Help! Megabus Canceled My Trip But Won’t Refund the Booking Fee.

Dear Tripped Up,On Oct. 3, 2022, I reserved a seat in a Megabus coach for the busy Sunday after Thanksgiving ...

What to Know About the New Rules on Airline Refunds and ‘Junk’ Fees

The Transportation Department on Wednesday announced new rules taking aim at two of the most difficult and annoying issues in ...

What to Know Before Booking a National Park Trip This Summer

In 2023, the seashores, lakeshores, battlefields, historic sites, monuments and more that make up the National Park Service had 325.5 ...

The Best Restaurants in Austin

In the Where to Eat: 25 Best series, we’re highlighting our favorite restaurants in cities across the United States. These ...

A Major Sea Turtle Nesting Site, on Bijagos Islands, Is Worlds Away From Crowds

Each year, thousands of baby green sea turtles clamber across a beautiful, white-sand paradise that is one of the largest ...

Buon Ricordo Plates: Collectible Italian Ceramics That Started as a Marketing Tool

For his 73rd birthday in April, Felice Macchi had lunch at La Bettola Del Gusto, a restaurant in Pompeii, Italy, ...

Tips for Parents on Kids Flying Solo and Free of Stress

For many parents and guardians, putting a child on a flight alone may seem terrifying. Belligerent passengers, delays, turbulence: All ...

In Mexico, the Maya Train Will Get You to All of Yucatán’s Best Spots. But Not Yet.

I stepped off the platform at the gleaming new Maxcanú train station, eager to see the magnificent Maya archaeological site ...

A Japanese Village Wants Tourists to Come for Heat, Soot and Steel

This past October, I found myself in Yoshida Village standing before a tatara, a giant open-top furnace that was filled ...

A Japanese Village Wants Tourists to Come for Heat, Soot and Steel

This past October, I found myself in Yoshida Village standing before a tatara, a giant open-top furnace that was filled ...

There’s Been an Airplane Emergency. Here’s What Flight Attendants Do Next.

To prepare for these terrifying but rare onboard crises, new flight attendants on all commercial carriers must undergo four to ...

Transportation Dept. and State Attorneys General Will Look Into Airline Complaints

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday announced a new partnership with more than a dozen state attorneys general to investigate ...

Pet Policies for Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, American Airlines and Other Domestic Carriers

Flying with a pet can be expensive and confusing, with fees, weight limits, carrier size rules and the need to ...

Tips on How to Plan an Accessible Road Trip

Planning an accessible road trip is getting a little easier for people with disabilities. There are more resources created by ...

Now Arriving at an Airport Lounge Near You: Peloton Bikes, Nap Pods and Caviar Service

A handful of new lounges opened by credit card issuers, including Capital One and American Express, have recently landed in ...

Engine Cover Falls Off Southwest Plane

A Southwest Airlines flight safely returned to Denver International Airport on Sunday after the engine cover of a Boeing 737-800 ...

Where You Can See the Next Total Solar Eclipse, in 2026

Are you still a little giddy from the magical moments of totality during Monday’s solar eclipse? Or did clouds swoop ...

Spirit Airlines Will Delay Airbus Plane Purchases and Furlough Pilots

Spirit Airlines said on Monday that it would delay delivery of new Airbus planes and furlough pilots to save money ...

The Challenge of Hiking Up Mount Whitney in California

A brutish granite ridge soared above us in the moonlight. The snow that should not have been there in July ...

Standby Cruising: A New Option for Bargain Seekers

In February, Barb McGowan took a seven-day cruise on Holland America Line, visiting the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, and the ...

Venice to Charge Tourists an Entry Fee to Discourage Overcrowding

On its busiest days, Venice swells with tourists who clog the city’s narrow streets, leave behind piles of garbage and ...

Japan Airlines Downgraded Our First Class Seats and Skimped on the Refund

Dear Tripped Up,Last year, my husband and I splurged on round-trip first-class tickets on Japan Airlines from San Francisco to ...

A New Look at an Old Favorite for Adventure Seekers: La Paz, Mexico

For our last night in La Paz, Mexico, we kept it simple: A couple of cans of cold Pacifico, a ...

Tips on How to Pack a Carry-on

For some travelers, the mere thought of packing a carry-on bag can sour even the most potent vacation anticipation. But ...

