Beach Blanket Bingo: Seaside Reopening Rules Are Shore Confusing
Posted on 05/20/2020, 9:00 AM
Summer's going to be complicated. Beaches around the world may be reopening, but that doesn't mean each place is welcoming back sun seekers the same way. If you were thinking you could just pack a towel and hit the sand, you might find yourself sunblocked. Just look at the wildly different policies at these global beach destinations—rules range from requiring apps to banning naps. The moral is...
MGM Resorts Bringing Back a Favorite Vegas Perk
Posted on 05/19/2020, 6:00 AM
When the Las Vegas Strip reopens after the coronavirus lockdown, free parking will be making a Sin City comeback as well. Once a standard feature at casino hotels along the Strip, the perk began to disappear in 2016, when MGM Resorts led the way in eliminating free parking at its 12 Vegas properties. Most other resorts in town followed, though Wynn Resorts went back to free parking at its Wynn ...
St. Lucia's Reopening Plan Might Predict the Future of Caribbean Vacations
Posted on 05/18/2020, 12:00 PM
To date, the mountainous Caribbean paradise of St. Lucia has recorded just 18 Covid-19 cases. Everyone has recovered, and the island wants to get back to business. The problem for this family-friendly isle is that its biggest market, the United States, has the most viral cases on the planet. How can you get back to business if your main customer is so troubled? St. Lucia's authorities have come u...
Send Your Taste Buds on a Road Trip with These Regional Recipes
Posted on 05/18/2020, 11:00 AM
Long before "foodie travel" became a term anybody used, Jane and Michael Stern published Roadfood in 1977. That first guidebook to the best regional eateries in the United States spawned a whole series of books as well as a beloved website with the same name. But with no one hitting the road much these days, Roadfood has pivoted to recipes, supplying home chefs with instructions for re-creating di...
Our Weekly Travel Podcasts: Airline Masks, Charities, and Border Testing
Posted on 05/18/2020, 10:00 AM
Each week, Frommer's brings you two fresh podcasts stuffed with travel tips, news, and inspiration. Recordings are made from our weekly call-in show on WABC in New York and our nationally syndicated radio program. Listen anytime at Frommers.com/podcast. Masks and Covid-19 test results have become the year's must-have items for travelers. Yet airlines are reportedly not enforcing their own ...
L.A.'s Hollywood Bowl Cancels Summer Concerts
Posted on 05/14/2020, 4:30 AM
For the first time in 98 years, there will be no concerts this summer at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The Greek-style outdoor amphitheater, set in a canyon in the Hollywood Hills, is the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra. But the venue also hosts an array of performances in a number of music genres—classical, jazz, pop, soul, rock, country, and many more—as well as film ...
Extreme Social Distancing: Restaurant for One Opens in Swedish Meadow
Posted on 05/13/2020, 5:00 AM
You don't have to worry about sitting too close to other diners at a new restaurant in Sweden. The restaurant's name, Bord för En, translates to Table for One, and it's just that: one table for one diner in the middle of a field. There are no waiters. The preset menu's three courses arrive in a picnic basket from the kitchen window (about 50 yards away) via a rope-and-pulley system. The restau...
Iceland to Reopen June 15 Using Testing and Tracing
Posted on 05/12/2020, 1:00 PM
Update, June 30: Iceland has updated its policy to conform to recommendations by the European Union. Americans are no longer welcomed. For complete information, see our feature about the rules of entry for most European countries. Iceland, one of the most popular but least populated European countries, is ready to reopen its borders to outsiders again. On June 15 at the latest, the country's air b...
Now You Can Order Airplane Food at Home for Some Reason
Posted on 05/12/2020, 1:00 PM
Stir-craziness among some grounded travelers has evidently grown so acute that they've developed a hankering for airplane snacks. Imperfect Foods, a grocery delivery service that reduces food waste by hooking up online users with surplus stock and misshapen though perfectly safe produce, has begun selling JetBlue snack packs. The airline's containers of cheese, dried fruits, and drier crackers a...
2020’s Ranking of the World’s Best Airports (Remember Airports?)
Posted on 05/12/2020, 4:00 AM
Do you miss airports? We've been in lockdown so long, we've even started to develop nostalgic feelings for LaGuardia. For those of you who also yearn to stuff your toiletries into plastic baggies again, Skytrax has released its well-regarded annual ranking of the world's best airports, based on surveys taken between September 2019 and February 2020 from customers from over 100 countries. The ...
