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Yelp! Yelp! Bark! *Spin*Look around helplessly* Yelp! Nearly 30 years later, I can’t forget the sight and sound of our dog being conveyered away to the cargo hold of a flight bound for “home” in Arizona. We had just completed a cross-country road trip to move my Army husband to Washington, D.C. As an Army […]

We saw this topic recently in a Facebook group … A traveler flying through London wanting to know whether they will need an ETIAS. The responses came quickly, but it took a lot of scrolling to get to a semi-accurate answer — no and maybe — amid the confusion. That’s because there are two travel

The stories have abounded recently and center on cruisers with Royal Caribbean reservations (we’ll explain why shortly. HINT: It’s not Royal’s fault, really.) The stories are similar enough — someone has a cruise booked and wants to make a change through the cruise line. So they hit up Google and call the number. Next thing

Disney Cruise Line sparked an online uproar this past week over the requirement for original birth certificates on closed-loop cruises. Disney did not change anything, only reinforced a long-held policy for original documentation. For background, a closed-loop cruise departs and returns to the same U.S. port and remains in the Western Hemisphere. U.S. Customs and

Launching a new website isn’t just about updating a look — it’s about improving the experience, strengthening the mission, and making it easier for the people we serve to get the help they need. Today, we’re thrilled to officially introduce the new Travel Help Stat website — created with one purpose in mind: Make travel

“If I can’t afford to lose the money, I can’t afford the trip.” That’s probably the only reason for declining travel insurance that I did not counter at the moment. My client considered each trip as a total loss, and if he was not comfortable with that possibility, he didn’t take the trip. When someone

The awards season is underway, and this week, we look at the results from Travel Weekly and the Readers Choice awards for 2024. We will cut through some of the bulk — there were 91 voting categories in all — to congratulate our outstanding travel partners. How well do the results match your favorites? Let

We are so excited about this development — definitely our biggest of the year — it gets its own newsletter!   WE HAVE OUR OWN PROMO CODE —  BONUSSTAT Enter BONUSSTAT (not case sensitive) to receive your Nurse Blake t-shirt onboard! If you count yourself among the millions of Nurse Blake followers on social media

Don’t sign on the dotted line for an international trip before double-checking your passport expiration. You’ll want to renew in plenty of time, but that just became a little easier. Much-heralded online passport renewal went into effect in September after a successful testing period. According to the Department of State, not all passport holders will