An Airline Course Looks to Overcome Fear in the Skies

No sooner had British Airways Flight 9240 roared into the air over Heathrow Airport than the cabin air was pierced ...

5 Kyoto Hotels to Add to Your Wish List

The pandemic lockdown in Japan coincided with a flurry of new hotels, especially in Kyoto, where the Park Hyatt, Aman ...

The Secrets of a Danish Castle

My first conscious memory occurred on the lower landing of a staircase that spiraled up four floors of the 14th-century, ...

6 Podcasts About the Joys and Perils of the Great Outdoors

The popularity of outdoor activities surged during the pandemic, with record numbers of novice hikers escaping their cramped quarters for ...

Netflix Co-Founder Reed Hastings’ Utah Ski Resort Is Going Half-Private

On a Monday morning in early March, Reed Hastings, the billionaire co-founder and former chief executive of Netflix, clicked into ...

Last-Minute Strategies to See the Total Solar Eclipse on April 8

On April 8, a total solar eclipse will blot out the sun for roughly 4,200 miles stretching from Mexico to ...

Are Travel Loyalty Programs at Risk?

On Tuesday, the largest credit card companies in the United States reached an agreement with merchants to reduce the so-called ...

Vacation Rentals: How to Make Your Stay Sustainable

Travelers choosing to stay in a vacation home instead of a hotel may have to spend more time searching for ...

4 Kyoto Gardens to Find a Moment of Zen

Once, when the Buddha was asked to preach about a flower he was presented, he instead “gazed at it in ...

Hunting the Northern Lights in Iceland

From the outside, it may seem like the northern lights dance across Iceland’s skies each night. On Icelandair ads, planes ...

Preparing for a Total Solar Eclipse in Northern Maine

For generations, visitors to Maine have flocked east to the rocky coastline, with its lobster boats and crashing waves, or ...

As the Rio Grande Dries Up, Canoeing Near Big Bend National Park Gets Harder

I had barely unbuckled my seatbelt and was already wondering if I had driven six hours across Texas for nothing ...

In New Zealand, Experiencing the Miracle of Flight Anew

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s ...

What Does Being a B Corp Mean?

Tanya Dohoney has worked on sustainability initiatives for decades. A retired attorney from Texas now living in Paris, she even ...

California’s Monterey Peninsula on a Budget

My first view of Monterey Bay on California’s Central Coast was thrilling — a raft of 40-something sea otters — ...

Jail Cells? Morgues? Your Cruise Ship Has Some Surprises for You.

Cruise ships have hidden features that many passengers, particularly first-timers, don’t know about. Some ships are as big as small ...

United Airlines Planes Have Seen 8 Incidents in 2 Weeks. What’s Going On?

An engine fire sparked by plastic packaging wrap, a tire lost shortly after takeoff and a plane veering off the ...

United Airlines Flight Missing an External Panel Lands Safely

A United Airlines flight that took off on Friday morning from San Francisco International Airport landed in Oregon missing an ...

Help! Air Canada Ruined Our Trip to Ireland but Won’t Take the Blame.

Dear Tripped Up,Last September, my husband and I left our kids with their grandparents and set off to Ireland. Our ...

5 Retreats to Reconnect With Nature

Hotels and glamping sites touting sustainability practices and nature-based activities have proliferated throughout the United States in the last decade, ...

A Japanese Festival of Fire and Spirits

As the sun peeked out from the cloudy sky in Kyoto, Japan, monks wearing vests trimmed with pompoms and the ...

Airbnb Bans All Indoor Security Cameras

Airbnb said this week that it was banning the use of all indoor security cameras in its listings worldwide, an ...

Canada’s Devastating Fires Force Seasonal Businesses Into an Uncertain Future

Before the fire, Lytton, British Columbia, was the kind of tiny town visitors alighted upon mid-road trip, pulling off the ...

The Blue Waters of San Andres, an Island Belonging to Colombia, Are Stunning

On San Andres, a small Colombian island in an archipelago off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, counting the blues in ...

Bar Built for ‘Banshees of Inisherin’ Is For Sale

It’s a quiet Thursday evening in Ireland’s rural midlands, and Mee’s Bar in Kilkerrin, County Galway, is hardly buzzing. The ...

Planning a Trip? Tips and Tricks for Working With a Travel Adviser

Decades ago, your vacation most likely began with a visit to a travel agent, who relied on a combination of ...

