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The full list of deals is available at www.expedia.com/indianajones.
Sample deal: Egypt Tour from $2,299
A 10-day escorted tour round trip from Cairo with transfers and local transportation (train, plane, bus, boat), five nights' hotel, a three-night Nile cruise, one overnight train, a desert camel ride, and more. International airfare isn't included. Book by: Sept. 31. When: Until Dec. 31, 2009. Single supplement: $1,200. Expedia, 866/925-1793, expedia.com.
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Watch BudgetTravel.com's narrated video of the ancient desert city of Petra, where Indy is pictured above. [CORRECTION: This blog post originally said that the picture above was a still from Raiders. In fact, it's a still from The Last Crusade. We regret the error.]
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That's pretty clever marketing on Expedia's part. They did miss an opportunity to include Hawaii, though. Some scenes were actually shot along the lush Hamakua Coast of Hawaii's Big Island. The Hamakua Coast was "standing in" for the jungles of Peru, if I remember correctly.
Posted By Sheila on April 24, 2008, 11:59 AM
Your "Indiana Jones Adventures with EXPEDIA" might end up like this:
Buy online a flight ticket (Not necessary to an exotic place)
Find out that your EXPEDIA never book your flight
Spend hours in the phone trying to fix the problem EXPEDIA generated.
Buy another ticket to your destination using a “real travel agent”. (At this point you are afraid that other online travel sites like Orbitz, Priceline or Travelocity will do the same and you prefer to go to a real office, and arrange your flight)
Trying to have your money back (The money EXPEDIA charged in your credit card for the flight they never arranged)
Keep asking EXPEDIA to reimburse your money by pone and receive anything else but lies.
Talk to different EXPEDIA representatives in Philippines
Realize that EXPEDIA is trying to scam you.
Create a website to alert people about the EXPEDIA scam (http://www.victimsofexpedia.com)
Find out that EXPEDIA was cheating people (read a lot of complaint about EXPEDIA here: http://www.expedianews.com dating back from 2001)
Find out that a nazi sympathizer claims he is working for EXPEDIA and make fun of a customer that apparently was cheated by EXPEDIA (Don’t miss this episode of the adventure, watch the picture of a guy digitally put a picture of his head on the body of a Nazi officer who’s with Adolph Hitler: http://defineyourworld.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/expedias-finest-in-action/ )
Receive insults from someone working apparently for People Support International (A company that promote themselves as service provider to EXPEDIA in Philippines) (I’ll put the whole story soon since I asked EXPEDIA and People Support International to confirm or deny that that guy work for them . No response so far)
Make jokes about your scammer (EXPEDIA), Indy would do it!!
This adventure is not over. Come back soon for more exciting news about the kid of “Indiana Jones” adventures you can have with EXPEDIA. If you are looking for this kind of adventures. GO ahead book with EXPEDIA and have this fun
The only thing that bothers me is that George Lucas agreed to make business with a scamer. I love his movies but this was a cheap , cheap, deal that Mr. Lucas didn’t need it.
Posted By John on April 26, 2008, 7:47 PM
Not to nitpick, but your hyperlink on the above article has an error:
"Watch BudgetTravel.com's narrated video of the ancient desert city of Petra, where Indy is pictured above (in a still from Raiders)."
The scene from Petra is from "The Last Crusade," not "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
Posted By Robert on April 28, 2008, 12:58 PM
Robert,
You are correct, sir. We were in error.
Posted By Sean on April 28, 2008, 1:02 PM