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For the unlucky, motion sickness starts when the cruise ends

For Katy Breuer, the symptoms start as soon as she steps off a cruise ship. She feels dizzy and disoriented, can’t eat and can’t find her land legs. “It’s debilitating,” says Breuer, an exec...

DATE: Nov 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Escape tunnel: Secret passageway under Berlin Wall opens to public

BERLIN – An escape tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall opened to the public this month for the first time amid celebrations of the 30-year anniversary of the opening of communist East Germany’...

DATE: Nov 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Venice ‘on its knees’ after second-worst flood ever recorded

VENICE, Italy – The worst flooding in Venice in more than 50 years prompted calls Wednesday to better protect the historic city from rising sea levels as officials calculated hundreds of mil...

DATE: Nov 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

How to score unbelievably cheap flights with mistake airline fares

Maybe this has happened to you. You’re casually scrolling through social media when you spot a friend crowing that she’s headed to Japan next month because she just scored a flight for $247 ...

DATE: Nov 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Mystery trips: Travel companies offer journeys into the unknown

CHARLESTON, W.Va. When Dena Espenscheid answered an advertisement on social media offering a weekend vacation to an unknown destination, her sister warned her she was going to get...

DATE: Nov 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Should you get a SIM card or an international roaming plan?

Before Molly Last traveled to Greece to volunteer at a cat sanctuary, she ran the numbers for her phone. Should she get a SIM card or an international roaming plan? A calling plan...

DATE: Nov 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Airbnb agrees to provide host records to Hawaii

HONOLULU – Airbnb Inc. has agreed to provide Hawaii with records of many of its island hosts as the state tries to track down vacation rental operators who haven’t been paying their taxes. ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

New York to Sydney: The world’s first 20-hour flight

How do you survive a 10,000-mile journey?

DATE: Nov 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Scooter travelers seek world record, human stories

Adventurers stop in Southwest Colorado on mission of harmony

DATE: Nov 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

In 10 years of answering your travel questions, the list gets longer

Ten years ago, the this column quietly embarked on a mission to offer readers practical travel advice. The lack of fanfare was no coincidence. America was emerging from the Great Recession, ...

DATE: Nov 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Australia’s iconic rock Uluru scaled by final climbers

ULURU, Australia – Nature seemed to be siding with indigenous Australians’ demand for Uluru to be respected as a sacred site on Friday when high winds threatened to prematurely end the gener...

DATE: Nov 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel