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Traveling is expensive overall, but one of the biggest costs associated with a trip is often the lodging. Studies have suggested that the best time to buy a plane ticket for lower-price options is 70 days in advance. But does the same reasoning apply to hotel rooms? HuffPost spoke with travel booking experts to get […]

If Croatia’s seaside locales have become tourism starlets, then Rijeka, a working-class port city on the Adriatic, is the country’s gritty understudy. So, it came as some surprise when this town, whose skyline merges Hapsburgian decadence with shipyard cranes, was named European Capital of Culture for 2020 over other Croatian candidates like Dubrovnik and Split.

TRIESTE, Italy — The Bora wind blows so fiercely through Trieste, a melancholic port town on the Adriatic Sea, that some sidewalks are lined with handrails. The wind maddens pedestrians, but it also fills the sails of skippers who come from all over to compete in Italy’s aquatic equivalent of the New York City Marathon.

Five Jamaicans recruited to work at a Montana ski resort for the ultra-rich say they and more than 100 other Jamaicans were discriminated against and paid less than other employees doing the same work. They filed a lawsuit last year and are scheduled for settlement talks with the Yellowstone Club and a hospitality staffing agency

Traditional Luxury on an Italian Island $2.2 MILLION (2 MILLION EUROS) This three-bedroom house is perched on a hill in Pantogia, a bucolic residential area on the northeastern coast of the Italian island of Sardinia overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea. Built in the early 1900s as a farmhouse, called a stazzu, the home was restored and

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said on Wednesday that its leader, Kim Jong-un, had ordered the demolition of South Korean hotels and other buildings in a resort complex that the two countries once operated together. The resort town at Diamond Mountain, or Kumgang, just north of the inter-Korean border, opened in 1998, at a

Some hotels offer a glass of champagne at check in. Others, a freshly baked cookie. At the Aloft Greenville Downtown in Greenville, S.C., though, the on-the-house welcome could be a wet, slobbery kiss. The Aloft brand, a midrange hotel company owned by Marriott, has pet-friendly policies at its more than 140 locations, welcoming dogs under

One morning in June, I opened my email to find an itinerary for a trip — a “transformational journey,” rather — that would begin that very day. I quickly packed a bag and caught a last-minute flight from Berlin, where I live, to Lisbon. By the time I landed, I’d received another email, this one

In Copenhagen, the Danish capital that pledges to become the world’s first carbon-neutral city by 2025, a 410-foot tall smoke stack is a cause for celebration and the massive incinerator beneath it the latest tourist attraction. Especially if you bring skis. The Amager Bakke powerplant, designed by the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, turns local trash

NEWPORT, R.I. — They met in Ios, Greece: locking eyes across the town square, both in their 20s then. (She had noticed his distinctive mustache.) Elayna Carausu was playing guitar and singing for a travel company; Riley Whitelum was living on the sailboat he had bought with money saved from working for years on oil