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Scary Sleeping at Haunted Houses: Where to Lay Your Head, Tempt the Spirits

If you've ever stayed at a bed and breakfast, you may have thought you heard something go bump in the night. Or perhaps there was a light switch that seemed to operate with a mind of…

Travel Troubleshooter: Socked for My Friend's Single Supplement

When Sue Koopman cancels her vacation, her friend is presented with a bill for a $375 single supplement. If she doesn't pay it immediately, the tour operator threatens to cancel her…

3 Ways to Avoid the Newest Travel Gotchas

Kenneth Miller thought he had squirreled away more than 100,000 Delta Air Lines frequent flier miles, which he planned to use for a special 20th anniversary trip.He thought…

Charge This: 7 Tips for a Successful Credit Card Dispute

When Carla DeLuca canceled her room at the W Hotel Union Square in New York a week before her arrival, the hotel decided to ding her for a night's stay anyway.Despite assurances…

Post-Flu Planning: All-Inclusive Mexico from $389 for 3 Days with Airfare

Travel can be a fickle, unpredictable thing, governed by all kinds of forces, some large, some small ... and some in the form of an internationally spreading strain of the flu that we…

Pauline Frommer's Spend Less, See More Tips for Healthy Travel

In this series of monthly tips, you'll find some terrific ideas to help you get the most out of every trip. This time around, I share some insight about taking care of yourself while…

Slope Spec: Engelberg, Switzerland

Just reaching Engelberg (tel. +41 (0) 41 639 77 77; www.engelberg.ch), a beguiling resort in the heart of Switzerland, is a totally Alpine experience. Trains depart every hour from…

The Painters Path: Artist Haunts Outside of Paris

If you want to explore Paris beyond the 20th arrondisement, this artists' haunts itinerary is for you. All of these sights are within an hour of Paris either by Metro (subway), RER…

Rockies Report: Airlines Provide an Expressway to the Slopes

Southwest Charges No Checked-Baggage FeesNo airline levied fees for checked bags during the 2006-07 ski season, but now, nearly all of them do -- except for elite-level and…

The Able Traveler: Haunted Hotels Fit for All

Nothing livens up a weekend getaway faster, than a good old fashioned garden variety ghost in your hotel room. Truth be told, almost every historic hotel has at least one tale of a…

7 Ways to Experience China on the Cheap

Though it's not as strong as it once was against the yuan, the American dollar still has more might in China than it does in many other parts of the world. With that exchange rate…

Travel Troubleshooter: Where Are My Vouchers?

Myron Sigal and his wife can't make their return flight from Venice to Philadelphia, after she is injured on a Mediterranean cruise. US Airways promises him a voucher for the unused…

Rebuilt, Vibrant, and Unpronounceable Wroclaw

The Poles don't realize they have too many consonants in their language, and not enough vowels, probably a result of trying to put a Slavic language into Roman letters, unlike, say,…

Rockies Report: Holidays Celebrations Go Downhill

The Christmas-New Year's period is the highest of high seasons in the mountains. Besides beckoning slopes, Colorado resorts proffer a glittering holiday scene with festive…

Slope Specs: Solitude & Brighton, Big Cottonwood Canyon's Dynamite Duo

It is no secret that the 2007-08 ski season got a late start in most of the West. Until just before Thanksgiving, which of course was early on the calendar as it can possibly be,…

Five Answers to the Perennial Question: What're You Doing New Year's Eve?

New York gets all the fuss for its Waterford crystal ball and its throngs of people, but elsewhere around the world, New Year's is celebrated in its own particular way. We've found…

Travel Troubleshooter: Forcing a Rental Car Upgrade

The rental car that Earnest Hoenck reserves from Hertz isn't available when he arrives in Hamburg, Germany. He's offered two choices: A smaller car that won't fit his luggage, or a…

Essential Advice for Experiencing Parks Without the Crowds

It's not easy to commune with nature when you're surrounded by hordes of fellow visitors. For really specific information, you can find park-use statistics at…

Frommers.com Podcast: How to Travel the World for a Long, Long Time

Ever wanted to skip work and travel the globe for months at a time? "Vagabonding" author Rolf Potts joins host David Lytle to discuss the best ways to set aside everything and see the…

Strasbourg: An Alsatian Escape and European Capital

Strasbourg has led a double life the past century or so, being first a part of France, then a part of the Kaiser's Germany, then a province of France again after World War I, and part…

The 50th Anniversary Arthur Frommer Interview

In 1957, Arthur Frommer published a slim travel guide that showed Americans how to travel to Europe without breaking the bank. Europe on 5 Dollars a Day revolutionized the way…

Editor's Choice: Our Favorite Eating Towns

One of the only things you're guaranteed to do on vacation -- besides sleep -- is eat. Eating is the great constant of travel. Why not eat well and often, we say. Turn an afternoon…

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait, Like Steep Caribbean Discounts

As tempting as it may be to escape the last days of what has been a lousy winter, if you are prepared to hold off a few weeks or even months, you'll get a lot more Caribbean bang for…

What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Madrid

Just before Christmas 2006 the Minister of the Environment, Cristina Narbona, became the first politician in Spanish history to recommend that, in the foreseeable future, bulls should…

Beyond the Safari: Wildlife Tours in Asia and South America

When you think of a wildlife vacation, Africa normally springs to mind with its romanticized safari adventures replete with massive draped tents, pith helmets and a local guide to…