Travel
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Five Stars, Zero Clue: Fighting the ‘Scourge’ of Fake Online Reviews
Third parties pay writers for posts praising or panning hotels, restaurants and other places they never visited. How review sites…
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‘The Place Where Shamans Dream’: Safeguarding Spirit Mountain
On a clear Saturday in November, I drove an hour south from my apartment in Las Vegas to reach the…
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Could Air Someday Power Your Flight? Airlines Are Betting on It.
New technologies, including one fuel extracted from the atmosphere itself, could make flying more sustainable. But the challenges are many…
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Help! A Check-in Agent’s Mistake Made Me Miss an Antarctic Cruise and I’m Out $17,000.
An American Airlines error kept a traveler from getting to her cruise’s departure, but the carrier wouldn’t take financial responsibility…
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Blood, Guts and Dinner
Skinning wood pigeon? Cutting up rabbit? At a course designed to teach butchery and foraging, a writer feels closer to…
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What Can Stranded Travelers Expect from Southwest?
The troubled carrier says it will honor “reasonable requests for reimbursement” for those whose flights were delayed or canceled because…
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What Caused the Chaos at Southwest
While carriers like Delta, American Airlines and United bounced back after severe winter weather wreaked havoc on holiday travel, the…
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You’re Going to Need a Smaller Boat: Island Hopping in the Grenadines
Forget about flying if you want to visit many of these stunning specks of land sprinkled across the Caribbean. Hop…
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For Richmond, a Compelling New Chapter
History is not necessarily being rewritten in Richmond, Va., but there is a compelling new chapter in the works. The…
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What to Know if the Winter Storm Wreaks Havoc on Your Holiday Travel
Forecasters say a “bomb cyclone” will tear through much of the U.S. this week and that travelers could face cold,…