Celebrity tips

Oct 14, 2024 • 5 min read

The best time to visit Madrid varies, and it depends on what you're looking for on your trip to Spain. Poolside lounging and people-watching in plazas under guaranteed sunshine is possible between mid-spring and early autumn, but the height of summer can make outdoor sightseeing a little unbearable. Madrid’s restaurants are fabulous year-round, and the food scene is thriving like never before, but there’s a charm to scouring the local markets and following fellow foodies as they spill into sprawling parks to tuck in either side of the midday sun. Here, we run through the seasonal highlights of the Spanish capital, explaining why it’s possible to uncover a new side to the city every month of the year.

Onboard Obsessions is a new series that explores the can't-miss highlights of the best-loved cruises, from the shore excursions to book to the spa treatments too relaxing to pass up.

Spend any time in New York City and you’ll invariably encounter a shop selling “New York City Gifts.” And while there’s nothing wrong with a miniature Statue of Liberty or “Daddy’s Little Meatball” T-shirt in theory, the versions of these items you’ll find at street level are pretty poorly made. And annoyingly, these stores rarely list prices, operating on the fact that they can probably sell the same thing to two sets of customers at wildly different prices.

Oct 18, 2024 • 8 min read

Luxury Bahamas resort complex Baha Mar will add a fourth hotel property in the coming years, expanding its presence on the island.

Oct 17, 2024 • 5 min read

Dorey Poder and Damir Konjicija didn’t have a vision for their wedding, because they didn’t think they’d be lucky enough to have one: Damir fled war in Bosnia as a child and grew up in a refugee camp in the Czech Republic, and then the southern United States (Kentucky), while Dorey was raised in a very conservative town in California. “We didn’t know if we would ever get married in our lifetime, so when the time actually came, we looked at each other like, do we want to have a wedding? Or is this just an ‘us’ thing?” says Dorey of the brief consideration to get hitched at city hall.

Returning home is probably the least exciting part of anyone’s trip. 

The best things to do in Australia go well beyond Bondi Beach and having a flat white. While those are absolute musts, there are plenty of other reasons to visit Australia over and over again, and at different times throughout the year.

Oct 10, 2024 • 5 min read

This summer, my wife, Cree, and I went to Dublin to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. We chose it over more exotic destinations because it made sense to us: I’m a book critic and she’s a writer. How could we not go to Dublin, perhaps the most literature-soaked city in the world? The literary ghosts still stalk the medieval streetscapes — so many ghosts that they collide into one another and seem to make up a spectral and talkative rugby team.

An iconic Las Vegas property will soon make a dramatic exit.  The Tropicana, one of the original Las Vegas hotels built in 1957 which closed earlier this year, will be imploded in the early hours of Wednesday morning at 2:30 a.m. PST.

Amenity kit cases that can double as evening purses and salt and pepper shakers in the shape of airplanes are among the cool AvGeek things you can swipe off airplanes guilt-free.

Oct 7, 2024 • 11 min read

Millionaires, they're just like us.

Celebrity Cruises will sail its longest-ever cruise from Canada all the way to Asia in 2026, stopping in more than 50 destinations across multiple continents.

Amtrak is celebrating the start of fall with a Northeast flash sale that has big savings on popular routes.

This summer, my wife, Cree, and I went to Dublin to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. We chose it over more exotic destinations because it made sense to us: I’m a book critic and she’s a writer. How could we not go to Dublin, perhaps the most literature-soaked city in the world? The literary ghosts still stalk the medieval streetscapes — so many ghosts that they collide into one another and seem to make up a spectral and talkative rugby team.

Travelers hoping to explore the world by sea have a new option — and on a newly refurbished vessel.

Hyatt's newest promotion celebrates its recent incorporation of 800-plus luxurious Mr & Mrs Smith properties around the world, ranging from an apartment-style hotel in downtown Reykjavik to an all-inclusive hot spring resort in the Rocky Mountains. This fall is the perfect time to explore Hyatt's newest addition because World of Hyatt members can earn double points at Mr & Mrs Smith properties.