Best Spots for Live Music: 10 Hotels From Las Vegas To Mexico
Fitness centers, outdoor pools and spas are common amenities at hotels these days, but want to know one of our favorite features offered? Live music! We've visited quite a few hotels that are a fun...
View Article10 Travelgasmic Instagram Accounts: Best Travel Instagram Accounts to Follow
An original TRAVELBREAK post by Stephanie Be. If you haven't figured it out by now (I'm sure you have), I have a thing for travel photography. There's nothing that makes me want to pack up and go like...
View ArticleStar Watch Etiquette: Top 5 Ways to Deal with Celebrity Sightings When You...
August is vacation month -- for celebrities as well as for the rest of us! With so many clients reporting celebrity sightings from all over the world, I have put together this brief etiquette guide in...
View ArticleThe Quin is Manhattan's Quintessential Luxury Boutique Hotel and one of the...
By Nancy and James Chuda founder of LuxEcoLiving and Healthy Child Healthy World New York City 57th and 6th Avenue, The Quin Hotel When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your...
View ArticleDrink the World: New Zealand
I have a real attachment to this country. I went for a two week holiday and came back five years later, much to the consternation of my mother, but the profound happiness of my ex girlfriend. It's a...
View ArticleThis Is How You Do Route 66 Like a Badass American Hero
Been on the road three days, and so far I’ve driven over 770 miles, eaten 12 chicken wings, two fried chicken breasts, a half slab of ribs, one corn dog, two frozen custards, three slices of deep dish...
View ArticleOut of the Suburbs and into the Woods: A Haiku Diary
"Vacations are the perfect time for a family to re-group, re-connect and reflect." -- An idiot without kids. Truth: Family vacations are a whirlwind of frantically keeping your people entertained and...
View ArticleInto Africa: Can BushCats Save the Beasts?
"There is an elephant holocaust going on in Africa today," says Paul Maritz, the last gentleman adventurer. "Up to this point elephant counts have been done by error-prone Mark 1 Eyeballs, and nobody...
View Article5 Reasons to Move to Sydney -- Or at Least Visit Before Tearing Yourself Away...
I bought a one-way ticket to a city I'd never been to. Actually, I didn't even know anyone who had been to Sydney. I was casually turning down a coveted "dream" career for an adventure. I would like...
View Article9 Money-Saving Items to Pack on Your Next Cruise
Daniel Dudek-Corrigan / Flickr Almost every cruise passenger has experienced the "why didn't I bring it" moment at some point or another. After hours of strategically packing your bag with items to...
View ArticleNorthwestern Namibia's Splendid Isolation
Wedged between pounding South Atlantic surf and stark desert wasteland, littered with the blistered remains of shipwrecks and the disintegrated bones of their doomed crews, Namibia's notorious...
View Article10 Reasons to Spend August in Phoenix
Ever wonder what 114 degrees feels like? Phoenicians can tell you -- in fact, they just felt it the other day. Yep, August in the Valley of the Sun is, well, sunny. At a certain point, all the dryness...
View ArticleWhen Did America Get So Weird?
After living the first six months of 2014 in Provence, France, my wife, Kathy, and I figured we'd face some minor cultural readjustments coming home to Boston. Coffee mild enough so that it didn't grow...
View ArticleBest Ice Cream Sandwich Parlors in the US
Sweet Republic's assortment of ice cream sandwiches in Scottsdale (Photo Credit: Sweet Republic) Ice cream is arguably the one dessert that everybody, adults and kids alike, cannot help but love -...
View ArticleBrooklynization of the Berkshires
Photo: Find. Eat. Drink. Cultural places in the Berkshires like Tanglewood, Mass MoCA, Jacob's Pillow and the Williamstown Theater Festival have traditionally stolen the headlines as the stars of this...
View ArticleAt Home With Anne of Green Gables: Canadian Odyssey on the Looney Front --...
The luxuriantly wooded hills, the gently flowering dales, the silvery streams, the emerald gardens and orchards, the deep green roof and shutters set off by bright white wooden walls... it may be a...
View ArticleHotels With Local Fans (PHOTOS)
These days, hotels are more just crash pads for visitors from far and wide. With bustling rooftop bars and chic lobby shops, they’re also havens for the city’s locals. Whether it’s providing quality...
View ArticleWhat a Road Trip Down US 50, the 'Loneliest Road,' Is Really Like
Just outside of Reno sits a stretch of US 50 so desolate, so remote, so utterly empty LIFE magazine named it the “Loneliest Road in America.” As Roadtrippers writer Anna Hider tells us, Nevada went...
View Article10 Ways to Survive a Long Flight
No matter what you do, being stuck inside a metal tube in coach class for hours is going to suck. You're not going to sleep well, unless you're one of those bizarre people who can sleep anywhere, in...
View ArticleThe Mile Hell Club, or Flying With Children
Here is the thing about flying: I hate it. I hate everything about it -- the operations, the uncertainty, the germ-infested airports, the time spent trapped in your seat. I hate all of it. The only...
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