Travel Briefs
Star-Bulletin staff
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DOT reports no complaints at Aloha
Aloha Airlines has captured the No. 1 ranking as the U.S. air carrier with the fewest complaints, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation for the month of September.
The airline maintained a record of zero complaints for the months of July, August and September.
The DOT's Air Travel Consumer Report covers 20 airlines. For the latest online report, go to airconsumer. ost.dot.gov/reports/ atcr06.htm.
Condé Nast Traveler's Business Travel Awards readers' poll has also named Aloha as one of the 10 Best Airlines for its First Class service on transpacific routes between the West Coast and Hawaii.
Grotto Bar wins Playboy.com kudos
The Grotto Bar at the Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa, 3850 Alanui Drive, Wailea, has been named one of Playboy.com's "Ten Best Hotel Bars in the United States."
The 10 were chosen based on a mix of ambience, dance floor, drinks, people factor and availability of rooms, whether to sleep one off or something else.
The other bars are Boston's City Bar at Lenox Hotel, Chicago's J Bar at the James, Las Vegas' Ghostbar at Palms Casino Resort, Los Angeles' Cameo Bar at the Viceroy, Miami's Martini Bar and Oasis at the Raleigh, New Orleans' Victorian Lounge at the Columns Hotel, New York's Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle and MObar & Lobby Lounge at the Mandarin Oriental, and San Francisco's Redwood Room at Clift.