Tagged: city

Greenwich Village Walking Tour: Follow Our Stroll in the Historic NYC Neighborhood

Published December 11, 2024In this walking tour, you'll get a taste of all the varied groups and social movements that shaped New York City's Greenwich Village over the years.But…

Boston’s Prudential Tower Observatory, View Boston, Ups Its Game

Recent visitors to Boston may have noticed a dearth of publicly accessible views of the city from atop its tallest buildings.  The tallest of all, the John Hancock Tower (now…

The World's Best Subways

Updated October 14, 2022 There are lots of good reasons to try out a city's subway system when you visit. It can give you an idea of what navigating the place is like for the people…

The Best Dinner in Paris and Other Secrets from the Author of Our Brand-New Guide

Paris is a perennial dream vacation destination for many travelers. That's one reason why Frommer's has been covering the city for 65 years now, starting with our first guidebook,…

Café Gourmand: Try the Mini Desserts, Coffee, and People-Watching at These 5 Paris Cafés

Got a taste for something sweet and refreshing after a day of sightseeing in Paris? Fortunately, many of the city’s famed cafés have the perfect solution: the café gourmand.   These…

How Travelers Can Join the Bicycling Boom in Paris

One of the very few upsides of the pandemic is that cycling has become intensely popular pretty much all over the globe, including in Paris. Almost a year and a half after the first…

What to Know About Little Island—NYC's Pleasantly Psychedelic Floating Park

New York City may be known as a metropolis of steel, glass, and asphalt, but the city's green spaces have been as influential as the skyscrapers.  Central Park is a UNESCO World…

How to Get the Most from a Visit to the Frick Madison in New York City

History's wealthy sleazeballs have been getting their comeuppance of late. The slave traders, labor exploiters, womanizers, and polluters who made fortunes in their day by being…

Earth May Be a Mess, but These Pics from Space Are Stunning

You can always depend on the NASA image library to put things in perspective. As crazy as things get here on planet Earth, our blue-and-green marble is liable to appear poignantly…

Travel by Design: See The Places That Inspire Architects and Other Creative Minds

What’s it like to go on vacation with an architect? It’s not all staring at Doric columns and flying buttresses, according to a new book of photographs snapped by more than 150 leading…

What a Shrinking Airbnb Could Mean for the Future of Travel

Like every other travel company, Airbnb was hit hard by the pandemic. In May, CEO Brian Chesky admitted that the company’s future was in doubt this spring. Airbnb reacted by cutting…

Adorable Canine Instagrammer Has NYC’s Top Tourist Sites to Himself

By now, you've probably seen plenty of eerie photos showing normally crowded tourist sites looking desolate amid the pandemic lockdown.  You know what makes them look less desolate?…

Minneapolis Is Underrated. Here Are 10 Reasons Why It Shouldn’t Be.

When I moved to New York City and told people I was from Minneapolis, I was frequently asked questions like, “Did you live on a farm?” And: “Doesn’t it snow year-round up there?” I…

The Honest Guest's Guide to Free Hotel Amenities

Where's the line? When you're staying at a hotel, is it OK to pocket the bottles of shampoo and lotion? How about the magazines? Bathrobes? Furniture? It depends on the traveler.…