Tagged: travel

PHOTOS: The Most Beautiful Churches in Paris

Novembrer 16, 2022 Badly damaged by fire in 2019, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris will reopen in time for the city's turn hosting the Summer Olympics in 2024, French government officials…

Holiday Dazzle: The USA’s Most Spectacular Winter Light Displays

Updated November 15, 2022 Wanna go on a holiday lights safari this winter? You have plenty of options. When the weather turns chilly, gardens, zoos, racetracks, caverns, city parks,…

Disney Prices Are Climbing Again: Strategies for Making the Parks Cheaper

If you’ve ever read anything about D-Day, you know about the intense planning, subterfuge, and calculation that went into pulling off that epic World War II landing. With Walt Disney…

New BattleBots Live Show to Bring Metal Mayhem to Las Vegas

Among the performers you can see in Las Vegas next year: Keith Urban, Katy Perry, Maroon 5, and a murderous fleet of robots fighting to the death. Discovery's BattleBots TV show is…

Wanna Scale America’s Mighty Mountains? Via Ferratas Make Climbing Less Intimidating

Let’s say you crave the thrill of climbing an awe-inspiring peak—or you crave the thrill of impressing your friends with your outdoor prowess—but you have little to no experience when…

Airbnb Is Making It Easier to See Hated Cleaning Fees Earlier in Search

Airbnb is at last bringing more—though not complete—transparency to how rental prices are displayed. In December, the company will begin rolling out a feature that lets users of the…

Times Are Changing: Why You Should Use Your Loyalty Points As Soon As Possible

The corporations that dominate the world responded to the aftermath of the pandemic downturn in their own ways, but there's a common impulse among most of them: recover as much lost…

“No TikTok”: Nepal Bans Video Platform at Top Tourist Spots

TikTok creators in Nepal have made such pests of themselves at certain scenic and sacred places that officials have banned use of the platform at tourist attractions throughout the…

The Lavish Italian Hotel Where the Second Season of “The White Lotus” Was Filmed

The White Lotus, writer-director Mike White's Emmy-winning social satire about privileged, problematic Americans on disenchanting luxury vacations, returns for a second installment…

Mexico City’s Island of the Dolls Is the Creepiest Place on Earth

We've covered our share of scary places over the years: haunted hotels, overgrown cemeteries, the house that inspired The Conjuring, Nevada's Clown Motel, literally any airplane…

Airplane Etiquette: Survey Names the Most Annoying Behavior in the Skies

What type of air traveler annoys you the most? Having recently taken a flight from Frankfurt to Boston during which I tried to watch The 40-Year-Old Virgin on a seat-back screen…

Forget Dracula’s Castle. You Can Stay at King Charles’s Transylvania Retreat

Turns out Britain's King Charles III is a distant descendant of the guy often cited as an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Count Dracula. According to the people who keep track of these…

Highgate Cemetery: Coffins, Catacombs, and Celebrities in London's Creepy Necropolis

From the very beginning, Highgate Cemetery was built to be a lavish fortress of eternal rest. Opened with private funds in 1839, at a time when London's population was exploding and…

The Filming Locations for “Ticket to Paradise” with George Clooney and Julia Roberts

Academy Award winners George Clooney and Julia Roberts return to movie screens this week in Ticket to Paradise. In the romantic comedy, Clooney and Roberts play a divorced couple who…

PHOTOS: Go Inside the Grandest Homes in London

Royal palaces aside, the historic homes of London are usually overshadowed by their stately country cousins (your Blenheims, your Chatsworths, your Downton Abbey–inspiring Highcleres),…

New Study of Millions of Airfares Reveals the Best Days to Purchase and to Fly

For the fourth year in a row, a study by the Airline Reporting Corporation (ARC) and Expedia has named Sundays as the best day of the week to book travel—if saving money is your goal.I…

The World's Best Subways

Updated October 14, 2022 There are lots of good reasons to try out a city's subway system when you visit. It can give you an idea of what navigating the place is like for the people…

How Fast Is the USA's New Online Passport Renewal System? I Tested It.

In 2022, the United States federal government came through with an improvement that travelers long begged for—the ability to renew a passport online. Previously, when a passport…

Getting Around in Coastal British Columbia: Ferries, Seaplanes, and Boat Tours

As we sipped a nice Okanagan Valley sauvignon blanc and enjoyed a fiery sunset over a quiet cove in Madeira Park, British Columbia, my husband remarked, “We are so far from home.” The…

Already a Fave with Expats, Portugal Is Launching a Digital Nomad Visa

One of Europe's most popular destinations for expats is making it easier for digital nomads to stick around for up to a year. Starting October 30, citizens of the United States and…

Breeze Airways Expands in Westchester—And Throws a Very Good Sale

Nowadays, it's difficult to get an entrée at a sit-down restaurant in many U.S. cities for less than $30. But upstart airline Breeze just made $29 the sale price for flights to a…

New Book: The Suicide of Anthony Bourdain (Or, When Travel Is Not Enough)

I am a traveler. Travel is my coping mechanism. For many years, whenever the topic of suicide has come up in casual conversations, I have always proclaimed, perhaps sometimes with an…

Frommer's Will Be Aboard the TCM Classic Cruise on the Disney Dream, Nov. 12–17

For many of us, movies and entertainment play a central role in inspiring us about where to go. Some of the greatest vacations we've had came after we saw a place on screen and were…

8 Financially Reliable Travel Insurance Providers

The travel insurance industry can be confusing to navigate, thanks to all the unclear language and companies disguised under misleading names. To help travelers pick the most reliable…

Howdy, Dolly Parton Fans! Now You Can Book a Stay on Her Retired Tour Bus

A recently introduced hotel package gives guests the chance to stay in Dolly Parton's tricked-out tour bus—and this "Tennessee Mountain Home" away from home is no "Lil' Ole Bitty…