We Rounded Up the Cheapest Flights to Mexico This Winter, With Deals Starting at $74

In August, I traveled from the UK to Mexico for a two-week vacation with my extended family of eight.

For me, traveling is the ultimate act of self-care. So, when I came across a wellness resort called Palmaïa, The House of AïA, on Hotels.com's Perfect Somewheres list — which highlights some of the top 1% of hotels on the company's app — I booked a trip.

It has been a full year since the Yucatan Peninsula's Maya Train, or Tren Maya, celebrated its inaugural departure for its first section connecting Cancun to Merida on Dec. 15, 2023. Former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador set this ambitious, multibillion-dollar project in motion in 2018.

On the top floor of the restaurant Genevose, a man named Fabio, who had recently won the Genoa Pesto World Championship, was gently showing me how to grind basil leaves with a mortar and pestle. “Pesto is a balancing act,” he explained to me in Italian. The leaves must be smashed and not chopped for fear the blade of a knife will over-oxidize them. Salt must be added sparingly because of how much is already in the pecorino and the parmesan cheeses. These may sound like obvious points to any semi-experienced chef, but they were relayed to me with the utmost seriousness—and the final result did not disappoint. After all, we were in Genoa, the birthplace of pesto. Minutes later, our pesto (really, Fabio’s pesto) had been tossed with freshly made pasta, and we sat down to eat our lunch. Nutty, salty, and just a little sweet, the pesto was simple—and utterly perfect.

I never understood the concept of burnout at work. For me, the key to success in the rat race was simple: If you're hungry enough, you will endure; you can't possibly get tired of doing your job if you are tough enough.

It seemingly wasn't as hot in Tulum, Mexico, as United Airlines originally expected it would be.

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Marriott Bonvoy loyalists now have a new place to book near Canyonlands and Arches national parks: Red Cliffs Lodge Moab, a retreat in southeast Utah.

I didn't grow up in a family that traveled. The first time I vacationed outside the US was on my honeymoon, and just a few years after getting married, our first child was born, significantly slowing down our travels. It's only been since my kids got older that I've been traveling to spots I've always wanted to visit, like Italy and Mexico's Baja California peninsula .

Sitting alone after exiting the temezcal (sweat lodge ceremony) — overwhelmed by emotions — I watched the hot lava stones crackle beneath the fiery wood. The temezcalera’s chants and drumbeats floated softly through the thin veil between the temezcal hut and where I sat as the salt from tears and sweat clung to my face. At that moment, a single dragonfly flitted past.

As you walk through the front entrance of Marriott Cancun, An All-Inclusive Resort, you can’t help but get swept up by the picturesque view from The Greatroom. The massive window provides a full view of the ocean, the beach, and the resort’s main pool.