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travel for everyone 24 Jul
Never Pay in Your Home Currency
"The 'pay in your own currency?' prompt at foreign tills and cash machines is a markup dressed as a courtesy, so always decline it."
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Cruising became Gen Z's vacation, and the ships are being rebuilt to keep it that way
An industry long coded as a retiree pastime is winning over Gen Z with short, port-heavy, event-themed sailings, and betting the enthusiasm outlasts the novelty.
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The autumn price drop is the real one
Kayak's data puts fall airfare to Europe 37 percent under peak summer, and that gap, unlike the scary summer-fare headlines, actually holds up.
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travel for everyone 24 Jul
The New Nonstop Across the Atlantic Has One Aisle
Airlines are adding dozens of transatlantic routes from smaller US airports this year, but the jet getting the credit is not yet the one flying most of them.
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travel for everyone 24 Jul
China Left the Door Open. Now Read the Fine Print.
The visa waiver now covers 50 nationalities and the numbers are surging, but the friction just moved from the border to your phone.
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travel for everyone 24 Jul
The 2026 hotels that used to be something else
"A doge-making family's palace, a bank's vault, a school in a geisha quarter: this year's marquee openings turn old buildings into rooms, some for the first time."
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travel for everyone 18 Jul
"Argentina's Patagonia Boom Is Real. The Bargain Is Not."
The travel trade calls Argentina 2026's rising star, but the rebound only claws back a weak 2025 while a strong peso prices foreign visitors out.
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travel for everyone 18 Jul
In November, Buenos Aires Blooms Backward
While the northern hemisphere tips into winter, a transplanted tree from the Argentine yungas drops its leaves and floods the porteno grid with violet.
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travel for everyone 18 Jul
The Douro Harvest Still Needs Hands, and One of Them Can Be Yours
The vindima is the rare wine harvest still built on human labor, which is exactly why a paying visitor has any business being in the lagar at all.
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travel for everyone 18 Jul
Qantas is about to fly 22 hours nonstop, and sell you the tube time as a spa
A decade of sleep science went into making the least efficient way to cross the planet feel bearable, so here is the number that decade left out.
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