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Hertz scrubs bills of derided cleaning charge

Hertz has quietly dropped one of the car rental industry’s most unpopular surcharges: the cleaning fee. “Although we appreciate when a vehicle is returned in clean condition, we d...

DATE: Nov 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

A taste of Cold War at Wyoming missile site

Deep underground, nuclear launch center will open to tourists

DATE: Nov 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

Sharing worlds, and a meal

Down-to-earth dining is highlight of visit to Tokyo

DATE: Nov 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

When mistakes happen, keep cool, be polite

All Ali Wallick wanted was the hotel room she had booked. Nothing more. She’d made the Atlanta Marriott Marquis reservation for a busy holiday weekend almost a year in advance. Bu...

DATE: Nov 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

You can revel in Tucson’s revitalized downtown

TUCSON, Ariz. – As a kid growing up in Tucson, Eddie Gallego remembers “when everything was downtown.” Then businesses began to move out to the malls, and downtown suffered. Now, he says, th...

DATE: Oct 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

Iceland’s warm embrace

A dramatic landscape, a ‘hidden world’ and quirky Icelandic wit

DATE: Oct 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

Travelers lose affection for affinity cards

A recent poll bears out something I already believed to be true and am happy to see: Consumers are finally losing their enthusiasm for airline and other affinity credit cards. Ban...

DATE: Oct 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Matt W. Dawson’s bicycle odyssey brings him through Durango

Utah man stops on trek circumventing South America

DATE: Oct 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mom, son roll across U.S. by train

5 days, 4,000 miles take them from Florida to California

DATE: Oct 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

If reservations vanish, what should you do?

No one knows exactly why part of Andrew Smith’s business-class airline reservation from Salt Lake City to San Juan, Puerto Rico, vanished. But when Smith clicked on American Airl...

DATE: Oct 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter