by Malcolm Kenton | Jun 18, 2016
If you’re an intrepid and adventurous traveler and a seasoned cyclist, and will only need to travel short distances during your visit to another city or town, bike rentals might be an affordable, enjoyable and more hassle-free alternative to renting a car — especially...
by Ned S. Levi | Jun 13, 2016
Each year, more and more people visit national parks and wildlife refuges to see magnificent scenery and animals in the wild. Unfortunately, when visitors don’t take park and refuge rules at national parks seriously, there can be grave consequences. Last week,...
by Charlie Leocha | Jun 9, 2016
I really don’t want to sugar-coat the current growing trend of hotels being permitted to lie about room rates. This is a basic truth-in-advertising question. And, so far, hotels are getting away with lying, unvarnished fibbing, calculated deception, and...
by Malcolm Kenton | Jun 5, 2016
This is the first of a new series from Travelers United. Travel Tips provide basic travel rights information. Unfortunately, even after repeated requests and the offer of funding, airports and airlines refuse to put posters and information about baggage rights, or...
by Charlie Leocha | May 31, 2016
In important ways, airlines are already regulated, but some regulations serve to maintain market power and defeat the free market. These are practices that are legal only in the airline world and cry out for re-regulating airlines. Code sharing allows Delta, for...
by Ned S. Levi | May 30, 2016
Today is Memorial Day. For many, it’s merely the end of a long holiday weekend. For others, it’s a time of reflection and an opportunity to say thank you to the men and women who have fought to protect us. Living in Philadelphia, America’s...
by Ned S. Levi | May 28, 2016
If you’re like me, you enjoy traveling to new and interesting cities. One of the wonderful things great cities have to offer is the chance to view and experience outstanding and occasionally extraordinary art. Sometimes you have the chance to take museum photos. Often...
by Janice Hough | May 26, 2016
Airlines are not out to make friends; they are out to make money. We get it. That generally means that infrequent fliers get ignored while the carriers cater more to their frequent fliers. Increasingly, United penalizes elite fliers as well. For many travelers who...
by Charlie Leocha | May 23, 2016
This video brilliantly shows why airfares cost what they cost. At the end of the video, it also discusses the effects of competition on airfares. New York to Los Angeles flights sometimes end up costing less than $300 round trip. But, very short flights from Denver to...
by Charlie Leocha | May 23, 2016
Mandatory Hotel Fees Are Deceptive, Harmful & Illegal The FTC should require that all hotel-imposed mandatory fees be included in advertised room rates. What are mandatory resort fees? Mandatory resort fees are costs added by hotels to a traveler’s bill. Hotels...
