Like just about every other airline passenger, Elizabeth Rodgers wants to avoid unnecessary fees. So on a recent flight from Los Angeles to Boise, Idaho, she tried to carry all of her luggage on the plane.
Whether you're off on a weekend getaway or a grand tour overseas, here's how to eliminate the hassle of lugging too much luggage.
A 60-year-old cult classic still draws movie buffs from around the world.
Last spring thousands of travelers canceled trips to Mexico after a swine flu outbreak there emptied beaches and resorts. Staying home won't protect you from swine flu now: Forty-six states have reported widespread flu activity.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- Is it possible to get a D in spring rolls? I also flunked tomato rose-making. ''No, no,'' said an exasperated Nguyen Thai Binh, executive chef, showing how the knife tip should slide under the outer peel as delicately as a heart surgeon's scalpel.
Scores of movies and TV shows have been set in Las Vegas, but none has more thoroughly explored the town's story lines or brought it more exposure than the long-running forensic science whodunit CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Tucson is a great restaurant town. From its enviable collection of culinary gems, we've picked four longtime favorites. We start at the top of the local food chain with Janos Wilder, one of the Southwest's most creative and best loved chefs (and a James Beard award winner).
Q: My travel insurance claim has been denied, and so have my appeals. I hope you can help us. My husband and I were scheduled to visit India last Thanksgiving, the day after the horrific terrorist event began. British and Americans were being singled out and murdered, hotels were being burned, and threats were made of hijacking and attacks on airports and train stations in the country.
Canadian low-cost carrier WestJet has begun seasonal service between Toronto and Miami. Nonstop flights operate five times a week until Dec. 16, then become daily through April 30.
SuperClubs, best known for its all-inclusive resorts in Jamaica, last month opened a Breezes Panama Resort & Spa in the southern Pacific Coast resort community of Santa Clara. In February, SuperClubs plans to open another Breezes resort in Búzios, near Rio de Janeiro, the chain's second in Brazil. SuperClubs also has resorts in Curacao and the Bahamas.
I hear the waiter saying them, the first words of the story that brought me to this milk bar. ''What's it going to be then, eh?'' My answer: Bring me No. 66, the Diavolo (''devil'' in Italian).
Bourbon Street -- where Dixieland jazz competes with karaoke bars, rock 'n' roll cover bands and strip club jukeboxes -- is also one of the first places in America where opera was heard.
First you'll want to see the Forbidden City itself, then head to Taiwan, where its finest treasures now reside.
The history of punchbowl service in saloons and coffeehouses goes back to the mid-1600s by some accounts. It was, one might say, the original form of bottle service in the bar.
Q: I am having a tough time getting my money back from Best Western. My husband and I stayed at the Best Western Northtown Inn in Wichita Falls, Texas recently. He's a truck driver and was stuck in Wichita Falls for one night waiting for his delivery spot to open. It was a spur-of-the-moment, one-night stay -- or so we thought.
Architecture buffs have yet another reason to visit Antonio Gaudi's hometown with this month's opening of the W Barcelona designed by world-renowned Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill. Situated at Nova Bocana, where the Barceloneta beach boardwalk commences, the 26-story, sail-shaped hotel features 473 rooms, Spain's first Bliss Spa and Eclipse, a glamorous rooftop bar overlooking the city and the Mediterranean.
The Miami Herald's Travel section took the gold award as Best Newspaper Travel Section with circulation less than 350,000 in the recent Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards.
I arrive at the Marathon gas station in Stuart, Va., just above the North Carolina border, to find a man eating beans out of a can and a collection of animal heads peering down at an understocked convenience store. I am at my first stop on the Crooked Road: Virginia's Music Heritage Trail -- a 250-mile path of music venues in the Blue Ridge and Appalachian regions of southwestern Virginia -- and I don't see anything that resembles a jam session.
Ever get thirsty during your flight and wished you didn't have to wait an hour or so for the beverage cart to come down the aisle? You may not have realized you could bring a bottled drink onboard. You can -- your best bet is to buy it after you go through security. Screeners limit the size of liquids you can bring through checkpoints.
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