Young Travelers

By Mike Smith

 Once settled into our Paris vacation rentals, prepare to begin your Paris vacation! Everyone in Paris gets picked up in front of Paris vacation apartments, better still request that Paris based 4 Roues Sous 1 Parapluie meet you at the Palais Garnier opera house. They shuttle you round Paris in a chauffeur-driven convertible 2CV. In the event of rain, take metro lines 7 and 9 (near many of our apartments in Paris) to arrive at Mirosmenil for the Muse Jacquemart Andr. The museums audio guide tells the story of how Nlie Jacquemart met banker Edouard Andr when she was painting his portrait. Otherwise refer to our Paris apartments guide for an abridged version. They married not far from a couple of our Paris apartment rentals and travelled the world collecting art, now stored in their very romantic private museum. After your visit museum, head back to our Paris apartments or treat yourselves to tea and cakes under a Tieopolo ceiling in the caf. You could always opt for taking one back to our apartments in Paris.

Time for a drink. Take the bus from St Philippe du Roule station (near our Garnier Paris rentals) to the Arc de Triomphe. In Summer, take the lift to the 7th floor of the Htel Raphael to enjoy martinis with a view of the setting. Our Paris vacation apartments are only a short cab ride away. The showstopper is the vertical garden in the inner courtyard overflowing with hundreds of exotic plants and flowers.

Leaving this glamorous worlds behind, direction of your Paris vacation apartments, stroll down to the river and jump on a Bateau Bus (river boat) at Pont dAlma. The boats run every half an hour the ride is magnificent, taking in some of Paris major sights the Louvre, Muse dOrsay to name just a few. You will also sail past a number of our Paris apartment rentals. Jump off at Htel de Ville and stroll into the Marais for dinner. The ‘Marais’ is today amongst Paris’ most characteristic neighbourhoods. Chances are youre staying here in one of our Paris vacation rentals. It is thriving, trendy and a delight to explore and on the door stop of our favourite Paris apartment rentals. It’s medieval lanes are home to impressive mansions, museums, up-and-coming artists’ galleries, Paris apartments and designers’ showrooms. That said, the area is artistic rather than touristy and has been christened the latest refuge for the Paris artisan fleeing the tourist-trampled St-Germain-des-Pres, location of some of our other apartments in Paris. No surprises then that some of the citys most authentic bistrots, brasseries, cafs and street markets are to be found here. There are so many restaurants to recommend in the area. These are detailed in your Paris apartment rentals guide. One of our favorites is Georget, adjacent to our Marais Paris vacation rentals. The family is called Georget but the restaurant is also known as Robert et Louise, the anachronism giving you some clue for the charm that awaits. This comes highly recommended during your vacation in Paris. All of our Paris vacation rentals are in or near the Marais, so from here its a gentle stroll home.

We look forward to welcoming you on your Paris vacation to one of our Paris vacation apartments.

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Having fun before your next trip
By Jakko Jakko

 Travel tips

When you go on a trip, whether it is a business trip or a vacation or holiday trip you need to get hold of a few tips. First of all if it is vacation or holiday trip you want to know where you are going. You want to go to a place where you can relax on the beach, or maybe you want to go to a place where you can just stay inside your hotel room and sleep all day and not be bothered, maybe there is a chance that you want to go to a place just to do shopping. In any of these scenarios you want to find a place that suits you, so you will not go to Russia if you want to lie on the beach and take in the suns rays. You will not go to Egypt if you are looking to do shopping for designer outfits or cheap electronic equipment, and you will not go to the running of the bulls in Spain if you are looking to relax and sleep all day. These are just things that you will need to take into consideration, do you want to sleep, do you want a beach, do you want to shop and if you want to do all of these things, what is the perfect place? So a good list of travel tips is needed there.

