For a festive winter break, here are some of the best Christmas markets, celebrations and festivals in Europe Europe is one of the most enchanting places to visit during the winter and holiday season. With its winding streets filled with glimmering lights and decorations, friendly locals and endless tables of holiday treats and gifts for
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© Vlad Teodor / Dreamstime.com Airports often have tastes of a city’s best restaurants, specialty dishes, and local food. Here are some of the best places to eat during a layover. Local food isn’t just a culinary trend in hipster hubs. It’s catching on in airports, too. That’s good news for travelers. You can forgo
Come the merry season, New York City is a hive of holiday activity. And whether you’re planning your own personal adventures or thrive on bulleted itineraries, there’s no right way to enjoy this festive time of year. We know the city never sleeps, but we’re fairly certain you do. So, before you pull out your
Fresh off the back of researching their new guide to glamping, Comfortably Wild, Mike and Anne Howard have some things to say about the outdoorsy travel trend. Here are their favorite glamping spots in North America under $150. You don’t have to be Prince Harry on honeymoon to afford unforgettable glamping destinations. There are tons
Saiko3p | Dreamstime.com The small town of Zabljak in northern Montenegro Travel search engine Booking.com has analyzed user data and come up with their predictions for travelers in 2020. Booking.com’s 2020 Travel Predictions have been released and it says that 70% of global travelers say that they want to go somewhere that offers experiences they’ve
Photo by Jeff Caven, courtesy of Nativo Lodge ‘Creation at Dawn,’ by Nanibah Chacon at Nativo Lodge More and more, hotels are turning to local or internationally known artists to customize their rooms and common areas with murals. Here’s some of the best. Have you ever stayed in two different hotels on separate coasts and
Eastern skiing may lack the longer runs, continuous powder or higher altitudes of the west coast, but the state of Vermont makes up for it with up to 25 feet of snow during its long winters as well as varied terrain for all kinds of winter sports enthusiasts. Known for the birth of the ski
Travnikovstudio / Dreamstime By going against the flow and booking a vacation between the holidays, you can save money and avoid crowds. Can you keep a secret? The weeks between the busy Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year’s holidays can hold bargains for travelers who are willing and able to sneak away for an early-December “mini shoulder
They’re high in the sky and high on many travelers’ bucket lists – and now’s a great time to plan your trip to view the Northern Lights. Winter is coming, and it’s bringing with it the magnificent Aurora Borealis. More commonly known as the Northern Lights, the cosmic phenomenon is among nature’s most mesmerizing light shows.
Why choose a carsharing service over a traditional car rental company? Here’s how Zipcar, Turo, and Car2Go stack up. Travelers today have no shortage of options when it comes to renting a car. In particular, the rise of carsharing services has revolutionized the way people get around. As of May 2019, carsharing was available in
Ryan Deberardinis | Dreamstime.com With rolling hills covered in autumnal colors, New York’s Hudson Valley is peak beauty in the fall. Here are the best art galleries and natural areas where you can experience it. Burnt sienna. Honey yellow. Salamander orange. Chestnut brown. The hills of New York’s Hudson Valley become an arboreal art show
Autumn is high time to hit the road, where long nights and dark woods may summon the Halloween spirits and spooks. Driving alone on a dark highway at night is the start of many a creepy ghost story. But what if some of those eerie tales are based on true stories? Hitchhiking specters, mutant wild
Andrii Biletskyi | Dreamstime.com From the best time to purchase airline tickets to the best days to take to the skies (or the highway), we’ve got start-today tips you’ll be thankful for. If you’re one of the more than 54 million Americans who are predicted to be traveling over the Thanksgiving 2019 holiday, you already
Hungry but not sure what to eat? Head to one of these NYC food halls, where options are plenty. New York City’s dining scene has been embracing the concept of the food hall as a recipe for success. These epicurean centers house a mix of eateries as tenants or involve a single culinary theme. Right
Surely one of the reasons we get off the couch and head abroad is because we have questions that must be answered. Or, at the very least the desire to find new things to ask questions about. If you ask the right questions on your travels, you’ll not only learn much more about the local
Bus and train trips, flights, delays in airports and train stations, hostels without TV or much light; the list of situations where a traveler has time to kill is long. That’s right — travel is not always exciting. There will be dull downtimes, and you may not always be able to read a good book,
Over ten years ago, I quit a great job to live and travel abroad. People told me I was crazy, and a few tried to persuade me not to do it. Given that a decade has since passed and my life is going pretty well, I think I’m qualified to say that those people who
Should you stay or should you go? For many, deciding whether to trust a hotel or resort with their winter holidays, instead of celebrating at home, is a common dilemma. If you are considering taking the plunge and spending your cherished holiday time somewhere other than home, there are many factors to consider—like how far
Wise travelers know to “get their jabs” before setting sail to some far off place. But why? What exactly are these diseases we’re all getting inoculated against? Will they lead to a grim and grisly death or just a good story to tell the grandkids? We combed CDC Travel and other health resources to gather
Long-haul flights are the worst. If you’re on a 10-hour flight, cramped up with legroom that even a dog couldn’t fit in, food that is only fit for a prison cafeteria, in seats that I can only imagine are filled with more germs than a toilet, you’re in for one hell of a ride (literally).