Self Service for Airport Security? It’s Happening in Las Vegas.

As most air travelers can attest, the experience at an airport’s security checkpoint can be far from serene. There are ...

Total Solar Eclipse of 2024: 31 Things to Do

Wherever you go to catch the total solar eclipse on April 8, those three or four minutes of daytime darkness ...

Hotels Take Sleep Tourism to the Next Level

To sleep, perchance to dream. Or if not dream, at least to feel vaguely rested the next day, especially on ...

American Airlines Orders 260 Planes, Including Boeing 737 Max 10s

American Airlines said on Monday that it had placed an order for 260 new planes in roughly equal numbers from ...

Lampang: a Thai City With Charm and Without the Crowds

Thailand is renowned among hard-charging tourists for nightlife in Bangkok, full moon parties on Koh Phangan island and hedonistic walking ...

A New Gondola Takes Visitors to a Vanishing Alpine Glacier. Is That a Good Thing?

Claude Folmer was about 40 years old the first time he visited the Mer de Glace, the largest glacier in ...

What to Do in Miami, According to the ‘Griselda’ and ‘Narcos’ Creator Eric Newman

The magic of Miami is that “you can still discover places,” said the writer and producer Eric Newman. “It doesn’t ...

Meet Frankey, the Street Artist Delighting Amsterdam

In the spring of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the always bustling Dam Square in Amsterdam was deserted, ...

American Airlines Changes How Miles Are Accrued. What You Need to Know.

Earlier this month, American Airlines announced that beginning May 1, it will require travelers to book directly with the airline, ...

Vermont’s Jay Peak Emerges From a Cloud of Financial Scandal

Settling into the first tram of the morning at Vermont’s Jay Peak resort last month, I looked down to see ...

Discover Dominica’s Secret Garden of Waterfalls and Hot Springs Before Everyone Does

The hiking trail to Middleham Falls on the Caribbean island of Dominica is all wet leaves, slippery black stones and ...

Boeing’s Safety Culture Faulted by F.A.A. in New Report

Boeing’s safety culture remains flawed, despite improvements made after two fatal crashes involving the 737 Max 8 jet in 2018 ...

The Ultimate Product Placement: Thailand on ‘The White Lotus’

“Unforgettable experiences are in the making,” teases an Instagram post from Feb. 13 liked by more than 80,000 people. The ...

How to Pack for a Two-Week Trip With One Small Suitcase

Ask any frequent traveler their rules for a trip, and you’ll likely hear the same advice: Never check a bag ...

Scammed Out of $3,100 on a Booking.com Rental: Tripped Up

Dear Tripped Up,Last May, I reserved a two-bedroom apartment in London for eight days through Booking.com, using a credit card ...

Tips for Renting a Car Abroad

“Throw the keys through the kiosk’s open window. We’ll get the car when we open later”: Those slightly unorthodox drop-off ...

In Search of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman in Rochester and Auburn, N.Y.

Memphis. Atlanta. Birmingham. There are certain American cities that are known for Black history. But African American history and culture ...

Skating on ‘Wild’ Ice in Alaska

I’d been waiting for months when I finally got the call from Alaska last March: Wild ice was on.A roughly ...

Facial Recognition in Airports: Biometrics Technology Is Expanding

On a recent Thursday morning in Queens, travelers streamed through the exterior doors of La Guardia Airport’s Terminal C. Some ...

Officials Investigate How a Woman Flew to Los Angeles Without a Ticket

An investigation is underway into how a woman boarded an American Airlines flight at Nashville International Airport and flew to ...

For Expert Skiers, a Snowy Paradise in Michigan

Before you board the chairlift at one of the continent’s most unusual ski areas, a sign tells you exactly what’s ...

Braving the Winter to Visit a Valley Shrouded in Snow and Secrets

As the chopper rose into the sky, my heart raced with excitement and a twinge of fear: This was my ...

Nothing Says Status Like a Hotel Bathrobe

When Marisa Coulson, her husband and daughter moved to Majorca from New York in 2019, she packed her collection of ...

5 Presidential Libraries That Offer Culture, History and ‘Labs of Democracy’

As repositories of valuable historical documents and other records, U.S. presidential libraries have long been important destinations for scholars. But ...

