travel tips

We don’t rent cars all that often. We’ve become more comfortable taking public transportation to/from the airport in major cities like New York and Chicago and then using Uber/Lyft/taxi and …

Before I started writing for Your Mileage May Vary, I used to share my hotel comments on the review site TripAdvisor. While TripAdvisor has evolved into a travel booking portal …

Regardless of where you’re traveling, a person’s gotta eat. And if you’re in a touristy area, there will be restaurants that specifically focus on tourists. Not that there’s anything wrong …

Over the years, people have come up with a “day” for every day of the year. Case in point, this Friday, August 23rd, is: Buttered Corn Day Daffodil Day (in …

For trips when we needed to rent a car, I had become complacent while searching for the best prices. Although I had written about ways to find the lowest price, …

No one wants to spend any more time at the TSA security checkpoint than they have to. That’s why we’ve given so much advice about that very thing over the …

Not long ago, we wrote a piece about the airlines that do and don’t allow you to transfer plane tickets to someone else. Of course, there are many more airlines …

I bet you’ve read a hotel review that sounded like this. We checked in at the elite line, and the agent advised us that we had been upgraded to a …

When planning a trip to New York City, we have numerous airlines and airports to choose from. Our first options are the major NYC airports of LaGuardia and JFK, but …

Choosing a rental car is not the most glamorous part of vacation planning. When we travel, it usually doesn’t matter what type of car we have. I want something not …