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Times Travel Ticker: This is Russia?

By Chris Erskine
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Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Travelers are paying an average of $265 per night for luxury accommodations this year compared with $308 per night in 2007, says Spire, a website specializing in travel deals… More evidence that current or former communists seem to have all the money these days: W St. Petersburg is the luxe chain’s first Russian property, featuring 137 rooms and 10 suites … Rare World War II Warbirds take to the skies above Big Bear Saturday, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the city’s airport; (909) 585-3219 … Fireworks have been added to Legoland’s Halloween celebration, every Saturday night in October… Feed your pet no less than five or six hours before flight time and give the pet a drink of water no less than two hours before flight, pet expert Heidi Ganahi recommends… Travel quote of the day: “If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel.” (Will Kommen)

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

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