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Smart Traveler: How to Charge Your Gadgets Abroad
If the locals speak a different language, chances are the outlets do, too. Here's how to keep your electronics charged and ready to go when traveling abroad.
Mileage Run: How to Score Free Upgrades and the Best Coach Seats
It's that time of year when frequent flier junkies take to the skies for one simple reason -- to top off their frequent flier accounts to make the following year so much more enjoyable.
Travel Troubleshooter: I Thought Car Rental Insurance Was Optional
A traveler's rental car experience in Mexico ends with extra fees for unnecessary car insurance. Trying to get the money back from Hertz or Hotwire is futile. What's a traveler to do?
Top 10 Holiday Air Travel Woes
Flying during the holidays? Plan ahead and you might be lucky enough to avoid these 10 holiday travel woes. At the very least, follow our holiday survival tips and hope for the best.
Travel Safety: 5 Ways to Protect Your Home When You're Away
While packing for your long-awaited vacation, don't forget these five ways to protect your home when you're traveling.
Travel Troubleshooter: A Fee for Lighting Up in Our Room? But We Don't Smoke
What can you do when a hotel slaps a $250 smoke cleaning fee onto your bill after you've left the property?
How to Avoid Travel Scams Abroad: 5 Easy Ways
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Follow these five rules to identify a travel scam before it's too late.
Travel Troubleshooter: Smoked Out of My Hotel Room
A traveler receives a hotel room that smells like cigarettes. When he asks to change rooms, he is rushed out of the old room without getting a chance to pack everything up. Should the…
Travel Troubleshooter: No Refund for My Canceled Vacation?
A sick child forces this family to cancel an Arizona vacation, but the real headache comes when the refund doesn't come through. Is this family out of luck?
Travel Troubleshooter: Do I Have to Pay For That Ding on My Rental?
What do you do when you return a rental car and then receive an €800 bill in the mail?
How to Avoid Buying Unwanted Travel Insurance
Watch out for these common pitfalls so you don't inadvertently buy trip insurance.
How Bad Companies Turn Customers Into Critics: It's in the Fine Print
Travel companies take liberties when it comes to their obligation to their customers, and management sees the maneuverings as profit opportunities.
The Gulf of Mexico Needs Tourists to Swim Against the Tide
As tens of thousands of travelers cancel their beach vacations in the wake of the massive oil spill, a small number of tourists will swim against the tide. Too bad it's just a small…
How to Protect Yourself Against Travel 'Phishing' Scams
Desperate pleas from traveling friends in need are just the latest kind of online scams that can sap your bank accounts and leave you in need. Here's what to look out for.
Volcano Eruption Grounds Cruise Travelers, Disrupts Sailings
With the volcanic activity in Iceland interrupting thousands of vacations, the delays and inconvenience continues to reverberate far beyond northern Europe and far beyond air travel.
Hotels Try to Kick the Smoking Habit
There's good news for non-smoking hotel guests: Properties are beginning to rethink their smoking policies across the country, with some banning the practice outright.
Affordable Spa and Fitness Retreats
From getting pampered to losing a few pounds, escaping to a spa retreat or a boot camp could be just what you need to get ready for summer. We've rounded up a few places that will help…
When in Rome, Watch Your Driving
Of all the recurring complaints I get from readers, the one they find by far most vexing has nothing to do with excessive fees, surprise surcharges, or surly employees. It's about…
Too Sick to Fly? When to Put Yourself on the "No Fly" List
If you're feeling under the weather, sometimes it's worth paying the airline change fees and staying put. Here are five common scenarios when grounding yourself makes perfect sense.
Accidental Tourist? Tips for Maximizing Happy Coincidences, and Avoiding the Bad Ones
Accidents -- good and bad -- happen when we're away. More so, maybe, because there's a certain randomness about travel -- a sense that the unexpected can happen.
When Travel Companies Sue Their Customers
When travel operators get desperate, they sometimes look to their customers for someone to blame. You can help yourself avoid legal trouble by taking precautions when you travel.
7 Trips You Should Never Book Online
Some vacations should never be booked through anyone but a travel agent, and a honeymoon is arguably one of them. But there are others, too, as travelers have discovered the hard way.
5 Common Travel Mistakes -- and How to Fix Them
Tired of being penny-pinched and disappointed? These basic rules can help you protect your next trip from unforeseen problems and travel headaches.
10 Questions To Ask Your Travel Insurance Provider
Travel insurance is a tricky, slippery world, but we've identified 10 good questions to ask any broker or insurance company to get you started.
Travel Insurance: What You Need to Know Before You Buy
Here's the good news: travel insurance covers more than it used to. The bad news is, travel insurance is more complicated than ever. Here are the ins and outs of insurance.