Park guests relax and cool off with a water mist under the globe at Universal Studios City Walk in Orlando, Fla. More than 70 million visitors came to the Orlando…
John DiScala, better known as the air travel expert Johnny Jet, says to save on airfare travelers should travel on less popular days of the week.Natalie DiScala via AP Here…
Of the top 100 vacation-rental sites, 76 percent are third-party sites – Booking.com, TripAdvisor.com and Airbnb.com are the top three – according to a study by Semrush.com, an online marketing…
I had stumbled upon the opportunity to hike to the 2,011-foot summit of Erta Ale while planning a road trip across the ancient kingdoms and lakes of Ethiopia’s Rift Valley.…
A wedding scene from the “Good-Bye” episode of “Suits.” Meghan Markle’s character dreams of getting married at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, though the scene was filmed at…
The 14-mile Island Line Trail follows Burlington’s waterfront and continues into the middle of Lake Champlain.Courtesy of Island Line Images via Washington Post Last summer, when I found myself without…
The lava lake at the summit of Kilauea near Pahoa, Hawaii. Hawaii’s erupting Kilauea volcano has destroyed homes and forced the evacuations of more than a thousand people.U.S. Geological Survey…
City renovating visitors center at the summit
And not just any RV. Flynn won’t own this motor home, and neither will a traditional rental company. They’ll RV share through a site called Mighway.com, a peer-to-peer service that…
Officials ordered more than 1,700 people out of Big Island neighborhoods near Kilauea volcano’s newest lava flow, warning of the dangers of spattering hot rock and high levels of sulfuric…
Red ash rises from the Puu Oo vent on Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano after a magnitude-5.0 earthquake struck the Big Island, Thursday, May 3, 2018 in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The…
State lawmakers passed a measure this week that would ban the sale of sunscreens containing oxybenzone and octinoxate by 2021 in an effort to protect coral reefs. Scientists have found…
Gov. Jerry Brown discusses lawsuit filed by 17 states and the District of Columbia over the Trump administration’s plans to scrap vehicle emission standards during a news conference May 1…
The World Surf League says its judges determined that a wave Rodrigo Koxa surfed at Nazare, Portugal, on Nov. 8 reached a height of 80 feet. The previous mark was…
People gather at Lisbon’s Comercio square to watch the sun set behind the April 25 Bridge. A new tour company called Off the Grid, which asks participants to put their…
Before a 2011 full-fare advertising rule forbade it, airlines displayed initial “base” ticket fares online without including the mandatory taxes and fees. The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, introduced this…
One of Tunisia’s vast desert regions is even called Tataouine, like Luke Skywalker’s home planet, Tattoine. And the underground home where Luke Skywalker first appeared living with his uncle and…
Each pillar is 6 feet tall, the height of a person, and made of steel that weathers to different shades of brown. Viewers enter at eye level with the monuments,…
But RFK’s funeral, particularly the train that took his body from New York City, following a funeral Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, to Washington, D.C., brought the country together: An…
The author’s mother-in-law follows the narrow path westward along the Great Wall of China at the Moya Shike Natural Scenic Area outside Beijing.Anna Hartley/The Washington Post I check the WeChat…
We based ourselves in the little town of Villaviciosa to explore the Spanish region of Asturius. The nearby Playa de Rodiles on the Atlantic Ocean is one on the most…
“Scents,” she says, “and smoking in hotel rooms.” Sattler, a psychologist from Los Angeles, is one in a billion. That’s about the number of annual guest nights in the American…
A long road back from Hurricaine Maria
The region’s geology has given rise to a wine industry that’s growing in both number and reputation, with more than 40 wineries within a 40-mile (60-kilometer) stretch. In 2004, the…
Minister for Tourism Rabindra Adhikari praised the climbers at a ceremony in the capital, Kathmandu. Italian Reinhold Messner and Austrian Peter Habeler reached the summit without use of supplementary oxygen,…
“I have always said I would not have been president had it not been for my experience in North Dakota,” wrote Roosevelt. Now, enthusiasts of the 26th president are working…
In downtown St. Petersburg, all of those icons of the American West are on display in a new museum. It’s called the James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art, and…
But soon, the dome-shaped metal stage structure known as “the Claw,” which stands as tall as Niagara Falls, will have a new home outside a Utah aquarium, where the sounds…
When it comes to new travel fees, the sky’s the limit. Or, in Liz Pollock’s case, the fourth floor of her hotel. Pollock recently checked out of the DoubleTree by…
