If you’re racking your brain to come up with the perfect gift for your cruise-loving family member or friend, consider buying them a gift card or certificate from their favorite cruise line. Cruisers will appreciate a gift they can use toward purchasing their cruise fare or splurging on a beverage package, specialty restaurant or spa…

There are the trips taken to get away, but perhaps even better are the trips taken to get together. And there’s not much I enjoy more than the trips I get to take with my extended group of friends, who might better be thought of as family at this point. One of the many things…

One of our favorite ways to redeem transferable credit card points is to transfer them to airline and hotel partner programs. While you can redeem points through many credit card programs’ travel platforms to book flights and hotel stays, you’ll only get a fixed redemption value when redeeming your rewards through the travel platform. For…

I have never taken my family on a theme park vacation because they’re just too dang expensive. Other families are going into debt to go to Disney World, but I don’t like the Mouse enough to jeopardize my financial security. And while I’m privileged to have a vacation budget, many of our vacations involve driving…

The idea of winter cruises might conjure visions of ice floes, or it might be an island escape from the doldrums of those typically cold months. In reality, a winter cruise is both. Winter weather depends on where you live, but a cruise during the months that end and begin the year offers the chance…