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Tipping in Germany: A Gratuities Guide for Restaurants, Hotels, and Taxis
How to tip restaurant servers, cab drivers, and hotel staff in Germany—without overdoing it
America's Most Stressful Airport Is Named, Surprising No One
New York City's much-despised LaGuardia Airport is the U.S. hub most likely to give you a stress migraine this holiday season, according to new research from travel insurance…
Watchmaker Shinola Is Opening a Hotel in Downtown Detroit
Detroit-based Shinola, maker of watches, fancy bicycles, and other luxury goods, is expanding into the hotel business. The 129-room Shinola Hotel is set to open in the company's…
What to Tip Waiters, Hotel Staff, and Taxi Drivers in France
Some pointers on how to pay gratuities—without overdoing it—in hotels, restaurants, and taxis in France
Historic Delta Queen to Resume Cruising U.S. Rivers
The Delta Queen riverboat will once again cruise American waterways. A floating National Historic Landmark, the 1920s-era vessel has been docked in Chattanooga, Tennessee, since 2008…
What to Do in Aruba When You're Tired of Sunbathing
For many, the allure of a vacation in Aruba has to do with sun, slot machines, and shrimp dinners. If that’s you, we get it. Life is hard; sand is soft. Still, some of us prefer to…
Meet UNESCO's New Cultural Heritage Inductees: Reggae, French Perfume, and More
Reggae music from Jamaica, the Irish sport of hurling, Polish Nativity scenes, Korean wrestling, and about three dozen more arts, crafts, folk dances, foods, and festivals are the…
The Leaning Tower of Pisa Is Leaning Less
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is standing a little straighter these days. Engineers say that the tilt of the Italian icon has reduced by about 4cm (1.6 in.), according to news reports.More…
Underground Luxury Hotel Opens in a Quarry
Bringing new meaning to the term "money pit," the recently opened, mostly subterranean InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland is a ritzy, multimillion-dollar resort with 16 of its 18…
Smoke on a Carnival Cruise and You Could Get Kicked Off the Ship
Carnival Cruise Line is getting stricter with passengers who light up at sea. The company has updated its tobacco and marijuana smoking policy to include the possibility of removal…
New Rules in Rome Target Rowdy, Boozy Tourists
Italy has just about had it with your nonsense.Straining under the burden of accommodating endless hordes of tourists and their accompanying noise, litter, rowdiness, and traffic…
Stressed at LaGuardia? The Airport Will Bring You a Therapy Dog
Before and after security, onsite airport therapy dog crews make NYC's LaGuardia a little more lovable.
In Japan You Can Build Your Own Kit Kat Now
Like compact cars and the band Cheap Trick, Kit Kat candy bars weren't born in Japan, but they sure went big there. The chocolate-covered wafers (a U.K. creation currently owned…
American Airlines Will Allow Early Boarding for Flyers with Nut Allergies
As if determined to undo their decades of peanut pushing, U.S. airlines continue to make concessions to passengers with nut allergies. Hardly any carriers serve those snacks on flights…
World's Tallest Statue Unveiled in India
The average height of adult males in India is 5 feet, 5 inches (165cm).Throw in men made of bronze, and that figure might jump up a few notches, at least as of last week. That's when…
The Cartoon Network Is Building Its First Hotel
Listen up, fans of Adventure Time, We Bare Bears, and The Powerpuff Girls: The Cartoon Network is getting its own hotel. Developed through a partnership between the animated cable…
Colorful New St. Louis Hotel Wants to Give You the Blues (or Reds or Yellows)
"Got the St. Louis Blues," goes the old W.C. Handy song, "just as blue as I can be."Those lyrics take on new meaning at the Angad Arts Hotel, which opens this week amid the many…
National Veterans Memorial and Museum Opens in Columbus, Ohio
More than 40 million people have served in the U.S. armed forces. They've been honored with monuments, memorials, and museums in Washington, D.C., across the country, and even around…
Oldest Building on D.C.'s National Mall Reopens After Restoration
You've probably never heard of the Lockkeeper's House in Washington, D.C.There's a good reason for that. It's been closed for decades. But this unassuming stone building at the corner…
British Columbia's Rugged Northern Coast: Seeing Bears, Whales, and Wilderness
The west coast of Canada doesn’t come to a full stop—it’s more like an ellipsis . . . Innumerable islets, many of them just uninhabited rocks with some trees on top, dot the Pacific…
The Pittsburgh Steelers Are Getting a Roller Coaster
One of America's oldest amusement parks is teaming up with one of the NFL's most storied franchises. Kennywood, which originated as a "trolley park" around the turn of the 20th century…
NYC's New Museum of Optical Illusions Wants to Blow Your Mind
Remember that day in fourth grade when your teacher distributed photocopied handouts of M.C. Escher prints, figures that appeared to be differing sizes but were actually the same, and…
The Game Is Afoot at London's New Sherlock Escape Room
Would you want to be stuck with Sherlock Holmes in an escape room—one of those games where players are locked in a confined space and have a limited amount of time to find clues, solve…
Police Destroy Semi-Submerged Sculpture Park in the Maldives
Police officers wielding saws, pickaxes, and ropes have destroyed the world's first semi-submerged sculpture park. Located in the Maldives, Coralarium—which Frommer's covered this…
Acclaimed Houston Art Museum Open After Renovations
After more than six months of renovations, the Renzo Piano-designed main building of Houston's Menil Collection—home to an eclectic horde of 17,000 artworks, from antiquities to…