Good News for Deal-Seekers This Fall: Travel Demand Has Softened

Florida’s beloved high-speed rail line, Brightline, is celebrating the one-year anniversary of their Orlando extension with a week of exclusive deals for email subscribers.

Bidding adieu to the season of sandals, white denim, and days spent soaking up the sun also calls for a wardrobe revamp. And as we inch into autumn and its creature comforts (pumpkin spice lattes, foliage drives, apple-picking outings), we tend to reach for cozy basics. Enter the best cardigans: Versatile and stylish, this fall fashion staple comes in an array of lengths and materials. Speaking of the latter, cashmere or wool cardigans are great options if you’re looking for optimal warmth; otherwise, you’ll find plenty of cotton, polyester, or nylon blends that offer comfort and durability, too.

The Air Canada Aeroplan loyalty program is offering members up to 50,000 points back when they redeem their Aeroplan points for hotel stays.

Sep 3, 2024 • 7 min read

In December, my son, his wife, and our 2-1/2-year-old granddaughter met my wife and me in California so we could all go to Disneyland.

Nestled below California's Laguna Mountainis Campo, a small unincorporated community that Deborah Jean Peck calls home.

Hard Rock Hotels is making a fall or winter getaway easier than ever by offering up to 50 percent off the brand’s resorts around the world. 

Melissa Dewalt caught the travel bug a decade ago when she drove from her home state of Pennsylvania across the country to California to visit her then-boyfriend. She then road-tripped north to Seattle.

Ski season is just around the corner, and the Ikon Pass is making it even easier to ski across the country by adding a new California mountain to the mix.

Clarksville, a historic district of Austin, Texas, has lately emerged as a stylish dining and shopping enclave. Among the area’s most compelling new businesses is La Embajada, a design shop housed in a 1923 Craftsman bungalow. Combining the hospitality and interiors expertise of its founder, Raul Cabra — who has designed tableware for some of Mexico City’s most celebrated restaurants, including Rosetta and Pujol — La Embajada presents a refined, regionally diverse selection of Mexico’s artisanal offerings. A series of small rooms display vintage and contemporary furniture, from stately midcentury armchairs and 1970s glass sconces to a minimalist agave fiber rug by the Oaxaca-based textile artist Trine Ellitsgaard. The house is also an actual residence. Cabra often stays in the bedroom up the creaky stairs, and he’s recently made it available for short-term stays (bookings include a daily basket of baked goods from Austin’s Swedish Hill). Guests can purchase the room’s handmade décor, such as a pair of sleek bedside lamps in milky white onyx, a 1960s La Malinche dresser and a bedspread from a Michoacan manufacturer that once supplied Herman Miller. Downstairs, glassware, candles and gifts fill a section modeled after a typical general store in a small Mexican town. But La Embajada’s heart is its inviting kitchen, where visiting chefs cook elaborate meals and staff prepare ice cream and coffee. In another twist, every bespoke detail — including a hammered copper sink, caramel-colored tiles and waxed pine cabinets — can be custom-ordered for one’s own home.

Always wanted to see Antarctica? Holland America Line this week unveiled an unusual new option for getting there.

Low-cost Icelandic airline Play is celebrating the unofficial end of summer with a Labor Day sale tempting travelers with 25 percent off flights to Europe.