Make It Easy: Google Shares Insights and Travel Tools
At the launch this week of an enhanced Google Flights search engine, the team at Google Travel shared some interesting travel trends culled from users’ search...
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TripIt.com Makes College Tour Itineraries Easy to Manage
Billing itself as a "travel organizing app," the trip notification site TripIt.com is even better than that -- it can assist you by making upcoming...
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Five Reasons We Hate Air Travel
Why do we hate air travel I wonder as I leave the United check in desk at La Guardia Airport. The United agent we paid $25 to for my son’s snowboard bag has...
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Foreign Airlines Expanding Kids In-Flight Programs
Know of any parents who haven't had a hard time flying with kids? I don't. From fussing to wrigling, crying and whining - we've all been there. Luckily, airlines have stepped up to the plate and are...
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Delhi Airport Layovers Fly By in Comfort
Since it opened three years ago, the Plaza Premium Lounge has been greeting passengers at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India with a full menu of “Nap & Shower”...
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Should Parents Drug Their Kids On Flights?
Would you sedate your child on a flight? Are parents who do so wrong?A Wall Street Journal article reported that many parents "drug" or sedate their...
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The Four Non-Travel Travel Books I Can’t Do Without
Even as a travel writer, or especially as a travel writer, some of my deepest understandings of place, my most intense sense of "being" somewhere come neither from actually being there, or from reading...
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Drugging Kids on Planes
When we created a Travel Video PostCard video a year or more ago about the practice of some parents giving their kids Benadryl or a related “drug” to keep the...
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Ten Things To Remember Before You Fly
This past year I've been up in the air on a variety of airlines, and left up in the air -- by air travel, hotel, car rental and computer glitches -- more times than I can ever recall. I hope my...
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Stress Free Flying While Pregnant
You can keep air travel stress-free with some tips on keeping it healthy, especially important if you're pregnant. You may have just received the news that you’re expecting and you already...
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