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Article / DailyMoment

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 in Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, Austin, and more.…

Article / Arts and Culture

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…

Article / Family & Kids

9 Native American Vacation Experiences for Families

Listening to Native legends around a campfire, taking a Jeep ride through the high mountain desert, watching the colorful swirl of dancers at a powwow—exchanges with Native peoples…

Article / Family & Kids

6 Companies You Can Trust for Great Family Vacation Packages

Planning a successful family vacation is work—but not if you let a packager do the work for you. Buying a vacation through a tour operator frees you from the tedious details of…

Article / Arts and Culture

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…

Article / Arts and Culture

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…

Article / Theme Park

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…

Article / Trends & Hacks

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…

Article / Local Experiences

For the First Time, You Can Meet the Ghoulish Ravens at The Tower of London

The Tower of London, an 18-acre fortress complex alongside the Thames river in England's capital city, dates all the way to the year 1078, in the Norman period, when William the…

Article / Theme Park

EPCOT as We Knew It Ended This Week with This Unexpected Closing

Walt Disney World's EPCOT was made to be, as Danny Kaye told a network television audience during a TV special promoting the park's 1982 opening, "a permanent showcase of technology…

Article / Travel Ideas

What's London's Best Observation Deck? Should You Pay? See Photos from Each One

I've been researching and writing the London guide for Frommer's for 20 years now, and let me tell you, a lot has changed in that city over that time.I've been tracking those changes…

Article / National Parks

The Best National Parks to Visit This Fall

Autumn can be an exuberant season in U.S. national parks. In some of them, the mating calls of elk fill the air. In others, the turning of the leaves gives landscapes a flamboyant…

Article / Air Travel

Follow Flights, Trains, Theme Park Rides, and More from Your Desk with These 14 Fun Live Trackers

You can't always be traveling. Sometimes you need to return home to pack new underwear.For those of us who still dream of going places even when we have to attend to pesky trivialities…

Article / Family & Kids

The Most Popular Dog Breeds in the World

When I travel with my friend Rachel, which I do every other year or so, we come back with as many photos of dogs as we do pictures of monuments. Rachel, you see, is canine crazy, and…

Article / Theme Park

Disney Just Made Big Theme Park Announcements, But How Much Was Actually New Info?

For Disney adults, the expo called D23 is like the Super Bowl, Eurovision, and the moon landing wrapped into a single event. Every two years, tens of thousands of Mouseheads convene in…

Article / Local Experiences

How to Commune with Street Cats When You Travel

International Cat Day is August 8. The following is a transcript of an interview featured on the Frommer’s Travel Show Podcast. Our guest was Jeff Bogle, author of Street Cats &…

Article / Air Travel

First-Time Flying: An Easy, Step-by-Step Checklist for Airport Newbies

Everyone you'll see at the airport flew for the first time once. If it's your turn to take your own maiden voyage and you're on your own, how will you know how to get from point A to…

Article / Theme Park

Someone Should Warn You: Not All Disney World Parks Are Worth a Full Day Right Now

Walt Disney World is trying to reverse a long period of benign neglect and creative stagnation at its Florida resort by pouring billions into new attractions over the next decade or…

Article / News

Tick-Borne Diseases Are on the Rise. We Asked an Expert for Safety Tips

Bloodsucking parasites are having a great year. This spring, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that emergency room visits for tick bites were up more than 25%…

Article / Women

What to Expect When You're Expecting to Take a Babymoon

Bachelor and bachelorette parties are thought of as the ultimate “last hurrahs” before the realities of adult life kick in. But I would argue that “babymoons”—that last trip life…

Article / News

One of the World's Best Roller Coasters To Close Aug. 2 in Atlanta After Just 3 Years

If you're a roller coaster fan, you only have until August 2 to travel to Atlanta to experience one of the best-reviewed rides on the planet. The amusement park Fun Spot America…

Article / Road Trips

PBS Star Darley Newman Discusses the Places Around the USA That Will Bring the American Revolution to Life

The following is a transcript of a recent interview featured on the Frommer’s Travel Show Podcast. Our guest was PBS TV star Darley Newman. The interview has been edited for length and…

Article / Air Travel

Viral Air Travel Hacks: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Frommer’s editors independently assess all travel products featured on our site. In some cases, we may receive an affiliate commission from the purchase of products made from the links…

Article / Air Travel

American Airlines Tried to Derail My Marriage

As my husband can tell you, I swing to the dark side pretty fast. The "P" my first name starts with could just as easily stand for "Paranoia." That tendency of mine was triggered this…

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

Californians Can Visit Their Glorious State Parks for Free All Year—Sign Up by July 6

Citizens of California! We interrupt your news feed's stream of bonkers headlines to alert you to actual good news of a major freebie that has been announced.In honor of the 250th…