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Pedro Szekely/Flickr After two-and-a-half months of restricting visas for travelers between the two countries, the United States and Turkey have both fully resumed visa services. The sanctions began in October after Turkey detained two employees of the U.S. consulate in Istanbul, which prompted Washington to stop issuing non-immigrant visas to Turkish citizens. Turkey responded with…
Before we wave goodbye to 2017, we’d like to take a moment to look back on the amazing adventures we’ve had this year. At Oyster, we traveled to new countries, reviewed thousands of new hotels, and snapped millions of new photos. To reflect on it all, we came up with a year-in-review by the numbers.…
2017 has undoubtedly been a big year for travel. The past 365 days have brought travel bans and laptop bans, new and noteworthy hotel openings, U.S. State Department alerts and warnings in popular tourist hot spots, game-changing travel tech features, airline overbooking disasters, policy updates surrounding Cuba, and unexpected businesses dipping their toes in the…
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the news in the past few months, you’re probably at least vaguely aware of cryptocurrency, a type of decentralized digital currency that has the financial community divided. Some speculate that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum are nothing more than modern-day Ponzi schemes, while others laud them…
Pesky airline baggage fees can be a pain in the you-know-what, and unfortunately, these sneaky surcharges are only going to get worse for passengers. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that airlines and third-party booking sites are no longer required to divulge baggage fees when travelers book. The rule, which was proposed during the…
Earlier this summer, the U.S. State Department updated its official travel warning for Mexico — namely adding stricter advisories for Quintana Roo, a region that includes Cancun, Playa del Carmen, and Tulum, as well as Baja California, including Cabo San Lucas. Around the same time, a travel alert throughout Europe was also issued, and in…
Unless you’ve been disconnected from the Internet for the past few weeks, you’re likely aware that Prince Harry has proposed to his American girlfriend, actress Meghan Markle. The two will wed in May 2018, and as a travel website, we can’t help but wonder where the couple will honeymoon. So we’re here to suggest a…
Courtesy of the Watergate Hotel There are few Washington, D.C, hotels as iconic as the Watergate, which underwent a $125 million renovation completed in 2016. The retro-sleek property is now one of the newest hot spots in the nation’s capital with a swanky restaurant, dynamic whisky bar, and a rooftop lounge, the latter of which…
Smart luggage — with features like plugs to charge your devices on-the-go, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, and GPS capabilities to track valuables — is designed to make your journey easier and more effortless, but now the high-tech bags are being banned on select airlines. Effective January 15, 2018, American Airlines will prohibit passengers from checking…
For those of you who are dreading the stress of holiday travel, you might not have to deal with it at all. An American Airlines computer glitch has allowed pilots to put up their OOO at the same time, leaving thousands of flights without a sufficient crew during one of the busiest travel weeks of…