Travel briefs
NEW YORK -- Fewer hotels offer free breakfasts, more charge for late cancellation and more offer free in-room wireless Internet access. Ironically, though, the more you pay for your room, the less likely you are to get free Wi-Fi.
Those are some findings from a recent survey of 10,000 hotels conducted by Smith Travel Research for the American Hotel & Lodging Association. Wireless Internet access is offered by 91 percent of hotels, up 35 percent from four years ago. Only 15 percent of hotels charge for Web access, down from 18 percent in 2006 and 22 percent in 2004.
NEW BERLIN, Wis. -- Here's advice from the Sportsman Channel's CEO Michael Cooley on how to arrange an authentic African safari without breaking the bank. Tops on his list of safari destinations is South Africa's Kruger National Park, www.krugerpark.co.za. Cooley said the park "is managed well with superb infrastructure. For budget-seekers, Kruger Park rest camps offers self-catering lodges, bungalows, family cottages and huts."
NEW YORK -- Conde Nast Traveler's July issue offers a guide to seeing a half-dozen eclectic art installations around the city. Look at the man-made waterfalls on the East River until October. Details at http://nycvisit.com/waterfalls.
Former Talking Head David Byrne has turned the Battery Maritime Building into a musical instrument. Details at www.davidbyrne.com/art/art--projects/playing--the--building.
At the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, the Work Architecture Co. has transformed a rock-strewn courtyard into a garden with vegetables sprouting from cardboard tubes. Details at www.ps1.org/ps1--site/content/ view/337/337/vegetable.
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