If the past few years have proven anything, it’s that even the most well-thought-out plans can fall apart. Now more than ever, travelers are wondering what the best travel insurance for their next trip is. As a result, travel insurance usage is more prevalent than ever. Whether for unexpected medical expenses, trip cancellation guarantees, or …
While major hubs usually get all the glory when it comes to nonstop flights, a new trend is emerging. Delta Air Lines is expanding its winter schedule to give travelers in mid-sized cities direct access to paradise, skipping the stressful airport layovers entirely. For decades, if you wanted to swap winter snow for a tropical …
Had your fill of graffiti-splattered, hipster-dominated Berlin? Or Munich, with its overpriced beer halls and jam-packed Marienplatz? This lesser-known, much-smaller city in the heart of Bavaria might just be the German fairytale you’ve been craving: Located a mere five-minute train ride from bustling Nuremberg, it has a picture-perfect cobbled center, a monumental City Hall, and …
Fall road trips are usually a trap. You picture yourself cruising down a quiet country highway surrounded by gold leaves. Instead, you spend six hours staring at the brake lights of a rental SUV on a two-lane mountain pass. Sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic is not relaxing. Hunting for an overpriced parking garage when you finally …
You mention to your neighbor you are headed to Mexico this winter, and they immediately think you are nuts, declaring it is way too dangerous. Then you talk to a coworker who has visited the exact same spot dozens of times, and they swear it is the safest place on earth. You open social media, …
Double-decker bus rides and Big Ben selfies are an English classic, for sure, but they’re not all that England has to offer. As much as I love London myself—hey, that city quite literally raised me—my on-and-off years of living there, and numerous subsequent visits to the King’s turf, made one thing clear: oftentimes, the real …
Most people treat the drive from Munich to Vienna as a chore. They lock onto the GPS, they blast down the autobahn at top speed, and they completely ignore the actual country passing outside their windows. It’s a terrible waste. You need to exit the highway! Halfway between those two major cities sits the Salzkammergut, …
Half the time, it feels like you need a vacation just to recover from the logistics of your vacation. Think about how many annoying hoops you have to jump through on a typical international beach trip now. Before you can even check in for your flight, you are forced to fill out clunky foreign government …
If you’re shocked anti-tourism sentiment in Europe has gotten to the point of tourists getting attacked by locals with waterguns in Barcelona, and Venice has enacted a full-on paywall on day-trippers, then you’ll love this European city: With a picture-perfect harbor, lined with colorful 17th-century façades, a rich history spanning the Viking and royal periods, …
I hate seeing what is happening to the Caribbean right now. Every time I fly down, another quiet beach is gone. Some developer paved it over to build a giant concrete resort. You know exactly what that kind of trip looks like. You can do better, I promise. My wife Liz and I spend a …
If you are anything like me, you currently have 40 browser tabs open just trying to pick a resort for your next vacation. And that is after you already survived the headache of choosing a destination and figuring out the flights. Booking a simple beach trip has somehow turned into a full time job. You …
Forget Barcelona and that jam-packed Gothic Quarter, Madrid with the grand Belle Époque boulevards, and even pretty little Palma, with its soaring cathedral built as stout as a fortress: After visiting 11 out of the country’s 17 autonomous communities, and something like 23 different major cities, from the northwesternmost edge of Galicia all the way …