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Hotel Booking Sites Are Using These Shady Tactics to Trick You into Booking

An investigation of the major hotel reservation websites has exposed some of the mind games they play to deceive you about rates and urgency.

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Finally! After Years of Waiting, TWA Hotel at JFK Opens Reservations

Booking a room at the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport is off to a lovely start. On Valentine’s Day, Thursday, Feb. 14, at noon, reservations open for stays beginning May 15, 2019. The grand…

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When Is a Home Rental Legal in New York City? Ask Arthur Frommer, a Former Lawyer

There is perhaps nowhere in America that more needs the services of Airbnb than New York City.  Its hotels are frequently sold out, and even when available are sky-high in price. So…

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Casino Giant Caesars Planning Non-Gaming Hotel in Arizona

Las Vegas-based Caesars Entertainment, the company behind the Caesars, Harrah's, and Horseshoe brands of casino resorts, is expanding beyond slot machines and roulette tables. Caesars…

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Tipping in the U.K.: A Gratuities Guide for Taxis, Hotels, and Restaurants

Some pointers on tipping waiters, taxi drivers, and hotel staff in England, Scotland, and Wales—without overdoing it

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Pints with a Past: Must-See Historic Bars Across the United States

More than one bar lays claim to being the oldest in the United States. But we’re not here to settle the matter, mostly because that would involve hairsplitting, nitpicky decisions…

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Floating Hotel Debuts in Edinburgh, Near the Queen's Old Yacht

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has been a yachtless monarch since the 1997 decommissioning of Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia, which was eventually sent to the Port of Leith in Edinburgh…

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Tipping in Japan? Not So Much a Thing

Why Japan doesn't go for gratuities—but why you still might have to pay extra fees for meals and accommodations

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Tipping in Germany: A Gratuities Guide for Restaurants, Hotels, and Taxis

How to tip restaurant servers, cab drivers, and hotel staff in Germany—without overdoing it

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Watchmaker Shinola Is Opening a Hotel in Downtown Detroit

Detroit-based Shinola, maker of watches, fancy bicycles, and other luxury goods, is expanding into the hotel business. The 129-room Shinola Hotel is set to open in the company's…

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What to Tip Waiters, Hotel Staff, and Taxi Drivers in France

Some pointers on how to pay gratuities—without overdoing it—in hotels, restaurants, and taxis in France

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The Caribbean's Newest Resorts are Now North of Cancun, Reports Arthur Frommer

We Americans tend to have widely divergent views about Mexico. Some regard that nation as a place of constant poverty and problems. Other more perceptive types are aware of Mexico’s…

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The Trends That Will Shape Travel in 2019

This past year’s biggest travel trends —the rise in solo female travel and solo travel in general, the new emphasis on green travel, the development of cannabis holidays, an uptick in…

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Underground Luxury Hotel Opens in a Quarry

Bringing new meaning to the term "money pit," the recently opened, mostly subterranean InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland is a ritzy, multimillion-dollar resort with 16 of its 18…

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Resort Fees Have Spread to City Hotels Now: How to Get Them Off Your Bill

Resort fees aren't just for resorts anymore. Even city hotels are getting in on the scam. Why hotels annoy you with them—and what to do about them.

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The Cartoon Network Is Building Its First Hotel

Listen up, fans of Adventure Time, We Bare Bears, and The Powerpuff Girls: The Cartoon Network is getting its own hotel. Developed through a partnership between the animated cable…

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A Preview: Hudson Yards in New York City

Ambition is skyscraper-sized in New York City. And sometimes it involves big ole glass-and-steel towers, or in the case of Hudson Yards, a whole litter of 'em. Hudson Yards, when…

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Colorful New St. Louis Hotel Wants to Give You the Blues (or Reds or Yellows)

"Got the St. Louis Blues," goes the old W.C. Handy song, "just as blue as I can be."Those lyrics take on new meaning at the Angad Arts Hotel, which opens this week amid the many…

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You Can Stay in Ralphie’s House from ‘A Christmas Story’

Ultimate fans of the American holiday film classic A Christmas Story might already own a replica of the Major Award leg lamp, nightmarish bunny pajamas, or even a toy Red Ryder BB gun…

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I’m Now One of Those People: A Traveler with an Airbnb Horror Story

It didn’t happen because I’m a careless idiot, or a very picky, persnickity traveler. It happened because I’m a (bit) lazy. I was heading to Chicago for work and an unrelated…

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Police Destroy Semi-Submerged Sculpture Park in the Maldives

Police officers wielding saws, pickaxes, and ropes have destroyed the world's first semi-submerged sculpture park. Located in the Maldives, Coralarium—which Frommer's covered this…

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Arthur Frommer: Prosecution of Fake TripAdvisor Reviewer Raises Questions

The defendant, in a recent criminal prosecution brought in Italy, was a man who operated a company manufacturing fake hotel reviews. Presumably hiring excellent writers, he apparently…

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WW2 Tower Converted to Vacation Rental in Channel Islands

During World War II, the Nazis occupied the Channel Islands, a string of isolated spots floating between England and France. Using forced labor, the Germans built concrete…

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The Boardwalk Is Back: New and Classic Atlantic City Casinos, Beaches, and Dining

Like the ocean it’s named after, Atlantic City has risen and fallen with the tides over the years. The New Jersey icon was the Gilded Age’s preeminent playground by the sea, the…

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My Hotel Is Overbooked! What Did I Do Wrong?

It happens all the time. Guests with reservations are sent somewhere else because there are no more rooms. Here's how you can avoid getting bumped when a hotel is full.