U.S. Expands Mexico Travel Warning to Include Cancun and Los Cabos
Posted on 08/24/2017, 3:00 PM
For the first time, the U.S. State Department has expanded its Mexico travel warning to include the states where some of the country's most popular beach resorts are located. Updating a warning released in December, the government names Baja California Sur and Quintana Roo among the places where U.S. citizens have been the victims of violence caused by criminal organizations. Baja California Sur, o...
Airline Releases White Noise Album of Jet-Engine Sounds to Hum You to Sleep
Posted on 08/23/2017, 8:00 PM
Do you sleep well on a plane? How? The seats are so cramped, and the temperature is never right, and you can't recline more than a couple centimeters, and the lack of neck support means that you either get a cramp from going chin to chest or your head continually does that thing where it nods and then involuntarily snaps up, waking you with a start.About the only thing snooze-inducing about the ent...
Rental Car with Upholstery for Kids to Color On During Road Trips
Posted on 08/21/2017, 8:00 PM
On long car trips, many parents end up becoming the highway equivalent of cruise directors, arranging an endless program of games and activities designed to keep their restless passengers from staging a mutiny.Hertz UK is helping out those beleaguered drivers with a brand-new offering: a rental car with special upholstery for kids to color on. Dubbed the Colouring-In Car (complete with superfluous ...
Now Rolling: San Fran-to-LA Luxury Overnight Buses
Posted on 08/21/2017, 10:00 AM
Now rolling (again): the bus that takes you overnight between Los Angeles and San Francisco in your own sleeping pod.If it sounds familiar, it's because we tried this already. In April of 2016, SleepBus launched for $45 each way, but demand was so strong that its backers were overwhelmed and realized they were onto something. They pulled the product for a complete revamp. This July, it returned to ...
Where's Everybody Going? The United Nations Provides Some Answers
Posted on 08/20/2017, 6:15 AM
If you've been feeling more crowded than usual on vacation this year, it's not your imagination. The United Nations World Tourism Organization just released its tourism barometer report for the first four months of 2017, and it found that the number of overnight stays in destinations across the globe reached 396 million. That's some 22 million more than the same period for 2016. That growth reache...
The World's Most and Least Expensive Campsites
Posted on 08/18/2017, 8:15 AM
Camping is one of the most affordable options for spending a night on the road, and, thanks to glamping, it can be a budget-busting splurge as well. Highlighting what has to be one of the biggest price ranges in travel is a new report from Campsy, an online campsite booking service based in Berlin. The company has named the world's most and least expensive campsites, using data from 30 countries.At...
Dubrovnik Mayor Wants to Reduce the Number of Cruise Passengers in His City
Posted on 08/17/2017, 8:00 PM
If the new mayor of Dubrovnik gets his way, far fewer cruise passengers will be pouring into that Croatian city on the Adriatic coast. According to media reports, Mato Frankovic, who was elected mayor earlier this summer, says he's in favor of reducing the daily limit of cruisers by half, from 8,000 to 4,000 visitors.Owing largely to its striking Old Town—a medieval walled city featured prominently...
Airbnb Now Has More Rooms Than the Top 5 Hotel Companies Combined
Posted on 08/16/2017, 8:00 PM
Airbnb passed a big milestone recently.The San Francisco-based home-sharing service now has more than 4 million listings in 191 countries. That's more inventory than what the world's five biggest hotel companies have combined. Let that sink in: With all the rooms available from Marriott International, Hilton Worldwide, InterContinental Hotels Group, Wyndham Worldwide, and Hyatt Hotels Corporation, ...
Toppled Rock Formation in Malta Now a Popular Scuba Diving Site
Posted on 08/15/2017, 8:00 PM
The Mediterranean nation of Malta lost one of its most recognizable—and most Instagrammable—landmarks in March, when the Azure Window, a 92-foot limestone arch(pictured above) on the island of Gozo went tumbling into the sea after heavy storms.But the natural icon didn't just vanish into thin air. It now lies in enormous boulders under the surf at depths ranging from 16 to more than 100 feet.The si...
Hurricane Season Could Be Worse Than Initially Predicted
Posted on 08/14/2017, 8:00 PM
Weather watchers were already expecting the 2017 hurricane season to be unusually active in the western Atlantic, including the Caribbean region. But now researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) think the season could be even worse than initially projected. The NOAA is predicting 14 to 19 named storms, 5 to 9 of which could become hurricanes. That's up from the 11 t...
