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It’s that time of the year again — when the 2017 travel lists start pouring out and travel sites and experts make their bets on the top destinations for the upcoming year. While sites like TripAdvisor pick contenders based on identifiable trends from bookings in their system or directly through their users, Lonely Planet‘s managing…
The beach at Abaka Bay Resort, on Ile-a-Vache. In Mumbai, travelers can take tours of the Dharavi slums. Guidebooks for Rio de Janeiro have been recommending guided walks through the mountainside favelas for years now. And every day in northern Thailand, busloads of tourists from Chiang Mai roll into villages inhabited by Kayan tribespeople, where…
While many plan to reunite with friends and family for the holidays, others take the road less traveled — that it is to say, they pack their bags and jet off for a solo adventure. Traveling during the holidays — especially alone — has its ups and downs. While you get to explore a new…
Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore via Flickr The road to Donald Trump’s election as the 45th President of the United States has been anything but smooth. Trump’s controversial campaign was rife with scandal (the Access Hollywood tape, the Trump University fraud case), and fueled by rhetoric around banning Muslims from the country as well as…
Whether you’re too lazy to trek outside and find a restaurant or simply prefer to treat yourself to a decadent stack of pancakes while sitting atop a fluffy bed in a plush bathrobe, hotel room service has always come to the rescue. But what if we told that you that the silver platter, breakfast-in-bed amenity…
Oyster.com’s massive team of hotel photographers and experts can be found all over the world; any given day, we have multiple team members out in the field around the globe so we can continue to add the coolest, newest properties to the site. After all, the more hotels and resorts you have to choose from,…
Malaysia has been added to the list of countries with Zika-related travel advisories from the CDC. Zika virus, the mosquito-related disease that’s prompted travel advisories across the Caribbean as well as Central and South America, is now in Southeast Asia, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Related Link: What You Need to Know…
On a September evening in 1951, William S. Burroughs misjudged his aim while attempting a drunken party trick, shooting his wife dead. The previous year, the couple had moved to Mexico City to wait out a five-year statute of limitation on a New Orleans drug charge against Burroughs. It was during this time that, at…
As we’ve mentioned time and time again, the benefits of travel — for not only the travelers themselves but also local communities, the global economy, and more — are extensive. But when planning a vacation, certain stressors can trigger anxiety. Some are travel concerns that have been around for decades and will be around for…
We get a lot of compliments from our fans here at Oyster.com. They love that our experts write extensive, comprehensive reviews of hotel properties around the world. They love that our photographers take hundreds of shots of each hotel, and even include 360-degree imagery. They love that — no matter where they want to go…