Applications Are Now Open for the First Dog-Friendly Cruise

As a frequent cruiser, I always book interior cabins. They're often the most economical option, though they aren't identical across cruise lines.

TPG has crowned the best hotels of 2024, but 2025 is already shaping up to be a spectacular year for new hotels — especially in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. One of the most exciting openings of 2025 is Nekajui, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Costa Rica, and it's now accepting reservations.

I love kids, but it's tough for me to relax in a hotel full of them. Peaceful moments by the pool are often interrupted by splashing water. Occasional youthful screams in communal spaces startle me. And sunsets on the balcony may be accompanied by crying children and scolding parents in the room next door.

When Helga Crane, the main character in Nella Larsen’s novel “Quicksand,” walked through the streets of Copenhagen, people were amazed. “Her dark, alien appearance was to most people an astonishment,” wrote Larsen, an acclaimed Harlem Renaissance author. “Some stared surreptitiously, some openly, and some stopped dead in front of her in order more fully to profit by their stares.”

Heritage Line is offering an “Early Bird” discount on 2025 boutique river cruises in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

HX (formerly Hurtigruten Expeditions) has won a prestigious award for its environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices.

Azamara Cruises is launching its wave season offer, “Always Azamara.”

Celestyal Cruises is unveiling a new trade portal to support travel advisors.

When my children were little, I felt the magic of the holidays deep in my bones.

JetBlue Airways is redrawing its route network — and there is some good news for Europe-bound flyers.

I didn't grow up in a family that traveled. The first time I vacationed outside the US was on my honeymoon, and just a few years after getting married, our first child was born, significantly slowing down our travels. It's only been since my kids got older that I've been traveling to spots I've always wanted to visit, like Italy and Mexico's Baja California peninsula .

In 1922, at just 16 years old, Aloha Wanderwell – Idris Galcia Hal by birth – set out to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world in an automobile, a Ford Model T. The five-year expedition crossed 80 countries and more than 500,000 miles. The films created along the way tell the story of her journey – or at least, a part of what was certainly a life lived without limits.