Resort Fees Got a Federal Rule a Year Ago. Here's What Hotels Are Still Charging You in 2026.
The FTC's resort fee rule took effect in May 2025. A year later, hotels still charge $25 to $70 per night. Here's what changed and how to push back.
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The World Cup Just Doubled Hotel Prices in 13 US Cities. The 8 Cities Where It Did the Opposite.
Hotel prices doubled in 13 World Cup host cities for June 2026. Here are 8 nearby cities where rates stayed flat and what to book instead.
Hotel Hopping Is Real. How Travelers Are Booking 2 or 3 Hotels Per Trip in 2026.
Booking platforms show 31% of 5+ night trips now split across 2 hotels. When the math works, when it costs more, and how to plan a two-stay trip.
72 Hours in Trieste: Italy's Coastal City With €120 Sea-Facing Hotels (Summer 2026)
Italy's overlooked Adriatic city with Habsburg architecture, sea-facing hotels at €120/night, and day trips to Slovenia. A 3-day itinerary.
Hotel Points Just Lost Another Round in 2026 (Why Cashback Quietly Won the Argument)
Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott all devalued points again in 2026. Here's the real cents-per-point math and what to do with the points you have.
How to Spot AI-Generated Hotel Reviews in 2026 (The 4 Tells That Always Give Them Away)
AI fake reviews now fill 15-30% of hotel listings. Four tells that catch them every time and one filter that cuts through the noise.
72 Hours in Ljubljana: The €70 Riverside Capital That Most Travelers Skip (Summer 2026)
Slovenia's capital sits 3 hours from Venice with riverside hotels at €70/night. A 72-hour itinerary with food, the castle, and a Bled day trip.
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The 14-Day Hotel Booking Window: When Last-Minute Beats Booking Early in 2026
Most travel advice tells you to book hotels early. Three months out. Six months out. Don't wait. The advice has been the same since 2010 and most travelers still follow it. Booking platform data from the last 18 months says something different. KAYAK published a stat in May
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72 Hours in Lisbon: The 3 Neighborhoods Locals Spend Their Weekends In
Tourists go to Alfama. Locals don't. They went there to take their parents in 2017, got annoyed by the crowds, and never went back. The Lisbon a Lisboeta actually spends a Saturday in is somewhere else. Three neighborhoods, specifically. And the hotels in each are still under €120
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Coolcations Are Quietly Beating Beach Trips in 2026. Here's the Data.
Hotel search data for Iceland is up 38% year over year for July. Norway, up 31%. Scotland, up 24%. Meanwhile, hotel searches for Greece are flat. Spain is down 4%. The summer pattern that defined the last decade of European travel just broke, and almost nobody is talking about it.
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Same Room, Different Price. We Tracked 40 Hotels for 30 Days.
A reader emailed us in April. She'd booked a four-star hotel in Madrid for €189 a night. The next morning, her friend booked the same room, same dates, for €141. Different site. Same hotel. €48 difference per night across a four-night stay. We get this email
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72 Hours in the Azores: Why São Miguel Beats Mainland Portugal in Summer 2026
Mainland Portugal hit 35°C in Lisbon last week. The Azores topped out at 22°C. Same country. Two and a half hours apart by plane. One is melting. The other is a cool-weather Atlantic escape that almost nobody on the East Coast has connected the dots on yet.