This Rocky Mountain National Park Road Will Close to Vehicles This Week — What to Know

The Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida has just announced that one of its fan-favorite attractions in the Magic Kingdom Park will be shut down for renovations for an entire year. 

My family of six recently visited both Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood.

Little more than a decade ago, Nashville, a.k.a. Music City, wasn’t so much a tourist town as it was a destination for musicians — a place where performers like Taylor Swift could still play the Bluebird Cafe without creating a scene.

It’s good to be king for a day, and it’s even better if it’s onboard the Palace on Wheels, India’s first luxury and heritage train which continues to charm travelers since its launch in 1982. The luxe locomotive, decked in imperial finery, has long been a time portal back to a world of maharajas wearing bejeweled aigrettes and drinking out of crystal goblets. This train is so beloved that it came in first place in a ranking of Condé Nast Traveler readers’ favorite rail journeys in the world for this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards.

Skiing has long had a reputation as a sport for the wealthy. Since its introduction to North America in the early 20th century, it's typically been reserved for those who can afford to take time off from work to spend exorbitant amounts of money traveling to far-flung destinations like Colorado, Idaho and New England.

Winter weather in Western Colorado can be fickle—except on Aspen Highlands mountain, where every day at noon and two there's a 100 percent chance of Champagne showers. During my first (and only) visit to the famously hedonistic high-altitude Cloud Nine Alpine Bistro, it took mere minutes for the man next to me to climb up on his table, put on his Gucci goggles, pull off his shirt, and begin spraying Veuve Clicquot across the room, eliciting cheers and an impromptu dance party.

Oct 9, 2024 • 7 min read

Dangling my feet over the bank of a fast-running creek, I watched the sunlight filter through a leafy canopy above me. Here, in the middle of a city of three million people, I felt utterly alone, and though I was loath to admit it, a little disoriented. But that was why I had come.

5-day forecast cone for Hurricane Milton. (Photo Credit: National Hurricane Center)

Ongoing hotel strikes across the country are now impacting operations at two Hilton-affiliated properties in Boston. This time, the strikes are indefinite.

When I picture a road trip, I see images of two carefree people in a convertible traversing Route 66. There are no kids in the picture, and I'm not even sure there is luggage. It feels so easy and inexpensive. A road trip with kids, however, is a different experience, especially when those kids are teenagers.

Fall in NYC comes as a relief. The city in summer has its virtues—emptier streets, more easily-acquired reservations at most of the best restaurants—but the heat and the reek of garbage baking in it more than wear out that season’s welcome well before September slouches, sweating, into frame. Flattering it is not that autumn follows on its heels, not only turning off the oven but also invigorating New Yorkers who can now don the jackets they are so proud of and walk at their usual bracing clips without perspiring quite so readily.