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11 Sightseeing Tips From Top D.C. Hotels: Concierge Confessions

Your Washington, D.C., sightseeing itinerary most likely already includes visiting The White House and the Smithsonian Museums. To get the most out of your vacation, consider these 11…

Exploring the Knife River Indian Villages of North Dakota

If you have ever have wanted to visit an authentic Native American prairie village, you should get yourself up to western North Dakota and visit the Knife River Indian Villages…

Paris: Photo Sightseeing Tours

Since Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, you'll want to take exceptional photos on your trip. Here's how to photograph Paris like a pro. Paris Photo Tips from…

Park of the Week: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial

An engineering marvel that is, I think, unique in shape and function, the Gateway Arch that anchors the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis is breathtaking in its…

New York City: The 7 Best Restaurants for Kids (and Grown-Ups)

It's vacation time, and the whole family is headed to New York City. Theater tickets? Check. Museum passes? Check. Restaurants? Hmmm. Sure, those theme-park-style "kid-friendly"…

Beyond the Beach: 5 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do in Curaçao

The island of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean is well worth a visit -- and like neighboring Aruba, it's outside the hurricane belt so you can plan your vacation without worrying too…

The Best Bars and Live Music Venues in Key West

When you think of music in Key West, it isn't just Jimmy Buffett and Margaritaville that should come to mind, though that's a good start. Buffett is said to maintain a home here and…

Easter Getaways With Kid Appeal

With Easter just around the corner, kid-friendly resorts are rolling back prices and adding bunny-themed events for the holiday weekend. Here are eight resorts with special…

7 Places to Eat: Miami's Floribbian and Nuevo Latino Specialities

With more than 6,000 restaurants, the Miami metro area tends to stump diners -- it isn't a question of where so much as which. It's a supercharged culinary scene, and everyone wants…

How Free Wi-Fi Can Help Cure the Holiday Travel Delay Blues

Face it: you're going to get stuck somewhere this holiday season. That's already happening to friends of mine, who are (at this writing) waiting for an alternative flight to New…

Travel Insurance: What You Need to Know Before You Buy

Here's the good news: travel insurance covers more than it used to. Since I first wrote about trip insurance in Frommer's Fly Safe, Fly Smart in 2001, travel insurers have come up with…

3 Family Cruises for Smarty Pants and Their Parents

As we preach from time to time, all cruises aren't created equal. There are the big mega ships that appeal to excitement seekers wanting a Vegas-y whirl of entertainment options and…

Deal or No Deal? Why a Free Night Isn't Always a Smart Move

Hotels and resorts are always giving away free nights these days. But free nights won't always save you money. That's because the "free night" may be calculated at a nightly rate…

New Cuba Travel Policy Doesn't Help Tourists

Bad news for tourists: President Obama's new Cuba policy doesn't change anything for would-be American tourists to Cuba, unless you're ethnically Cuban-American."There's no…

Photo Slideshow: Navigating the New Marrakech, Morocco

Marrakech is steadily moving up the list of the world's hippest cities, both a blessing and a curse -- for every luxury riad or world-class restaurant, there's a scamming tour guide or…

Plunge Deep into the Caribbean's 5 Best Dive Resorts

If you've never considered foregoing free oxygen above ground for a tank of the purified artificial variety below the sea, maybe it's time to give marine exploration a try. Once you…

Entering Egypt's Ancient Past via Cairo

They're still digging up treasures in Egypt, says Dr. Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities and a modern-day Indiana Jones of sorts, describing his current…

More Snow, Less Dough: 10 Ways to Save Big on Family Ski Vacations

Family ski vacations can be tons of fun, but holy sticker shock -- they sure ain't cheap. By the time you shell out for the condo, lift tickets, ski lessons, equipment rental, meals,…

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

The most obvious changes seen across Thailand in the last months have been those in the political arena, following the December 2007 election results that re-elected a pro-Thaksin…

Plan Now for Fall and Winter Family Getaways in the Sun

By the beginning of fall many families begin thinking about their next getaway, and invariably they want to go somewhere to escape the impending cold weather. Despite the fact that…

Olympics Then and Now: Melbourne, Australia, Summer Olympic Games 1956

When Ava Gardner arrived in Melbourne in 1956 to film On the Beach, she was quoted as saying it was "a great place to make a movie about the end of the world." In truth, Melbourne was…

6 Ways to Keep a Natural Disaster from Ruining Your Vacation

Talk about adding insult to injury. When a natural disaster strikes -- like the recent earthquake in China or Myanmar's devastating cyclone -- travel companies like to play the God…

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

As it has been for much of the world, 2007 was an economic rollercoaster in Ireland. Tourism figures stayed strong, but fears for the future grew as the U.S. economy faltered and the…

Stepping out of London and Into England's Charming Peak District

Where is the quintessential England? Is it London, is it Stratford? Like the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel, it may be here, it may be there, it may be everywhere. In my case, after a…

Airline Mergers Bring Little Good News to Travelers

Delta and Northwest are trying to merge, and United and some suitor and Continental and someone else might follow. That would leave the US with four major international airlines out…