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Ultimate Consumer Guides

This series of comprehensive guides cover a variety of consumer topics.

When traveling, the last thing anyone wants is to face the hassle of lost luggage. This comprehensive guide offers vital information on what to do if your luggage goes missing during air travel, cruises, train journeys, or hotel stays. From understanding the rules of lost luggage claims to tips on preventing your bags from getting lost, this article is an essential resource for travelers. It covers everything from filing claims to avoiding luggage fees, ensuring your travel remains stress-free.

The ultimate guide to finding your lost luggage

December 30, 2024February 13, 2024 by Christopher Elliott

If you’re reading this because your luggage has gone missing, you’re not alone.

Categories Ultimate Consumer Guides
Thinking about a spring break vacation? You better think fast, because the 2025 spring break travel season will be busier -- and potentially more expensive -- than ever.

Here’s your insider guide to spring break travel in 2025

February 6, 2025January 25, 2024 by Christopher Elliott

Thinking about a spring break vacation? You better think fast, because the 2025 spring break travel season will be busier — and potentially more expensive — than ever.

Categories Ultimate Consumer Guides
The busy 2023 holiday travel season, which runs from the end of November until early January, will be one for the record books. Here's how to survive it.

Here’s your ultimate guide to holiday travel

November 25, 2024October 19, 2023 by Christopher Elliott

The busy 2023 holiday travel season, which runs from the end of November until early January, will be one for the record books. With wars, Congressional gridlock and post-pandemic “revenge” travel throngs to contend with, you might even be tempted to stay home.

Categories Ultimate Consumer Guides
Here's the ultimate guide to travel food, which includes advice on where to eat and how to avoid unwanted weight gain.

Eat this! The ultimate guide to travel food

January 19, 2024September 7, 2023 by Christopher Elliott

Here’s the ultimate guide to travel food, which includes advice on where to eat and how to avoid unwanted weight gain.

Categories Featured, Ultimate Consumer Guides
If you're going somewhere, chances are you need a reliable carry-on or rollaboard. But how do you buy the best luggage for your next trip?

Here’s how to buy the best luggage for your next trip

May 11, 2025August 24, 2023 by Christopher Elliott

If you’re going somewhere, chances are you need a reliable carry-on or rollaboard. But how do you buy the best luggage for your next trip? 

Categories Featured, Ultimate Consumer Guides
Travel prices are falling like leaves on a late October afternoon in Martha's Vineyard. No question about it, autumn will be a great time to travel -- it always has been.

Here’s your ultimate guide to fall travel

October 25, 2024August 15, 2023 by Christopher Elliott

Travel prices are falling like leaves on a late October afternoon in Martha’s Vineyard. No question about it, this autumn will be a great time to travel — it always has been.

Categories Featured, Ultimate Consumer Guides
Sitting in a pressurized aluminum tube for hours at a time takes a heavy toll on your body. So how do the pros survive a long flight in economy class? And how do they avoid jet lag?

Expert tips for surviving a long flight in economy class and avoiding jet lag

March 30, 2025August 1, 2023 by Christopher Elliott

Sitting in a pressurized aluminum tube for hours at a time takes a heavy toll on your body. So how do the pros survive a long flight in economy class? And how do they avoid jet lag?

Categories On Travel, Ultimate Consumer Guides
Navigating the world of travel can be complex. Find out how a travel advisor can simplify your journey, especially for unique trips like solo travel or senior travel. We'll explore when to engage a travel advisor, how they can enhance your trip, their costs, and strategies to find the right advisor for your needs.

The ultimate guide to finding a travel advisor

February 18, 2025May 21, 2023 by Christopher Elliott

Navigating the world of travel can be complex. Find out how a travel advisor can simplify your journey, especially for unique trips like solo travel or senior travel. We’ll explore when to engage a travel advisor, how they can enhance your trip, their costs, and strategies to find the right advisor for your needs.

Categories Featured, Ultimate Consumer Guides
Shocked PayPal customer tries to get fraudulent charges reversed.

Unauthorized charges on your PayPal account? Here’s how to get your money back now

October 1, 2024January 4, 2023 by Christopher Elliott

How does the PayPal dispute resolution system work? And when you try to dispute a fraudulent charge on your PayPal account and fail, how do you appeal a denial?

Categories Advocacy, Ultimate Consumer Guides
How do you get a refund from Ticketmaster? For Jennifer Hu and her husband, the answer is: You can't. 

How to get a refund from Ticketmaster

February 13, 2025December 5, 2022 by Christopher Elliott

How do you get a refund from Ticketmaster? For Jennifer Hu and her husband, the answer is: You can’t. 

Categories Advocacy, Ultimate Consumer Guides
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