Crowded New York City has edged out easy Anchorage as the most expensive place to rent a car in the USA these days, even as car rental rates drop in this strange deflationary economy. The latest survey by CheapCarRental.net hasNew York topping some 50 US cities withcar rental rates averaging $72 a day when […]

Traveling out west this summer? Put some water on those plans with some easy to rough and rugged river rafting experiences on the Rogue and Colorado rivers. Salt Lake City-based Western River Expeditions has more than half a century of wild river running days behind it and operates two- to five-day wilderness adventures that can […]

Don’t have time for that ‘round the world cruise? Only have three weeks and want to pack in the pushpins on the wall map? If you have a yen for luxury and a big budget for travel, Four Seasons has the trip for you (and possibly 55 of your closest friends). The luxury-focused hotel company […]

Ever wanted to experience the Sistine Chapel – alone and afterhours, with a private expert private guide? Or walk through Voltaire’s private library, tour St. Petersburg on a private excursion led by Dostoevsky’s great grandson, or mix your own scent at a famous Parisian house of perfume? These are a small selection of the rare […]

For cruising the open seas, sometimes there is nothing like a small ship experience. They can get into places large cruise ships cannot and they have a sense of causal spontaneity about them no matter where the oceans take them. Windstar Cruises has this down. Windstar Cruises operates a fleet of small luxury cruise ships […]

  What is it about an island that grabs the imagination and brings travelers from great distances to their shores? No man may be an island … so perhaps it is the possibility of being an island onto one’s self for just a single sweet slice of time that makes the idea of traveling to […]

Tours to South America now 18% Off The South America tours experts at SouthAmerica.travel are offering a deeply discounted South America travel deal of 18% off all their South America tours packages for all trips that depart for South America between April 1, 2013, and June 30, 2013. Trips can be booked and purchased anytime […]

Harris, Hotwire, Expedia … it does not matter whose survey is inside the quote marks. The information is the same. Americans are simply not taking enough vacation days, especially over the summer holiday season. Year over year, survey over survey, the facts are the same. It may be nine days, it may be eleven per […]

Family bonding may happen over the simplest of pleasures: watching a favorite program on television, going out for ice cream, even a game of Scrabble or Crazy Eights. But chances are it won’t have the impact or the lasting memory effects that a trip to a resort in Hawaii or three days at Disneyland might […]

Spa or wellness vacations may be the new golden goose for travel agents, who are seeing broad jumps in interest in this type of travel from some core groups of health-minded customers. According to a new SpaFinder Wellness survey, more than two-thirds of travel agents saw positive growth in hotel, resort and destination spa bookings […]