I spotted Colorado's Flatirons before I caught a glimpse of the St Julien Hotel & Spa, my hotel for the night.
15.10.2023 - 13:09 / insider.com / Monica Humphries
Capsule hotels fascinate me. As a traveler, they combine both my biggest desires and largest fears.
First, they're cheap. They typically cost the same as a hostel, but they offer the privacy most hostels lack.
However, I also think capsule hotels have an eerie resemblance to coffins. The idea of being claustrophobic in a tiny rectangular box is something from my nightmares.
Unfortunately, my budget (or lack of one) wins, and if I were ever going to sleep in a capsule hotel, Japan would be the place.
I spotted Colorado's Flatirons before I caught a glimpse of the St Julien Hotel & Spa, my hotel for the night.
On a trip to Iceland in June, I visited three supermarkets to see how prices compare to American grocery stores.
On Thursday, October 19, the US State Department issued a worldwide travel advisory urging American citizens to “exercise increased caution” while overseas, “due to increased tensions in various locations around the world, the potential for terrorist attacks, [and] demonstrations or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests.”
I travel to Japan at least once a year and am always surprised by just how incredible convenience stores — or konbini, as they're ubiquitously called in Japanese — are in the country.
To celebrate their 20th anniversary this year, Atlanta residents Jessica and David Goldberg booked an Oceania Cruise. The voyage started in Greece and dropped them off in Israel on October 4, where they planned to spend the next week exploring.
Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon has been heralded as one of the first major motion pictures to authentically depict Native American erasure. With help from cultural consultants and the blessing of tribal elders, the film tells the horrific history of the Osage people, who in the 1920s became the targets of murder, violence, and theft after valuable oil reserves were discovered beneath their Oklahoma reservation.
I’m an East Coast woman through and through – yet despite my loyalties, I’m not one to shy away from the Pacific side of the USA.
There's something seriously special about train travel—particularly when the journey includes a sleeper carriage as good as these ones. There's only one problem: you'll be so mesmerized by the view whooshing past your window that sleep seems nigh impossible. Below, we take a look at some of the world's very best sleeper trains, where the sleep cabins are just as inviting as the views.
In June, I paid $623 to stay in a standard-view room at Disney's BoardWalk Inn, one of the several hotels along Disney's BoardWalk.
Japan is a magical place. It's a country where you can roam futuristic neighborhoods one minute and walk down streets that feel like stepping back in time the next.
When I fly to Asia from the US, I try to choose flights that get me to my destination in the morning so I can power through the day and get over the jet lag quickly.
I've lived in New York for more than a decade, and during a recent visit to Japan, I saw three major differences in how public spaces are utilized to the best of their potential in Tokyo.