I love the Caribbean, and have been lucky enough to travel to many of its beautiful island countries. But when I married into a family from Boston, I learned that one island lives rent-free in the minds of Bostononians: Aruba. Having not been there myself (much to the disappointment of my loved ones up north),…

I never wanted to gate-check my carry-on in the first place. On a recent Austrian Airlines flight from Valencia, Spain, to Vienna, I was asked to gate-check my carry-on bag. I’d traveled with the same bag many times before, but its dimensions slightly exceeded Austrian’s published limits, a reminder that many European airlines enforce carry-on…

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In the hottest months of summer, the appeal of an expansive, glittering swimming pool cannot be understated when perusing hotels or resorts to book for that next vacation, holiday weekend or even staycation. There are, of course, perennial favorite pools that can’t be denied season after season, year after year. But properties across the country…

United Airlines often makes a big splash by adding new routes to off-the-beaten-path destinations on big wide-body planes. This week, though, the Chicago-based carrier is adding service to a handful of smaller U.S. cities on regional jets. Fresh off announcing its return to Moab, Utah, United on Friday confirmed four new and returning routes from…