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Survive vacation crowds

You can survive the vacation crowds this summer. Here’s how

January 31, 2024April 14, 2018 by Christopher Elliott

There’s no survival guide for long road trips with kids, but maybe there should be.

Categories Destinations
Nothing changes you like travel does. I recently sold my house, pulled up my stakes and hit the road. I’m a different person because of it.

These travel agents go above and beyond the call of duty

November 3, 2024July 24, 2017 by Christopher Elliott

Travel agents should really stop calling themselves travel agents. Travel advisors is a better word. Or perhaps even travel advocates.

Categories Commentary

6 consumer mistakes you absolutely have to avoid this summer

February 1, 2024July 24, 2017 by Christopher Elliott

You’ve probably already heard a lot of advice about what you should do do this summer — buy this, vacation there, see that movie. But what shouldn’t you do?

Categories Commentary
squaw valley, alpine, ski, resort, skiing, snow, summer

Skiing in summer? Only at this California resort

February 1, 2024July 15, 2017 by Christopher Elliott

Don’t look now, but there’s a guy next to me at the bottom of the chairlift. He’s snowboarding in a swimsuit. And nothing else.

Categories Destinations
If you travel abroad this summer, look out for visa trouble to avoid any potential visa problems. No, not the credit card variety.

Avoid visa problems this summer. Here’s how

February 1, 2024June 5, 2017 by Christopher Elliott

If you travel abroad this summer, look out for visa trouble.

Categories Commentary
The TSA is having a heckuva summer. From a new "trusted" traveler system it's pushing on passengers, to a peculiar new rule.

Admit it, you don’t care what the TSA does to you anymore!

January 27, 2024August 9, 2014 by Christopher Elliott

The TSA is having a heckuva summer. From a new “trusted” traveler system it’s pushing on passengers, to a peculiar new rule.

Categories Commentary
He just tried to book a four-night tour online from Icelandair, advertised at $1,073, including flights then the price jumped to $2,600.

Bait-and-switched into booking a summer “bargain”? Then read this

January 27, 2024August 2, 2014 by Christopher Elliott

He just tried to book a four-night tour online from Icelandair, advertised at $1,073, including flights then the price jumped to $2,600.

Categories Commentary
The TSA’s vaunted new PreCheck system, offers selected air travelers access to expedited security screening

Is the TSA’s PreCheck program ready for what comes next?

January 26, 2024March 2, 2014 by Christopher Elliott

The Transportation Security Administration’s vaunted new PreCheck system, which offers selected air travelers access to expedited security screening, is hurtling toward its first big test: a crowd of spring break passengers, quickly followed by a crush of inexperienced summer vacationers.

Categories The Navigator
If you're afraid a TSA agent might bungle your screening when you fly somewhere this summer, maybe you should do what John Klapproth did.

How to tell the TSA how to do its job – and how to get it to listen

January 15, 2025May 29, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

If you’re afraid a TSA agent might bungle your screening when you fly somewhere this summer, maybe you should do what John Klapproth did when he was traveling from Seattle to Anchorage recently.

Categories Security

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