Summer vacation = carefree fun in the sun, right? That's the ideal. But with the steep price of travel today, vacationing in the high season of summer can mean unexpected expenses and ballooning budgets. These strategies for saving money should help. 1. Get the timing right Summer is one of the most popular times of…
When we travel, we are more exposed to stolen data than at many other times in our lives. We asked international anti-fraud professors for their best tips for making it harder for crooks to steal your private information.
Cases of identity fraud are at an all-time high,…
So what if your airline ticket was the cheapest one you could find? There are still ways to get into the airport lounge.
Getting into airline lounges can make or break the comfort of your travel experience, especially when you're about to embark on a long flight.…
We’ve got the lowdown on how to make your hard-earned cruise vacation cash go even further. Here are 11 methods for booking a cheap cruise.
Bag a shoulder season deal In travel, shoulder season is the period between peak season and low season, and you’ll find it…
The AAA, which tracks travel patterns, predicts nearly 8 million people will fly this upcoming holiday season. And 7.99 million of them will be in front of you, slowing down the security line with their bad packing choices. There's no call for that. Unlike some national security forces we've encountered on our travels, the…
Hotel workers in San Francisco have been on strike for months as they demand higher wages and more affordable healthcare. (A November demonstration at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco is pictured above.) Perhaps in a bid to hit hotel owners where it hurts (right in the junk fees), the labor union Unite Here, which represents…
This year and last, a string of powerful solar storms has been setting nighttime skies around the world ablaze with the colors of the aurora borealis, aka the northern lights or, in the Southern Hemisphere, the aurora australis. But to see the brightest, most spectacular northern lights displays, you need to head somewhere with dark…
The Universal Studios Hollywood theme park, for those who are unfamiliar, shares its campus with its namesake Universal Studios, where movies and TV are made, and the grounds are scattered up the side of the mountain behind the Hollywood sign in the middle of the Los Angeles area. Everything you've just seen is packed into a cramped…
It's not your imagination. Visiting museums is pricier today than before the pandemic. The entry fee that's now the "new normal," according to the New York Times, is $30 per person. That's the price of admission at major institutions such as New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Musuem, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and…