Angela Reiffer and her husband thought they were getting a free couples massage after they checked into a Palladium resort in the Dominican Republic for their honeymoon. Instead, they ended up spending seven hours in a high-pressure sales pitch, surrounded by multiple salespeople and plied with drinks, they say. By the end of the day,…
The water in Slovenia’s Lake Bled looked so crystal-clear that you could drink it. Which is exactly what one of Alyson Chadwick’s travel companions did. It was the drink that ruined her trip. “She was sick as a dog for days,” Chadwick recalls. Chadwick, who works for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., says she’ll…
Meg Wubbenhorst didn’t think twice before ordering a space cake at a coffee shop in Amsterdam recently. But maybe she should have. As she was about to discover, it was something she should never have eaten on vacation. “I saw Anthony Bourdain eat one years ago and thought it’d be fun to try it,” she…
When Air France flagged Elana Gershuny’s ticket as fraudulent, it didn’t just strand her in Lyon, France. It also landed her on a secret airline blacklist. “They won’t remove me from their fraud list even after going through the steps to verify my identity,” she says. Gershuny had done nothing wrong — unless you think…
If you think your next trip will be smoke-free, think again. On a visit to a five-star hotel in New Jersey, Cindy Montgomery checked into a room that reeked of cigarette smoke, which aggravated her asthma. Within minutes, she was gasping for air. But that wasn’t the worst of it. “There was a card on…
Amie Tugwell’s Vrbo rental is contaminated with mold. She and her family checked out after one night. Why can’t she get her money back? Q: I recently booked a vacation rental through Vrbo. I arrived close to midnight and it smelled weird. I found broken tiles and mold. I immediately contacted the host, who assured…
Don’t worry, the destination you’re visiting this summer is safe. If you use a VPN, you’re protected from hackers when you travel. Oh, your travel insurance will always cover you. Those are three of the most dangerous travel assumptions you can make when you travel this year. Safe destinations can turn dangerous quickly. VPNs are…
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