Aspen airport has closures for various reasons most often for wind and snow. Many times when Aspen is closed, other Colorado airports like Eagle Vail, Rifle, Grand Junction and Denver International, DIA are open and flights are coming in and out. Aspen Airport Shuttles can get you to these other Colorado airports, even on some of the worst Aspen snow days to catch your connecting flights. Aspen has a bus shuttle that goes Denver to Aspen whose main advantage is being one of the least expensi... Read Full Story

Let’s start off with a little reality check, Hawaii is not a cheap place to visit, even with a recession going on there are still a lot of people that want to go to Hawaii. Sure there are some holiday vacation deals that are out there to bring you to Waikiki Hawaii, but you will find that once you get here that the prices are still much higher than the what you would find else where in the USA. Having said that, there is a reason why Hawaii and Waikiki are famous as tourist destinations and ... Read Full Story

Swine flu article I recieved some more information on this today I thought that it wss good enough advise on how to avoid swine flu in Asia budget travel. I espically like it as the ingrediants needed are very inexpensive and readly available. You can use this on Asia cheap flights where I am not sure but I suspect that I might have all ready gotten it from several weeks ago in the Philippines. They are saying it is not a problem here which I am finding hard to believe as people cough stra... Read Full Story

Aspen Airport   I am kind of a lucky guy as I get to spend a lot of time at Aspen Airport  during the winter ski season, and the place is always changing, often with the weather. The thing that I like the most is watch the people coming in to Aspen, as there are all sorts from A list entertainment celebrities, corporate executives, to snow boarders coming into Aspen for the Winter X Games put on here every year for over 10 years by ESPN.   Aspen airport has 2 terminals b... Read Full Story

Here is another free thai cooking Class reciepe. We are sticky there on the Cheap Charlies site for the time being some time in the future we will probbably make a new blog specificly for Isan House Thai Cooking"Tom-Kha-Gai" Spicy Chicken Soup with Coconut MilkIngrediants200g Chicken breast sliced100g straw mushrooms cut in to half3 kaffir lime leaves tkorn into pieces2 Sticks lemongrass cut into 1" long5 galangal sliced thinly2 thai coriander leaves cut 1" long3-6 Red small chillies bruised... Read Full Story

Ever wonder how to cook Thai Sticky rice? well read below. we are very excited as we are getting a Bangkok thai cooking giving us tips on how to cook Thai Style'Khaaw Neow"is sticky rice in Thai. Sticky rice is a different grain of rice from plain rice and it is eaten mainly in the north and notheast of thailand.Itis eaten by hands. The sticky rice needs to be soaked in water for at least 3 hour or over night before it is cooked. Than taken out of the water and steamed about 15 minutes unti... Read Full Story

I love Thai food and espically love Penang curry which is a dry red curry that i first had in Cambodia in Siem Reap hotel in Angkokr Wat years ago. This Thai Cooking recipie comes from the Isan House Thai Cooking school in Bangkok. I have to confes the main reason I am sticking it here on the blog is so I can find it when I get to Aspen Co to drive Asepn airport limousines around Colorado.Here.u r ! Panaeng Moo reciepe " Dry pork curry " 250 g. can be pork or beef, cut in to stirips .31/2 ta... Read Full Story

For Cebu cheap flights in the Philippines there are not a whole lot of options Cebu Pacific and Philippines Air are going to be your best choices, there are some other options like Sea Air but they are on the smaller regional airlines and you run the risk of cancelled flights and they so not run up to the tower. Also you might find yourself at one of the older terminals which are a pain to get to the other terminals once you are there. We were having fits trying to book Cebu Pacific flights... Read Full Story

We spent the last 3 days in Moalboal doing scuba diving trips and we stayed at a little beach hotel that was a great deal at only 1000p a night, which works out to a little bit more than $20 a great cheap hotels on the beach for $20 is pretty hard to find except in Asia.We had these 3 girls playing like they were models and the photos of the sunsets were as you can see awesome. We are really enjoying the Nikon D90 which is giving us some great photos as we try to learn all the features. Read Full Story

Looking forward to the Aspen Ski Season as I make my way there again from Bangkok to LAX then overland Lake Havasu to Las Vegas, where I plan to stop for a day at my favorite new Las Vegas cheap hotel the Rivera then catch a cheap flight Las Vegas to Aspen on Frontier to Grand Junction Colorado, then to get picked up by a Aspen Airport Shuttle Service for the two hour ride to Aspen.This year I am very excited as I will have my new Nikon D90 DSLR Camera that I am looking forward to shooting hu... Read Full Story