One of the glitziest hotels in the IHG Hotels & Resorts orbit hosted VIP — very important poultry — guests over the weekend prior to their high-profile pardon from U.S. President Joe Biden. Peach and Blossom, the turkeys Biden pardoned Monday ahead of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, enjoyed a luxe stay at the Willard InterContinental,…

The Transportation Security Administration is fully staffed and ready for more record-breaking crowds this holiday season. That’s the word from TSA administrator David Pekoske, who spoke to TPG in a wide-ranging interview about the future of the TSA as well as his own future under the incoming Trump administration. TSA expects the Tuesday and Wednesday…

With the end of the year in sight, now’s the perfect time to inventory your credit card perks and benefits to ensure you’ve used and maximized as many of them as possible this year. Some of these benefits are “use it or lose it” at the end of the calendar year, which means you could…

Etihad Airways will add Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) to its map next year as part of a 10-destination, three-continent expansion unveiled on Monday. The Gulf carrier will link Atlanta to its hub at Abu Dhabi’s Zayed International Airport (AUH) four times a week beginning July 2. Etihad will fly the Abu Dhabi-Atlanta route with…

Your resident Chicagoan is back for another local hotel review. For this review, I went east toward Lake Michigan and north toward Lincoln Park for a two-night stay at the Thompson Chicago, a Category 5 Hyatt property. The Thompson sits on the corner of Rush Street and East Bellevue Place in Gold Coast, one of…

TopCashback is one of many shopping portals that let you earn rewards on your online purchases. While some portals award airline miles, Chase Ultimate Rewards points or American Express Membership Rewards points, TopCashback offers money back in the form of cash or gift cards. Plus, it has one valuable feature that no other cash-back portal…

The Transportation Security Administration screens around 4 million passengers per day at 450 U.S. airports. In 2023 alone, the agency processed more than 858 million passengers, 484 million checked bags and 1.9 billion carry-on items. Going through a TSA checkpoint is not exactly pleasant for most travelers. Most simply want to get through a TSA…

November: What a month — especially this one. There was a lot to get through between the election, the start of the holiday season, the time change and, at least, for those who love and support me and my fellow TPG hotel reporter Cameron Sperance, two Scorpio birthdays. Between all of that, there was still…

When people find out my job is to write about travel credit cards, they usually ask for expert advice. They want to know which of our favorite credit cards I recommend, which cards will complement their existing portfolio and whether their current everyday card is a good one. They also often want to know which…

These days, most of us know a thing or two about avoiding scams. We scoff at emails from foreign princes soliciting Western Union money transfers — if the messages even make it through our spam filters, of course — and even our phones can detect if an incoming call from an unknown number is likely…