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Eating Cheap in Paris: Great meals for less than €10

Paris has a reputation for being romantic, fashionable, and as most are quick to add, expensive. While the food is almost always quite good, a nice dinner in the City of Lights can run…

Article / Arthur Frommer Online

American Airlines Goes Its Own Way on Frequent Flyer Miles….For Now. And Travelers Should Be Grateful

Loyalty doesn’t always go both ways. That’s the sad truth that members of the frequent flyer programs for most of the major North American carriers found out this fall when two of…

Article / Cruise

How Does Hurricane Season Affect Cruises?

For a full six months of the year, the Caribbean is hit by an average of six hurricanes. Cruising during hurricane season means great deals from the cruise lines, but there are…

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9 Tips for Cruising With Small Children

Cruises are great family vacations because kids are catered to as well as adults. Most ships offer supervised activities, and the biggest vessels have several spacious playrooms geared…

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The Airlines Made HOW Much on Fees?

Remember when the airlines put extra fees in place and told us that it was because fuel costs had spiked?Yeah, they lied. Fuel costs went back into line, but the extra fees…

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Sneak Peek of the New World Trade Center's Observation Deck

The final tourist amenity at the new World Trade Center site, which some visitors still call Ground Zero, has announced what it'll offer tourists when it opens in the spring.The…

Article / Cruise

Mix and Match Cruise Vacations: That Include Both Land or River Cruise Add-Ons

One week hopping ports in the Caribbean? That's old hat. To lure more customers, the major cruise lines are offering a slew of new land and river cruise options to their itineraries.

Article / Arthur Frommer Online

Food, Travel and Marriage: Two Excellent New Memoirs Explore Journeys on the Silk Road and France

As a woman who was wooed and won by a man who laboured for three days preparing a lasagna — he made the pasta from scratch — I know, in a visceral way, that the connection…

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Hailo Shuts Down: How Taxi Drivers Sabotaged a Golden Opportunity and Handed Uber and Lyft the Keys

Taxi, New York City, 2013The cab-summoning app Hailo is dead.Yesterday, it suspended operations in North America, opting to concentrate its business in Europe and…

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River Cruises are the Hottest Current Product in Travel, Selling Like Proverbial Hotcakes, But for an Experience that Scarcely Differs from One Cruiseline to the Other

Probably the most unusual recent event in travel was the announcement by the well-known Celebrity Cruises that it will soon add a river cruise to one of its familiar ocean…

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Winter's Coming and a Record-Breaking Number of Residents in the North Are Looking to Spend Several Weeks in Warmer Places. What are the Options?

With memories still fresh of an unusually frigid December through March of 2013-14, a larger than normal number of Americans in the northeastern and Midwestern states…

Article / Money and Fees

Using Contactless Credit Cards When You Travel

The new twist in credit card purchases is contactless payment—how does it work, and can you use your credit card on vacation?

Article / Passportable

New Scanner Debuts: You May Fly with Fluids Soon

A new machine being tested in 65 of Europe's 550 airports could mean you can bring full bottles of liquid on flights again in Europe as soon as January 2016.The Cobalt Light…

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Passenger Detained by FBI for Wearing a Speedo: Watch

Jerome Jarre is a celebrity of sorts. Some 7.5 million people follow his mini-videos on the app called Vine, where he has made a name by gallivanting around city streets doing wacky…

Article / Arthur Frommer Online

A Fresh Look at Some 15 Frequently-Posed Travel Questions, And Our Sometimes Infuriating Responses to Them

While most of the questions posed to this blog are quite unique. an almost equal number fall into several recognized and familiar categories--and these tend, on occasion, to be…

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Vancouver, Canada, Has Become a Popular Destination, A Multi-Ethnic City of Great Appeal, With Pleasures and Attractions That Well Deserve a Visit

Ever since passports were required of most U.S. citizens arriving in Canada by plane (that edict went into full effect in 2009), the experience of getting there has…

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Rustling Up a Good Time Playing Cowboy In Fort Worth: Why You May Want to Choose This Texan City for Your Next Long Weekend Away

The Texas most tourists see isn’t the rootin’, tootin’ West. Dallas and Houston are sedate-feeling cities of gleaming, Shanghai-like skyscrapers; Austin’s beat is more alt music…

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Is Airbnb Good for America? Or Does it Worsen the Housing Shortage? New York's Attorney General Takes the Negative View—And May Prevent You from Using Airbnb

In a thick and detailed report given considerable publicity last month, the Attorney-General of New York State has declared war on the popular website service that…

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Sundays Replace Tuesday As the Day to Book Airfares, and More Savvy Advice From An Expert Source

You may have never heard of the Airline Reporting Corporation but you've likely purchased a ticket it has had its "virtual fringerprints" on it. That's because the ARC serves as…

Article / Cruise

The 5 Best Cruise Lines for Kids

No matter how old your kids are, few family vacations are easier than hopping aboard a cruise ship — you unpack once, and you don’t have to juggle plane and train schedules…

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Iceland is Hot! New Flights, New Airlines, New Campaigns Make the Little Country Cheap to Visit

Hallgrimskirkja, ReykjavikIceland is having quite the moment.The small, mostly treeless volcanic island nation in the north Atlantic has always been breathtakingly…

Article / Passportable

Air New Zealand's Hobbit-Themed Safety Video is Another Viral Smash: Watch It

Kaboom! That's the sound of yet another volley in the ongoing Wacky Safety Video Wars.This time, it's Air New Zealand that has launched another salvo. Because the final film of…

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U.S. Workers Hand Their Bosses $52.4 Billion a Year in Unused Vacation Time

Most employers have a "use it or lose it" policy for vacation days, and a new study using information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has calculated just how much money…

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Are Venice's Gondolas Endangered by Rising Water?

The curling iron comb of the gondola's stern is no longer practical for Venetians.Venice's gondolas cut an iconic profile: slender hull, swooping shape, swan-like stern…

Article / Arthur Frommer Online

Government Official Blames 'Cheaper Tourists' For Their Own Deaths in Terrible Avalanche: Is That Fair?

"Summit Day" on the Annapurna Circuit, NepalLast week in Nepal, avalanches hit Annapurna Circuit of the Himalayas. So far, more than 40 have been confirmed dead, with…