Tagged: travel

Never Mind! Expansion of TSA's Gateside Program for Nonticketed Visitors Abruptly Suspended

The Transportation Security Administration's new program that lets nonticketed TSA PreCheck members go beyond airport security checkpoints has been abruptly curtailed. The program,…

Frommer's Best Places to Go in 2027

Frommer’s turns 70 in 2027. Threescore and ten years ago, our founder, Arthur Frommer, set forth upon an old continent and created Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, dedicated to the…

The Hottest Set-Jetting Destinations of 2027: 'Emily in Paris,' 'The White Lotus,' and More Filming Locations

We've reached the fourth quarter of 2026—the season when travel companies and journalists coin cutesy terms for the trends expected to predominate among vacationers in the coming…

Happy Halloween! These Are America's Most Haunted Hotels

As the air turns crisp and fall gets into full swing, consider spending a night or two at one of these haunted hotels and inns across the U.S. We've uncovered the spooky stories behind…

What Trends Will Shape Travel in 2027? Skyscanner Has Some Answers

Last week, the travel booking site Skyscanner released an in-depth report on the travel trends likely to shape our vacations in 2027.  The search and booking data of some 28,000 users…

How Can You Get into Thousands of Museums by Paying at Just One? Our Answer May Surprise You.

In late 2025, I started my wanderings around Connecticut as a new author for the Connecticut chapter of the upcoming Frommer’s guide book to New England. I was determined to visit…

Four Italian Summer Hot Spots Worth Visiting in Autumn Instead

Every autumn, Italy’s great summer escapes shed their high-season gloss and settle into something richly authentic. Beach clubs close, boats disappear from crowded harbors, and…

If You Don't Want Trump's Image in Your Passport, You'd Better Apply Soon

The State Department's media event on Sept. 29 was remarkable for a bunch of reasons. Many observers commented on the apparent attempt to emulate the style and cadence of a corporate…

Frommer's Wins Prestigious Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards

The news today is good indeed: On October 6, the gifted experts who research and write the information you trust at Frommer's earned three more annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism…

One of Japan's Most Scenic Regions Is Giving Away Free Bullet-Train Tickets—Here's How to Get Yours

Travelers looking to experience more of Japan beyond its most popular destinations, such as Tokyo, Kyoto, and Mount Fuji, have an enticing new option. Those three tourism behemoths are…

Seeing More of Alaska’s Denali National Park Just Got Easier After Years of Limited Access

Alaska's Denali National Park & Preserve, home to North America's tallest peak, has only one road, and about half of it has been closed for years. An active landslide prompted…

TSA's Gateside Program for No-Ticket Entry Expands to More Than 300 Airports

Just a month ago, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration announced that it had allowed access to some airport terminals to people who don't have airline tickets, which is…

Our Review of the Revamped and Expanded Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark.

“Let’s start at the very beginning,” suggests The Sound of Music’s Maria von Trapp, arguing that’s a “very good place to start.” But is it? A European art museum, for example, that…

U.S. Feds Promise Online Passport Application, Which We Already Kind of Have

At a Sept. 29 media event touting America.gov, a new catchall government portal for federal services, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that for the first time, Americans…

How Disney Picks the Pockets of Guests with Mobility Needs

For guests with mobility needs, Walt Disney World has a reputation for being extremely accommodating. Attractions at the resort have been constructed with accessibility in mind, and…

The Miracles of Northern Michigan: Food, Wine, Sapphire Lakes, and Golfing in the Wild

This is an amalgamation of conversations I had on a recent episode of The Frommer’s Travel Podcast. To hear the complete episode, please click here or watch the video version here.In…

This TSA Change Could Be a Big Hassle for Flyers with Carry-on Bags

New high-tech equipment being used by the Transportation Security Administration is supposed to make life easier for airport security screeners as well as passengers, but some flyers…

There's Finally a Sound of Music Museum in Austria. Will It Be One of Your Favorite Things?

“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” says a newspaper editor in the 1962 Western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.Then, as if to prove the point, the quote itself became a…

Free Yourself from the 'Disney Hump' with This App That Books Lightning Lanes for You

If you have been to Walt Disney World in the past 5 years, you've seen them everywhere. In front of the castles. Stopped dead in the center of Main Street. Filling every switchback of…

The Story of Santa Fe's La Fonda on the Plaza, One of the USA's Most Historic Hotels

In our recently released New Mexico guidebook, Frommer's Santa Fe, Taos, and Albuquerque, author Erin Vivid Riley writes, “Whoever originally dubbed New Mexico the 'Land of…

The Most Dog-Friendly National Parks in the United States

It's a scientific fact that dogs are wonderful. Even so, they can cause damage to fragile ecosystems by trampling plants and bugs, can hurt themselves on sharp rocks and steep cliffs,…

Airfare Is Rising Fast. For Perspective, Here's What Your Grandparents Paid to Fly

There's no question that a fuel pricing disaster is bearing down on travelers.The situation, which was triggered by the U.S. attack on Iran in February, is terrible and getting…

This New Capybara Cafe Lets You Hang Out with the Internet's Beloved Kings of Chill

Normally, learning that a cafe has rodents would send us scurrying in the opposite direction. But not when the critters in question are capybaras, the big, gentle, supremely unbothered…

Stay in London for Around $100 a Night at These Popular Hotel Brands That Might Be New to You

In a sad way, the proliferation of corporate hotels across London helped kill most of the family-run bed-and-breakfasts that England was famous for during most of the 20th century.But…

How to Complain to Delta Air Lines

To give feedback or file a complaint with Delta Air Lines using the company's website, go to its online Help Center and select the option for leaving comments and complaints. (Logging…