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		<title>How Saving leads to Splurging, and not the other way around</title>
		<link>http://mebymelia.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/how-saving-leads-to-splurging-and-not-the-other-way-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 20:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would take more than a pair of hands to count the number of friends and acquaintances who say that the key to achieving the most memorable vacations is by splurging.   
Do not believe the hype.
Their definition of splurging, we can only imagine, is making that jump from one scoop of icecream to two; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mebymelia.wordpress.com&blog=2569979&post=18&subd=mebymelia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In a SHOCKING turn of events…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 18:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s strange, really, that despite all the downward economic trends, the hospitality industry is still strong as an ox and lively as ever.  What&#8217;s especially surprising is a trend that sees vacationers gravitating toward the luxury resorts which may or may not include our ME Hotels—It does.
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		<title>Current State of ME Hotels vs. Current State of Everything Else</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 22:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all of this glum and sappy news—the state of airline food, weddings on the cheap, the world&#8217;s oceans are running out of fish—we though it about time to lighten the atmosphere of things a bit with a May calendar packed with ME events and parties, and a limited-time offer—from now until the 26th, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mebymelia.wordpress.com&blog=2569979&post=16&subd=mebymelia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>’The Post’ Offers the Best Travel Tips of the Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 13:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One way we can gauge how well our ME hotels will perform for any given travel season is by doing a little homework; scanning the travel wires, monitoring conversion rates, planning mock round-trip airflights to worldly destinations, even driving over to the petrol to see what a gallon of gas will cost.&#160; All these variables [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mebymelia.wordpress.com&blog=2569979&post=15&subd=mebymelia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Website, Cabo Roadtrips, Spain vs. Iowa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was somewhat of a momentous occasion.  Not only did the number of insipid April Fools jokes rapidly decrease from previous years, but ME Cancun launch their new website: http://mecancun.travel.
We all celebrated by pitching the old site in a bonfire on the beach and making smores by it.
New

 Old

Big difference, huh?
Once you&#8217;ve browse around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mebymelia.wordpress.com&blog=2569979&post=14&subd=mebymelia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eco-Solutions, Passion is Hot, Uffizi to CaixaForum</title>
		<link>http://mebymelia.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/eco-solutions-passion-is-hot-uffizi-to-caixaforum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We always said we&#8217;d send special ME packages to your attention once we caught wind of them ourselves.  Well, the wait is over and that time is now.  Not so much now as we launched them yesterday, but we thought we should add a little dramatic effect to the announcement.
What are they, you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mebymelia.wordpress.com&blog=2569979&post=13&subd=mebymelia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Passion Parties, Top Beaches, Quintessential Cuisines</title>
		<link>http://mebymelia.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/passion-parties-top-beaches-quintessential-cuisines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What else is there to a vacation other than partying, relaxing, and eating?  They are the keys to the fun-pyramid.  Because, if you&#8217;re not doing one of those activities, then chances are you&#8217;re participating in one of the others.
In Cabo, the parties are ripe and many.  2008 has seen some of our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mebymelia.wordpress.com&blog=2569979&post=12&subd=mebymelia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making the Most of Your Vacation&#8217;s Nightlife</title>
		<link>http://mebymelia.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/making-the-most-of-your-vacations-nightlife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weeks&#8217; blogs break all the rules and set a number of once-unimaginable precedents.  However, I&#8217;m lying and none of that is true.  The theme is bars and clubs.  Which ones are worth your time; what to expect; and so on.  It would almost be criminal of me, then, not to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mebymelia.wordpress.com&blog=2569979&post=11&subd=mebymelia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to spend money on vacation, Avoidances of Mexico, Tipping</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anything and everything money is a shaky subject when it comes to foreign travel.  What are the conversion rates?  What good is a conversion rate if I don&#8217;t even know where to convert my money?  Credit?  Debit?  Cash?  Traveler&#8217;s checks?
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		<title>Cancun is ’Why We Travel’, CUPID Photos, Bullet Trains and Art</title>
		<link>http://mebymelia.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/cancun-is-%e2%80%99why-we-travel%e2%80%99-cupid-photos-bullet-trains-and-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring is a reliable source of commotion at our properties.  We spend January and early February gearing up our resorts for Valentine&#8217;s Day and then, the day after, we tear everything down, put on our swimsuits and prepare for spring break; at least that&#8217;s the case for Cancun and Cabo; Madrid is still wearing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mebymelia.wordpress.com&blog=2569979&post=9&subd=mebymelia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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