By Stacey Zable* Family Travel Editor The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach in Manalapan, Fla., epitomizes the glamour of Palm Beach and the luxury hotel chain itself, but guests will also discover a staff and fellow guests who welcome young hotel occupants and even their dogs! To follow are five family features of The Ritz-Carlton, Palm […]

  Travel to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador can be as spectacular today as it was during Darwin’s 1835 voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle for one reason: Conservation. The Galapagos Islands are as untouched now as they were then, but now the islands bring a precious touch of luxury offered through land-based stays at Pikaia […]

Americans would rather take smaller vacations over the course of a year than one big trip. That’s the latest word from Hotwire, the online discount travel agency that put the question to the test recently in its annual American Travel Behavior Survey. The study was executed through Harris Interactive in October and surveyed more than […]

Spa and Wellness Packages for the New Year New year, new start. 2013 is just getting started and so are New Year’s wellness resolutions for losing that weight, amping up that chi, building up that extra muscle, and manning up for making those long-held goals come true. Here is the “how” of it. But, there […]

While navigating crowds at airports is a common pastime these days, especially for those accustomed to pulling wheelies all over the world, those airports are destined to get more difficult to move through as they handle the whopping 3.6 million flyers predicted to be using them by 2016. Everyday will be like Christmas according to […]