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Traveler Reviews
Christmas and New Year’s Trips Loved By Your Fellow Travelers
Our readers have done the hard work for you, finding creative and rewarding holiday trips that tick all the boxes.
Traveler Reviews
Ideas for Your Family’s Spring Break Trip
Our readers have done the hard work for you, finding creative and rewarding spring break trips that tick all the boxes.
Ask a Teenager
Ask a Teenager: 5 Unusual Trips Kids Will Love
Wendy’s son Doug recommends family trips where teens and kids can go beyond the typical beach resorts, explore a different culture, talk to the local people, and learn what the world is really like.
Ask a Teenager
How to Make Friends with Local People When Traveling
Here's how to make friends while traveling, no matter your age or whether you speak the local language.
Traveler Reviews
Thanksgiving Trip Reviews: Inspiration for a Holiday Abroad
Our readers have done the hard work for you, finding creative and rewarding Thanksgiving trips that tick all the boxes.
Destination
We’re Just Back: Brook’s Family Trip to Egypt
Read about Brook's tips to avoid the crowds and keep her son engaged on her family's WOW trip to Egypt.
Sites and Apps
Apps To Help You Survive Holiday Travel
Are you ready for holiday travel? This list of apps will save you from headaches at the airport.
Travel Tips
Packing Tricks For When You’re Flying Home with Souvenirs or Gifts
How to pack lean and mean for any trip.
Travel Tips
10 Ways to Minimize Holiday Travel Hassles
Wendy's best holiday travel tips: how to deal with crowded airports, flight delays, bad weather, and even packing.
Travel Gear and Gifts
Great Gift Ideas for Travelers, From Travelers
Looking for holiday gift ideas for travelers? Look no further. Here you’ll find items that Wendy and her team of travelers actually use themselves and love.
Where to go when
Where to Go for the 2022-23 Holidays
We’ve tapped the experts on Wendy’s WOW List to find destinations that are still able to be booked for Christmas or New Year’s vacations.
Holiday Travel
What to Know About Europe’s Christmas Markets in 2022
Most of Europe’s Christmas markets are expected to fully open again this year. Here’s how to make the most of them this holiday season.
COVID-19 TRAVEL
Timing your next family trip abroad
Tips for all you cooped-up families desperate for an interesting trip abroad and wondering whether to try for spring break or wait till summer.
HOLIDAY TRAVEL 2021–22
These Places Are Still Available for the Holidays
This year’s holidays are bringing some unexpected gifts: the potential for extraordinary last-minute trips you may not have realized were even possible.
Travel Tips
What Made Uzbekistan Special
Wendy’s husband, a photojournalist, shares the moments and pictures that made their family trip to Uzbekistan so memorable.
COVID-19 Travel
Where to Go This Winter
Many of you have been asking: Can I travel safely during early 2021?
COVID-19 Travel
How to Stay Safe on a Road Trip During Covid
After three long-distance road trips during Covid, Wendy has learned a lot about choosing safe restaurants, rest stops, and accommodations.
safe travel during covid
Working and Schooling Remotely? You Don’t Have to Stay at Home
Now that so many families are working and schooling remotely, longer winter getaways are possible. Here’s how to do it smartly and safely.
parks
Can You Socially Distance at a National Park This Summer?
National and state parks are opening across America. This is what travelers need to know before heading out into nature.
Travel Tips
Extraordinary Getaways in the U.S. and Canada
When you can’t plan far in advance and don’t want to travel too far from home, here are options for a wide variety of extraordinary trips in the United States and Canada.
Family Travel
Extraordinary School-Break Trip Ideas for Your Family
Family vacations that are fun, unusual, fascinating, and stress-free.
Travel Tips
Why You Should Travel Between Thanksgiving and Christmas
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The window between Thanksgiving and Christmas is one of the smartest times of the year you could possibly travel. Here's why.
Vacation Ideas
Unexpected Holiday Travel Ideas For Christmas and New Year’s
Strategies for beating holiday prices, crowds, and sell-out conditions, as well as destinations to consider that are alternatives to the typical fare.
Family Travel
My Family’s Best Christmas Abroad
Can you guess where my family’s best overseas Christmas was, based on the clues in the photo album and videos?
Travel Tips
Holiday Vacations You Can Still Book
It's not too late to book your Christmas vacation or New Year’s vacation. Choose from these last-minute ideas.
Family Travel
Wendy’s Trip Photos from Morocco: An Unusual Spring Break Idea
You’ll see a familiar country through new eyes when you show it to kids. I took Tim and the boys to Morocco for spring break this year.
Family Travel
Unexpected Spring Break Vacation Ideas
Finding an interesting, convenient, and affordable spring break vacation is not easy. Here are a few alternatives, including the place I’m taking my own kids this year.
Villa Vacations
The Rewards of Spending the Winter Holidays in London
There’s no better way to experience the holidays in London than by renting the right apartment.
Airline Travel
Best Ways to Spend Delays in 17 U.S. Airports
Savvy travelers share their favorite U.S. airports to get stuck in, and how to pass the time there.
Travel Tips
Europe’s Christmas Markets: How to Plan the Perfect Trip
For festive Old World holiday charm, you can’t beat Central Europe, where Christmas Markets are great for holiday shopping and delicious regional foods.
Travel Tips
Where to Find Deals Between Thanksgiving and Christmas
‘Tis the season to snap up a great travel deal if you’re able to sneak away between now and December 18 or 19.
