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For the last 20 years Gary Bembridge has been travelling every month of every year. Gary sits down with us and chats with us about his latest partial world voyage, how he planned it and the logestics involved. 
Simon Duvall also stops by to talk to us about What's Trending in travel.
JetBlue to add bag fees and reduce leg room
Another one bites the dust - JetBlue, under pressure from Wall Street Investors to raise revenues, has announced they will start charging bag fees to passengers who book the lowest price tickets.

- Currently, passengers are allowed 1 free checked bag.
- New fare tiers will be available that include a checked bag and other extras like more loyalty program points
- And they'll be cramming 15 more seats onto their A320 jets and reducing legroom by over 1.5 inches on average
- Southwest only major airline with checked bags included in the price of a base ticket

Marriott and Hilton to Tighten Cancellation Policies

- Hotels, inspired by the airlines ability to raise billions of dollars in 'ancillary' fees and charges are looking for ways to charge customers more
- The Marriott and Hiltion chains are tightening cancellation policies at many hotels effective January 1 to require a traveler to cancel a reservation 24 hours in advance to avoid a cancellation penalty.- This would affect hotels where the previous policy required cancellation by 6 pm local time on the day of arrival
- A penalty of 1 night's room and tax would be charged for a cancellation with less than 24 hours notice
- Other hotel chains are expected to follow suit

Amtrak Ridership up - slightly - in 2014, but infrastructure challenges remain


- Amtrak ridership and revenues inched up in Fiscal 2014, with 30.2 million passengers boarding trains, paying a total of $2.2 billion in ticket revenue
- increase of 0.2% and 4% respectively- Ridership on the busy Washington-to-Boston Northeast Corridor line increased 3.3% to 11.6 million, an all-time record- Ridership was down, however, on both long-distance routes and state-supported services, which Amtrak blames on delays caused by freight railroads and poor track conditions outside of the northeast corridor
More attractions coming to Orlando's Tourist Corridor in 2015 and Beyondhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/northamerica/usa/11239820/Worlds-tallest-roller-coaster-to-be-built-around-Orlando-skyscraper.html
- Details were released recently on 2 new attractions coming to Orlando's International Drive, the tourist strip better known for hotels and restaurants
- The SkyScraper World's Tallest Roller Coaster - 535 feet high wrapping around a bulding set to open in 2017- The World's highest version of the Star Flyer - airborne swings that spin at up to 40 miles/hour atop a 450-foot tower - open in 12-18 months
- The skyscraper and star flyer join the Orlando Eye observation wheel, Maddam Tussaud's wax museum and the sea life aquarium opening in Spring 2015
- Forget Disney and Universal - Families may need to add another day to their vacation just to visit all the attractions popping up outside of the theme parks