How to Find Your Way Around That Updated Photos App

Jan 7, 2025 • 7 min read

Like most travelers, I’m determined to maximize my vacation days in 2025. The key to making the most of your paid time off—whether you’re hoping to plan lengthy bucket-list trips or are looking to ramp up your weekend getaways—is being strategic about which days you request vacation. It’s a common hack: To smartly link your PTO with holidays and office closures, which allows for more overall time out of office. Effectively, you get more vacation from the same number of vacation days.

An unwanted gift card could be your ticket to travel.  With Americans spending over $29 billion annually on gift cards, according to the National Retail Federation, the piece of plastic has become a go-to gift for last minute shoppers. However, a gift card can often sit unused and be subject to hidden fees, or for a retailer that isn’t a shopper’s first choice. United Airlines offers a helpful program that will convert unwanted gift cards into points with their frequent flyer program, MileagePlus.

Jan 1, 2025 • 5 min read

Wave Season is famous in the cruising industry for being the busiest booking period of the year. 2025 is set to be no different, thanks to the post-pandemic boom in cruising.

Silver Airways, a regional airline that serves Florida and the Caribbean, continues flying after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Monday.

Dec 30, 2024 • 10 min read

The average American couple spends just under $30,000 on a wedding, and for many, the photographer is a big chunk of that budget.

Dec 25, 2024 • 9 min read

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

We sail into Norway’s fjords after a day spent crossing the North Sea, swapping the boundless blue ocean for winding narrow straits. Our ship, the Queen Anne, is sandwiched on both sides by towering walls of granite, soaring up to 6,500 feet tall and plunging over 4,000 feet beneath the water’s surface. Some sections of the fjord are so tight it feels as though our 3,000-person cruise ship will scrape the cliffside, the waterway just as wide as our wake. The grand scale of it all—the man-made giant versus the natural one—is at once awe-inspiring and unsettling.

This story is part of Condé Nast Traveler's spotlight on family cruise travel.