Travel Advice - TRAVELS WITH TWIST

Show me the money!

When your flight is canceled or seriously delayed, the airline may owe you cold, hard cash—here’s how to get it. Among unseasonable storms, staffing shortages, and the occasional government shutdown, air travel has served up plenty of reminders that flights don’t...

Deadbolt serious about hotel safety

Accomodation, Hotels, Safety/Health, Travel Advice

These tips for hotel safety take seconds, cost almost nothing, and start with the one lock too many travelers forget to use. You swipe the keycard, wait for the little green light, and shoulder the door open, already eyeing the bed after a long travel day. For most of...

Baby, you can drive my (virtual) car

Fun/Games, Itinerary, Navigation, Planning, Things to Do, Travel Advice

Drive around a foreign city with a local radio station playing without leaving your couch. Have you ever wondered what it feels like to drive through a city you’ve never visited? Not the postcard version or the curated highlight reel, but the real, unhurried...

Booked and bumped

Accomodation, Hotels, Money, Refunds, Travel Advice

What happens when a hotel cancels your confirmed reservation, what you’re entitled to, and how to fight back. You probably assume if you have a confirmed reservation at a hotel, you’re actually, you know, confirmed. Unfortunately, that’s not always true....

Fly first, pay later

Flights, Planning, Travel Advice

These airlines and booking sites let you spread vacation costs into manageable monthly payments. Remember when “save first, travel later” was the golden rule? Thanks to the rise of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) services, you can be sipping piña coladas in Cancun while...

Book it!

Fun/Games, Hotels, Itinerary, Planning, Things to Do, Travel Advice

Literary tourism is turning dog-eared pages into real-life destinations. Have you ever wanted to explore the English countryside like a Jane Austen heroine, or retrace Hemingway’s steps through Key West? That impulse to live out the pages of a favorite book has a...