If you’re looking to make some purchases before your summer travel plans, there’s a big online shopping event this week to maximize your spending. Plus, you can use these promotions to score some big deals and stack up the savings. Rakuten is one of the most popular online shopping sites that awards cash back for…

Posted: 5/13/2024 | May 13th, 2024 Famously known as “the Second City” (meaning second in population to New York), I feel like Chicago is often overlooked by travelers. It sees a fraction of the visitors LA and NYC receive, which is a shame, as it’s one of my favorite cities in the world. Chicago is…

Posted: 5/13/2024 | May 13th, 2024 Croatia has been a bustling tourist hot spot for six or seven years now. Shaped like a boomerang and bordering Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia, this small country of four million people punches well above its weight. You can spend time relaxing on the sunny Adriatic Sea, hop between…

The feeding frenzy of “Soho House is so over”-coded stories reached a crescendo earlier this year. A report from GlassHouse Research labeled the company as one with a broken business model — no better than fallen-from-grace coworking brand WeWork. Society magazines like Tatler wondered if Soho House’s moment had passed. Even I have noticed that…

Emirates is already in the midst of a massive makeover of its fleet. Now, the Dubai-based carrier is planning to give even more of its long-haul jets a cabin face-lift — one that will ultimately bring its state-of-the-art premium economy seats to more cities. Last week, Emirates announced it would embark on retrofits of many…

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It’s not often that you hear travelers sing the praises of a regional jet, but that might be about to change aboard Delta Air Lines. The Atlanta-based carrier’s regional affiliate SkyWest Airlines will introduce the custom-configured Bombardier CRJ-550 regional jet on select Delta Connection flights, as first reported by AirlineGeeks and later confirmed to TPG…

Summer is on the horizon, and you know what that means: Now’s the perfect time to start racking up points for holiday travel. Wait, what? That’s right — at TPG, we believe it’s never too early to start earning. If you can earn travel rewards now, you can start making your holiday bookings early, taking…

To tip or not to tip? Whether you’re a seasoned cruiser or only have one or two cruises under your belt, you’ve likely asked this question at some point during your sailing. The cruise lines have taken some of the uncertainty out of this equation with the introduction of automatic gratuities. Most of the bigger…

Many travelers say that a stay at the Park Hyatt Kyoto is a once-in-a-lifetime treat. Maybe so, but after visiting in March, I hope fate brings me back to this enchanting spot soon. The hotel was born out of a collaboration between renowned 19th-century teahouse and kaiseki multicourse restaurant Kyoyamato, Japanese construction company Takenaka and…