travel tips

For those traveling from Texas to Hawaii, you might notice an interesting flight path: flights from Houston to Honolulu or from Dallas to Hawaii often avoid crossing directly over Mexican …

Air travel evolves. Sometimes it’s good things, like faster planes, more safety, and lower prices. Other times it’s bad, such as something being taken away from passengers, like comfort and …

The December holiday season is one of the busiest times to travel. And with good reason – besides those who are planning to visit friends and family for the holidays, …

Booking a hotel can feel like the “responsible adult” moment of trip planning. You compare a few options, pick the one that makes the most sense, lock it in… and then …

If you like to travel, you invariably learn all sorts of words and phrases having to do with traveling. Gate lice. Snowbirds. Pink eye flights. In the beginning, they were …

It’s probably happened to you more often than you even know. You get in the elevator of your hotel (or an office building… or whatever), and there’s nobody else running …

When it comes to earning points, it’s actually pretty hard to make a truly catastrophic mistake. Sure, you can forget to use the “right” card and earn 2X instead of …

We’d held Marriott Bonvoy Platinum Elite status for seven straight years. That’s long enough that it starts to feel like part of your travel identity — even if you’re not …

It’s the 2020s and for the vast majority of hotels, even the teeny tiny, privately owned ones, there are apps available for the hotel owner to get the guest’s card …

For years now, TSA has been aggressively nudging travelers toward PreCheck. And sure — skipping liquids removal and laptop juggling is great. But as more and more people signed up, …