Travel

By Elizabeth Valerio
Ease of planning helps to make cruises a top pick when it comes to vacations. But just because the booking process is simple doesn’t mean that your cruise has to be. There’s a lot more to these getaways than snorkeling with clown fish in Caribbean St. Thomas.

By Rory Winston

For some New Yorkers, the Arab world might seem the worst place to vacation these days. The troubled region yields a battery of images of warfare and Westerners being taken hostage or having their throats slit.

By Katharine J. Crane

The Canyon Ranch health resort in Lenox, Mass., is used to special requests from guests supposedly visiting the spa to improve their diet and exercise habits. Spa staff have heard them all, from the most common—salt, butter, half-and-half for coffee— to the slightly more unusual —Frosted Flakes for breakfast every morning.

By Elizabeth Valerio

It’s too cold to stay in New York but if Aruba and St. Barts are too clichéd you can find a new hot spot in the desert.

By Catherine Wiggington

From Paris to Hollywood, Tangier to Honolulu, hotel dining has evolved into an art form with world-renowned chefs creating fusion menus for the jetset crowd at five-star hotels and resorts. While these restaurants can be a convenient choice for guests in their respective hotels, they are, in fact, destinations in their own right.

Magic Abounds Aboard The Disney Magic
By Paula Conway

Vacations that claim to have something for everyone are usually a bad idea. One crowd gets the attention while the other languishes with some half-hearted gimmicky attempt to appease everyone else, or worse, there is very little for everyone and nobody is happy. There is a shining exception to this rule: Disney magic aboard the Disney Magic. Somehow, the Walt Disney Company knows the trick for finding just the right blend to bring family fun for everyone, and they have turned the trick in the most difficult vacation arena to please everyone: cruise vacations.

Snow, Skis And Screenings: Do Sundance Like The Stars

By Heather Corcoran
There is a lot more to Utah than Mormons and mountains. The summer months may bring R.V.s and campers, but all year long the state offers a variety of accommodation to satisfy even the most demanding traveller.

By Stefanie Cohen

The singer clutches the microphone and belts out a Russian folk song, her long blond hair swinging side to side. Men in black and women in 3-inch heels and sparkling jewelry groove on a parquet dance floor. Thick Russian accents waft over the clatter of clinking vodka goblets, plates piled high with smoked salmon and caviar-lined banquet tables.

By Leaya Lee

Cheesesteaks. “Rocky.” Tastykakes. Most visitors to Philadelphia partake in one or all of these things the city is famous for, whether by running up the Art Museum steps and pumping their fists in victory or by chomping on greasy cheesesteaks and shrink-wrapped mini cakes.

By Heather Corcoran

For those looking for an excuse to drop everything, put on a bathing suit and bake in the sun, it turns out there may never have been a better time to take a vacation. Scientists are finding that some rays might be the key to beating the winter blues. And with the islands of Bermuda only a two-hour flight away from New York, this British archipelago off the coast of North Carolina is a convenient spot to recover from the winter doldrums.