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Virgin America Celebrates New Flights Out of The OC With Hotel Stays

Where: 647 South Coast Highway [map], Laguna Beach, California, United States, 92651

This post stars Shira Lazar but was written by Shira Levine. Just in case you had your Shiras confused.

OMFG, while it's probably beneath the Housewives of Orange County to fly discounted airfares, for the record we'd still rather endure a six hour turbulent flight than have Vicki, Lynne or Gretchen even in the same airport as us. For now we're hopefully in the clear so long as there is no red carpet or paparazzi. You never know with Richard Branson though asVirgin America launched its high-tech, low-fare service to Orange County, California today.

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Suites at The Venetian Are Almost Big Enough For Half of Italy

Where: 3335 Las Vegas Boulevard [map], Las Vegas, NV, United States, 89109

If you've been keeping up over at Jaunted, you know that we recently went to Vegas for one night flying Virgin America's "Superfly" flight and taking the opportunity to stay at The Venetian.  If OTT is your thing, then The Venetian is a stand out in a city that values excess above all else.

Walking into the multi-hued marble lobby, we walked into the main rotunda thinking this is what Venice could have looked like during the renaissance, pumped up on acid and ego.  Our check-in was smooth and easy and we boarded the elevator taking us to our room on the 24th floor.

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Viva Vegas: Virgin Airlines Parties with 'The Hills' and More at Tryst

Where: Las Vegas, nv, United States, 89109

Skip on over to Jaunted's Virgin America coverage now.

Baby bro Jaunted was on hand to witness the Virgin America party at Tryst (our fave nightclub ever) inside The Wynn Las Vegas.

There to celebrate the airline's virgin flight from SFO to LVS was VA honcho Richard Branson, Carmen Electra (who looked sad), LC and Audrina from The Hills, Richard Branson and newlyweds Pamela Anderson and Rick "Scum" Salomon (her nickname for him, not ours.)

Also on hand were the Virgin America pixies who might be nice but they are pretty scary-looking in the pictures. Sadly, no one used the stripper pole except some poor dancers that VA hired and no one paid attention to. One day, that pole will be ours. Oh yes, it will be ours.

Related Stories:
· On the Scene: Virgin America's Party At Tryst [Jaunted]
· On Board Virgin America's First Flight To Vegas [Jaunted]

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Where Web Travel Titans in Norwalk Put Up Their Out of Town Visitors

A HotelChatter Exclusive

If this hotel maven had not grown up in Norwalk, in Fairfield County, Connecticut, she may have never noticed that three pioneering travel companies call her one-time hometown home.

Virgin Atlantic's U.S. headquarters are based in this coastal town of nearly 90,000. Priceline and Kayak have their main offices in Norwalk, too.

Despite an influx of corporate offices over the years, Fairfield County remains more a bedroom community than commerce or, for that matter, leisure-travel central, with hotel selections far and few between.

Just where do these travel concerns, which collectively book hundreds if not thousands of people in hotels around the world every single day, put up their guests when they come to town?

Their answers after the jump.

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Jaunted Peeks into Virgin America's Fleets

Usually we leave the planes, trains and automobiles coverage to our pop-culture and travel-obsessed younger sibling, Jaunted.

However, today we wanted to let you know that Jaunted got an exclusive inside look at the jet fleet of Virgin America in San Francisco, set to launch this summer. For the rest of the week, Jaunted's fearless editor Davie will be chronicling what she learned inside the VA headquarters and dispensing a bit of a survival guide for meeting with a VA exec who she virtually beheaded purely for avatar fun.

Skip on over to Jaunted's Virgin America coverage now.