Category Archives for "Advice".
Do you factor the risk of violent death into your planning when choosing which countries to visit? If you were to judge solely by the number of travel advisories issued by the U.S. State Department, Mexico… Continue Reading
Unless you’re a glutton for punishment, you would choose to visit a country with happy inhabitants over a country whose citizens were morose and grouchy, right? For anyone factoring happiness into… Continue Reading
In case you missed something, following are the biggest travel stories and best deals covered this past week. Check ’em out! Free Coach Meals on American’s Transcontinental Flights. Yay! Beginning… Continue Reading
In theory, I would choose to fly in a newer plane over an older one. It’s the obvious choice. By extension, it would seem to follow that I’d favor an airline with the younger aircraft fleet… Continue Reading
Remember when Cuba was the “It” destination, atop everyone’s where-to-go list? The airlines do, and wish they hadn’t bought into the hype. Following a trickle of news regarding airlines cutting… Continue Reading
In case you missed something, following are the biggest travel stories and best deals covered this past week. Check ’em out! Southwest Improves Standby Benefit for Elites Beginning this week, Southwest… Continue Reading
The era of credit-card churning may be coming to a close. American Express this week warned that it plans to take steps to curtail credit-card churning, a technique used by travel hackers to snag generous… Continue Reading
If there’s one mileage-earning opportunity that travelers routinely overlook, it’s shopping at the airlines’ online mileage malls. The prices are the same. And by making your purchases… Continue Reading
For many years, American Express considered itself the exclusive purveyor of upscale rewards cards for well-heeled high-frequency travelers. No more. Most recently, Chase introduced its Sapphire Reserve… Continue Reading
Have you ever peed in the pool? Probably. Even Olympic swimming champ Michael Phelps admits to regularly using the pool as a toilet. Which raises the related question: How much pee is in that pool? Standing… Continue Reading