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Cruise Ships, Travel Advice

These ten cruise booking sites will help you save money, get the features you want, and (maybe) help you score free extras.   Booking a cruise can be a complicated and time-consuming. While would-be travelers are accustomed to using travel search engines to find the...

Choosing a home away from home?

Travel Advice, Vacation Rentals

Here are the 14 best vacation rental sites. Renting a house or apartment for vacation? You’ve got plenty of options—maybe too many. Travelers looking a vacation rental can search big online travel agencies, small specialty sites, and everything in-between. The process...

Four for flying

Flights, Planning, Travel Advice

These four flight apps can keep you ahead of the curve—and gate/pilot announcements—on your flight status. FlightRadar24 FlightRadar24 gives you an overview of all flights arriving and departing from almost any airport in near real time. The app makes tracking easy...

Costco for travel?

Flights, Hotels, Itinerary, Planning, Travel Advice

The warehouse giant offers some amazing vacation deals. Everyone has a favorite Costco purchase—here’s looking at you, dark chocolate-covered potato chips—but the deals don’t stop in the store. A Costco membership can also be the key to fantastic—and fantastically...

The 21-Day Rule

Flights, Planning, Travel Advice

How to avoid price jumps when booking airfare. I had to go to Nashville for a wedding and only one flight worked for my schedule. I didn’t have flexibility on the destination, the date, or even the specific flight. I did, however, have a choice on when to book...