AAA iPhone app offers member discounts

An organization rooted in 20th century car culture is joining 21st century smartphone culture. AAA has introduced a free iPhone application called AAA Discounts, which uses GPS technology to instantly identify nearby businesses offering deals for AAA members. AAA, which has more than 51 million members, is best-known for providing roadside help when your car [...]

Which Portugal is right for you?

Here’s a snapshot of Portugal’s defining experiences: beaches, cities, food and wine. Get a sense of which ones fit your travel style and your budget. Find a secluded beach The Algarve, southern Portugal’s balmy riviera, sees nothing but blue sky 300 days of the year. Admire the ocean views from the roof terrace at Dianamar, [...]

Disney on a dime: Yes, Mouseketeers, you can do it

Disney World has been on our kids’ minds this year, but it wasn’t in our family budget. What’s a parent to do? Approach a trip to the Magic Kingdom and the rest of the sprawling Walt Disney World Resort with the same mind-set as the old Midas muffler commercials: I’m not gonna pay a lot [...]

Fly to Ireland for $249, car rental included

Here’s the rarest of travel deals, the scenario in which buying a travel package with air and extras bundled together is cheaper than booking the flight by itself. This offer, valid for travel in late autumn, includes a flight to Dublin and a week-long car rental starting at $249 per person. Both Go-Today.com and Virgin [...]

NYC’s Guggenheim celebrates Frank Lloyd Wright

For Frank Lloyd Wright, the slow rise of the spiral ramp at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum allowed paintings to be displayed as if on an artist’s easel. When the museum opened 50 years ago, the groundbreaking design embodied the architect’s guiding ethos that form and function are indistinguishable. That philosophy was expressed in projects [...]

Conservation effort targets Montana hotels guests

People checking in at some Montana hotels and other lodging establishments will be asked whether they care to contribute a dollar or two to help conserve part of the landscape that draws tourists here by the millions. A new program invites innkeepers to make ever-so-subtle pitches for small sums that will help pay landowners who [...]

Updated center introduces visitors to Jefferson

Partially built into the base of a mountain and largely surrounded by trees, Monticello’s new visitor center blends into the central Virginia landscape. Invisible from Thomas Jefferson’s home atop the “little mountain” and half underground, the $43 million, 42,000-square-foot complex of five western-cedar pavilions was designed not to compete with or mimic the neoclassical architecture [...]