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Step out on glass at Sears Tower & Grand Canyon

Sears Tower, at the top of the tallest building in Chicago, is now featuring a walk in the sky. Well, it’s more like venturing on onto a four-foot box of clear glass on its 103rd Floor Skydeck. If you’re brave enough to go, you can see the city in all of its glory 1,353 feet below you.

Chicago isn’t called the Windy City for nothing, so you can imagine how it will feel when you’re out there and the box begins to sway. There’s a similar, but much more way-out glass deck feature now available for tourist visitors at the Grand Canyon. So, if you’re tempted to step out on the transparent suicide ledge either at the Sears Tower in Chicago and/or the Grand Canyon, go ahead. You’re already old, so what do you have to lose?

Airport Security: New Cell-Like Pods Scan Passengers

An addition to the already-time-consuming passenger check-in process, a new security level has been installed at Syracuse Hancock International (SYR) and Atlantic City (ACY). If proven effective, it will soon be caging people at an airport near you.

They’re barred, glass-framed exit pods that hold individual passengers before they’re permitted to board flights. Security personnel guide them into the pods to be electronically body-scanned while recorded voices tell them to wait. Then a green light indicates the process is complete, and the cell-like pod door can be opened.

Tauck River Cruises Now Include Unlimited Drinks

Named by Travel+Leisure as the World’s Best River Cruise Line, Tauck has announced a new policy of free unlimited beer, wine and premium drinks while aboard. The service, include extensive Rhine River schedules, is available on its luxury cruise ships in operation this year in Europe, including ms Swiss Emerald, ms Inspire, ms Swiss Jewel, ms Swiss Sapphire, ms Savor and ms Treasures.

Previously, passengers on Tauck river cruises enjoyed unlimited wine and beer with meals only. Tauck’s new all-inclusive service now includes tips, shore excursions, some meals ashore and airport transfers in cruise fares. For cruise schedules, accommodations, facilities for those with limited mobility, prices and other information, go to www.tauck.com

Japan: Expect Great Service, But Don’t Tip

Your travel4seniors.com editor has visited Japan several times, beginning with those little misunderstandings around the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945. Many decades after those hostilities, we find hospitality at Japanese restaurants, shops, hotels and everywhere else fantastic.

Now, Japanese in the tourist industry bow and say chinkyaku, a polite welcome to visitors. Everyone, including doormen, waiters, bartenders and taxi drivers, are super considerate and helpful. However, tips are not expected nor accepted in Japan.