The travel world's top fixers
When exploring the more exotic reaches of the planet, there is nothing like having an insider to guide you, to shepherd you away from the crowds.

Vietnam makes for a quirky family holiday
In the War Remnants museum in Ho Chi Minh City, along with a real guillotine and photos of the My Lai massacre, is a mock-up of the infamous “tiger cage” cells in which untold Vietcong prisoners died. As we peered gingerly inside, reading the grim notes about torture and privations, our guide remarked that Con Son island, home of the cages, now has a sensational five-star spa hotel.

Around the Med by motorbike: Syria to Croatia
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Hotel Security Jeopardized By Recession?

Hotel Security Jeopardized By Recession?
Hotel rates may be down during the recession, but apparently, hotel crime is up. CBS News Science and Technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg reports on an undercover investigation.
20 secret beaches in the British Isles
Some of my earliest childhood memories are of the beach â€" in the blazing sun and the pouring rain, searching for sea shells, building sandcastles, dodging diving seagulls, burying Dad in the sand.

Explore England's pubs by canal boat
How does this sound for fun? A long weekend drifting from pub to pub with a group of friends, exploring the countryside, visiting different towns and villages, yet always having your bed a few hundred yards away at closing time?

This summer's 18 coolest cruises
You may find this hard to believe, but some people think cruising is dull. Really. Sit on a boat, visit some ports, eat too much, go home. Fine as far as it goes, they say, but a bit old hat, isn’t it?

Summer Season Brings Great Travel Deals
In big tourist destinations, hotels have resorted to slashing room rates, reports Michelle Miller. Deals are good because business is bad.
Britain's 20 best secret beaches
Some of my earliest childhood memories are of the beach â€" in the blazing sun and the pouring rain, searching for sea shells, building sandcastles, dodging diving seagulls, burying Dad in the sand.

Memorial Weekend Shocker: Expect Traffic

Memorial Weekend Shocker: Expect Traffic
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of the summer travel season, but if you think this might be the year you don't sit in traffic because Americans decide to stay home during a recession, think again.
Tackling Australia in a wheelchair
Long-haul flights are an intimidating prospect, but they are an inevitable part of my life as a Londoner married to an Australian. What makes them more complicated is that we have a three-year-old child and I am a wheelchair user.

World's Healthiest Vacation Spots
On The Early Show, Men's Health magazine senior editor Matt Bean gave his top three picks for getaways that promote health and fitness.
1.8 million Britons join Spring Bank Holiday exodus
The Spring Bank Holiday exodus will see an estimated 1.8 million Britons heading abroad over the weekend.

New adrenaline craze: board down an active volcano
Organised by Bigfoot Hostel and Green Pathways Tours, the experience offers thrillseekers the chance to jump on plywood boards and hurtle down an active volcano at speeds of up to 68km/hr.

Portugal holidays down due to 'Maddy factor'
The disappearance of Madeleine McCann from an Algarve holiday resort in 2007 is still affecting demand for holidays in Portugal, according to Thomas Cook.

How to pack superlight
The rules and penalties applied to our holiday luggage are getting tougher and tougher â€" sanity-defying, you might say.

Spell Me A River

Spell Me A River
More than four times as long as the Mississippi, the longest body of water in America is a lake located near Webster, Mass. The longest, that, is, if you measure it not in miles, but in letters.

On the trail of the Tasmanian devil
The very name Tasmania, once known as Van Diemen’s Land, conjures up grim images of chain-ganged prisoners. The worst of the Australian convict settlements were there, and when I visited I feared being faced with terrible reminders of British brutality.

Tourists who catch swine flu offered free Mexico holidays
Hotels in Mexico are offering free holidays to tourists who catch swine flu in their resorts in a bid to restore confidence in the destination.

Vote for the world's best travel blogger
The idea of the World Blogging Challenge came from Clement Wilson. It's a nice idea.

Got the right Palma? The holiday destinations that get mixed up
When my colleague, Gareth Scurlock, booked Bucharest instead of Budapest for a stag party of seven, it was an £826 mistake he won't forget (thanks to the #gareth twitter chat and endless ribbing from his colleagues).

Which travel firms do Twitter well (and badly)?
Getting hold of easyJet’s customer services team has always been a bit of a challenge. Firstly, it’s notoriously difficult to find the phone number on the company’s website. Then, when you do eventually track down the number, you are charged up to £1 a minute to speak to a real human being.

Three restaurants, three walks in Paris
Some ideas are so good, you wonder why a team of swots wasn’t commissioned to think them up years ago. Electricity, penicillin, Sky+: just think of the advances humankind could have experienced if we’d come up with them earlier.

Canada: my adventure cruise to Baffin Island
Just off the coast of Devon Island, the Zodiac is pitching and heaving. Shannon Fowler, five-foot-nothing in her socks, is in command. She is not, of course, wearing only socks, but rubber boots too, as we all are, and a survival suit.

Panama: a beginner's guide
Surprising place, Panama. Imagine a strip of land about ten miles wide owned by another country stretching through the middle of Britain. An independent state with its own army, tanks, police force, schools and shops.

Best Ways To Maximize Your Miles

Best Ways To Maximize Your Miles
Consumer Correspondent Susan Koeppen shared some advice with Harry Smith on the best way to maximize your frequent flyer miles.
Flights to Champions League Final top £750
Flights to Rome have more than doubled in price since last night’s Champions League semi-final.

10 top wildlife conservation holidays
It’s not easy being a black rhino.

Journey through Scotland's Western Isles
From a small lighthouse on the edge of an immense cliff, I gaze across a sea of molten mercury, rippled by wind. Waves surge over the jagged stacks below as the screeching of skuas and kittiwakes fills the air.