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Loyalty + Rewards

Score a Free Annual Hotel Night With These Credit Cards

Select credit cards offer free hotel and resort stays as a perk each year, adding long-term value to card membership.

March 29, 2023 02:02 PM

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Paul Rubio

Road Trips

How Off-Roading Helped Get My Life Back on Track During COVID

Learning how to drive Land Rover’s new Defender up a mountain was the small risk I needed to take to get back out into the world after a long year indoors.

October 23, 2020 10:39 PM

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Lyndsey Matthews

Tips + News

Turkey Converts Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Museum Back Into a Mosque

The 6th-century cathedral became a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453, but has been a museum since 1934, drawing 3.7 million tourists last year.

July 10, 2020 04:34 PM

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Suzan Fraser

Tips + News

Sweden’s Spectacular Icehotel Opens in Lapland—Take a Peek Inside

The igloo-inspired hotel unveiled its new, seasonal suites made exclusively from snow and ice. This year, the pop-up hotel has created a way to visit even if you can’t be there in person.

January 6, 2021 03:28 PM

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Matt Villano

Air Travel News

Why Would Anyone Take a Flight to Nowhere?

A trend has popped up for those missing travel amid the coronavirus pandemic—flights to nowhere—and one AFAR editor has some feelings about it.

September 24, 2020 04:08 PM

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Rosalie Tinelli

AFAR Advisor

Aerin Lauder’s Beautiful (Travel) Life

The style and image director for Estée Lauder talks about how Instagram can help a business succeed, her favorite hotels, and why she loves working with travel advisors.

November 7, 2019 04:01 AM

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Annie Fitzsimmons

COVID + Travel

The Doctor Will Be With You . . . in 3 Hours

After a three-hour wait and a broken video chat sent me scrambling to book a COVID-19 test abroad, BinaxNOW’s COVID at-home test appears to be back to normal.

August 9, 2021 07:02 PM

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Lyndsey Matthews

Packing Tips + Gear

The Best Amazon Prime Day Deals on the Tech Essentials We Never Travel Without

Whether you’re shopping for yourself or looking for gifts, save big on electronics this Prime Day.

June 21, 2021 07:49 AM

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Lyndsey Matthews

Tips + News

Brits Are Rushing to Book Vacations Amid Plans to End Lockdown

Tour operators are seeing wild surges in demand.

February 23, 2021 01:46 PM

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Associated Press (AP)

Travel for Good

Ways to Support Small Businesses When You Travel

Rethink where you stay, shop, and eat.

August 4, 2021 10:21 PM

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Kristin Braswell

Air Travel News

Teenage Pilot Sets Record as the Youngest Woman to Fly Solo Around the World

Zara Rutherford’s flight saw her steer clear of wildfires in California, deal with biting cold over Russia, and narrowly avoid North Korean airspace.

January 20, 2022 01:01 PM

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Associated Press (AP)

Tips + News

A Year After Blaze, Notre Dame Restoration Halted by Coronavirus

April 15 marks the one-year anniversary of the fire that destroyed the Paris landmark.

April 15, 2020 01:00 PM

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Elaine Ganley

History + Culture

An Epic Road Trip Through History in the American West

In South Dakota and Wyoming, endless historical and cultural attractions mean unforgettable family-friendly fun.

Sponsored by Travel South Dakota and Travel Wyoming

History + Culture

Monument to Activist Ida B. Wells Unveiled in Chicago

Wells, born enslaved in 1862 in Mississippi, became a newspaper editor and was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer in 2020 for her reporting on the lynching of African Americans.

July 2, 2021 04:45 PM

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Associated Press (AP)

COVID + Travel

California Has Fully Reopened—What That Means for Travelers

On June 15, the state did away with the majority of its COVID-19 restrictions. One month later, Los Angeles County has reinstated its indoor mask mandate as cases begin to rise.

July 20, 2021 08:12 PM

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Michelle Baran

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