Trip tips

As a child, I dreamed of visiting the Amazon rainforest, but I always envisioned it being wildly inaccessible.

I recently traveled to Switzerland with my mom, brother, and grandmother to see where my grandmother had immigrated from over 70 years ago.

Peet's Coffee is looking to send two lucky travelers to the brightest place on earth to celebrate the launch of its new — and brightest — brews.

Because of a rental car mishap, it was well after dark by the time Catherine Dupree and her father arrived in Canakkale, a city in northwestern Turkey, during a vacation in 2006. As they drove around the city, trying in vain to navigate to their hotel (this was well before the days of reliable mapping apps, like Waze), Ms. Dupree’s father spotted a man walking his dog and asked him for help.

Jun 20, 2024 • 10 min read

Spain is always a popular choice for travelers. A new sale on airfares allows travelers to visit the country and enjoy its incredible culture and diverse geography. Some fares are more than 50% off normal prices. The deal is not just to popular destinations like Barcelona and Seville but also to cities like Malaga and coastal gem Santander.

I was trying to plan the first real vacation my son Dante and I would take with just the two of us, and I only knew we couldn't go back to Guánica.

When traveling, I prefer leaving things to chance, as many of my most memorable moments typically happen on less-crowded streets or when I'm chatting up strangers at a restaurant.

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Jun 17, 2024 • 5 min read

Tanguy and Lucie Yu first visited Bali together in 2018 for a monthlong vacation.

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Jun 12, 2024 • 10 min read

It was day three on a bucket list trip to the red city of Marrakech. Since stepping off a sleepless, turbulent red eye, my senses had been battered with dizzying heat radiating off the clay walls and chaotic crowds with vendors shouting at me in the medina. I looked at my husband, struggling to put my shoes on to leave the room, and the tears started flowing as I wailed, “I’m just so tired. I don’t want to do this tour; I just want to go back to bed.” Internally, the exhausted, depressed part of me was battling the part that was still euphoric about being in this city I had dreamed of traveling to for the better part of a decade. That part of me didn’t want to miss a thing, which made the emotions even more difficult to manage.

Jun 11, 2024 • 9 min read

When planning a multigenerational trip with 11 other people, I knew I wanted to head somewhere warm.

Summer is here and that means one thing: summer road trips. And luckily, gas prices have been dropping just in time to plan an epic cross-country adventure.

Need an escape from your everyday life? We’ve got the ultimate tropical getaway for you—a chance to win a dream stay at the luxurious adults-only Hotel Three Sixty in Ojochal, Costa Rica. The lucky sweepstakes winner and a guest will be whisked away to this eco-luxury resort paradise, with accommodations, flights, meals, and more included.

Maine's breathtaking coastline is unlike any other. It's only about 280 miles from the New Hampshire border to the New Brunswick, Canada, border if you follow the region's principal road, U.S. Route 1 (along with state Route 189 for the final stretch).