Tagged: holiday

The Frommer's Travel Gadget Gift Guide for 2024

Here at Frommer’s, we’re all about showing you how to make your travels smarter, cheaper, or more fun. So we looked for the latest gadgets designed to do all of the above—just in time…

The Frommer's Gift Guide for Road Trips

The ways we wander might have shifted in 2020, but our passion to see new places has not diminished. And if anything, our urge to share our travels with the people we love has only…

The Frommer's Travel Gift Guide for Every Budget

Life's too short to give the gift of socks. Tell them you understand their wanderlust and support it by choosing one of these travel-related gifts, each of them hand-selected by…

TSA Fighting Holiday Airport Lines with More Officers, Social Media

We're about a week into December, which means the holiday travel season is underway. That can mean long lines at the airport, but Transportation Security Administration officials say…

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…

July Fourth Travel, Uber Changes, and More: Today's Travel Briefing

Here's what's happening today in the world of travel.* RECORD NUMBER OF JULY FOURTH TRAVELERS EXPECTED (AP). A record 43 million Americans are expected to travel during Independence…

Holiday Road Trips 101: Staying Safe

For the majority of travelers, heading home for the holidays involves hitting the road. That translates to crowded highways, and drivers making stupid mistakes because they're driving…

Death By Selfie: The Dangers of Taking Too Many Selfies While Traveling

With every technological advance, there’s also a step backward…and sometimes that step can be a fatal one, in the case of selfies. The modern smartphone, with its ability to not…

What to Expect When You're Expecting...And Expecting to Travel

The bachelor party and the “hen do” are thought of as the ultimate “last hurrahs” before the realities of adult life kick in. But I would argue that the newly popular “babymoon,”…

U.S. Workers Hand Their Bosses $52.4 Billion a Year in Unused Vacation Time

Most employers have a "use it or lose it" policy for vacation days, and a new study using information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has calculated just how much money…

Not Using Your Vacation Costs America Dearly

Ten points for the always excellent CBS News Sunday Morning for recently airing this pithy commentary by its contributor Faith Salie.Salie calculates how much the American…

In this Holiday Season, Shouldn't We at Least Begin to Think of Measures that Will Ensure Proper Vacations for Low-Income Americans?

Although there isn't the slightest chance that the current Congress will pass such legislation, I continue to yearn for the day when we as a nation will assist the poor to…

Kenya Safari, from $1,599 with Six Nights' Hotel

Think a safari is out of your price range? Well, it does cost a bit to get to Africa, no matter how you figure it (unless you're lucky enough to come from continental Europe or even…

Download and Go: Do-it-Yourself Walking Tours of Great Cities

Paper or audio, there are plenty of options for downloadable walking tours of the world's great cities, and many just happen to be free. So before you set out on that next great…

Motoring Minus Meltdowns: Tips for Toddler Road Trips

Despite the high cost of gas, driving to your vacation destination is still almost always the cheapest way to go. Taking the car also gives us control of when and where to stop, which…

Exploring Brooklyn, the Other New York City

I have an older friend who still gets tears in his eyes whenever Brooklyn is mentioned, as he can't forgive the politicians who merged it into New York City back in 1898 (before even…

Getting off the Well-Beaten Path for an Exotic Egyptian Adventure

The average first-time visitor to Egypt will generally take an organized tour or a packaged trip that will almost always include a few days in Cairo, a trip down to Luxor, the Valley…

One Love, Lots of Food: An Eating Tour of Jamaica

Jamaica is a land of contrasts, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the country's food. The island's food and culture scene is currently undergoing a transformation as Jamaicans…

4 Vineyard Vacations to Chile and Argentina

Chile and Argentina produce some of the finest wines in the world and a visit to either country wouldn't be complete without sampling their best known produce. Central Chile enjoys…

Park of the Week: Olympic National Park

View Larger MapSeattle says it's the only major U.S. city from which you can see three different national parks (Olympic, Mount Rainier and North Cascades National Park), but there's…

Exclusive and Reclusive: Escape to Georgia's Sea Island

Looking to isolate yourself in a luxurious beach surrounding but don't want to stray too far from the U.S. mainland? Check out Sea Island, located off the coast of Brunswick, Georgia…