Category: travel tips

Why You Should Always Bring 2 Phones on Vacations, and Other Travel Hacks

By Mark Ellwood From Bloomberg News One time in Paris, I lost my phone and I had to spend $2,000 for a new iPhone. I’ve also had a phone stolen on the beach in Rio — a whole team of kids that came and stole my phone right out of my hand — and one…


International Travel Tips From a Reporter Covering the War in Ukraine

By Mark Ellwood From Bloomberg News At Bloomberg Pursuits, we love to travel. And we always want to make sure we’re doing it right. So we’re talking to globe-trotters in all of our luxury fields — food, wine, sports, cars, real estate — to learn about their high-end hacks, tips, and off-the-wall experiences. These are…


Planning on Traveling Abroad This Summer? What You Need to Know

Americans are ready to travel again. After being cooped up for so long, they are ready to fly. Instead of staying closer to home this time, it looks like many want to try traveling abroad. Other places around the world have caught their eye. Airlines are glad to help them get to where they want…


Random, Useful, Fun Travel Tips

Whether you’ll be traveling in the next few weeks or have plans for a trip over the holidays, it’s always a good time for travel tips. No Room For Air Sure, you can find cheap plane tickets, but you’ll pay many extra fees if you are not aware. Thankfully, most airlines still allow one free…


Blackpool: Britain’s Coney Island

When I tell my British friends I’m going to Blackpool, their expressions sour and they ask, “Oh, God, why?” My response: Because it’s a carnival-esque tipsy-toupee, ears-pierced-while-you­-wait place, where I can experience working-class England at play. For over a century, until the last generation, Blackpool, located on the west coast north of Liverpool, was where…


The Status of Status Transportation Discounts

In the travel industry — and the marketplace, generally — some discounts depend on who or what you are rather than what or where you buy. Over the years, age-based status discounts have perhaps been the most common, but you find others as well. In researching an old rail timetable, for example, I once noticed…


Traveling With Kids Checklist

Family travel typically involves kids, and traveling families with kids can encounter some unexpected gotchas. Many of you will be traveling with kids or arranging for kids to travel fairly soon. Here’s a checklist of arrangements you need to consider. 1. ID. Even if you’re just taking a road trip, it’s a good idea for…


Taking the Kids: Athens Like a Local

What’s on the menu this busy Friday night in Athens? A traditional menu says Katia lordanidou. An eggplant salad, fried cheese, Greek salad followed by stuffed tomatoes and peppers and a traditional dessert — mini fried donuts topped with honey and almonds. But we aren’t in a trendy Athens restaurant. We’re in Katia lordanidou’s and…


The High Life and Humble Devotion on Montenegro’s Bay of Kotor

Leaving Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I drive south to yet another nation that emerged newly independent from the ashes of Yugoslavia: Montenegro. During my travels through this region, my punch-drunk passport has been stamped, stamped, and stamped again. While the unification of Europe has made most border crossings feel archaic, here the breakup of…


Incredibly Simple Travel Tips to Take Stress Out of Flying

Flying is back. If you plan to travel by air this summer, one thing is for certain: You won’t be alone. The TSA estimated that summer air travel is going to break records. It goes without saying that you need to get to the airport early. But this summer, as things return to normal, plan…