein of Gridskipper, and Randy Petersen of FlyerTalk-to an invigorating panel discussion about what they do.

You can read the transcript at BudgetTravelOnline.com. Dodgy lodging: Ex-Gridskipper honcho Chris Mohney-speaking of bloggers-has written a list of four hotels he'd rather not be caught dead in (a counterpoint to all the Utterly Charming Hotels in this issue). To learn about online exclusives like that, sign up for our free e-mail newsletter. It comes out twice a week, and it's full of juicy stuff. If you don't, you're simply not getting everything Budget Travel has to offer. So sign up already! Signspotting: See this sign? You're halfway ...