Travel

8 Ways To Stretch Your Short Vacation Days

For many, extended vacations are all but impossible. Lola Akinmade reveals eight tips to get the most out of your short vacation weeks.

10 Essential Tips to Improve Your Hitchhiking Game

After hitching all over the world, Turner Wright reveals his 10 best secrets for improving your hitchhiking game.

A Brief Guide to Travel Insurance

When booking a holiday or long weekend away, there are many things to consider and more often than not, ensuring you have the correct type of travel insurance is usually far from the front of your mind and can sometimes be a mere afterthought. Just like choosing any type of insurance cover, whether it is [...]

8 Simple Steps to Achieve Your Travel Goals

Turn your vacation daydreaming into travel reality with these 8 simple steps.

How to Travel Independently for the First Time

Amanda Kendle offers five steps to traveling independently for the first time.

9 Tips for Finding the Perfect Travel Souvenir

Isabel Eva Bohrer reveals 9 tips to help you navigate the tricky path towards finding the perfect travel souvenir.

Take Your Car to the Airport and Enjoy the Freedom

When making your way to the airport, you of course want to arrive at the check-in desk with plenty of time to spare so that you are not late for your flight. It is therefore really important that you plan your journey to the airport in advance, especially if you live a fair distance away. [...]

Confessions of a Traveling Packrat

Jessica Spiegel eschews minimalist travel in favor of hoarding every last scrap of souvenir trash she can collect.

Skipping Machu Picchu: 5 Other Awesome Ruins in Peru

Machu Picchu is like the quarterback of Peru. Essential, appreciated, but always hogging the attention, winning the awards, and getting its face on the posters. You want its autograph, but so does everyone else. One million other people, according to Peru’s National Chamber of Tourism which estimates the number of Machu Picchu visitors will actually [...]

Seven Tips for Travelling London’s Underground

For many visitors coming to London, one of the greatest fears is of not being able to get around town. Of getting lost on the tube, of catching the wrong bus and ending up in Battersea instead of Bayswater, of being ripped off by a taxi driver or being clattered by a cyclist. My preferred [...]

Rainy Day Travel: 5 Places to Beat the Crowds When the Sun Doesn’t Shine

Eva Holland discusses how to save money and soak up the local scene when the sun doesn’t shine.

5 Ways to Score an Upgrade on Your Next Flight

Wan’ to get upgraded on your next flight? Isabel Eva Bohrer shares 5 great tips on how to go about it.

Keep It Simple: 8 Ways to Find Travel Planning Zen

Amanda Kendle reveals 8 tips to mastering the art of simplicity in travel planning.

Private Jet Charter and Other (Surprising) Travel Options for Vacationers

Traveling isn’t always as fun as it should be. Crowded airport terminals, a nosy stranger on a bus, and a high-speed taxi driver can all turn what might have been the trip of your dreams into a nightmare. For many vacation travelers, chartering is a very convenient and sometimes cost-effective way to make taking a [...]

Gay Travel: 5 Tips for Planning a World Trip and Staying Safe

Many countries around the world are gay friendly and encourage gay tourism. Some cities advertise gay travel and certain countries even encourage gay marriage ceremonies and provide resources for gay couples. Certain places like Denmark have gay bars like the Central Hornet which is about to celebrate it’s 100th anniversary as an openly gay bar [...]

Top Travel Destinations for 2011

Looking to take a unique vacation this year? Can’t figure out where exactly you want to go? Thankfully, you’re not alone. Plenty of people get urges to travel, but either they don’t know where they want to go, or their lists of desired destinations are too long to sort through. This is why there are [...]

7 Tips for Enjoying a Small Town Stopover

Amanda Kendle reveals her top tips for making the most of small town stopovers.

How to Pick the Right Destination for Your First Trip Abroad

Planning your first trip abroad can be daunting. Travel veteran, Amanda Kendle, reveals a few tips to help you decide on the best destination.

Travel 101: 9 Forgotten Items to Pack on Your Next Trip

In a flurry of hurried, last-minute packing, it’s easy to forget the simplest of travel gear. Jessica Lothman reveals a few items no traveler should be without.

Why Everybody Should Travel Solo … Sometimes

There’s a lot you can get out of a solo trip that just doesn’t happen when you’re not on your own.

How to Fly First Class Without Paying For It

What you may not know is that many people in first class snagged their seats for less money than you paid for your ticket in steerage. In fact, there are many ways—some obvious, several not—to fly first class without paying for it, and Lifehacker has a few of the best.

10 Savvy Travel Tips

From Skype comes this snazzy infographic of 10 savvy travel tips (click to enlarge):

Why You May Need a Second Passport

Have you heard of a second passport? My guess is: probably not. Many travelers haven’t ever thought of needing a second passport. Unfortunately, sometimes people only find out that they need one when it is already too late. Second passports are needed for many frequent travelers because of political sensitivity, multiple destination trips or because [...]

5 Tips for Finding the Perfect Travel Companion

Not ready to go solo just yet? Amanda Kendle discusses five tips to finding the perfect travel mate.

How to Travel With Your Friends (And Remain Friends Afterwards)

“A summer jaunt with your friends can be a source of beautiful memories — or an expensive deathmarch of awkwardness and acrimony.” Anna North shows how to make sure it’s the former.

8 Essential Tips to Master the Art of Traveling Lightly

Daniela Baker provides eight essential tips to packing lightly, even if you have a wide range of activities planned.

8 Ways to Avoid Coming Down from Your Traveler’s High

Jaclyn Einis shares her best tips for making your descent back down to post-travel “reality” a lot more enjoyable.

How to Travel Around London Like a Local

Night Time in London © Robert Brown London has many things to see and do and though many of them are close enough together to walk, there are plenty of other methods of transport to get you about the city nights or days. The Underground railway or Tube is probably the most common way of [...]

Quick Tips for City Travel

Sunset in Saigon © NguyenTrung City breaks are becoming more popular these days as travelers find it easier to fit a long weekend into their busy schedule and to cover the cost of two or three nights abroad than a whole week or two. Long weekend city breaks can be a great way of exploring [...]