The Titanic Awards

The Titanic Awards
By:Doug Lansky
Published on 2010-05-04 by Penguin



Read Doug Lansky's posts on the Penguin Blog. |In a nutshell, the Titanic Awards are the Darwin Awards for travel- only nobody dies.| -Los Angeles Times Everyone who's ever checked (and lost) their luggage or discovered that their hotel misplaced their reservation knows there are few perfect vacations. The Titanic Awards takes a different approach to these often spectacular travel underachievements: celebrating them. From worst airport layout to most confusing subway system to the most overrated tourist attraction, Lansky looks at these flawed travel destinations with a gimlet eye and a sense of the absurd.

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