Category: World

Flying can be stressful, but for most travel you’ll need to choose a flight. While that seems straightforward, after flying hundreds of times and making a lot of mistakes, we have some suggestions that we hope will keep you from making some of our mistakes and lead to a more pleasant experience.

This holiday season, instead of the twelve days of Christmas, why not the 12 months of travel? We’ve selected the ideal location month by month to celebrate a year of travel. From our experience, there are places to visit at certain times of the year which offer the perfect vacation spot. The right month can put you sitting in a hammock or skiing down a mountain and thinking, “There is literally no better place in the world to be right now.” Be it weather, festivals, blooming flowers, starry skies, we’ve selected our choices for the best place to travel during each month of the year.

I’ve stayed in many, many Marriott hotels. The world’s largest hotel chain doesn’t always offer the most exciting lodging experiences, and its loyalty program could use some serious improvements, but it’s impossible to compete with Marriott for pure volume. The number of hotels it has in the United States and throughout the world is remarkable. As someone who travels for business to cities that sometimes don’t offer many other options, Marriott’s reliability is hugely reassuring. For the most part, my experiences at Marriott hotels have been good to excellent. But during the summer of 2020, Marriott provided one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had with any travel company.