Each year, we choose among hostel accommodations worldwide able to claim a clean, reasonable and friendly scene and pick one that we liked checking out and into the most (in ... Read More

Beginning this week, Russian Railways will be offering tickets for same sex sleeping compartments in a trial program on eight trains, thanks to popular demand (by women, say news stories). ... Read More

With a British Airways strike looming in London and the possibility of subsequent airport hassle, it seems a good time to point you to this site: Beer in Airports. Without ... Read More

Want to know where the action is for spring break 2007? Get the skinny with this list of top spring break 2007 hot spots (if you prefer, know where you ... Read More

For the third time this year, London's airports may be a royal mess when British Airways flight attendants go on strike Tuesday and Wednesday; Heathrow was a quasi-hotel when fog ... Read More

Via BraveNewTraveler.com and Backpacker.com comes a tip for using foreign keyboards: Virtual Keyboard. I've been in internet cafes with the clock ticking on my minute$$ while I hunted for keys ... Read More

Four recent grads from the University of Colorado in Boulder have embarked on a very cool trip -- they're building houses for community homemaker Habitat for Humanity through Mexico and ... Read More

Rosarito Beach will be a hot spot on the spring break scene this year -- no passport needed to drive to this oceanfront Baja, Mexico town where the drinking age ... Read More

Getting a passport fast is easier than it seems (and you don't need to pay a passport expediting service). You can rush a passport, or expedite a passport application and ... Read More

When I heard recently that a Dallas-based pizzeria with a shop in Denver is now accepting Mexican money, I was thrilled -- as always, I brought too many pesos home ... Read More

Cute, cool travel tool: the "How Much at Your Place" wiki is a timewaster-travel planner in one providing community-generated comparisons on the cost of items of interest to you like ... Read More

For the second time in a few weeks, abandoned luggage has been found in a dumpster far from the airport -- Denver's DIA in this case, where thousands of misdirected ... Read More

Rail Europe is starting a new year of travel with tons o' new point to point tickets (single tickets), as well as new discounted youth passes for those under 26 ... Read More

Hunting a place to hang your backpack is easy in Sydney -- hostels absolutely abound. Hard to go wrong, but check picks for top Sydney hostels before you go, plus ... Read More

New long haul budget Asia airline Oasis Air, launched as planned in October and holding the course with cheap Hong Kong-London tickets in November, is continuing its introductory fare special ... Read More

The techno community has been saying for months that the spy RFID chips in new e-passports can be hacked and the personal data on the embedded chip read by any ... Read More

Your own hometown can be quite interesting to other folks. It can be cool enough to win you a trip to Reykjavik, Iceland, in fact (which happens to be my ... Read More