Win Tickets To The TPG Reader Meet-Up in Miami!

100,000 isn’t just the amount of some credit card sign- up bonuses (though it is the amount of Amex points you could earn if you were targeted for the Amex Platinum sign-up bonus)- it’s the number of Facebook fans we hit today! To celebrate we are throwing a party in Miami this coming Tuesday, January […]



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5 Tips To Getting Hotel Suite Upgrades For Free

The single most important factor in terms of traveling with young children is... space. Be it on the plane, in the hotel, or in the car, more space is better!

While Ben apparently forgets to even use the suite upgrades he is granted each year, I often go out of my way to finagle suites which I'm not even entitled to! That's not to say that we absolutely have to have a suite. We can-- and do-- frequently stay in a single hotel room for a night or two, but we know that our kids (3.5 year old son, 2.5 year old daughter) will eventually be in each others' faces (or ours!) if we do this for an extended period of time -- say for a month like on our current Southeast Asian Adventure!

On our recent month-long Southeast Asian Adventure, we stayed at six western chain hotels where we had some level of status. We booked a single standard room at each of these six properties, and in no case were we entitled to a suite. Yet 5 of the 6 stays were upgraded to suite. (We also stayed at several independent hotels on this trip. Those results are not included here.)

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Cvent acquires Elite Meetings International

Cvent has acquired hospitality marketing company, Elite Meetings. Terms were not disclosed, but, in a statement today, Cvent said it expects “the ...



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Skiing

Where to go downhill — or where to just loaf around a resort.





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Confessions of a filmmaker: nature’s power of inspiration

Watch what drives filmmaker Mathieu Le Lay's creativity and tell us: what inspires YOU to create art?



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100 Free, Instant American Airlines Miles

American AAdvantage will give you 100 miles for joining PointsHound, the hotel search website. I’ve written about PointsHound in the past, and used it when they had rates that allowed you to earn miles in the airline of your choice for making a hotel booking and still earn hotel points, elite credit, and receive elite […]

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#NGTRadar: Travel Lately

Travel Lately—a roundup of the best new dispatches from the travel blogosphere—is a regular feature on Intelligent Travel every other Wednesday. You can play, too. Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTravel and tag your favorite travel stories #NGTRadar to help us find the crème de la crème on the Web.



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Anniversaries, From Rio to Selma

There are opportunities around the world to remember history, both the good and the bad.

















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How to Travel in 2015

There are plenty of places to visit this year, and there are new ways to get there.

















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Where to Eat, and Where Dance It Off

Whether you want to indulge your appetite or party on the Great Wall, the year offers plenty of food and music festivals.

















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The Year Ahead in Extreme Sports

Where to see niche athletes compete with one another — and the elements.

















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United Global Services Members Now Get Lufthansa First Class Lounge Access

In December Lufthansa added a nice perk for their top tier HON Circle members. This status requires 600,000 status miles every two years. With this new benefit, HON Circle members receive access to United Global First Lounges when traveling in business class on Lufthansa or United. This includes the lounges in Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Washington.

While admittedly United Global First Lounges aren't all that nice, they're better than the United Clubs for sure. My assumption at the time was that this wouldn't be reciprocal, since I assumed Lufthansa was just paying United some amount of money to make the flying experience more pleasant for their top tier elites.

And I especially assumed that since Lufthansa is among the strictest airlines when it comes to first class lounge access rules. They only allow first class passengers on Lufthansa/Swiss and HON Circle members to access their first class lounges. So they're much more difficult to access than United Global First Lounges.

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American’s Lucrative Premium Travel Mileage Bonuses Now Posting

As a reminder, American Airlines announced a 2015 mileage promotion that will offer bonus miles to AAdvantage and Dividend Miles members for eligible first and business class fares. This is huge for those who fly American and pay for premium fares and frankly I’m surprised that it isn’t targeted and lasts the entire year. In […]



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Delta Changes Award Chart Just One Week Into the New 2015 Program

Earlier I showed that Delta was charging more for some awards than their published maximum ‘level 5′ prices. I gave the example of West Palm Beach – Honolulu. The award chart showed a maximum possible price of 90,000 miles each was in Delta’s premium cabin. But I showed that itineraries were pricing at higher than […]

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36 Hours: What to Do in Milan

The new energy coursing through the city can be enjoyed even before this year’s World Expo.

















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