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For Naples, Florida residents Jayne and Jack Lahti, picking a cruise is no easy feat.
“We’re not your typical cruisers,” Jayne told HuffPost. “We’ve tried a few different (cruise) lines, and you really start to figure out what you like and don’t like. We mostly cruise because we like the itinerary. It’s a great way to see a lot of places, or even places we may have been but want to see another side of.”
According to a study conducted by Cruise Lines International Association, 26 million passe...

Best Buy offers some of the most competitive prices when it comes to electronics big and small. Knowing how and when to find the best deals can be just as good as knowing when to skip an item entirely. We spoke to personal shopping and money-saving experts to determine what's a great deal and what you're better off buying somewhere else.

Millennials, influencers and fast food lovers rejoice: The Bell: A Taco Bell Hotel and Resort officially opened their doors in Palm Spring, California today.
To commemorate the historic event, The Bell has scheduled a variety of taco-themed activities for their guests that include everything from lounging on hot sauce packet rafts in the hotel's Fire! Pool to watching dive-in movies and dancing to sunset performances by artists including Wallows. Of course, there will be plenty of time to #tr...

A 90th birthday is always cause for celebration: A nice big cake, a few dozen candles. But when Britain’s longest reigning monarch, Elizabeth II, turns 90, the world takes notice (and with more than just a pastry.)
According to royal records, Queen Elizabeth II was born at 2:40 a.m. on April 21, 1926 in Mayfair, London, and she’s led a pretty busy life ever since. Over her reign, she’s worked alongside international diplomats and policymakers like Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher; she ...

The brilliance of the Philly cheesesteak is its simplicity — bread, steak, and cheese (if you can call the Cheez Whiz concoction that goes on top that). But that's also why it is imitated everywhere, in ways that some would argue better the original (you didn't hear it from us). So if you're not in near Geno's or Pat's, these 10 places should more than satisfy your craving.
Shorty’s — New York City
Shorty’s bills itself as New York City’s most authentic Philly-style cheesesteak, and their thi...

All due respect to Florence + the Machine, but the dog days are definitely not over and depending on where you are in the northern hemisphere, August is shaping up to be one hot one mother. Despite the instinct to retreat into air-conditioning, August is one of the best months to travel for music and food festivals -- like Fringe Fest in Edinburgh, Scotland, or a lobster festival in Rockland, Maine. And speaking of Florence, she’s headlining at Sziget, one of Europe’s biggest parties of the s...

It’s safe to say Sir Richard Branson knows a thing or two about traveling. Fresh off of a red-eye flight from New Orleans for the opening party of Virgin’s new $80 million property in the emerging South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco, Robb Report had a chance to catch up with the jet-setting billionaire in the hotel’s Shag Room to talk all things cruising, Virgin Galactic and the one thing he wouldn’t even consider going into orbit without.
Talk to me about Virgin Voyages. What are y...

The ability to work remotely while having the flexibility to travel is becoming more important for workers. We rounded up nine jobs that will let you travel the world while getting paid in the process.

Key West is always a good-time kind of town, and while you never really need an excuse to visit, like with any popular travel destination finding an affordable hotel can sometimes present a challenge.

In a destination as over the top as Dubai, narrowing down a list of the best hotels is no easy feat. It’s a city that is anything but boring—from an underwater suite at Atlantis, The Palm to a fa...

Sex isn’t exactly synonymous with cruising. Still, as I’m standing half naked in the steam room aboard the Viking Sea, someone is telling me to “bend over and put my hands on the glass” before I get spanked with water soaked birch leaves by a buxom Transylvanian massage therapist named Paula.

Paula has been hired to perform a ritual, called Nordic Nights, meant to be an educational offering for passengers interested in learning about the bathing practices of, well Nordic people. As we bounce ...

It’s an unusually warm spring night on Chicago's Gold Coast, and tucked behind plush purple drapes in the private dining room of Maple & Ash, buckets of Krug Grand Cuvee and Dom Ruinart champagne are starting to sweat. The James Beard Awards are always an exciting time to visit the windy city, and on the eve of the biggest night in food at an intimate candlelit gathering hosted by LVMH heiress and entrepreneur Stephanie Watine Arnault, sweaty buckets of bubbly are just about the last thing on...

Chef Daniela Soto-Innes has been named the elite Vodka World’s Best Female Chef of 2019 by the World’s 50 Best Restaurant. The award, which was announced today, recognizes the achievements of one woman every year—past winners have included Dominique Crenn, who helms San Francisco’s three-Michelin-star Atelier Crenn, and Clare Smyth of London’s Core—and this year, it shines its very bright spotlight on 29-year-old Soto-Innes, the chef de cuisine of New York City’s Cosmé.
“I want to be able to ...

Memorial Day weekend is right around the corner which means if you’re still looking for some last-minute New York City escape plans you’re in luck. While there's certainly no shortage of options to choose from, if you're wanting to maximize your time whether its in the mountains or on the beach, less than two-hours away by car or train are a number of incredible hotels for every traveler at every budget. So, from a Scandinavian-style hideaway in the Catskills to a hip beachfront hotel in Asbu...

Better get your pinot-egregious chilled for this one. Amy Poehler’s new movie Wine Country debuted on Netflix over the weekend and in addition to the killer dance moves, laugh out loud one-liners and yes the occasional fart joke, it’s serving up some serious travel wanderlust.
The film, which features a lineup of SNL all-stars including Poehler as the self appointed bossy pants travel planner Abby, along with Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer and a garden variety of cameos by Tina Fey...