Eight Mistakes You’re Probably Making When You Travel – Travel Hacks
Photo by Jaysin Trevino If you’ve traveled at all in the last decade, you’ve probably encountered travel stress. It’s counter-intuitive: we take vacations, honeymoons, and family trips in order to escape the rigors of everyday life, not to compound them. Yet, if we’re being completely honest, even our best vacations probably included some moments […]
Travel Hacks – Uber
Photo by Diego Torres Silvestre If you’ve ever tried to hail a cab in the rain, negotiated one price with a driver and ended up paying a different one when you arrived, or schlepped your luggage up or down the subway stairs because you thought it would be impossible to get a cab, get […]
Travel Hacks – Car Rental
I was all set to publish a review lauding the virtues of the mainline agencies like Hertz, Avis, and Entreprise, and lamenting that their primary competition, Zipcar, hasn’t yet delivered on its promise to a sufficient degree to be taken seriously – then reality intervened. SEATAC, this week, Hertz counter – Agent: The car […]
Cape Cod Vacay Rentals 1 – Avoid Our Mistakes
In fearless search of the smartest ways to visit the cape in style on a budget, we set out to “hack” the vacation rental racket so you our readers don’t have to. It ended up being a useful endeavor, because we expected it to be easy and it was anything but. Below, our hard-won […]
San Francisco versus Oakland – Ground Transportation
A burning question many travelers unfamiliar with the Bay Area ask themselves is “should I fly into SFO or Oakland?” In the past, Oakland was hailed as a cheap and uncrowded alternative to San Francisco. The conventional wisdom was “fly into Oakland to save money.” Is it still true? The simple answer is: sometimes. […]
New York – JFK, the Airtrain, and the LIRR
You can fly into any airport you like, as long as it’s JFK. -Henry Ford (not really) As naturalized citizens of New York, we’re in an especially good position to advise you on ground transportation. Which is lucky, because most of our other destinations have fairly straightforward, fairly affordable ground transportation options. (E.G. Seattle […]
