The worst chore in multi-airline travel just died. On October 12, at its Innovation Summit in Lisbon, oneworld announced that all 15 member airlines can now issue boarding passes for each other’s flights: check in once, in whichever member app…
Here’s the secret about eating alone in a nice restaurant: the data says you’re the normal one. Toast’s 2026 survey of 650 solo diners found 56% of guests feel “very comfortable” dining alone, and fewer than 1% feel very uncomfortable.…
Disneyland raised ticket prices again this week – and buried inside the increase is genuinely good news for anyone trying to do the park on a budget. The October 6 adjustment was the smallest in years: only the four middle…
Cathay Pacific’s Asia Miles program suspended Japan Airlines award bookings on Friday, with no reason given and no end date. If you were planning to move flexible points into Asia Miles for a JAL flight, stop: the points would land…
Halloween Time at Disneyland runs through October 31, which means we’re in the final stretch of the resort’s biggest seasonal food lineup – and Disney’s own foodie guide for the season is long enough to be a menu in itself.…
A sharp piece making the rounds this week reframes the solo-travel conversation: most people searching “solo travel” aren’t asking how to be alone – they’re asking how to go without a travel partner. The answer increasingly isn’t a compromise; it’s…
The Points Guy’s October 2026 valuations are out, landing in the same week that Bilt announced it’s cutting Hyatt transfers to 4:3 – a useful coincidence, because monthly valuation tables are exactly the right tool for understanding what that kind…
Google just published its annual holiday travel analysis, built on five years of Google Flights data, and it quietly hands you the whole playbook: domestic fares bottom out around 39 days before departure, Thanksgiving around 34, Christmas around 56 –…
The last 1:1 door to World of Hyatt is closing. Bilt announced this week that starting January 1, 2027, its points will transfer to Hyatt at 4:3 instead of 1:1 – days after Chase’s identical cut went live for most…
Beach clubs are having a moment big enough that cruise lines are building their own: Royal Caribbean’s CEO was asked directly this week when the company’s Royal Beach Club Cozumel will open, and while the date is still fluid, the…