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What is now the European Union’s tallest building, London’s 95-story Shard — with offices, a hotel, apartments and restaurants — opened its viewing deck to the public on Feb. 1.
As of November 2012, legally binding weddings may be conducted aboard ships of Royal Caribbean International (866/562-7625) registered in the Bahamas. Among many wedding packages is “Romance at Sea,” from $3,995, with a marriage by the ship’s captain or first officer on deck or in the ship’s chapel, and flowers, a cake, champagne, photography and more.
Fifty miles from San José, Costa Rica, is the Butterfly & Frog Garden, a 2,150-square-foot, open-air garden in the 12,000-acre park Rain Forest Adventures Costa Rica Atlantic (office at SW Third Ave., Ste. 200, Miami, FL 33129; 866/759-8726 or 305/704-3350).
Visitors will find blue morpho butterflies and blue jeans frogs, red-eyed frogs and black-and-green frogs. A bilingual naturalist answers questions. Garden entry costs $10.
Record holder for longest-running play, Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” debuted in London’s West End on Nov. 25, 1952. Since 1974, it has been performed at St. Martin’s Theatre (West St., Cambridge Cross, London, WC2H 9NZ, U.K.).
It plays 7:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday plus 3 p.m. Tuesday and 4 p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost from £16.60 (near $26) for Upper Circle 3rd to £63.10 ($99) for Stalls Premium. Go to the box office, phone 08444 99 1515 or visit www.the-mousetrap.co.uk.
Lodging at hostels while globetrotting is becoming an increasingly popular trend among travelers ages 40 to 70. For a number of them, hosteling has even become a lifestyle, as opposed to just a travel style.
During a recent interview, friend and lifelong hosteler Merrilee Zellner shared her insights regarding the history and evolving status of the people, particularly seniors, who stay in hostels while traveling.
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In the hotel district of Cancún, Mexico, the Maya Museum (Kukulkan Blvd., phone 01 998 885 3842, [website in Spanish only]) opened Nov. 1, 2012. Its three 4,400-square-foot exhibition halls, with sections of architecture, include more than 350 artifacts (pottery, everyday objects, etc.) plus 14,000-year-old Maya skeletons discovered in underwater caves. Open 10 a.m.- 7p.m. Tues.-Sun.; closes 10 p.m. Thurs. Admission near $5 but in pesos; adults over 60 and children under 13, free.
Next door, the San Miguelito archaeological site also is open.
