Late Aug or mid Sep in South of France? I am deciding between last week of August vs. mid September to go to South of France for a week. Aug: Heard that there’s still lots of people/crowd during the last week – can anyone double confirm? Sep: People have been recommending to go in September but the weather and rain this year was bad, so i’m not sure about Sep 2025. Would not want to …

Where to spend 3 weeks in a holiday house in June/July? Southern France? Italy? Me and my partner (Both M30’s) are looking to spend 3 weeks in either Southern France or Italy. We have traveled quite extensively and this time are looking to base ourselves in one area to so we can actually relax and explore at our leisure. We will have access to a vehicle so not being exactly in town/city is not a requirement but would love b…

Emirates Check in I am flying to Dubai today and I made the group booking online – so I had to check everyone in. There are 4 of us and I inputted all passport details however only 3 boarding cards were issued, with 1 saying to go to the check in desk “Your Mobile Boarding Card cannot be issued for this flight”. Has anyone had this issue ? submitted by /u/…

ESTA system might be down? Just been told by a Delta employee that the ESTA system seems to be down/having problems as there’s loads of people not getting ESTAs through for their flight (including me). The employee said that they heard things won’t be resolved until Tuesday… Background: This is all my own fault, but I impulse booked a flight to Hawaii 2 days ago and appli…

Stopped from Boarding in Heathrow travelling to Malaysia via Singapore VFTF Last week, I flew from London Heathrow to Malaysia, with a layover of more than 24 hours in Singapore. I hold an Indian passport and a long-term UK visa (BRP). According to the Singapore government website, I should be eligible for the Visa-Free Transit Facility (VFTF) (https://www.ica.gov.sg/enter-transit-depart/entering-singapore/visa-free-tra…

Geneva to Paris Does it make more sense to take the train or fly? Has anyone done the train journey? submitted by /u/Several-Monk3857

What are some travel destinations within the US good for multigenerational travel? Travel Destinations Looking for suggestions on group travel destinations (kids 4-8 and grandparents) within the US. Would like to keep all 12 of us in the same air b&b for 5-6 nights. Looking for a destination that would have enough to do nearby. We typically do a day trip and then come back and let the kids play in the evenings and adults cook…

Portugal in Autumn Hi everyone, I’m planning for a family trip (3A1C) to Portugal in autumn and am hoping that we’ll be able to do part of it as a road trip. Number of days are still negotiable but tentatively looking at 13-14N. Tentative plans: Day 1 – Fly into Lisbon, immediately train up to Porto. Overnight in Porto Days 2-4 – Stay in Porto with days trips to t…

Why is this always happening? I travel every year and for some reason my bag always is flagged as “suspicious” Im a young asian female (FTM) with no muslim background and I was born in the U.S. but I always get my back checked on but there never anything wrong with it? edit: the intent wasn’t to be dehumanize Muslims but people who fall under the category are normally targe…

Vacation in Europe Hey everyone! I’m (M25) taking an eight day trip with three friends to Europe in the beginning of December. For 3/4, it will be our first time to Europe, landing in Zurich, Switzerland and I’m looking for recs on where to go and what to do. We are not picky, are renting a car and are open to driving practically anywhere. I think we’re more inter…

Trains out of Amsterdam I’m visiting Amsterdam from the U.S. in a couple weeks and planning to do a day trip or two, within the Netherlands and possibly over to Belgium. Wondering if the train ticket prices tend to increase closer to the date of the actual trip – this happened to us in Spain a couple years ago, and we had to pay 3x the price we had seen a month in adva…

I need help figuring out my Switzerland trip and cities I’m stopping in Flying from London on 11/28 to Switzerland and plan to be there until 12/5 where we will then fly to Paris. These are the things I want to visit. Any recommendations on which order to see these in? Thinking we should fly into Zurich and fly out of Geneva? All insight helpful! Zermatt – One day visiting the Matterhorn; 2nd day 1/2 day snowboardin…

Taxi driver was way to friendly, made the most of my limited Spanish I (59f) walked across the border from Costa Rica ro Nicaragua today and grabbed a cab from the border to San Juan Del Sur. The cab driver Freddie insisted I sit in the front when I was trying t get into the back. The door didnt open for me so I thought that was the issue ( car was a bit of a blister) and off we went. It wasn’t to far into the tr…

40th Bday Getaway My husband and I live in Texas. We wanted to take a trip for his 40th in March. Just us. We want to fly out of state for a long weekend (leave on Thursday come back on Monday) He wants to go somewhere with beautiful natural scenery and great food. Stay in a cabin or something like that. Any recommendations for a trip that makes sense for our lo…

Would you spend a month in Oslo? My favorite way to travel is to rent an Airbnb for a month in the summer (which is the only time of year that my family can get away for that long). We do this partly because many Airbnbs offer a discount when you rent for a month, and partly because we just enjoy traveling this way. (It’s like pretending to live somewhere else! We do still trav…

Stick Sunscreen etc for travel Going all carryon for my next sunny trip, can anyone rave their favorite stick sunscreens to save on liquid space? I prefer NOT mineral (sensory issue). I just saw the resort sunscreen prices, its wild. We can likely get into town on day 3 to visit a cheaper store. Also wondering if anyone has suggestions for after sun in a wipe or stick form? O…

West Coast/Zion/Grand Canyon Road Trip I’m coming over to the states from Europe and landing in Los Angeles on 16 November and then flying out again on 01 December. I’m picking up a car and the plan was originally to drive up CA-1 to San Francisco and then up the Oregon coast all the way to Portland. However, as a large portion of CA-1 is closed, now thinking if I should just take I-…

Favorite coastal New England towns? My husband has a work conference in Portland, Maine at the end of June next year and we plan to take our kids with. After Portland, we’d like to stay in a beach town somewhere in New England— what are your favorites? We are from the PNW so cold water isn’t a problem 😉 submitted by /u/thesmallestwaffle

Capital One Venture X lounges I got the Capital One Venture X and I did the registration for Priority Pass. I have a vacation in December and I will be going through ORD. Is the lounge that bad? I have been reading it is absolutely awful and reception is bad. Has anyone experienced it? Also I arrive in CPH and I was looking at the Plaza lounges and apparently it says the C…

am I crazy for wanting to fly 8 hours (each way) for a long weekend trip to Tahiti? so I have the crazy idea of wanting to go to Tahiti over a long holiday weekend next year. Looking at the flight schedule, I could leave Friday night and then be back in the office on Tuesday for a 1/2 day (both the departure and return flights are redeyes). I enjoy the advantage of nonstop flights to Tahiti. Tahiti is on my bucket list. I am in…