Travel

A Weekender Duffel Bag That Can Handle Your Sleeping Bag and Tent Too

When you’re not flush with weeks of vacation time, short weekend getaways are the best way to take advantage of those warm summer months. And whether you’re spending that time in a cabin or a tent, Alite’s Great Escape duffel bag can hold everything you need for a couple days worth of rest and respite.…

Never Stay In a Hotel With Crappy Wi-Fi Thanks to This Useful Site

When you’re traveling, hotel Wi-Fi might be your only source of connectivity, so when you wind up in a hotel and the internet crawwwwwls, it can be a major bummer. Thanks to sites like SpeedSpot or Hotel Wi-Fi Test, you can avoid unfortunate internet conditions. If you’re traveling to a city, simply search for each…

How to Get the Best Sleep of Your Life on an Airplane

Navigating your way through clueless tourists, grabby TSA guards, and disinterested ticket counter clerks is only half the battle. Once you make it to your seat, you’ve still got an entire flight to endure. Your best airplane strategy is almost always to sleep through the entire ordeal, but how does one sleep effectively while fully…

Modern Luggage Decals Let You Humblebrag About Your Travels

Back in the day it wasn’t uncommon for trunks and suitcases to slowly become covered in labels as they visited cities and ports around the world. But it’s become sort of a lost art—one that the folks at Animi Causa are trying to revive with this set of lovingly designed luggage label decals. The set…

Explore the Largest Cruise Ship In the World With Google Street View

At 1,184 feet long and weighing in at 222,900 tons, Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas is the largest cruise ship ever built. It’s able to carry 5,400 passengers—plus crew—and with on-board amenities like a skating rink, a miniature golf course, surfing simulators, and a merry-go-round, there’s little need to ever leave the ship. Does…

This Cozy Log Cabin in the Swiss Alps Is Completely Made of Concrete

If you didn’t know know better, you’d think the Refugi Liepthaus in the Alps was just another quaint log cabin from afar. But if you get close, you’ll realize that those ridges on the walls are not logs but a beautiful brutalist exterior. It’s awesome. Refugi Liepthaus is an award-winning house designed by Nickisch Sano…

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vacation Travel Site Reveals New Footage

Want to take a trip to Xandar, Morag, or Knowhere? Now you can—at least virtually—with the Guardians of the Galaxy travel site, which lets you explore each destination on Street View and shows us a great bar scene from the film. Galaxy Getaways assures us that every vacation hotspot on Earth is garbage compared with…

Economy Airplane Seats of the Future Will Be More Like First Class

BAE Systems has taken a break from submarines and warships to lavish attention on the humble cattle-class flyer. Its IntelliCabin, a system that integrates passenger controls into a touchscreen tablet interface for fliers and staff, should make standard class a bit more like first. A bit. http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/05/new-nuclear-sub-artful-plops-into-the-sea-beside-cumbria/ The system delivers power to each seat, so…

A Vader Suitcase Can Even Squeeze Into a TIE Fighter’s Overhead Bins

Even though it’s designed for kids, it’s going to be hard for adult Star Wars fans not to trade in their carry-on luggage for this awesome 3D Vader suitcase—even if they are Yoda-sized. Recommended for kids ages three and up, this $40 rolling suitcase can easily accommodate a week’s worth of clothing for a toddler,…

A Scratch-Off Globe Helps Keep Track of Your Country Hopping

If you’ve got more air miles saved up than money in the bank, here’s a clever way to keep track of every single country you’ve visited on your global travels. Basic origami skills are all that’s needed to assemble this 3D cardboard globe featuring a gold foil outer layer that can be scratched off revealing…

How to Turn Your Daily Commute Into Something You Actually Enjoy

For many of us the daily commute is a necessary evil; not all that enjoyable but unavoidable if we want to keep our job. While it might not be your favorite part of the day, there are plenty of ways you can make the most of your time stuck in traffic or wedged between fellow…

How to Turn Your Mobile Device into a Universal Translator

Whether you’re traveling to Tanzania, Taiwan, or Tokyo, you’re likely going to run into situations where English is not the primary language. But rather than blow hundreds of dollars on Rosetta Stone or fumble through archaic paperback phrasebooks, drop one of these helpful real-time translation apps on your phone instead. Word Lens There’s a good…

Priceline is buying restaurant reservation platform OpenTable for $2.6 billion. That’s some delicious added value for the travel-booking site.

A Toiletries Bag Made From a Fire Hose Doesn’t Mind Getting Wet

You can try as hard as you want, but the laws of the universe dictate that anything crossing the threshold of a bathroom is going to eventually get wet—and that includes the toiletries bag you travel with. But even joining you in the shower won’t bother this one, because it’s made from a recycled fire…

The Three Biggest Airlines Just Made Carry-On Sizes Even Smaller

It’s a tale as old as time: Traveler meets luggage. Traveler falls in love. Traveler buys luggage. Traveler causes a scene as flight attendant forces traveler to pay $75 for improperly-sized baggage. And if you’ve secretly been holding out hope that we might one day be able to put this bit of passenger pageantry behind…

Google Flight Search Can Now Plan a Magical Mystery Tour For You

Fresh out of vacation ideas? Well, Google Flight Search now has an “I’m Feeling Lucky” button that allows you to find a random destination to jet off to. But it’s not quite as crazy as it may first sound: you can set a budget, time limits and boundaries, then see at-a-glance where your money could…

Visit Spain, See Wolves

Which country in Western Europe has more wolves than Montana, Idaho and Wyoming combined? Spain. What follows is my experience finding the wolves and how you can too. A generous bartender in the village of Villadeciervos had told us beforehand that there were two forest rangers in this area. One who liked wolves and another…

How a Better Food Tray Is Saving Virgin Atlantic Millions

Every ounce counts when you’re hoisting several hundred tons of steel into the air and flying it across an ocean. So does every second flight attendants spend waiting on the people inside. Those ounces and seconds add up—and that’s why Virgin Atlantic spent $168 million on a transformative redesign of its meal trays. It sounds…

Travel videos get funnier when you add surreal chase scenes like this

Travel videos are getting more and more sophisticated. Ari Fararooy thought these stunning South American landscapes weren’t exciting enough so he decided to spice up his travel video by adding an action scene where he chases himself. Ari, as you say, you need to make some friends man. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…

This Glass-Bottomed Hotel Room Lets You Sleep With the Fishes

Bali is a beautiful place, but one of the drawbacks of beautiful places is that it’s hard to consume all of the beauty at once. That’s why the Bambu Inda Hotel built a glass-bottomed hotel room on top of a fish-filled pond. It’s supposed to create a “fishing village experience.” They must have some pretty…