The Palisades Tahoe ski resort has a lot going for it: an idyllic location seven miles from Lake Tahoeâs western shore, a peak elevation of 9,050 feet with 2,850 feet of vertical, and 6,000 skiable acres spread over two bases and served by 43 lifts. The famed California destination, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary,…
Leigh Bowery Tate Modern, London Note the exclamation mark in the title: âLeigh Bowery!â at Tate Modern (Feb. 27 through Aug. 31) is the first large-scale exhibition to present the multidisciplinary output that was the work and too-short-life of the boy from suburban Sunshine, Australia, who out-weirded the colorful 1980s London club scene. Bowery is…
The Transportation Department announced on Friday a $2 million penalty against JetBlue Airways for operating several flights on the East Coast that chronically arrived late in 2022 and 2023. Half of the money collected will go to the impacted passengers. The penalty is the first time that the D.O.T. has fined an airline for chronic…
Dear Tripped Up, Last March, my daughter and I were headed from Berlin, where she was studying, to Italy for her spring break. Our 8:50 p.m. Ryanair flight to Rome was delayed for several hours and eventually postponed to the next morning at 6 a.m. We were given the address of a hotel and told…
Laos, a place that feels stuck in time, is at the precipice of change. Backpackers found the country decades ago, drawn by staggeringly beautiful limestone mountains, elaborate Buddhist temples and an unhurried and inexpensive pace of life. Only the most intrepid travelers followed, as Laos, Southeast Asiaâs only landlocked country, operated few â and no…
Icon of a wilting palm tree Fighting the crowds The popular use of the word âovertourismâ can be traced to a 2016 article about Iceland in Skift, a travel-industry publication. But itâs been a theme on the list since at least 2006, when we suggested Istria, in northern Croatia, as an alternative for âfoodies weary…
Shortly after boarding her Turkish Airlines flight from Johannesburg to Istanbul last March, Patience Titcombe, 36, from Phoenix, noticed a small bug crawling on her seat when she got up to use the restroom. âI almost flicked it away,â she said, âBut my friend stopped me and said, âThatâs a bedbug.ââ Ms. Titcombe, who had…
Yi-Pin Lin, an associate professor at Tufts University, proudly says he has vacationed in 120 nations over the past decade. But there was one country he had always dreamed of visiting, only to be frightened off by decades of war, kidnappings and terrorism: Afghanistan. With the end of the Afghan war in 2021, the countryâs…