Tired of being limited to the few hostels listed in your guidebook? Frustrated by not being able to find a hostel online when you’re away from a computer? This new hostel booking application from Hostel Hero is probably the coolest and best “must-have” item I’ve seen in a while for [...]

It was announced today over at Lonely Planet that they are adding their guidebook maps to their online guides, a welcome addition to the otherwise truncated online guides that used Google Maps before. However, a cursory look at the new addition shows that, curiously, the Google maps are still there, [...]

The Independent has a list of their top 50 travel websites, which, annoyingly enough, is readable only one click at a time (can you say “ad sales”?). So if you have about an hour to spare today (come on it’s Friday, of course you do), stretch out your right hand, [...]

The Waldorf-Astoria’s under $300 on Mondays. What a deal! Kayak’s gone ahead and added a handy new feature called a “rate calendar,” a calendar (appropriately with rates) that breaks down the average price of a room by day for you right-brain visual people. I have to credit Budget Travel with [...]

A little while back I started a new travel video group on Vimeo (in my opinion the best video-sharing site on the web) and called it, appropriately enough: Travel Videos (not to be confused with the other travel video group on Vimeo named HD Travel Videos; I’m trying to be [...]

Anyone had time to check out Lonely Planet’s recent online makeover? Apparently LP ditched it’s old, clunky design featuring limited helpful information and loads of self-promoting ads for a clunky, blog-style site featuring limited helpful information and loads of self-promoting ads. I use Lonely Planet guides as much as the [...]

Take that non-interactive books, wi-fi should be up and running on many flights soon. In a related development, the romantic-comedy genre is expected to experience a steep drop in viewers due to its heavy reliance on bored, captive plane passengers for most of its business. This article runs down who’s [...]