Travel

Every once in a while, you’ll hear horror stories about people who were ready to go overseas, but they couldn’t because something happened to their passport. Maybe it was lost …

If you’ve ever flown with Southwest, you know the drill. You’re assigned a boarding position that starts with the letter A, B or C, and a number that’s between 1 …

In 1888, the Iceland Brothers opened a deli on Ludlow Street on New York City’s Lower East Side. In 1903 Willy Katz joined the Iceland Brothers and in 1910 Willy’s …

Global Entry began as a pilot program at JFK, Washington-Dulles and Houston-Intercontinental airport back in (wanna feel old?) 2008. The pilot worked well and was expanded to other large airports …

Unlike most of us, there are some people who travel a lot. And I mean A LOT. They probably already know about all the “little things” in planes, like: Why …

The general rule when traveling internationally is that you need at least 6 months of validity on your passport to be allowed to enter a country. Of those, some nations …

In 2019, the Marriott Rewards Premier Plus Business card from Chase joined the ranks of our other discontinued cards. It’s no longer available to new applicants because Marriott consolidated its …

I promise I’m not a germaphobe or even a “bedbugophobe,” but in looking back at all the posts we’ve written since we started YMMV 7+ years ago, I’ve admittedly written …

Oftentimes, people who collect points for travel are told they have first-world problems. By this, I mean having to choose between flying to Vietnam on either Emirates or Singapore Airlines. …

Way back when life was simpler, TSA checkpoints weren’t a thing. We’d just check in, drop our luggage off, go through a metal detector, and continue on to our gate. …