Choose carefully when you select a traveling companion, say the folks at travel search site Skycanner. “Moody and stroppy” companions are the most frequent cause of spoiled vacations. (Stroppy, by the way, is a British term for someone who is…

Summer in Breckenridge, Colo. Photo by Tom Uhlenbrock/Post-Dispatch.

Do visitors to national parks need an etiquette update? The folks at Ore Communications and the U.S. National Parks Service must think so. They distributed this press release last week:

Seven Rules of…

StudentUniverse.com, a travel site for, you guessed it, students, has listed 10 inexpensive travel destinations. St. Louis is first on the list:

This slower paced city is perfect for a lazy vacation. Walk around the city and explore the various neighborhoods, foods,…

Sunset in Key West, Fla.

The best travel bargains are free. Here are five to seek out, according to a press release from TripAdvisor.com.

I’ve been to two of them (The Cliff Walk in Newport, R.I., and Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles).…

I was fairly dismayed when I realized I had a 7 1/2-hour layover at Heathrow during my recent journey to Hamburg, Germany, but my time there seemed to, well, f ly.

Heathrow Terminal 5

That’s because I was in Heathrow’s new Terminal…

Travel and Leisure magazine has decided to rate 30 favorite American metropolitan areas this year, up from 25 in past surveys.

The editors have come up with a list of 10 contenders for the additional five positions. St. Louis is among…

Southwest Air has announced that it will begin flying to Logan International Airport in Boston on Aug. 16. Five flights a day will connect from Midway Airport in Chicago, and five will connect from Baltimore-Washington International in Maryland.

Good fares from St.…

Travel websites are springing up all over.

Here are two I recently learned about:

Yapta lets you track prices on flights and hotel rooms. You can sign up to get an email if the rates drop.

Kayak.com’s new site, TravelPost.com, consolidates reviews, content…

List-lovers will want to take a look at the May issue of Food & Wine (on newstands April 15) or check out Foodandwine.com.

The magazine has gone a bit list-crazy, rating the world’s best food cities, the best restaurants near tourist…