Places and escapes
Lounges Are Not Just For Business Class Here’s what most people flying Frontier or Spirit don’t know: the lounge is not locked behind a first-class ticket. Anyone willing…
Right Across From the Bastille, and Worth It Oh La La! Hotel sits directly opposite the Place de la Bastille. A three-star boutique with modern, minimalist bones — clean lines, efficient use of tight square footage, serious soundproofing. Large windows haul in natural light without hauling in noise. The bathrooms are compact but punchy, with…
JetBlue Pulled the Price Hike Twice Most airlines raise baggage fees once, quietly, in the dead of winter when nobody’s watching. JetBlue did it twice. The first hike came in February 2024. Then, on March 22, the airline rolled out a brand-new dynamic pricing structure splitting the year into peak and off-peak periods, each with…
The Sea Was Too Small A hotel right on the beach in Vietnam. Crystal water, fishing boats bobbing at the horizon. The kind of scene you’d frame and hang in a hallway. Two tourists checked out after two weeks and told staff their tour agent had lied to them. No sea, they said. Just a…
Running on Empty Gets Expensive in Ohio Most traffic infractions happen because someone did something reckless. In Youngstown, Ohio, you can get cited for something far more embarrassing: running out of gas. Section 331.44 of the city ordinances bars anyone from operating a vehicle inside the downtown congested district, bounded by Chestnut, Walnut, Boardman, and…
The Sweet Spot Nobody Talks About Mike and Anne Howard have been on the road since 2012. That is not a gap year. That is not a sabbatical. Fourteen years ago they left for their honeymoon and simply never came back — racking up all seven continents and eventually settling into a 1985 Toyota Sunrader…
Stop Overthinking, Start Choosing Hundreds of travel credit cards exist. Most of them are mediocre. A handful are genuinely good. The problem isn’t finding a card — it’s cutting through the noise to find the one that fits how you actually live and travel. Here’s the honest truth: there is no single best card. There’s…
What 24 Days Actually Cost Thailand has always been the kind of place that bends to your wallet. Sleep in a 200-baht dorm or a 20,000-baht beach suite. Eat pad see ew from a cart for 60 baht or blow 800 on a seafood dinner with a sea view. The country doesn’t care how much…
Bangkok Is Not a Three-Neighborhood City Eight million people. Fifty districts. Bangkok is the kind of city that swallows you whole and spits you out somewhere unexpected, smelling like lemongrass and motorbike exhaust. Most visitors compress all of it into three zip codes: Sukhumvit, Khao San Road, or Silom. That’s like visiting New York and…
The Idea That Took Six Years to Fly Eighteen hours in an economy seat is an endurance sport. You already know the drill: the cramped neck, the numb lower back, the 3 a.m. surrender to staring at the seat pocket in front of you. Air New Zealand looked at that misery and decided to do…