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Pauline Frommer

Article / Health, Insurance, Security

True Crime Travel in New England: On the Hunt for the Region's Most Notorious Places

What follows is a transcript from the April 26, 2025, episode of the Frommer's Travel Show podcast. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. To listen to the episode,…

Article / Arts and Culture

The Studio Museum, Harlem's Top Attraction, Reopens After Almost 8 Years. Was It Worth the Wait?

The Studio Museum in Harlem finally has a space as big as its ambitions.Founded in 1968 to support and display Black artists at a time when U.S. museums and galleries rarely, if ever,…

Article / Arts and Culture

Sotheby’s Auction House Is Poised to Become One of New York City’s Hottest New Tourist Attractions (and It’s Free to Visit)

Works by the world’s most famous artists, publishers, wineries, and artisans regularly land on the loading dock of Sotheby’s, and have since 1744 when the famous auction house was…

Article / Air Travel

Holiday Airfares are Significantly Lower this Year. Just How Low?

While it might be too late, at this stage, to find an affordable Labubu to put under the tree, at least holiday airfares have softened. According to the folks at Dollar Flight Club,…

Article / News

Frommer's Best Places to Go in 2026

If you’re a traveler, you’re lucky. You know the secret.You know that travel heals. Travel uplifts. As long as the world still goes round, travelers can reset their minds and hearts…

Article / Arts and Culture

Famous Cemeteries Worth Traveling to See

What follows is a transcript from the June 15, 2025, edition of the Frommer's Travel Show podcast. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. To listen to the episode, click…

Article / Arts and Culture

A Conversation with Mickela Mallozzi, Star of PBS' "Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi"

What follows is a transcript from the August 3, 2025 edition of the Frommer's Travel Show podcast. It has been edited for length and clarity. To listen to the original podcast, please…

Article / Arts and Culture

St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City Adds Monumental New Mural for a Strong Statement About Immigration

More than 6 million visitors walk through the front doors of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City each year, making the church one of the most important tourist sights in the…

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

Overlanding: What Is "Vehicle-Based Adventure Travel"? And How Can Its Lessons Enhance Any Road Trip?

The following is an edited version of a conversation from the May 18, 2025, edition of the Frommer’s Travel Show podcast. Pauline Frommer: Scott Brady is the CEO of Overland…

Article / Money and Fees

Holiday Travel Tips: Why You Should Book Early, What Will Be Different in 2025, and More

When the leaves are turning gold, red, and burnt orange, that means just one thing: You’ve missed the best window for booking affordable holiday travel. This year, I'm breaking out the…

Article / Arts and Culture

Planning Travel Around These Things Will Transform the Quality of Your Vacations

The following is an edited version of a conversation from the July 20, 2025 edition of the Frommer’s Travel Show podcast. Please note that this article contains a photo some readers…

Article / Food and Drink

Exploring Santa Ynez Valley's Wineries—The Personal Way: Review of Sustainable Wine Tours

John, a 30-something Peter Gallagher look-alike and cellar master of Dove Cote Winery, was trying to paint a word picture of how vintners separate wine from its sediment during the…

Article / Miscellaneous

Acela's NextGen Trains Are Here. What Are They Like and Will They Be Less Expensive?

On Thursday, August 28, at 9:48 a.m. in New York City, the first passenger-carrying NextGen Acela pulled into Moynihan Station.It was an event nearly a decade in the making. President…

Article / Health, Insurance, Security

Polio is Cropping Up In Countries You'd Never Imagine, the CDC Says. How to Keep Yourself Safe

This month, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) updated its global warning about polio, releasing a list of 39 countries where Americans should "practice enhanced precautions." On…

Article / Miscellaneous

Trump's Policies Are Making Travel More Expensive and Less Convenient

The United States travel industry is in a period of contraction, and that's bad news for travelers—and all Americans.Anger over President Donald Trump’s stated intentions to acquire…

Article / Arts and Culture

How to Become a Travel Writer—and a Better Traveler: Pauline Frommer's Favorite Event Is Back

Here's a little secret that those of us in travel media know: You have deeper, richer travel experiences when you hit the road with a goal. Just knowing that I need to come back from a…

Article / Timing Your Trip

Pauline Frommer’s Tips for Affordable, Last-Minute Summer Travel, As Seen on ‘LIVE with Kelly and Mark’

It’s July, and your vacation plans are still unmade? Never fear, Frommer’s is here—Pauline Frommer in this case. I was tasked by Live with Kelly and Mark to come up with the top tips…

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

How to Snag Last-Minute Campsite Reservations This Summer

Camping out should be a spontaneous activity. The mood strikes, you pack the car with tents and loved ones (or fuel up the RV), and head out.But during the pandemic, a very old truism…

Article / Arts and Culture

'Encounters in the Milky Way,' the Mind-Blowing Museum Show About Our Cosmic Ecosystem

On April 25, 2018, a contemporary Big Bang occurred in the world of astrophysics. On that day, the European Space Agency (ESA) released a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way that…

Article / Air Travel

Southwest Airlines Becomes the First U.S. Carrier to Ban a Common Electronic Device from Overhead Bins

If Southwest Airlines had a theme song for 2025, it would have to be Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'."Not only has the carrier ditched its much-beloved/much-maligned…

Article / Family & Kids

11 Ways to Save on Summer Vacations

Summer vacation = carefree fun in the sun, right? That's the ideal. But with the steep price of travel today, vacationing in the high season of summer can mean unexpected expenses and…

Article / Local Experiences

For the Love of Maps: Why Paper Maps and Atlases Remain Relevant in 2025

What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the March 23 edition of the Frommer's Travel Show podcast. To listen, click here. Pauline Frommer: Welcome to the Frommer's Travel…

Article / Food and Drink

Traditions, Customs, and Crafts Worldwide—and the Heroes Who Keep Them Alive

What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the January 12 edition of the Frommer's Travel Show podcast. To listen, click here. Pauline Frommer: Welcome to the Frommer's Travel…

Article / Arts and Culture

'Just One Little Hitch': Hitchhiking Through Europe and Morocco in the 1970s

What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the April 20 edition of the Frommer's Travel Show podcast. To listen, click here. Pauline Frommer: Welcome to The Frommer Travel Show.…

Article / Miscellaneous

Pauline Frommer to Speak in Katonah, New York, on April 27 at 1pm

This is a quick invitation for everyone in the vicinity of Katonah, New York: I'll be speaking there at the lovely Katonah Village Library this coming Sunday (April 27) at 1pm. My plan…