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How to Complain to American Airlines
Flying is hard as it is, but your experience with certain airlines can make it harder. If that happens with American, here's how to file a complaint.
The One-Percenting of Disney: Who Loses, Who Wins
Every few months, American news outlets erupt with a new round of rueful Disney coverage. Every spring, admission ticket prices shoot skyward, and this week, it hiked its annual…
Foreign SIM Cards Come with Censorship
Bringing an unlocked, out-of-contract smartphone on vacation and buying a temporary local phone number remains far and away the cheapest way to use a mobile phone in Europe. Just be…
Gifts You Should Give Yourself This Holiday Travel Season
In the next couple of months, most of us will be spending a lot of time in stores, and online, shopping for gifts for our loved ones. If you’re going to be traveling to give those…
How to Complain to Disneyland
It's not always the happiest place on Earth; here's how to complain to Disneyland.
How to Complain to Royal Caribbean
If you have a cruise experience unfit for a queen or king, here's how to complain to Royal Caribbean Cruise Line.
How to Complain to U.S. Airways
Want to report an issue to U.S. Airways? To complain to this subsidiary airline of American Airlines, follow the instructions below.
How to Complain to United Airlines
Use the following instructions and information to report your issue to United Airlines.
How to Complain to Carnival Cruises
Almost nothing is worse than being trapped in a bad cruise experience. If this happens with Carnival, here's how you can report your negative feedback.
Et tu, Amtrak? Baggage Fees Coming to Rail
Amtrak is taking a page from the airlines.No, make that two pages. Starting today it will start charging for bags. And it's telling us this is for our own good.According to the…
The Vatican Gets More Liberal...With Visitor Hours
I'm assuming we can thank Pope Francis, though this wasn't one of his bigger announcements. But quite quiety, several months ago, the Vatican extended its hours for half the year, on…
Have Airlines Deliberately Made Flying Uncomfortable in Order to Collect Extra Fees?
Fees for "priority boarding" of the planes. Fees for extra legroom. Fees for wider seats. Fees for choosing seats. Fees for snacks served aboard. Fees for checking luggage. Fees for…
HopStop Stops for Good
One of the greats is gone. I feel like I've lost a friend.No, I have lost a friend.Because unlike college buddies and work colleagues, Hopstop—the superb public transportation…
A Sharp Reduction in the Number of Important, Independently Owned Travel Websites is Threatening to Harm the Quality of Their Advice
Based on the ground-breaking research and analysis of travel expert Reid Bramblett, I recently wrote in these blogs about the shocking consolidation of what used to be three large…
Though Not the Equivalent of Maho Bay Camps, Concordia Eco Resort is an Adequate Substitute for Ecologically Minded Vacationers
For some 30 years, the world's most ecologically sensitive vacation resort has been Maho Bay Camps on the exquisite but lightly developed island of St.…
Paris Extends Shopping Hours in 12 Major Neighborhoods
Thanks to a recently passed bill, Parisian stores in such popular neighborhoods as the Marais, the Champs Elysees, and Montmartre will have the option to stay open on Sundays and up…
Death By Selfie: The Dangers of Taking Too Many Selfies While Traveling
With every technological advance, there’s also a step backward…and sometimes that step can be a fatal one, in the case of selfies. The modern smartphone, with its ability to not…
Kids Stay and Eat Free in San Diego
Once again, as it has done annually for a while, the city of San Diego, California, has worked with some of its biggest hotels, restaurants, and attractions to offer a slew of deals…
A Camera that Won't Work at Tourist Sights
Instagram is bigger than you thought. This morning, Facebook (which owns it) announced there are now 400 million active users—that's up 100 million since the start of 2015. Soon,…
Two Little-Known Upstarts—WOW Airlines of Iceland and Norwegian Air of Scandinavia—Are Currently Offering Bargain Rates for Off-Season Crossings of the Atlantic
We are about to reach the slowest days of the European off-season, which starts as we approach the month of November and continues until mid-March. It is then that European…
Meteorologists Predict Changing Weather Will Make This Year's Fall Foliage Different
First the bad news: leaf-peeping along North America’s eastern seaboard, and in the inland areas of New England, may not be quite as vivid an event as it usually is in 2015.…
Miss a Connecting Flight? This Airport Will Pay
Would you pay $42 if it meant you didn't have to worry about missing a connecting flight?Gatwick, London's second-busiest airport (out of the city's six), has launched a new…
Driver Licences From Four U.S. States May No Longer Be Accepted As I.D. at Airports in 2016
And those states are: New York, New Hampshire, Louisiana, and Minnesota.In December of 2014, the first phase of the Real ID Act from Congress and the Department of Homeland…
TSA's Luggage Lock Skeleton Keys Leaked
Consumerist and Wired report the design of the master skeleton keys used by the TSA to open and inspect your luggage has been leaked on the Web. Now anyone can use a 3-D printer to…
As Travel Destinations Jockey for Position, It Becomes Necessary Periodically to Revise Our List of 10 Favorites
Which, currently, are the ten-or-so most-promising destinations for your own next vacation? Though any such list is unusually subjective (to put it mildly), I'm willing…