Tagged: apps

The Best Luggage Storage Apps and How To Use Them

There used to be very few choices for travelers who are between hotels but have heavy bags to deal with—except to hope that airports and train stations had “left luggage” storage…

15+ Amazing Travel Tricks Your iPhone Can Already Do for Free: Flight Status, Translation, Conversion, Measuring Bags, More

If you have been traveling with an iPhone for a while, you might assume you already know all the things it can do for you. But for the past few years, Apple has been quietly adding new…

Cheap Last-Minute Flights: How to Find Them (And There Aren't Many)

Gather round, children, and I will tell you the tale of what last-minute travel was once like, when finding cheap airfare meant simply showing up at the airport with a suitcase and a…

How to Identify Flights Overhead and Ships at Sea for Free Using Your Smartphone

If you're going to stay home, you could at least travel in your mind. Look up. See any planes? If you want to know about the jets you spot, you don't have to squint through binoculars…

Study Finds Gig Drivers Still Earn Less Than Minimum Wage. Is Using Uber and Lyft Ethical?

Corporations are squeezing Americans for more cash everywhere. We're all feeling it, especially at the grocery store and at the gas pump, even as the big companies in those industries…

When This U.S. City Asked for a Living Wage, Lyft and Uber Said They're Leaving Town

The newly installed CEO of Lyft, David Risher, has a contract that enables him to earn as much as $980 million if he can raise the value of the company's stock.  Last year, Dara…

How to Find a Pet Sitter: Where to Look, What to Ask, When to Book

Millions of Americans adopted pets during the thick of the pandemic, with dogs and cats joining nearly 1 in 5 U.S. households, according to the American Society for the Prevention of…

Safety Apps and Websites for Women Traveling Solo

Many people find solo travel uniquely rewarding, whether they’re looking for freedom, adventure, the chance to connect with others, or the chance to set their own itineraries…

The New Official National Parks Trip-Planning App Gets a Rave from Us

The U.S. National Park Service (NPS) has released a new official app—and it's exciting. After years of forcing users to track down current information at each individual unit's website…

HomeAway to Go Away—What That Means for Your Rental

Expedia Group is dropping its HomeAway platform for vacation rentals. Instead, the online travel company is focusing its rental business on the similar Vrbo brand.  Starting next…

Tinder for Art: Atlanta Museum Helps You Find Works by Swiping Right

Bringing new meaning to the term "art lover," Atlanta's High Museum of Art has introduced a Tinder-esque online tool to match visitors with works based on likes. Dubbed Heartmatch, the…

An App That (Almost) Guarantees the Lowest Hotel Rates

It’s said there are no guarantees in life. But does that apply to travel? For hotels, a relatively new app may offer the closest thing to a guaranteed low price that I’ve seen. It’s…

Travel Podcasts: Food Worth Traveling For

Each week, Frommer's brings you two fresh podcasts stuffed with travel tips, news, and inspiration. Recordings are made from our weekly call-in show on WABC-770AM in New York and our…

Books, Games, Apps, and Activities to Get Kids Excited About Travel

Travel is exciting. Fairy-tale castles, markets filled with colorful produce and fragrant spices, rickshaws speeding along narrow streets, and lions asleep in the shade of acacia trees…

How to Check TSA Wait Times Online

Following bad weather, government shutdowns, and other disasters, airport horror stories usually start to circulate online about security wait times rivaling Lawrence of Arabia in…

Our Top Tips for Surviving Holiday Air Travel this Year

The airlines are expecting 51 million passengers to fly in United States in the final two weeks of December, a figure that’s up 3% from last year’s record number. Break it down and…

New Mobile App Helps You Find Workspace Anywhere in the World

Generally, we recommend using travel as a chance to unplug from the workaday world. But when something important comes up and that becomes simply unfeasible, there's a handy new…

New Apps Let You Turn Your Luggage Into a Courier Service

Airline baggage fees have turned luggage space into a valuable commodity. And now there are apps to help you sell it.  A startup called Airmule and a new rival, Grabr, connect…

Yosemite Expands, the Trump Campaign's Effect on Trump Hotels, and More: Today's Travel Briefing

Here's what's happening in the world of travel this Monday morning.* YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK EXPANDS (Associated Press). California's Yosemite National Park grew by 400 acres last…

$7,500 Fine for Using a Phone on a Plane, Transgender Tourist Detained in Dubai, and More: Today's Travel Briefing

USING A MOBILE PHONE IN FLIGHT? THAT'LL BE $7,500 (Shanghai Daily)China's not putting up with any more monkey business, do you hear? A draft amendment to the country's Civil Aviation…

Fountain Swimmers in Rome, the Airbnb of Boats, and Other Watery News: Today's Travel Briefing

Today's travel news is all about water. Let's dive right in.* ROME CRACKING DOWN ON FOUNTAIN SWIMMERS (Paste magazine). Authorities in Rome have started cracking down on those who…

Haul My Stuff, Underwrite Your Vacation: A New App May Save Brawny Travelers Money

There are many ways would-be vacationers try to make their trips more affordable. Some start special bank accounts for holiday savings, others scour the internet for hotel discounts,…

Tourism and Terror: Today's Travel Briefing

Here's what's happening today in the world of travel.* INTEREST IN TRAVEL INSURANCE SURGES FOLLOWING TERROR ATTACKS (New York Times). Experts in the travel insurance industry say that…

New App Lets You Switch Rental Cars on the Spot

Rental car company Avis introduced a new mobile app last week designed to give customers more control over the car-choosing process. If you're unhappy with the car assigned to you,…

Disneyland's "Star Wars," Airport Customs, and Other Magical Places: Today's Travel Briefing

Here's what happening today in the world of travel.* FUROR OVER NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE'S NEW BEVERAGE POLICY (USA Today). A new beverage policy adopted by Norwegian Cruise Line has…