Destinations, guides, and adventures worth taking.
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Flying business class for the price of economy isn't a fantasy — it's a system that thousands of points enthusiasts exploit every month through a combination of credit card sign-up bonuses, transfer partner strategies, and understanding which routes offer the best award redemption values.
Ryan Okafor · 2025-03-21
An infinity pool is an engineering trick — the vanishing edge creates the illusion that water extends to the horizon.
Leo Marchetti · 2025-03-20
Mérida, the capital of Yucatán state, is the Mexican city that food obsessives, architecture lovers, and people tired of tourist infrastructure rave about to anyone who'll listen.
Nina Vasquez · 2025-03-20
The Dolomites are what happens when geology decides to show off — vertical towers of pale limestone erupting from green meadows, connected by a network of mountain huts (rifugi) that let you hike from dawn to dusk and still eat a three-course Italian dinner with local wine at 2,500 meters.
Sophie Chen · 2025-03-19
Jet lag isn't just tiredness — it's a full-body revolt.
Nina Vasquez · 2025-03-19
Eating like a local isn't about finding 'authentic' restaurants — it's about understanding how a city feeds itself.
Ethan Park · 2025-03-18
The ideal travel sneaker does three things: walks 10 miles on cobblestones without destroying your feet, looks good enough for a bar or casual dinner, and doesn't take up half your carry-on.
Ethan Park · 2025-03-18
Southeast Asia's 25,000 islands produce more world-class beaches than any other region, and the cost of enjoying them — $2 pad thai on the sand, $30/night bungalows, $5 boat rides to deserted islands — makes the whole thing feel like a glitch in the global economy.
Ethan Park · 2025-03-17
Montreal gives you 80% of the European experience at a fraction of the distance, cost, and jet lag.
Ethan Park · 2025-03-17
A dead phone in a foreign city is a dead map, dead translator, dead boarding pass, and dead camera all at once.
Ryan Okafor · 2025-03-16
The boutique hotel market has exploded to the point where the term covers everything from 8-room converted townhouses to 200-room design chains.
Nina Vasquez · 2025-03-16
The best day trips transform a city break into a regional experience without the hassle of packing up and changing hotels.
Nina Vasquez · 2025-03-15
Santiago is South America's most overlooked major capital — a city of 7 million wedged between the Andes and the coastal range that most travelers use as a transfer point to Patagonia, the Atacama, or wine country without giving it more than an airport lounge.
Nina Vasquez · 2025-03-15
Puglia, the heel of Italy's boot, has been the country's worst-kept secret for exactly long enough that the infrastructure exists to enjoy it but not so long that it's been Amalfi-fied.
Leo Marchetti · 2025-03-14
Google Flights is the most powerful free flight search tool available, and most people use about 10% of its features.
Leo Marchetti · 2025-03-14
The European city hop — three to five cities in two weeks, connected by cheap flights or trains — is the trip that converts people into lifelong travelers.
Jordan Blake · 2025-03-13
Travel pants have a reputation problem.
Sophie Chen · 2025-03-13
Cartagena de Indias is a city that looks too good to be real — a walled colonial old town on the Caribbean coast where buildings painted in coral, ochre, and cobalt blue line cobblestone streets that open onto plazas with bougainvillea-draped balconies.
Alex Sterling · 2025-03-12
London's boutique hotel scene has matured into one of the best in the world, with properties that range from converted Georgian townhouses to purpose-built design statements.
Alex Sterling · 2025-03-12
Frequent flyers move through airports with an efficiency that looks like arrogance but is really just repetition — they've optimized every step from curbside to gate through hundreds of trips.
Ryan Okafor · 2025-03-11