SPEND XMAS IN KLONG TOEY - US$ 2,549

An attention grabbing headline for sure, but for as little as US$2,549 you can spend three nights in the Klong Toey area of Bangkok during December.
Okay, that's not the whole story.
Klong Toey is just one port of call for the ship Azamara Quest on its 18-night South East Asia cruise during December 2009 and January 2009.
I must admit to being a little surprised to see what Wikipedia politely describes as an area of "substandard housing" being advertised as one of the destinations, alongside Singapore, Hanoi and Hong Kong.
This particular ad was in one of the British weekend newspapers.