How Female Chefs Are Sparkling in Istanbul

No bigger than chickpeas and blanketed with tangy yogurt and sizzling spiced butter, the manti were so good they could ...

Rome Hotels

While Rome’s charms may be, as they say, eternal, it’s never been a city particularly prized for its hotels. Until ...

On Board Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas for its First Cruise

One man got down on his knees and kissed the rug emblazoned with the ship’s logo. Another lifted his wife ...

Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs

Some hot springs look like palaces, others like holes in the ground. Some feel like parties, others like prayers. There ...

C.D.C. Investigating Gastrointestinal Illness on Queen Victoria Luxury Cruise Ship

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating an outbreak on a luxury cruise ship after more than 150 ...

Could This Be the Most Expensive Super Bowl Ever?

So you want to go to the Super Bowl this weekend. Even for non-football fans, this year’s spectacle of professional ...

How to Take Better Pictures With a Drone

Before the advent of drones, people had to rely mostly on airplanes or helicopters to take aerial photographs. Now, thanks ...

Boeing, Still Recovering From Max 8 Crashes, Faces a New Crisis

After two deadly crashes involving its best-selling 737 Max 8 planes five years ago, Boeing spent billions of dollars to ...

Touring Ghana’s Growing Arts Scene

In late 2022, I was invited to go to Ghana with a friend researching work by the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim ...

In Canada’s Yukon Territory, Northern Lights and Winter Fun

Frozen hair is a nuisance in most places, but at the Eclipse Nordic Hot Springs in Whitehorse, Yukon, it’s a ...

Help! I Missed a Cruise and the Cruise Line’s Own Travel Insurance Won’t Pay.

Dear Tripped Up,After graduating from college in 2022 and working for a year, I used my bonus and some of ...

How to Save Money Traveling in 2024

While others focus on New Year’s resolutions, my family and I come up with a dream list of where we ...

Machu Picchu Access Blocked by Peruvian Protesters Over New Ticket System

Hundreds of tourists were stranded near Machu Picchu, Peru’s most-visited site, over the weekend after demonstrators blocked railway and bus ...

U.S. Issues Security Alert for Bahamas. Here’s What to Know.

Drawn by clear turquoise waters and miles of white-sand beaches, around seven million travelers visit the Bahamas each year, but ...

Boeing Faces Tricky Balance Between Safety and Financial Performance

Less than four weeks after a hole blew open on a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet during a flight, company ...

6 Cocktail Bars to Visit for Drinks in Singapore

In the cocktail world, Singapore almost inevitably evokes the pink, gin-based, grenadine-spiked Singapore Sling, a drink born in 1915 at ...

How to Know if You’re Scheduled on a Boeing 737 Max 9, and What Your Options Are

After a portion of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner’s fuselage blew out in midair minutes after taking ...

Paris Olympics 2024: What to Expect for Tickets, Hotels and Travel

The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics promises to be spectacular: On the glittering waters of the Seine, a ...

The Laid-Back Appeal of Colorado’s Wolf Creek Ski Resort

It was a gorgeous, cloudless February day and the skiing at Wolf Creek Ski Area, in southwestern Colorado, was superb ...

The Frugal Traveler Columnist Answers Questions About Her Job

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.“Do ...

Is Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas Cruise Ship Really Sustainable?

On Tuesday, in a ceremony that, of course, involved a soccer ball, the Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi pressed a ...

Storm Isha Diverts Dozens of Flights From England and Ireland

A powerful storm diverted dozens of flights in Britain and Ireland on Sunday and Monday, sending passengers to Germany, France ...

Austria’s Schnapps Distilleries Tempt Winter Tourists and Skiers

When winter arrives in western Austria and the sun disappears all too quickly behind the snow-capped Alps, you can stand ...

Can Backcountry Skiing Survive in the Northeast?

Early last February, at the Mount Washington Backcountry Ski Festival in New Hampshire, the organizers faced an increasingly common problem: ...

Falling Domestic Fares and an A.I. Arms Race: What Travelers Can Expect in 2024

Jump to:Credit...Chanelle NibbelinkA record 4.7 billion passengers are expected to fly globally in 2024, up from the previous record of ...

3-Year Cruise Passengers Seek Fraud Charges Over Cancellation

By now, they were supposed to be well into the first leg of the three-year Life at Sea cruise, sailing ...