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Cheap Cruises in 2024: Fewer Discounts Than Usual, but Here Are 9 Strategies for Deals

The cruise industry is reporting record-breaking bookings this year, with many ships sailing at full capacity. Executives at cruise line after cruise line, including the multiple brands of Carnival Corporation, Norwegian Cruise Line, and Royal Caribbean Group, have been popping the champagne as they report new daily sales records all season. When cruise lines no longer…

March 20, 202487Views

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What is civet coffee? PETA issues a new warning to Bali tourists

If the idea of drinking civet cat coffee, which is made from feces from the Asian palm civet, is a turn-off, there may be yet another reason to rethink the drink. This week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) issued a warning aimed at tourists in Bali after an investigator showed undercover footage…

March 20, 2024702Views

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Carnival to Cruisers: You Know We Can See You Naked, Right?

Carnival Cruise Line Brand Ambassador John Heald is paid to take lots of Carnival cruises and spend his days responding to cruise nuts on Facebook. You'll see that as either the best job in the world or a living hell. Heald is known for peppering his possibly infernal professional duties with amusingly frank discussions with…

March 20, 202472Views

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More Indian travelers are choosing extreme road trips to see the world

Meenakshi Sai, 51, looks like any other Indian woman, dressed in a saree and sporting a bindi on her forehead. But unlike many women in her country, she's been driving since she was 18 years old. As of 2020, less than 7% of India's 236 million drivers were women, according to the data website Statista.…

March 20, 202489Views

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Asheville History: New Black Heritage Trail Honors a Rich Legacy

In travel journalism, Asheville, North Carolina, is often praised—and rightly so—for its Blue Ridge Mountains scenery, artsy sensibility, numerous craft breweries, and architectural wonders such as the gargantuan Biltmore Estate. But a new walking trail aims to preserve and pay tribute to a vital part of the city that has, organizers say, often gone "unsung"…

March 20, 2024672Views

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Empty middle seats, more legroom

A Frontier Airlines plane lands at the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. Elizabeth Page Brumley | Tribune News Service | Getty Images First class on Frontier ? Not quite. But the budget airline on Tuesday launched a new add-on to get more room at the front of…

March 20, 202465Views

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Uber and Lyft Cleaning Fee Scams: Beware Nauseating Vomit Fraud

There was a time when the only kind of vomit fraud you had to worry about involved plastic throw-up of the sort favored by practical jokesters. With the advent of ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft, however, the oh-so-charming term vomit fraud has come to refer to false claims filed against app users by drivers…

March 20, 202469Views

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Southwest Airlines cuts capacity and rethinks 2024 financial forecast, citing Boeing problems

Boeing 737 MAX airplanes are seen parked at a Boeing facility on August 13, 2019 in Renton, Washington. David Ryder | Getty Images Southwest Airlines said Tuesday that it will have to trim its capacity plans and reevaluate its financial forecasts for the year, citing delivery delays from Boeing ,…

March 20, 202490Views

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How to Sleep on a Long Plane Flight: 24 Tips to Try

I've been traveling for years, and in my unscientific opinion, the worst part of long flights isn't adjusting to the time difference. It's that they deprive you of sleep. Jet lag can be a bulldozer that flattens you for your first two days of vacation, wasting precious, hard-earned time. After cumulatively spending many weeks…

March 20, 202462Views

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This 31-year-old spent $20,000 to travel after he was laid off

Peter Lancaster in Argentina. Courtesy of Peter Lancaster Forget the "quarter-life crisis." These days, millennials are turning to the "quarter-life sabbatical." Amid the waves of mass layoffs, people are choosing to repurpose their unemployment into soul-searching, and many are extending their time away from the cubicle to travel the world. Peter Lancaster, 31, was laid…

March 20, 202446Views