Wednesday Travel Ticker: National Park freebies

The National Park Service will waive admission fees on 17 days in 2012. Among the free dates will be Jan. 14-16 (Martin Luther King Jr. weekend), April 21- 29 (National Park Week) and June 9 (Get Outdoors Day). For more info, click here . . . . Dublin-based budget airline Ryanair has announced plans to cut down to just one toilet per aircraft, which would allow the addition of six more seats. Ryanair has not announced a date to implement the plan. . . . The Balboa Bay Club & Resort hosts “The Music & Stories of Frank Sinatra& Nat King Cole” on Sunday, Nov. 20, in the Commodore Room. . . . Roast magazine has named Bird Rock Coffee Roasters in La Jolla the Micro Roaster of the Year. . . . Think the holidays are coming fast? San Diego hotspots Andaz San Diego (a hotel) and Bertrand at Mister A’s (a restaurant) are already promoting New Year’s packages . . . . More than 450 booths are expected at Claremont Village’s Arts & Crafts Fair on Saturday. For info, click here. . . . Hollywood’s Redbury Hotel is offering a Gibson Unplugged package that includes a one-hour guitar lesson on the brand-new Gibson J-200 guitar. . . . Travel Quote of the Day: “ I do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.”
(Ron White)