A royal treatment on rails is coming to England and Wales. This week Belmond announced plans for the Britannic Explorer, a Belmond Train — set to be the first luxury sleeper train in England in Wales when it debuts in July of next year. The Britannic Explorer will depart from London Victoria Station on three-night…

You pay hundreds of dollars annually for a card that offers you lounge access — and then you get to the airport only to face a long line at the lounge entrance. Many TPG readers and staffers have experienced this as the number of those receiving access to issuer-branded lounges has swelled over the past…

Those big welcome bonuses that can come with new credit cards after you hit a spending threshold can really accelerate you to a great vacation courtesy of your points and miles. But, after you get past that glitzy reason to add a new credit card to your wallet, there’s more that rewards cards can do…

We all want to cherish the Christmas magic, but it’s not always easy to do when faced with a whirlwind of planning, shopping, cooking and end-of-year logistics. Sometimes the magic is easier to capture when you step out of your normal life for a minute and into somewhere different — like a theme park that…

Witnessing the elusive northern lights flickering across the sky might cause you to gasp because it’s actually that cool. The colorful ribbons of green look like something from outer space — and they are. Auroras appear when charged particles collide with Earth’s atmosphere. Seeing the ethereal display, also known as the aurora borealis, is a…

Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information and offers. It’s been four years since Disney announced Splash Mountain would close at Disneyland and Walt Disney World to remove the culturally insensitive theming and make way for a new, more modern, more inclusive story. The ride opened at Disneyland in 1989…

It’s always a good time to visit Yosemite National Park, but the last half of February is an especially popular time to travel to California’s most-visited national park. The reason? Yosemite’s annual “firefall” — an eye-catching optical illusion that makes Horsetail Fall appear on fire when a few conditions sync up perfectly. The National Park…