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03.06.15

The Fare Predicting Game Gets Hot with FLYR
The Fare Predicting Game Gets Hot with FLYR
Credit: Courtesy of FLYR Inc.

By Nikki Ekstein

Tech Travel, Air Travel

Just a few weeks ago, T+L broke down the inner workings of Hopper, a new app that helps users decide the right time to buy flights, depending on historical trends and current fare fluctuations. Now, another name is breaking into the fare-predictin...
03.06.15

Around the World, Colors Fly for Holi
Around the World, Colors Fly for Holi
Credit: Gallo images / Alamy

By Caroline Hallemann

Arts + Culture

Heralding the arrival of spring, celebrations of Holi, the traditional Hindu festival of colors, are taking place around the world today. A testament to the Indian diaspora, revelers from Jodhpur to Cape Town to Spanish Fork, Utah are covering fri...
03.05.15

10 Questions For the Guy Who Wants to Resurrect Our Precious SkyMall
10 Questions For the Guy Who Wants to Resurrect Our Precious SkyMall
Credit: Thomas Hawk

By Amy Schellenbaum

Air Travel, Shopping

Scant days after beloved airplane catalog SkyMall sent the world into a collective freak-out over its bankruptcy filing, an entrepreneur by the name of Scott Jordan announced his hopes to buy the magazine. Jordan, a former Shark Tank contestant an...
03.05.15

LaGuardia Closes After Plane Skids Off Runway
LaGuardia Closes After Plane Skids Off Runway
Credit: © JESSICA RINALDI/Reuters/Corbis

By Caroline Hallemann

Air Travel

A plane ran off the runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport this morning as it tried to land amid icy conditions. The aircraft, a Delta MD-88 coming from Atlanta, crashed into a fence around 11 a.m., but avoided going into the water that edges LaGu...
03.05.15

Watch Conan O'Brien Take a Hilarious Vacation in Havana, Cuba
Watch Conan O'Brien Take a Hilarious Vacation in Havana, Cuba
Credit: Team Coco

By Amy Schellenbaum

Celebrity Travel

For last night's much-ballyhooed special edition of Conan, funnyman Conan O'Brien traveled to Havana, Cuba, where he, clad in a cream-colored suit, dined at a family-owned paladar (alongside statues of Jesus and Karl Marx), joined a salsa band and...
03.05.15

Airbnb is Offering a Stay Atop the ‘World’s Most Modern Ski Jump’
Airbnb is Offering a Stay Atop the ‘World’s Most Modern Ski Jump’
Credit: Photo by Felix Odell, © 2015 Airbnb Inc.

By Caroline Hallemann

Hotels + Resorts

Calling all thrill-seeking ski bunnies: at the end of the month, Airbnb is giving away two nights in the penthouse atop Oslo’s Holmenkollen ski jump. The site of multiple Winter Olympics and World Championship competitions the “world’s most mod...
03.05.15

Coming Soon: the Secret to La Dolce Vita in Rome’s Termini Station
Coming Soon: the Secret to La Dolce Vita in Rome’s Termini Station
Credit: Raffaele Fazioli

By Adrien Glover

The coolest travel news out of Rome right now isn’t from the Vatican, the classic-turned cool neighborhood of Prati, or the cutting-edge MACRO contemporary art museum. Instead, it’s Rome’s bustling and iconic Termini train station, which is genera...
03.04.15

Did Philippe Starck Just Design the Sexiest, Most Functional Carry-On Around?
Did Philippe Starck Just Design the Sexiest, Most Functional Carry-On Around?
Credit: © Starcktrip by Delsey

By Amy Farley

Air Travel

When designer Philippe Starck puts his mind to travel problems, he inevitably lands on some brilliant marriage of form and function, from his NFC-enabled Paris metro cards to the ingeniously designed, yet affordable Mama Shelter hotels. So it’s...
03.04.15

Chesapeake Bay Candle to Launch New York-Inspired Fragrance Line
Chesapeake Bay Candle to Launch New York-Inspired Fragrance Line
Credit: © Chesapeake Bay Candle®

By Caroline Hallemann

Shopping

When it comes to destination-inspired fragrances, the scent of New York City is probably far from the top of most people's wish list, as its signature smell during the summer could reasonably be described as eau de hot garbage. Fortunately, Che...
03.04.15

2016 Trip Idea: Snowboarding on a Copenhagen Waste Plant
2016 Trip Idea: Snowboarding on a Copenhagen Waste Plant
Credit: © BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group

By Amy Schellenbaum

Architecture

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, the cool-kid masterbuilder responsible for NYC's floppy residential pyramid and other similarly futuristic projects, has just released renderings for what may be the world's first waste plant worth traveling to: a r...