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How to Survive Family Holiday Celebrations
Are you traveling to see relatives for the holidays? These tips from noted relationship experts could make the experience both more harmonious and more pleasurable.
In Recommending 10 Lightly Visited Destinations for Your Next Vacation, I Avoid the Unknown Places That May Deserve Their Lack of Notoriety
This is the season for the publication of travel lists: the "10 Best of This", the "10 Best of That". Travel journalists disclose their 10 Best travel destinations for…
There's No Better Time for a Quick Trip to Paris than the Autumn
To those Americans lucky enough to enjoy an autumn vacation (or the ability to take off a week at that time), a trip to Paris is a perfect choice. When Parisians return from their…
More Free Lodgings! This Time The Giveaway Is For Members of the Military, 2500 of Them
Seems to be the season of freebies! Massive timeshare corporation Westgate Resorts is doing the gifting and amazingly, nobody will have to sit through a timeshare presentation to…
Florence With the Experts: A New Program Italy-Bound Travelers Should Know About
Florence (photo by PapaPiper/Flickr)Italia Rail, the company that has been, for the last decade, the largest international vendor of Italian rail tickets, is taking that…
How to Complain to Uber
As revolutionary as it may be, consumer experiences with this transportation app are not always ideal. Here's how you can file a complaint to Uber.
And Now: Here are Three New Possibilities for Your Next Vacation
Convento do Carmo, LisbonTired of the same old trip? The travel industry is constantly creating the means for an entirely new vacation experience, as witness the following…
American Airlines to Sell An Even More Basic Ticket Than it Does Now
Call it the Spirit Effect: American Airlines will be the latest major carrier to offer a no-frills, stripped-down, bare-bones version of its ticket.Starting next year,…
Celebrate New Year's Eve in a Free Hotel Room
And we're not talking the Motel 6 in Akron.CitizenM Hotels, a growing chain that has made a name for itself with stylish pod hotels (read: the digs are tiny, but very high…
Airfares Are Dipping Once Again (and Two Other Pieces of Good News for Flyers)
Overly chatty seatmates, cramped seating and long security lines: these unhappy byproducts of airline travel aren’t going away anytime soon. But this week, several news events…
Gotcha! What Delta Doesn't Tell You About Its Late-Bag Delivery Fees
When a bag doesn't make it onto a flight and has to be delivered to a hotel, passengers are charged—but no one at the airline is warning them how much it will cost.
Innovative New In-flight Safety Video Animated with 1,000 Delft Tiles
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is the latest entrant in the battle to come up with the least boring in-flight safety video. The novel concept: Create an animated version of the pre-flight…
JetBlue Announces It Will Offer Free Wi-Fi
It's no secret that the major airlines act like lemmings. One adds a baggage fee and the next follows. One throws a sale, and soon the whole pack is in.But for once that may be…
An Order of Nuns in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, is Using Travel to Further the Aims of Pope Francis
The recent, repeated emphasis by Pope Francis on concern for the poor has brought renewed attention to the outstanding travel program operated for that purpose. It is…
Will Foreign Travel to the U.S., or Even American Travel Within the U.S, Be Lessened by the Apparent Increase in Gun Violence?
Are parts of the United States unsafe for vacation tourism? A number of Australian activists have answered Yes to that question, advising their fellow…
Long-Term Travelers Reinvent Hostels By Opening Their Own
Hostels were once infamous for being impersonal, clincial, and excruciatingly bare-bones, but international travelers are bringing their experiences home with them to open a next breed…
The Way of Wanderlust: A Delightful New Book of Travel Essays
By their very definition, travel memoirs introduce readers to corners of the planet they may never get to themselves. But The Way of Wanderlust, a collection of travel essays by…
In an Unusual Move, Princess Cruises Develops New Musicals with the Writer of "Wicked" and "Godspell"
There's a Broadway arms race raging in cruise ship entertainment. It started nearly a decade ago when Norwegian mounted a chopped-down version of the lesser-known musical Smokey…
New App Deletes Photobombers From Snapshots
Software giant Adobe recently unveiled a new smartphone application that should appeal to amateur photographers on vacation. Called Monument Mode, it eliminates photobombers and…
Everglades Airboats To Be Eliminated
For most of the twentieth century, airboats have been a staple of touring the Florida Everglades. New rules, though, are about the silence them once and for all.When the National…
How to Complain to Cruise America
Was your RV Rental with Cruise America not up to par? Find out how to send it your complaint.
Norwegian Airlines is Fast Emerging as an Acceptable Option for Flying at Low Cost to Europe
If you have recently sought to buy tickets for a transatlantic flight—let's say, to London or Paris or Rome—you are probably still reeling from the impact of the news you…
Several Well-Financed Firms Have Now Gone into Competition with Airbnb, Supplying You with Alternatives for Renting Low-Cost Apartments
By now, Airbnb.com has become a "household word" in travel. Most Americans are aware that the bearer of that name is today valued at billions of dollars, and that its…
Hotel Bait and Switch: Throttled Internet is Unethical, So Why Aren't People Angrier?
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How to Complain to Hertz Rent-A-Car
For instructions on how to send feedback to the well-known Hertz Rent-A-Car, read below.