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The Annual Frommer's Travel Gift Guide
This year, give the gift that keeps on moving! We combed the current best offerings to find travel gadgets and inventions that actually improve the way we experience places—and we…
The Frommer's Gift Guide: The Year's Best Travel Gadgets, Tech and Goodies
It used to be that a great travel gift meant a warm pair of compression socks or a sturdy piece of luggage. Things have evolved quite a bit since those days, and now an ideal travel…
12 Orlando Attractions with Celebrity Cameos
The biggest theme park rides are often more than mere rides. Often, they are narrated by familiar voices. At Spaceship Earth in Epcot, an unseen Judi Dench informs us, "Rome built the…
The Way It Was: Nostalgic Images from the Glory Days of Air Travel
It’s one thing to hear stories about how glamorous airline travel used to be. Seeing it with your own eyes—and seeing the style and dignity that’s been lost—can all but break your…
Frommer's' Best Travel Gifts
A lot of things that are sold as travel gifts aren’t really travel gifts at all. Tiny bottles of shampoo? Teabag sets? No, in our book, a good travel present is something that makes…
Norwegian Getaway Photo Slideshow
The Norwegian Getaway is very much like her sister ship, the Breakaway, which was launched six months earlier. In fact, apart from the color of the decor, the names of the bars and…
Louisiana's Most Glorious Antebellum Mansions
As historical sites, these homes have few equals in American history. Yes, they have some roots in a dark chapter of our past, but they have existed another 150 years beyond those…
Defend Against Travel Mishaps with These Safety Products
We all know someone who refuses to travel because of fear. They may be afraid to get hurt, afraid to get robbed, or afraid to get sick. No matter the travel paranoia, there's a product…
Luggage with Lifetime Guarantees
Buy one piece of luggage—and never buy another as long as you live. That's the illusory promise laid out by the "lifetime guarantee" advertised by some luggage makers. And in some…
Hiking Honolulu's Diamond Head: A Picture Guide
It beckons to everyone on Waikiki Beach: Diamond Head. It's hard to look at this regal remnant of a volcanic crater and not feel the urge to stand on top of it, soaking in the view of…
Frommer's Travel Gift Guide: Presents Mostly Under $100
Have a wanderer in your life? No matter your budget, we've got the travel gift for you—everything on our 2016 list will make their trips smarter, cheaper, easier, or more fun.
What to Do in Fort Lauderdale (That Isn't the Beach)
More than 4 million cruise passengers pass through Fort Lauderdale 's Port Everglades a year. This southeastern Florida city may have high tourism arrivals on paper, but in…
The Museo dell'Opera is One of Florence's Best Museums
Anyone who has been to Florence knows about its spectacular Duomo complex. The Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, as it is officially called, dominates the city skyline with a…
The Viking Star: Things We Love That Every Cruise Ship Should Have
In 2015, Viking River Cruises jumped into oceangoing cruising in a big way, launching the first of several full-sized ships, the Viking Star . In many ways, this luxury ship isn't like…
Disney's Aulani in Hawaii: See What It's Like in Photos
Most American families are familiar with The Walt Disney Company's massive resorts in both Florida and California. But relatively few of them will have experience with the company's…
When is Hurricane Season? A Worldwide Guide
When should you go to the Caribbean or Hawaii and avoid hurricanes? Huge storms are the exception, not the norm, but when they do happen, they always fall on the same months of the…
Inside The Broad, Los Angeles' Gorgeous New Modern Art Museum
Los Angeles 's newest major attraction is called The Broad —and it's free. Named for a pair of art collectors and philantropists who made their billions in construction and insurance,…
The London Eye: Weird and Wonderful Pictures Through the Years
The London Eye turned 15 in 2015. Although Londoners weren't sure about it at first—how dare it dwarf the tower containing Big Ben!—the tourist attraction quickly came to define the…
Regent Seven Seas Explorer: Is this 'The Most Luxurious Cruise Ship Ever Built'?
Here she is: The $450 million Regent Seven Seas Explorer . The company that christened it in 2016 has boldly asserted that in doing so, it set "a new standard for inclusive luxury with…
Then-and-Now Pictures of Movie Locations, from Hitchcock to Pee-wee
We travel for food. We travel for weather. And some of us travel for entertainment history. Admit it—on your own vacations, you've sought out spots because you saw them first on the…
In Los Angeles, Party on Pan Am Airways Like It's 1973
Five miles north of the major Hollywood studios, in an industrial area of not-at-all-scenic Pacoima, California, Pan Am is flying again. You've been here before—or at least, you've…
20 Surprising Reasons Buffalo Is Worth Visiting
Buffalo had it all. Midway through the story of America, this city on the western edge of New York State had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the country. Think of it…
20 Ridiculous Shots of Tourists "Holding Up" Pisa's Leaning Tower
Ladies and gentlemen, this is how it's done: the classic Holding Up the Leaning Tower of Pisa shot. This one was taken in 2007. But on the day when you finally get to visit the UNESCO…
Harry Potter and the Tempting Merchandise: What to Buy at Diagon Alley
Universal Orlando's The Wizarding World of Harry Potter—Diagon Alley is hailed as a triumph of immersive theme park design, but it's also a triumph in ancillary souvenir sales. Here,…
Cool Stuff Aboard the Quantum of the Seas
Royal Caribbean's megaship Quantum of the Seas was so named because its designers wanted it to represent "a quantum leap forward." Is that just hype? Is this impressive megaship really…