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How to Avoid Getting Seasick on a Cruise
While a cruise ship in rough seas can be unpleasant, it will rarely result in a cancelled voyage. However, it may make nausea-prone passengers seasick and force the ship to skip ports.…
Want to Use Your Frequent Flyer Miles? Guess How Many You'll Need. No, Really, GUESS, Says One Airline
How would you feel if you walked into a grocery store and underneath the butter, the broccoli and the babaganoush were signs with question marks rather than prices?Well, Delta has…
When Your Vacation Escape Involves Literally Escaping: The New Tourist Attraction That’s Sweeping the Globe
The theater was shabby, with a disheveled group of marionettes hanging in a little stage at the front and wooden tiered seats so old and flimsy they looked like they’d fall apart if…
How to Tip on a Cruise Ship
A standout cabin steward, attentive waiter, or superior bartender can make a big impact on your cruise. But how should you compensate them for their hard work? Tipping on a cruise ship…
Special Globe, A Superb New Website for Families with Children With Disabilities, Debuts
Travel was an important, and much beloved, part of Meghan Harris’ life growing up. Her father was a professor, and he used his sabbaticals to show his family the world. Harris hoped…
Can I Bring Alcohol on a Cruise Ship?
You’re cruising through the Mediterranean, and you stop in Nice. In a wine shop, you see a gorgeous bottle of French rosé, and immediately picture yourself sipping some on…
Savvy New Page-Turners On The Cultural Histories of Both Italy and France Are Must-Buys for Travelers
France and Italy: two countries that are consistently at the top of the most touristed countries list, year after year. But I would bet that a good 80% of those visiting know little…
Free National Park Visits for Fourth Graders (And Their Families) For One Full Year
For years, a number of ski resorts have been allowing fourth graders to ski for free. The reasoning behind this move was that age 10 was the perfect age to develop a life long…
A Modest Proposal: Why Not Simply Dock Those Giant New Cruise Ships to a Fixed Position in Their Port City, Never to Go to Sea?
The publicity machine of Royal Caribbean Cruises is currently churning out all sorts of exciting press releases about their brand-new, 5,500-passenger, mega-ship called…
The Cost of Internet on Cruise Ships
The ability, and cost, of staying connected wirelessly varies by cruise line and ship. Most lines offer Internet access via Wi-Fi or computer stations located throughout the ships in…
How to Use Your Cell Phone on a Cruise Ship
If you plan to use your cell phone on a cruise ship, it’s important to know that once you sail away from the embarkation port, your cell phone will go into roaming mode, which…
Travelers Carrying AmEx Face Tough Changes
It's been a tumultuous month for American Express, and that turbulence is about to be transferred to travelers who use the credit cards. Many travelers choose the card because of its…
The Sometimes Hokey, But Still Potent, Charms of Monterey, California
The towns along the California coastline are somewhat like that line-up of starlets that was featured in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “That’s Entertainment” movies. Each one is…
As Disney World Tickets Break $100, There Are Signs Disney Vacations Are Now Only for the Rich
Disney raises its prices every year in advance of the big school holidays, and this year, its price hike has broken a barrier that seems impossible. As of today, a single day at…
Anglophiles, Rejoice: Business Finds Loophole in Hershey's Chocolate Ban (Updated)
Frommer's readers recently learned, to their considerable horror, that candy maker Hershey's figured out a way to prevent businesses from importing competing British chocolate…
A Major Celebration in San Diego Makes It the Californian City to Visit This Year
In 1909, San Diego was a little city with really big ambitions. It decided to throw a world’s fair in 1915 to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal, which would make it the first…
Recent Wholesale Cancellation of Flights to Coastal U.S. Cities Has Caused a Great Many Would-Be Vacationers to Lose the Cost of Their Cruise
It happened all over America. People who had booked a cruise went to the airport, only to learn that their flight to the embarkation city had been cancelled--and no…
Some Reflections—Both Hopeful and Dismal—on the Current State of the Cruise Industry
On Quantum of the SeasIn the cruise ship world, January, February, and March are "wave season", the period of their heaviest advance sales when phones are ringing…
Consumer Choice Shrinks: Expedia, Having Just Gobbled up Travelocity, Is About Buy Orbitz, Too
As it is above, so it is below. Just as the airlines have been scooping each other up, swiftly reducing a field of 12 companies competing for American patronage to a field of only…
Free Wi-Fi at All Hyatts Now (With a Catch)
Another hotel brand, Hyatt, has decided it should change the way it approaches Wi-Fi access. Everyone staying at any Hyatt hotel after today can access the Web for free.But…
Does the Recent Outbreak of Measles Mean that Enlightened Americans Should Cancel Travel Plans, and Thus Avoid Exposure to the Malady in Crowds?
When a traveler with measles paid a visit recently to Disneyland in southern California, he/she not only set off a rather small epidemic of the disease in the United…
Companies Have Emerged that Claim to Double or Triple the Value of the Mileage or Points You Earn on Airline and Credit Card Programs
Its name is AwardMagic.com, and it's potentially the most useful travel service of which you've never heard. It is not alone in what it does--ThePointsGuy.com,…
World's Best Museums Ban Selfie Sticks
Leave the selfie stick at home. Attractions across the world are banishing the selfie stick for being so awful.Britain's Telegraph reports that institutions everywhere are…
Hot Deals On Flights to Europe From the U.S. (And One Is For Business Class!)
Not only is the U.S. Dollar continuing to crush the Euro, airfares across the pond are now a better value, per mile, than flights within the continental United States. Three…
Exellent Trips on a Lean Budget? Say YES to Mooching
Mooching can be an art. Sure, it’s lacking in dignity, but it can be quite effective, as anyone with, well, relatives knows. Travel mooches can be a particularly canny way of not…