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VACATION

AI promises hyper-efficient, personalized travel itineraries, but its confident advice is often wrong, recommending closed museums or biased hotel choices. This guide reveals the hidden costs of AI planning and shows you how to use it as a smart tool without derailing your trip.

Can I trust AI to give me good travel advice?

October 14, 2025September 28, 2025 by Christopher Elliott

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Categories On Travel
Confession time! What's the worst thing you've ever done on vacation?

What’s the worst thing you’ve done on vacation?

October 19, 2025June 1, 2025 by Christopher Elliott

Confession time! What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done on vacation?

Categories On Travel
Here's how to get more vacation time in 2025.

You need more vacation time in 2025. Here’s how to get it.

June 4, 2025December 1, 2024 by Christopher Elliott

Here’s how to get more vacation time in 2025.

Categories On Travel
Ling Lu Yamaki navigated a $28,000 timeshare entanglement with Hilton Grand Vacations after feeling misled. Her journey uncovers the intricacies of timeshare agreements, the importance of consumer rights, and the unexpected twists in resolving such disputes. This tale serves as a cautionary lesson for anyone considering or trying to exit a timeshare.

How do you get out of a $28,000 timeshare mistake? Definitely not like this

November 6, 2023October 13, 2023 by Christopher Elliott

Ling Lu Yamaki wanted to get out of her timeshare with Hilton Grand Vacations after she discovered a serious problem with it.

Categories Advocacy, Popular
Will Wells Fargo intervene and aid Nicholas Butler in the aftermath of $7,853 Istanbul bar charges? Find out now.

Charged $7,853 by Wells Fargo after visiting a bar in Istanbul– is this fraud?

July 8, 2025June 8, 2023 by Christopher Elliott

Nicholas Butler gets charged $7,853 at a bar in Istanbul under shady circumstances. Will his bank step up and help him undo the charges?

Categories Featured, Problem Solved
Victoria Ramirez' Galápagos Islands vacation gets off to two false starts. Why won't her online travel agent offer an unused ticket refund?

After a rough start to her Galapagos vacation, she can’t get an unused ticket refund

January 31, 2024April 13, 2018 by Christopher Elliott

Victoria Ramirez’ Galápagos Islands vacation gets off to two false starts. Why won’t her online travel agent offer an unused ticket refund?

Categories The Travel Troubleshooter
Unforgettable vacation, try something new. Christopher Elliott, author

For an unforgettable vacation, try something new

January 31, 2024March 31, 2018 by Christopher Elliott

If you want your next family vacation to be unforgettable, try something new
Get out of your comfort zone. Shoot arrows at a balloon. Plummet down an Olympic ski jump with only a parachute to stop you. Feed a dangerous animal.

Categories Destinations

A berry good time in Southern California, Temecula edition

January 31, 2024March 17, 2018 by Christopher Elliott

Temecula may be one of California’s best-known wine regions, but I’ll always remember it for something else: the fresh fruit we harvested on a recent visit to this out-of-the-way Southern California destination. That’s right, we saw the horde of tourists go one way, and we went in the other direction.

Categories Destinations

How to find the perfect rental car for your next vacation

August 22, 2023September 18, 2017 by Christopher Elliott

When it comes to rental cars, I’m picky. I like mine newish, but not brand new, roomy but not oversized, and stylish without being ostentatious.

Categories Commentary

As summer draws to a close, a primer on beating the post-vacation blues

February 1, 2024September 4, 2017 by Christopher Elliott

Welcome back. What’s that? You didn’t want to come home? You might have a touch of the post-vacation blues.

Categories Commentary
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