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What Is the Best Travel Pillow for a Long Flight? Our Tests Revealed a Clear Winner

Sleep specialists generally recommend lying on your side while dozing as the best position for keeping your spine in alignment, though people with back pain might find greater relief…

Save Money on Checked Luggage! The Best Carry-On Bags That Fit Under an Airline Seat

When airlines began charging to check bags, they also ushered in the era of "gate lice." That's modern slang for people who jockey for early boarding to their flights in order to score…

What Is the Best Lip Balm for Travel? We Asked Two Skin Care Experts

What’s the most important item to carry with you when you travel? That question was recently posed to the more than 1.5 million members of the private Facebook group Girls LOVE Travel…

The Best Packable Backpacks: These Day Packs Fold Up for Easy Travel

Now that many travelers are cutting costs by packing only a single carry-on bag, a new problem arises: What should you carry around for a day of touring, or what bag can you use in the…

The Frommer's Travel Products Gift Guide for 2023

The success of gift-giving lies in the using. Too many presents are politely received but then wind up on the shelf, at the back of the closet, or in the bin. The real winners are the…

Travel Products That Get Big Jobs Done in Small Spaces

It's the travel pillow that will also clamp your smartphone in place on flights. The Pillow Talk Mobile Pillow ($48) from Spice of Life is 56 inches long, can bend into any shape, and…

Why Didn't We Come Up with These Creative Inventions for Life on the Road?

During the pandemic, we've spent way more time indoors than we would have liked. Now that we're eyeing the open road again, many of us will find our travel expectations have been…

Awesome New Travel Gadgets We're Watching

Every week, the inboxes at Frommer's are jammed with appeals from manufacturers who swear they have come up with the next greatest thing for travelers. Most of it doesn't excite us—we…

The Annual Frommer's Travel Gift Guide

This year, give the gift that keeps on moving! We combed the current best offerings to find travel gadgets and inventions that actually improve the way we experience places—and we…

Three Hot New Travel Inventions Coming to You Soon Through Crowdfunding

The entire Internet is now an episode of Shark Tank. Inventors with a good idea no longer have to go the traditional route and sell out to VCs and banks—they can take the product…

Three Hot New Travel Inventions Coming to You Soon Through Crowdfunding

The entire Internet is now an episode of Shark Tank. Inventors with a good idea no longer have to go the traditional route and sell out to VCs and banks—they can take the product…

That's Ridiculous! What's Your Hurry?

I don't know what I was thinking, trying to drive 1,100 miles in a straight shot. Was I trying to set a new land-speed record? Or had I just forgotten that everyone needs to sleep…

Park of the Week: The Pony Express National Historic Trail

"Only 10 days to deliver mail from Missouri to California?" Some folks didn't believe it back in April 1860, when the new Pony Express service was inaugurated between St. Joseph,…

10 Haunted Houses of the American South

Few U.S. regions conjure up visions of ghostly apparitions like the South. Stately old antebellum mansions, often abandoned to the ravages of time, loom from behind moss-draped trees.…

Danish Treats: Having Fun and Getting Happy in Copenhagen

"We're the Texans of Scandinavia," said a burly Dane to me years ago, explaining how he and his countrymen differ from what he called the "formal Swedes, the gloomy Norwegians and the…