Tagged: travel

Amtrak’s New Night Owl Fares Will Get You Around the East Coast for $5 to $20

Amtrak is bestowing a gift on night owls and early birds. The national rail carrier has rolled out new low fares for select departures between 7pm and 5am on some of its busy Northeast…

Alcohol-Free Vacations: How to Join the Sober Travel Trend

A high proportion of well-established vacation rituals seem to revolve around alcohol, from the preflight tipple in the airport lounge to the post-dinner nightcap at the hotel…

Need a Cheap Hotel? This Year, Hostels Have More Private Rooms Than Usual

Hostels, as every nomadic youth knows, are the tentpoles of budget travel, and Covid-19 failed to take them down. The coronavirus did, however, shake up how hostels apportion space—and…

Passport Wait Times Have Skyrocketed for Expedited Renewals and Applications

Which is more fun: root canals or getting a passport application expedited? The answer, for now at least, is the root canal. Thanks to a confluence of problems from understaffing to a…

How Dangerous Is Turbulence on Planes—and Is It Getting Worse?

UPDATE, March 31: After the below article was published on March 16, investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board released findings that the severe movements of a…

Brazil Is About to Become More Difficult to Visit Because of a Backward Move

Petty diplomatic squabbling is about to end a travel perk that we barely had time to enjoy. On October 1, 2023, Brazil will bring back mandatory visas for tourists from the United…

Go Medieval with These New Bespoke Historical Tours of England

A new tour operator based in the scenic and once hotly contested England-Wales border region aims to connect travelers to the castles, battles, and chain mail–centric fashions of the…

New Online Hub for Finding Native American Experiences in California

A new online hub for cultural experiences, outdoor adventures, breweries, resorts, spas, and other tourism businesses and attractions tied to California's Native American communities…

The Best Southeast Asia Cruises: 4 Great Small Ship Itineraries

I’ve sailed on more than 125 cruises and have always gravitated toward the smaller ships (under 300 passengers) for the uncrowded, up-close-and-personal experience they provide. That’s…

What to Expect When You Take a Baby on a Cruise

When my husband and I took our 16-month-old baby on a cruise for the first time with Disney Cruise Line in December, we thought we had everything figured out by the end of that trip.…

Is the U.S. Government’s New Dashboard on Airline Family Seating Actually Useful?

The U.S. Department of Transportation has rolled out an update to its airline customer service dashboard, adding a new section focused on which airlines do and don’t guarantee the…

“Emily in Paris” Filming Locations: A Tour of Places from the Hit Netflix Show

March 3, 2023 Emily in Paris debuted on Netflix in the lockdown year of 2020, when viewers were more than ready to follow the escapist tale of American in Paris Emily Cooper (Lily…

Is Flying Damaging Your Hearing? 7 Ways to Reduce the Risk

From cancellations to Covid, air travel has given nervous flyers no shortage of things to worry about lately. At the risk of piling on, here’s something else experts say you should…

4 Tips for Visiting the 4 Most Popular Latin America Destinations This Year

After being largely suppressed in 2020 and 2021, international travel surged last year, with airport traffic approaching or exceeding pre-pandemic levels on some days. Overall,…

How to Complain to Delta Air Lines

To give feedback or file a complaint with Delta Air Lines using the company's website, go to the online Help Center and select the option for leaving comments and complaints. Logging…

Look Out, Wayne Newton! Las Vegas Gets a Punk Rock Museum

We're getting awfully close to the 50th anniversary of punk rock's mid-1970s high-water mark—an uncomfortably respectable-sounding age for a movement all about bratty…

Tips on Ships: Everything You Need to Know About Cruise Gratuities

Figuring out which service employees you should tip—and how much you should give—is a perennial head scratcher in travel. To help remove some of the guesswork, many cruise lines now…

Expert Advice for Spotting Vacation Rental Scams Online

Why is it that only pests seem to have no trouble following the adapt-or-perish rule of evolutionary survival? Koalas and North Atlantic right whales are barely hanging on, but rats,…

As United Makes Family Seating Easier, What Are Other Airlines Doing?

Amid 2023’s busiest travel weekend so far, United Airlines announced it’s making changes to its policies and computer systems to make it easier for families to sit together. The…

Are We Headed for Another Chaotic Spring and Summer in Air Travel?

Go back to this time one year ago, and the mood throughout the travel sector was one of anticipation. As countries eased entry restrictions and the Omicron wave faded, it became clear…

Peru’s Machu Picchu Reopens to Tourists—but Is It Safe to Go There?

Machu Picchu, the world-renowned Inca citadel in the Andes of southern Peru, reopened to tourists this week after a nearly monthlong closure due to antigovernment protests. Peruvian…

12 Reasons Why Lyon Is One of France’s Most Underrated Cities

Updated February 15, 2023 Paris, Nice, Bordeaux, the D-Day Beaches of Normandy—those places typically come to mind first when tourists think of France. But Lyon? It's usually lower on…

For Cheap Places to Stay in Europe, Monasteries and Convents Are Divine

Seekers of discount lodging in Europe, we bring you glad tidings. The answer to your prayers may lie in pulling a reverse Sound of Music—that is, ditching the civilian digs and staying…

You Can Now Cruise the Galápagos Islands on Princess Grace’s Honeymoon Yacht

The yacht used for the honeymoon of Hollywood star–turned–princess Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco after their wedding in 1956 has been repurposed to give cruisers the…

See the Best of California Wine Country with Our New Road Trip for Mobile Devices

Frommer's has been crafting road trip itineraries for California Wine Country since 1962's Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Las Vegas on $5 and $10 a Day. Back then, visiting the…