Joan Collins excess baggage bill: $4,966 for $180,000 in luxury bags

by Scott Carmichael on

While you visit Gadling and read my rant about $45 carry-on bag fees, other air passengers are having having fun turning excess baggage into a challenge – not a complaint.

Take for example Joan Collins – Because she travels a lot between London and the United States, she says she feels “compelled to travel like a packhorse”.

And she isn’t kidding either – each trip involves a professional packing firm, 30 Louis Vuitton cases and baggage transport fees for all those bags.

Think about that for a second – every single time she flies between her two homes, she carries clothes, accessories, books, CD’s, DVD’s and a bunch of other household junk.

Lets put this into numbers for a moment – her luggage firm charges $183 for each bag. Thankfully this price does include door to door service, but the total bill is $4,966 each time she travels (she gets a nice discount when she transports more than five bags).

Of course, that is nothing compared to the estimated value of her Louis Vuitton luggage – with an average price of $6000 each, her collection of monogrammed luggage is worth about $180,000. Kind of makes me worry a little less about paying $25 to have my bag placed in the hold.

I do have a tip for her: if you buy two of everything, you won’t have to transport it between your two homes each time you travel.
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Lindsay Lohan rescues child laborers in India…or not

by Katie Hammel on

Looks like miss Lindsay Lohan has gone on a little “liecation” recently.

The actress/singer/celebrity trainwreck posted a message on Twitter that made it sound like she personally took part in a raid that saved child laborers in India while there filming a documentary for the BBC. “Over 40 children saved so far…Within one day’s work…This is what life is about…Doing THIS is a life worth living!!!”

But according to the New York Daily News, the charity that performed the raid in New Delhi said Lohan wasn’t even in India at the times. A rep for the BBC came to Lohan’s defense and said that her tweet never said that Lohan personally was there. It’s all just a misunderstanding, she said.

Maybe…or maybe Lindsay just didn’t follow Scott’s advice about how to create the perfect liecation and not get caught.

Party with Hef at the Playboy Mansion for Halloween

by Katie Hammel on

If haunted houses, ghost hunts, cemetery tours, zombie pub crawls and other usual Halloween attractions just aren’t sexy enough to make your holiday complete, if you want more girls and less gore, and if you’ve got $1000 to drop, make plans now to attend the Kandy Halloween Party at the Playboy Mansion.

I was always under the impression that you had to be an invited guest (or a lowly “Tunnel of Love” ride attendant as my husband was for the party in 1999) to attend. That’s not the case. A $1000 ticket and a costume (which is mandatory) will get you access to “1,000 of the sexiest girls in the world”, plus Hef and some Bunny-loving celebrities.

The party will be held on October 24th and tickets cost $1000-$2000 per person, unless you want to roll in some serious style. Then you’ll need to shell out about $10,000 for a table or cabana, table service, Crystal, seating for 8-10 people, and a Kabana girl to attend to your every need.

I wonder if November’s cover girl, Marge Simpson, will be there.

[via Jaunted]

Randy Quaid (allegedly) stiffs hotel for $10K

by Tom Johansmeyer on
Actor Randy Quaid and his wife, former model Evi, got out of jail Thursday night. They landed in the Texas pokey because of a $10,000 hotel bill they didn’t pay in California. Each is out on $20,000 bail. They were arrested in Marfa, 160 miles southeast of El Paso.

Authorities in Santa Barbara, California issued a felony warrant – burglary, defrauding an innkeeper and conspiracy – for the Quaids. The couple disputed a charge of more than at a local hotel, prompting the hotel, San Ysidro Ranch to file a complaint. The police, hotel and Quaid family aren’t talking, according to a USA Today report.

Take a star-studded vacation the sneaky way

by Annie Scott on

On Location Vacations is a website which tells you where the movies are shooting — like, exactly. People from crew members to extras to locals send in tips to the site to give you the locations of on-location movies, TV sets, and more.

The tab Daily Filming Locations is very well kept-up and features a detailed list of filming locations every weekday, as well as upcoming shoots they know about and requests for more detailed information where they have an incomplete tip.

This is obviously helpful if you’re gonna be in, say, New York City and you love “Gossip Girl” or “30 Rock” (both of which shoot their interior shots at Silvercup Studios but frequently shoot their outdoor scenes all over Manhattan), but you can actually plan a whole vacation with the site — just click on the Road Trips tab.

Hollywood studios love a bargain as much as the next company, which is why they often won’t be shooting where the movie is actually based. If you look through the “Road Trips” section, you can plot out tours of old Hitchcock sites, find random small towns where the celebrities are currently canoodling in local diners on their off hours, or find information on how to become a tipster yourself (they’re currently looking for more in Vancouver).

Want to just stalk the celebrities themselves and not their sets? Well, that’s there, too. Check out A Star Stalking Western Road Trip among others to find out where the celebrities live, and hook together a paparazzi-style trip all your own.

The site also features Events, Featured Essays, News and On Location Photos, but what really caught our eye was the Travel Inspiration tab, where they offer ideas for taking trips you might not have otherwise considered. If you’re too lazy for all this? Just type your current city into the “Search” field and see if there’s anywhere you can go spy on your lunch hour.

You might want to hit Wikipedia and catch up on Photography and the Law before you go … just sayin’.