Student tips

For people with a travel bug, the months between spring 2021 and October 2023 posed an unprecedented opportunity.

When Valerie Do, 19, applied to study at Miami University in 2019, she was excited by the prospect of spending her days lounging on beaches in the sun in Florida surrounded by palm trees like she'd seen in the movies. 

By the time you read this, Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos, 21, will finally be home. The young college student just returned to New York City after five months of detention in the United Arab Emirates. Her release commutes a sentence of one year’s imprisonment in Dubai’s notorious prisons, on nebulous charges of touching or ‘assaulting and insulting’ an airport security woman.

Flying from New York to Chicago every weekend for grad school while also working a full-time job may sound impossible for most, but a woman on TikTok has detailed exactly how she does it.

Hilton is finding out new ways to tap into one of the fast-growing segments of hospitality — thanks to a student competition.

Frontier Airlines is looking to lighten the burden of the debt by giving away airline miles to 100 people.  The airline's Student Loan Mile Match will award the lucky winners the amount of student debt they have in the form of miles, up to 100,000. For example, if someone has $50,000 in debt, they would receive 50,000 Frontier Airlines Miles.  “With flights available for as little as 10,000 miles, Frontier Miles are a great way to take advantage of Frontier’s expansive network and enjoy a getaway to explore someplace new or visit family and friends,” Frontier Airlines Vice President of Marketing Tyri Squires said in a statement to Travel + Leisure.   To enter, participants can submit an entry form on the contest's website.

It has to be Berlin. During a month-long summer trip in the late noughties, I fell in love with Kreuzberg’s €2 kebabs, cheap pilsner and vibrant street art. I strolled through leafy Prenzlauer Berg, home to endless coffee, cake and culture. This city has whatever food you could possibly want (currywurst is a must – meat, veggie or otherwise, big and budget-friendly). But the highlight was taking a train out to the stunning lake Wannsee. We packed a picnic, stripped off, sank our toes in the sand and swam, swam, swam until the canalside clubs began calling our name.Jessica Cole

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