Tagged: travel

4 Things You Need to Know About Off-Season Bookings

If you've seen one tourism brochure that refers to itself as a "year-round" destination, you've probably seen them all. They lie, of course. Take a place like the Florida Keys, a…

Travel Troubleshooter: AirTran, Where's My Refund?

When AirTran cancels Daniel Richards' flight from Savannah, Ga., to Atlanta, a supervisor offers him two options: Either get rebooked on a flight tomorrow, or rent a car at the…

Traditional, Quirky, Experimental and Delicious Spring Festivals

Spring brings a bevy of unique and often bizarre events to the world stage. Some are ancient, others are cutting edge modern, but they all offer visitors an opportunity to interact…

Travel Health & Safety: Buying Insurance

Do you need travel insurance? If you think so: What kind and how much? Are you likely to run into an Asian tsunami, a Caribbean hurricane, an English flood, a Colorado mudslide? Who…

Family Fun Adventures at Yellowstone National Park

Load up the station wagon -- it's almost spring and that means your next family vacation is just around the corner and a trip to a national park may be the perfect way to bring the…

4 Secrets for the Perfectly Timed Vacation

If you've seen one tourism brochure that refers to itself as a "year-round" destination, you've probably seen them all.They lie, of course.Take a place like the Florida Keys, a…

Kangaroo and Fraser: Two Magical Australian Islands

Australia's coastline is famous for its white sand, rocky outcrops, inviting surf, often tumultuous waves and its incredible marine life. Perhaps lesser known are its hundreds of…

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…

Lito's Tech Tip: A Powder Primer

Powder skiing is a great liberation from gravity, effort, and worldly cares. But you have to defeat the powder paradox first. The paradox is this: once you know how to ski in deep…

Slope Specs: Whistler, An Olympic Dream Come True

Some 45 years ago, four Vancouver businessmen had what be considered a dream of Olympian proportions. They envisioned the sleepy summer resort region that is now Whistler as the site…

The Travel Insurance Question: Do I Really Need It?

Even with Hurricane Dean taking aim at Cancún, Mexico, last August, Miguel Guillen wasn't worried. After all, he had insured his vacation. A quick call to his insurance company,…

Lazytown Star Shares Iceland Tips for Teens

As a quick getaway, Iceland might get even lazy teens off their couches and onto snowmobiles. But when I was scoping out kids' attractions in Iceland with my wife and toddler, I…

How to Live It Up in the Big Easy for Mardi Gras

Floats, costumes, beads, king cake, gumbo, music, parades -- that's New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Last year's party attracted 800,000 people and this year's festivities officially…

Frommers.com's Best Family Destinations

If you've done Disney to death and the nearby beach isn't making anyone happy these days, broaden your horizons and set out for one of these eight destinations around the world. Some…

Travel Troubleshooter: When the Check's Not in the Mail

A Days Inn property offers a Roman Catholic priest a tax refund. No, that's not the opening line of a joke -- unless playing phone tag and hearing excuses is funny to you. It isn't to…

What's Happening on Mountains and Slopes Around the World

Easy Transport from Reno to North Tahoe Resorts Since you don't need a car at Squaw Valley or Northstar-at-Tahoe, leave the driving to North Lake Tahoe Express (tel. 866/216-5222;…

Follow the Crowd: 4 Secrets of the Herd

Follow the crowd. That's right, stand in that long line at the airport. Buy the same ticket everyone else does. Book the happenin' hotel, the popular cruise. Go on, vacation with the…

Travel Tech: Do Air Purifiers Work on Plane Trips?

You may have seen those odd-looking little black or gray things hanging around the necks of fellow air travelers. They are the size of a small matchbox or a really tiny MP3 player.…

7 Strange Surcharges You Could Find on Your Next Trip

When Henry Harteveldt looks to the future of travel, he sees fees. Lots of fees.Take airline tickets, for example."The airlines are up in arms about the fees being charged by the…

12 Lessons Learned from a Life on the Road

Rule No. 1: Travel is no fun.Really. If you think it's all about smiling stewardesses attending to your every whim, friendly hotels offering fawning service, and romantic sunsets on…

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,…

How to Get Old-School Adriatic Bliss in Brand-New Montenegro

European travelers looking for the new summer vacation spot are already on to it, so it won't be long before Montenegro loses its status as one of Europe's best-kept secrets. One of…

Bhutan's Improbable All-Inclusive Mountain Splendor

The Kingdom of Druk Yul, or what we know in the west as Bhutan is a tiny nation located in the Himalayan Mountains and one that remains perhaps the least-touched by western…

Travel Troubleshooter: Plenty of Rain, But No Raincheck for Leaky Hotel

Jennifer Holland prepays for a hotel room on Hotwire.com. But a severe storm threatens to wash out her vacation. Holland wants the travel site to give her a rain check, but it won't,…

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…