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Article / Car, Bus, Rail

One of Japan's Most Scenic Regions Is Giving Away Free Bullet-Train Tickets—Here's How to Get Yours

Travelers looking to experience more of Japan beyond its most popular destinations, such as Tokyo, Kyoto, and Mount Fuji, have an enticing new option. Those three tourism behemoths are…

Article / National Parks

Seeing More of Alaska’s Denali National Park Just Got Easier After Years of Limited Access

Alaska's Denali National Park & Preserve, home to North America's tallest peak, has only one road, and about half of it has been closed for years. An active landslide prompted…

Article / Air Travel

TSA's Gateside Program for No-Ticket Entry Expands to More Than 300 Airports

Just a month ago, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration announced that it had allowed access to some airport terminals to people who don't have airline tickets, which is…

Article / Arts and Culture

Our Review of the Revamped and Expanded Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark.

“Let’s start at the very beginning,” suggests The Sound of Music’s Maria von Trapp, arguing that’s a “very good place to start.” But is it? A European art museum, for example, that…

Article / News

U.S. Feds Promise Online Passport Application, Which We Already Kind of Have

At a Sept. 29 media event touting America.gov, a new catchall government portal for federal services, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that for the first time, Americans…

Article / Travelers with Disabilities

How Disney Picks the Pockets of Guests with Mobility Needs

For guests with mobility needs, Walt Disney World has a reputation for being extremely accommodating. Attractions at the resort have been constructed with accessibility in mind, and…

Article / Family & Kids

6 Companies You Can Trust for Great Family Vacation Packages

Planning a successful family vacation is work—but not if you let a packager do the work for you. Buying a vacation through a tour operator frees you from the tedious details of…

Article / Arts and Culture

The Miracles of Northern Michigan: Food, Wine, Sapphire Lakes, and Golfing in the Wild

This is an amalgamation of conversations I had on a recent episode of The Frommer’s Travel Podcast. To hear the complete episode, please click here or watch the video version here.In…

Article / Air Travel

This TSA Change Could Be a Big Hassle for Flyers with Carry-on Bags

New high-tech equipment being used by the Transportation Security Administration is supposed to make life easier for airport security screeners as well as passengers, but some flyers…

Article / Arts and Culture

There's Finally a Sound of Music Museum in Austria. Will It Be One of Your Favorite Things?

“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” says a newspaper editor in the 1962 Western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.Then, as if to prove the point, the quote itself became a…

Article / Theme Park

Free Yourself from the 'Disney Hump' with This App That Books Lightning Lanes for You

If you have been to Walt Disney World in the past 5 years, you've seen them everywhere. In front of the castles. Stopped dead in the center of Main Street. Filling every switchback of…

Article / Business Travel

Why the Work Trip Is Here to Stay

In an era when we can hold virtual meetings with colleagues and clients around the world without leaving our desks, is the business trip a dying tradition? The answer appears to be…

Article / Business Travel

How Hotel Design Is Evolving to Reflect Business Travelers’ Changing Needs

Five years ago, hoteliers who were eager to make their rooms more appealing to business travelers took a very specific approach, focusing on improved productivity and efficiency. That…

Article / Hotels

The Story of Santa Fe's La Fonda on the Plaza, One of the USA's Most Historic Hotels

In our recently released New Mexico guidebook, Frommer's Santa Fe, Taos, and Albuquerque, author Erin Vivid Riley writes, “Whoever originally dubbed New Mexico the 'Land of…

Article / National Parks

The Most Dog-Friendly National Parks in the United States

It's a scientific fact that dogs are wonderful. Even so, they can cause damage to fragile ecosystems by trampling plants and bugs, can hurt themselves on sharp rocks and steep cliffs,…

Article / Air Travel

Airfare Is Rising Fast. For Perspective, Here's What Your Grandparents Paid to Fly

There's no question that a fuel pricing disaster is bearing down on travelers.The situation, which was triggered by the U.S. attack on Iran in February, is terrible and getting…

Article / Trends & Hacks

This New Capybara Cafe Lets You Hang Out with the Internet's Beloved Kings of Chill

Normally, learning that a cafe has rodents would send us scurrying in the opposite direction. But not when the critters in question are capybaras, the big, gentle, supremely unbothered…

Article / Hotels

Stay in London for Around $100 a Night at These Popular Hotel Brands That Might Be New to You

In a sad way, the proliferation of corporate hotels across London helped kill most of the family-run bed-and-breakfasts that England was famous for during most of the 20th century.But…

Article / Air Travel

How to Complain to Delta Air Lines

Follow these instructions to file a complaint with Delta Air Lines.

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Adventure Ahoy! Tracking the Real-Life Pirates of the Caribbean

The Caribbean really was a hotbed of piracy at one time—especially during the 17th and 18th centuries, when Europe-bound ships laden with goods from North and South America were easy…

Article / Cruise

Carnival to Cruisers: You Know We Can See You Naked, Right?

If you're naked on a cruise ship balcony, can anyone see you? Carnival Cruise Line weighs in.

Article / National Parks

There's Finally a Car-Free Way to Access Arches National Park—and It Doesn't Cost Extra

Traffic congestion has been a big problem at Utah's Arches National Park for a while now. The park, known for its hundreds of striking sandstone formations, has only one main paved…

Article / Air Travel

United Airlines Accused of Flying Military Cargo with Passengers, Putting Them at Deadly Risk

On May 7, 1915, the passenger ocean liner Lusitania, bound for Liverpool from New York City, was torpedoed by German forces off the southern coast of Ireland, near the modern-day port…

Article / Cruise

Oh, Lord. Now People Are Hiding Tiny Jesus Figurines All Over Cruise Ships

You've probably heard that Jesus could walk on water, but he doesn't need to nowadays. Multitudes of cruise passengers are carrying him aboard in mini plastic form and scattering the…

Article / Local Experiences

For the First Time, You Can Meet the Ghoulish Ravens at The Tower of London

The Tower of London, an 18-acre fortress complex alongside the Thames river in England's capital city, dates all the way to the year 1078, in the Norman period, when William the…