Love tips

Jul 24, 2024 • 8 min read

Whether it’s something you “luv” or hate, the absence of assigned seats on Southwest Airlines has become a decades-long fixture. However, the more than 50-year-old legacy of open seating for the Dallas-based carrier will soon end.

Growing up in rural Italy in the 1990s, Chiara Leone remembers spending Sundays at her grandmother’s. Big sheets of handmade pasta dried on cotton sheets in the bedroom. The aroma of ragu filled the air. Her grandmother hugged her in an apron, a flour-covered rolling pin in hand.

Jul 23, 2024 • 6 min read

As a professional travel writer, I cover a lot of ground. This year, I’m hopping on several flights per month ranging from long-hauls to Vietnam, Cape Town, and Hawaii, to slightly shorter jaunts to Paris, Rome, and Greenland—a whopping 77,000+ miles so far and counting. One thing that’s hugely important on any trip? Staying comfortable in transit.

Norwegian Cruise Line will call Philadelphia home in 2026, becoming the first cruise line to sail from the city in years.

Almost 20 years after the publication of Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight," the small Washington city that serves as a backdrop for the literary sensation is still going through a tourism boom.

Trips with family and friends can be a blast for everyone involved — and a great opportunity for you to even earn extra points and miles. You can easily rack up bonus points or miles when you decide to book part or all of the travel for your entire group. Then, simply have your travel companions reimburse you for their shares.

As a kid growing up in rural Illinois, I dreamed of moving out of the cornfields that I knew and into a big city or far-flung locale. I moved out of state right after grad school, first to Louisiana — which I loved — but with a pull to the West that I couldn't ignore.

Jul 18, 2024 • 6 min read

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Travel credit cards are hotter than ever, with over 41% of Americans having a card that provides travel rewards.  However, with many cards offering lounge access, statement credits, and travel insurance, some cards' annual fees have climbed to nearly $700 a year. 

I didn't know it the first time I stepped foot (or rolled, really) into The Mirage, but the stroller I was sitting in was entering hallowed ground in the hotel world. I was 4 years old, it was 1996 and my parents had just driven my brother, my grandma (Magaw, as we called her) and me from the Texas Panhandle to the Las Vegas Strip to celebrate Christmas in style.

Jul 16, 2024 • 9 min read

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Melissa Fitzgerlad, owner and director of Camp Highlander . It has been edited for length and clarity.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ivette Cuevas, a café owner living in Costa Rica, and her 16-year-old son, Vincent Alcampo. It has been edited for length and clarity.

The first time we took our twin sons to the US from Australia, they were surprised by how different things were between the two countries.

A video in 2018 capturing Salif Gueye's gravity-defying performance of Michael Jackson's “Rock With You” at the Place Igor Stravinsky in Paris catapulted him to viral fame. Six years on, the street dancer has more than 5 million followers on Instagram and TikTok and has moonwalked in ad campaigns for Lacoste and Christian Louboutin. Home is Suresnes, a Paris suburb that feels like, as Gueye puts it, “a village where people live in solidarity with each other.” But he still spends plenty of time in the city, where he dances with friends and films his videos. In the lead-up to the Paris Olympics, Gueye shares his tips to get your heart racing in the French capital.

Jul 12, 2024 • 6 min read

Jul 9, 2024 • 3 min read

Just when you think a journey on a luxury train couldn't get any better, Dior knocks on the door.