MikeBlazer, 
This is one of the best travel sites I used: visitingvienna.com
I read it over and over again before and during my New Year's trip to Vienna, Austria last winter. And this site made my family vacation brilliant.
You can call it a niche site.
But it's not made to rank, it doesn't use the same tricks of over-optimizing to death. No fluff, no lame intros.
Check it out, folks.
What do you think of it? #seo