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Aug 21, 2024 • 10 min read

Royal Caribbean’s newest ship, Star of the Seas, will welcome guests on week-long cruises out of Port Canaveral in Florida and delight them with half a dozen thrilling waterslides, more than 40 bars and restaurants, and more.

Travelers can now save on one of the most expensive portions of a vacation.Frontier Airlines recently announced the «Save Now» promotion, which provides as much as a 100% discount on base fares booked with the Denver-based carrier. Base fares mean the cost of the ticket before government taxes and carrier-fees are added to the reservation, which means the tickets are not completely free.  Travelers can redeem the 100% base fare discount by entering the promotional code SAVENOW when checking out.

Airfare will remain below 2023 levels through the end of the year, but will start to rise as the fall and winter holiday seasons approach.

Call it the most epic Europe cruise ever.

I reach the spot at the port where Sea Cloud Spirit is waiting for her voyage and find a crowd gathered. It’s understandable; the gleaming white windjammer, with her three huge masted sails, looks nothing like any of the other ships docked. At 450 feet long, tailing off into a gold-accented bow, with 4,951 square feet of sail curled and ready for release, watching the ship come into view is a wow-factor moment. I feel like I’ve taken a step back in time, unsure whether I feel more like a pirate or some sort of royal of yore. Either way, I’ve never set foot on a ship as impressive as this.

As part of our Disney Diaries series, Business Insider has been gathering must-do itineraries for Disney World and Disneyland from people who love the theme parks. 

After being an authorized user on a credit card account, you may be wondering about an account of your own. Perhaps you want to apply for a card for the welcome offer, or so you can earn your own miles and/or improve your credit score.

I've taken all sorts of Amtrak train rides in various classes. In 2021, I finally booked the top option.

The snacks started before dawn: A pair of cookies tucked onto a tray of coffee delivered to my tent. Eyes barely open, I picked one up and inspected it—shortbread, the really good kind that leaves a faint trace of butter on your fingertips. Better not, I thought, before taking a bite and returning the half-eaten cookie to its tray.

During the Gilded Age, Rosecliff in Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer home of Theresa "Tessie" Fair Oelrichs, a silver heiress.

It’s a curious thing, queer travel: When I’m at home, my queerness is an inalienable part of me, a concrete fact; but when I go abroad it activates like a magnet, drawing me close to certain people and places, drawing those people and places closer to me. It’s a joy that borders on the ecstatic, to find yourself—and others like yourself—wherever you are. So if you must travel, I recommend being gay while doing it. It’s not for everyone, but it can really lighten things up.

Low-cost Spirit Airlines has a frenzy of fall fare deals with its latest sale, with one-way fares starting at just $40. 

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) declared on August 14, 2024, that the recent upsurge in mpox cases constitutes “a public health emergency of international concern," the organization's highest alert level. The next day, Sweden confirmed the first case of the new strain, mpox Clade 1, to be diagnosed outside Africa.

Aug 21, 2024 • 4 min read

Rail operator European Sleeper will launch a new route in early 2025, connecting Brussels with Venice, Italy, and providing transportation to other standout cities and ski destinations, including Antwerp, Belgium; Rotterdam and Utrecht in the Netherlands; Munich and Cologne in Germany; Innsbruck, Austria; and Bolzano and Verona in Italy.

Founded by the Tata Group in 1932, Air India was once the gold standard for air travel — so much so that Singapore Airlines modeled its business after it.

Nothing says summer quite like a lobster roll on a seaside dock, the sound of seagulls cawing overhead.

A fourth Park Hyatt hotel is coming to Japan. However, you'll have to wait a few years to check in.

There are myriad reasons your flight might be delayed or canceled, from crew members calling out sick to animals wandering onto the runway. But the most common reason is weather.

"Isn't that the thing in the desert for young people on drugs?" My mother-in-law probed when I asked her to stay with our teenage son while my husband and I went to Burning Man. Here I was, a middle-aged mother of three and recovering attorney, setting out to the middle of the Nevada desert without much more than some goggles and bikinis.