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Article / Arthur Frommer Online

Las Vegas Casinos Accused of Fixing Prices in 90% of Rooms on the Strip

Here's a budding lawsuit worth keeping your eye on.Casino operators that account for about 90% of the rooms on the Las Vegas Strip—Caesars Entertainment, MGM Resorts International,…

Article / Arthur Frommer Online

New Data: When to Book Flights and Hotel Stays to Save on Travel in 2023

With travel costs up across the board, it's more important than ever to find savings wherever you can. According to the travel booking app Hopper, one way to cut vacation costs…

Article / Slideshows

The Best Cheap Hotels in London for 2024—Around £100 a Night

If there's one thing we understand at Frommer's, it's that for many travelers, being able to visit places affordably is the only way to visit them at all. In 1957, Frommer's burst upon…

Article / Slideshows

4 New Hotels That Have Opened By Miami's Downtown Cruise Port

Miami's beautiful beaches tend to hog the attention when it comes to Miami #vacationgoals. That love is well-deserved, but a handful of new hotels in downtown Miami, a few miles across…

Article / Arthur Frommer Online

How Are Ultrarich Tourists Spending Valentine’s? In a $200,000 Champagne Bath, Apparently

Now that the December holidays are behind us, hotels have begun promoting themselves as ideal escapes for Valentine's Day. In many cases, they're putting together romantic offerings…

Article / Passportable

Put Your Dreams on Ice: A Peek Inside Sweden's Impressive New Icehotel

Sculpted from 500 tons of ice and snow harvested from the Torne River in Sweden, the Icehotel has opened for another winter of chilly overnight stays in the Arctic village of…

Article / Hotels

What’s the Deal with Connecting Hotel Rooms—And How Can You Book Them More Easily?

Why adjoining hotel rooms are so hard to book—and how you can make sure you get them when you need them.  

Article / Money and Fees

What to Do to Avoid Getting Scammed if an Airbnb Host Asks You to Cancel a Booking

If an Airbnb host tells you that your confirmed reservation is no longer available, who should cancel the booking?

Article / Arthur Frommer Online

Hate Resort Fees? Want them Banned? Now's the Time to Tell the Government

Living in America today requires taking frequent emergency actions to avert the latest civic crisis, be it a high-stakes election, a GoFundMe for someone who slipped through the…

Article / Family & Kids

Fun Things to Do with Kids in Door County, Wisconsin

Waterside outdoor adventures, lighthouses, fish boils, and other fun ways for families to fill their days on this Wisconsin peninsula between Green Bay and Lake Michigan

Article / Passportable

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…

Article / Arthur Frommer Online

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…

Article / Passportable

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…

Article / Passportable

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…

Article / Passportable

Six-Night Trips to Ireland Are Going For $499—With Airfare

When I opened my email this morning, it felt like I was seeing a message from 2004. Aer Lingus, the flag air carrier of Ireland, is offering 6-night vacations in its home…

Article / Travelers with Disabilities

I Stayed At the World's Most Accessible Hotel. Here's What It Was Like

Every guest room at West Virginia's Schoolhouse Hotel is accessible, and so are all of the public spaces. Which leaves me to wonder: Why aren't more lodgings taking the needs of…

Article / Passportable

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…

Article / Passportable

Hotel Room Too Hot or Cold? Try This Thermostat Hack

There might not be much you can do about ice-cold airplane cabins, but one travel hack we learned this week could help make things more pleasant in another site of perennial…

Article / Passportable

New Tours for Young Travelers Combine Hostelworld Stays with G Adventures Trips

A collection of tours that launched earlier this year aims to attract young vacationers with a combo of group adventure travel and low-cost accommodations in hostels. It's sort of like…

Article / Slideshows

What to Do in St. Pete, the Florida City That Defies Florida Stereotypes

One of the joys of travel—and one of its imperatives, if you ask us—is finding exceptions to stereotypes. And when it comes to Florida, the Gulf Coast city of St. Petersburg is…

Article / Hotels

This Free Tool Names the Secret Cheap Hotels on Hotwire and Priceline

TravelArrow is a free Chrome extension that exposes the names of the anonymous hotels with the deepest discounts.

Article / Arthur Frommer Online

European Vacations Went Cashless Fast. Are You Prepared?

I spent all of May in the United Kingdom. And as incredible as it sounds, I didn't go to an ATM once. When I entered the country, I had £40 in my wallet, plus a little loose change. I…

Article / Arthur Frommer Online

Airlines Messed Up 2022. All Your Travel Plans Should Be Cancellable Now

However you slice it, the airlines messed up this summer. They overpromised and can't deliver, and we're the ones paying the price.More than 14,000 U.S. flights were canceled or…

Article / Passportable

Grand Canyon National Park Opens First New Hotel Buildings in Five Decades

Grand Canyon National Park has brand-new hotel lodgings on park grounds—the first ones in more than 50 years, according to the hotel's operator. The freshly constructed and…

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Family Vacation in Puerto Rico! These Resorts are Good with Kids

Puerto Rico is back! After Hurricane Maria’s devastation and Covid’s exclusion, the best hotels have been rebuilt, refreshed, and reopened—and families are returning. Some popular…