by Ned S. Levi | Nov 9, 2015
On a Baltic cruise some years ago, the ship had pancakes at breakfast. They looked great. I should have asked what was in them, but didn’t. It took just one bite to know they were banana pancakes. I shot like a rocket to my stateroom to get my allergy...
by Charlie Leocha | Nov 7, 2015
New York, Santa Barbara and San Francisco are the most expensive vacation destinations of 2015, while Las Vegas, Jacksonville and Orlando are the cheapest, according to a new GOBankingRates study that found the most and least affordable cities for travelers. The...
by Charlie Leocha | Nov 5, 2015
“Don’t mislead and deceive us,” say American consumers in a poll prepared for Travelers United regarding mandatory hotel fees. This is an ongoing project to get this issue of misleading and deceptive hotel fees to be included in the room rates. The...
by Janice Hough | Nov 3, 2015
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you a space in a waiting line at a “hot” restaurant. On a nice October day in San Francisco, we decided to join friends for the afternoon and an early dinner. They suggested State Bird Provisions, a favorite restaurant...
by Ned S. Levi | Nov 2, 2015
In “8 tips for preventing identity theft before a trip,” we found that 20 percent of travelers had their smartphone, passport, credit card or driver’s license stolen while traveling and I discussed eight tips for preventing identity theft before you leave home...
by Charlie Leocha | Oct 31, 2015
That’s the boss and official trailer. Here are a collection of flight attendants found in a terminal and photographed by a friend and posted on Facebook.
by Edward Hasbrouck | Oct 31, 2015
Editor’s note: Edward Hasbrouck has traveled through Argentina, where this year’s The Amazing Race is taking place. He has some suggestions about other less mainstream places to enjoy in Argentina where the value for money is greater and the experience far...
by Janice Hough | Oct 30, 2015
For decades, the lack of logic in airfares has driven savvy travelers to play all sorts of games — from throwing away a return ticket to getting off a plane at a connecting city for a less expensive fare. But advances in technology, while perhaps making it...
by Janice Hough | Oct 27, 2015
Disclaimer: I’m a travel agent, not an insurance agent. And like many travel agents, I find the whole insurance process to be one of the more stressful things about the business. There are more shades of grey than a certain popular series of erotic fiction. The...
by Ned S. Levi | Oct 26, 2015
In a recent survey of travelers, contracted by Expirian, of the travelers responding, 39% said they had either been directly victimized or know someone who was victimized while traveling, who either experienced having sensitive identity data stolen, and/or encountered...
