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Audio tours: For your listening pleasure

101 ways to spend $100

Donít fight the urge to splurge

Budget Travel

June issue, Budget Travel magazine – Everyone needs to waste a little money sometimes, preferably in a self-indulgent manner. The trick is to control it.

General splurges

The next ten pages are filled almost entirely with site-specific splurgesótours, train rides, decadent meals. But there are splurges you can do just about anywhere (even at home).

In addition to other site information about hotel rooms, nightlife, recommendation of book titles, you will also find on page 2:

Audio tours: For your listening pleasure

Itís not the cost of an audio tour ($5 or so) that discourages us from renting one of those headsetsóitís that the tours tend to be unwieldy and dull. Now, however, museums and attractions are making the extra effort to create exciting audio guides, and the technology has improved, so you can hear the information in whichever order you choose. Seven we think

are worth the money and effortÖ

* CHICAGO The Art Institute of Chicago $12, gallery audio tour $4.

* DALLAS The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza $10, audio tour $3.

* LONDON British Museum Free, family audio tour, $6.50. St. Paulís

Cathedral $15, audio tour $6.50.

* LOUISVILLE The Speed Art Museum Recommended donation $4, audio tour $3.

* NEW YORK CITY The Museum of Modern Art $20, audio tour $5.

* SAN FRANCISCO Alcatraz $11.50, audio tour $4.50.

By The Staff

Budget Travel

Updated: 2:38 p.m. ET June 20, 2005

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