On a business trip you do not have a choice as to where you have to go, and if your company is paying for the flight fees and the hotel chances are that you really do not have a choice as to which flight to catch, or which hotel to stay in. However, you can make a few choices of your own, like what clothes to take, what book to read on the plane, and what to pack. Also, if you find that you will have a few minutes, or any hour to spare in between meetings then you could use that time to do other things, like shopping, sleeping or relaxing on the beach. Maybe you always wanted to take in a play at the theatre in this specific city or town you are going to. If you find that you have a few hours to play with, make sure that you find a few travel tips for the city you are going to. You will look for things like what to do, where to go, what to see, and things like this. Look for things that just generally interest you. Before you leave for your flight, make sure that you have everything written down, because if our only have a few hours to spend you do not want to spend the bulk of them looking for thing to do in the city you are in. Take with you names and numbers to taxi or cab services, emergency numbers for that city, make sure that your cell phone can roam and do not forget to take your charger with.

Jack Marshall is author of this article on travel tips.

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Preventive Measures from Internet Fraud
By Dave Southern

 Internet fraud is an act to make money from consumers or merchants without actually providing the goods or services. There are some measures which must be taken into consideration so as to prevent being victimized by this illegal activity.

Internet frauds are generally another kind of fraud crimes which particularly use features of the Internet to intentionally commit fraudulent transactions from unsuspecting Internet users in an objective to steal money. Chat rooms, forum sites, e-mails and websites are the most common tools used by these criminals in performing their greedy acts. Because of the power of the Internet, these fraudulent acts can be easily transmitted in any part of the world. Millions of people can be potentially vulnerable to these crimes, whether an individual consumer or large companies of investors.

With the introduction of e-commerce as means to offer goods and services to consumers, these cyber criminals do their best to depict similar offers of legal merchants in order to make easy money from innocent people without actually providing the goods and services they promised. Because of these circumstances, it had greatly damaged the reputation of legitimate companies causing them a decrease on sales and at worst, leading to loss of millions of dollars.

Credit Card Fraud

Since a large number of percentages of consumers around the world use credit card as a convenient way of shopping or purchasing goods through the Internet, it had become a target for credit card fraud. This type of fraud was considered the number one setback in e-commerce business.

Credit card fraud is done by criminals by sending e-mail messages to unsuspecting victims requesting them to update their credit card information by directing them to the website which will then ask for their sensitive personal information including credit card number, passwords and billing address. Once the information is gathered by these criminals, they will be using the credit card to purchase goods definitely charged to the victim.

Because of technological advancement, cyber criminals have become more clever and advanced in doing their illegal activities. Even the biggest e-commerce merchants who have the most sophisticated anti- credit card fraud prevention system cannot manage to totally secure their businesses from these criminals.

There are some ways in which you can prevent the risk of being victimized by this fraud. As a consumer, never provide personal information to unsolicited e-mail messages asking you to do so. Also, never share your credit card information to any website which includes chat rooms, forums and e-commerce merchants without confirming the legitimacy of their company.

Travel Fraud

Today, there are numerous legitimate travel agency websites offering big discounts or great deal packages for travelers. Many travelers avail of such services for convenience. But again, these services attracted unlawful individuals as means to collect money from consumers. They would create fake travel agency sites and deploy various advertisements, offering very attractive cheap travel packages to allure unsuspecting victims. These sites mostly collect advance payments from travelers and then afterwards run away with the victims money.

The usual marketing strategy of these sites is to send e-mails to as many people as possible and directing them to a website containing the travel packages they offer.

In order to prevent you from being a victim of this fraud, it is important to ignore e-mail messages of travel agencies offering very cheap travel packages. As much as possible, do not respond to these e-mails as this will only prove to the criminals that you have an active account and later on you will be receiving spam mails.

In addition, investigate on the identity of the travel agency offering these deals. Gather enough information and try to inquire on other local travel agents. Never allow yourself to grab those too-good-to-be-true travel deals.

As a general rule, to avoid being victimized of these Internet frauds, you must be aware that these cyber criminals can easily create professional looking websites and post goods or services that are a lot cheaper than other companies in order to attract their prospect victims.

Legitimate merchants usually include information about their company and provide specific contact details which you can use to confirm that they are not bogus. Also, these companies do not solicit very detailed bank or credit card information such as your password or PIN. They also offer a secure way of online purchasing transaction and usually bear the VeriSign logo.

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