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Article / Health, Insurance, Security

Travel Troubleshooter: Hey, Where's My Airline Seat?

Half of our reader's airline seat is missing. An extra-large passenger is sitting in it, forcing her to lean into the aisle or sit on the passenger's lap. What can she do?

Article / Health, Insurance, Security

Travel Health & Safety: Decoding Airlines' Special Meals

Don't make enemies with your stomach when you fly: Find out how to get a better meal before you take off again.

Article / Hotels

Single and Loving It: Valentine's Day Travel for One

Treat yourself to a getaway where the words 'single supplement' can be accepted as a badge of honor.

Article / Cruise

The Best of European Port Excursions

Cruise lines are racking their collective brains these days to offer more exciting, hands-on options that break the tired tour mold and inject some fresh air into the port experience.

Article / Health, Insurance, Security

Travel Insurance: When You Need it and What You Need to Ask

It may be a good time to be in the travel insurance business, but is it a good time to buy travel insurance?

Article / Air Travel

Travel Troubleshooter: Not An Ice Vacation, JetBlue

A vacation to Puerto Rico is put on ice, thanks to winter weather. Months later, the airline has refunded the tickets, but the hotel is holding onto the money.

Article / Health, Insurance, Security

The Travel Insurance Question: Do I Really Need It?

It may be a good time to be in the travel insurance business, but is it a good time to buy travel insurance?

Article / Car, Bus, Rail

Travel Troubleshooter: Mystery Rental Charge in Madrid

What is 'Super CDW' and why is it on our reader's credit card bill? The car rental company's website isn't clear and the credit card company won't help -- is all hope lost?

Article / Air Travel

13 Lessons Learned on a Flight from Hell

What's a mother of two to do when airline staff decides that help is a four-letter word?

Article / Health, Insurance, Security

5 Things Airlines Won't Tell You About Their Food

Although some airlines have made an effort to improve the food, there are a few things they aren't telling you about the fare up there.

Article / Cruise

Europe by Sea: Top Tips for Bagging the Cruise of Your Dreams

The cruise lines are deploying a record number of ships in Europe for 2008 and that means beaucoup choice for you.

Article / Entry Requirements & Customs

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

A hotel offers a 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.

Article / Packages

What's Happening on Mountains and Slopes Around the World

Great ways to get downhill, from trains in Vermont to cable cars in France; plus more news from mountains around the world.

Article / Health, Insurance, Security

Travel Writing 101: What Exactly is Travel?

Anyone can be a travel writer. But what makes a travel writer different from, say, a mystery writer, or one who crafts sentences about romance, children's stories or even humor?

Article / Entry Requirements & Customs

Follow the Crowd: 4 Secrets of the Herd

The conventional wisdom on traveling -- which is not to do what everyone else is doing -- is often wrong. Sometimes, the mob knows best.

Article / Miscellaneous

Travel Troubleshooter: Two Years Later, Still No Refund

Two years after being promised a refund from Lufthansa, the 890 Euros our flyer thought she'd get is nowhere to be found. Is this a lost cause?

Article / Health, Insurance, Security

Travel Tech: Do Air Purifiers Work on Plane Trips?

Our health expert makes sense of the mini purifiers that promise to make your next trip sniffle free.

Article / Hotels

Cozy Yuletide and New Year's Specials at National & State Parks

Celebrate the winter season in Ohio state parks or in Yosemite National Park and take advantage of several deals on offer.

Article / Health, Insurance, Security

Travel Troubleshooter: No Room, No Refund, No Fair?

What if you prepay for a hotel but there's no room for you? Our guest gets the run around from his New York hotel and Priceline.com Did he get what he deserves?

Article / Entry Requirements & Customs

Tariff Trouble: 6 Airline Ticket Rules You Need to Know

When it comes to airline ticket rules, the devil isn't in the details. The devil is the details.

Article / Entry Requirements & Customs

12 Lessons Learned from a Life on the Road

I asked some of the most experienced travelers I knew to tell me what traveling has taught them. Here are a dozen tips from of them, in their own words.

Article / Entry Requirements & Customs

7 Strange Surcharges You Could Find on Your Next Trip

A barrage of fees, levies, surcharges and extras has pelted travelers for years. But just when you were convinced that the travel industry had thought of it all, it comes up with yet…

Article / Health, Insurance, Security

Travel Health & Safety: 7 Food Allergy Tips

You needn't stay home or court disaster: By preparing for the worst you can sail through most situations with little or no effort on your part.

Article / Cruise

Our Cruiser Finds a Ship that Fits Like a Slipper

If a cruise ship is too big, I feel lost. Too small and there's no place to hide. A ship like the Crystal Symphony is just right.

Article / Cruise

Welcome to $100 Oil: Cruise Industry Ups Prices to Defray Fuel Costs

The bill for topping off the tank on those 2,500-passenger ships is taking just a bit too much bite out of the old profit margins. And you know what that means: Joe Citizen's gotta pay.