Todd Brueshoff cancels his Hertz rental through Expedia two days before pickup and receives an email confirming that there’s no cancellation fee. But wait, there is! Hertz charges him a $52 no-show fee. Can he get his money back?
As a cancer survivor recovering from a stem cell transplant, Kim Snyder says she needed to avoid crowded spaces and germs while rebuilding her immune system. Flying felt too risky. The Amtrak Auto Train, with its private bedroom option, seemed like the perfect solution for her trip from Virginia to Florida.
Of all the annoying things couples do when they travel, the coerced seat swap may be the worst.
Kirstyn Allen saw it on a recent flight from Atlanta to the Caribbean island of St. Maarten. Two newlyweds boarded the plane after her and pressured another passenger to surrender her assigned seat so they could be together.
You’re sipping a margarita at the beach in Mexico when you realize the ice may have been made with tap water. You brush your teeth in Bali, accidentally swallowing a drop. Hours later, you’re chained to a bathroom, your dream trip collapsing like a house of cards.
Mike Tarallo pays a fixed rate to repair his refrigerator but gets endless delays, false diagnoses, and a canceled service visit. Can Frigidaire and its parent company, Electrolux, thaw this ice-cold mess?
Laura Hughart has fought Expedia for almost a year to reclaim $500 for a canceled Alaska Airlines flight. But she’s caught in a loop between two airlines and an online travel agency. Will anyone help her?
When Daniel Anderson stepped off an electric ferry in Oslo, he braced for the usual urban cacophony. It never came.
Ignore the usual year-end predictions—the hot destinations, the airfare trends, the hidden travel fees. The only thing you need to know about travel in 2026 is this: Agentic AI will touch every trip you take.
The first time you hear Für Elise from the street below, you might think it’s an ice cream truck. But in the Taipei twilight, a different kind of vehicle is rolling down the road – it’s a garbage truck playing that catchy classic.
Alex Cashman-Rolls faces a $500 cleaning fee from Hertz after returning a rental car he used with a registered service animal. Hertz claims the charge is for “excessive” hair, but Alex argues it’s unreasonable under federal law and lacks proof of actual costs. Will Hertz back down?
