There are 13 of them around the country, each one housing the papers and memorabilia from a different president’s time in office. Frequent Bing Travel contributor Harriet Baskas takes us on a tour of artifacts – some of them rare and beautiful, some of...

There has been a steady drumbeat of bad news coming out of Mexico in the past few years, and this week the U.S. State Department updated the travel warning for the country for the first time since April 22, 2011. This new advisory lists state-by-state...

What do Christian Lacroix, Todd Oldham and Versace have in common – other than their status as haute couture superstars (and their genders)? Hint: Put big names in fashion together with the hotel business, and you get inventively designed rooms for lucky...

One of the best things about our job here at Bing Travel is the opportunity to look at a lot of beautiful photos of places around the world. Sometimes we look at an image and instantly recognize the scene. Other times, we have to do a little digging to...

Writer Eric Lucas, author of the new Bing Travel slide show Cool Glaciers , reminisces about a recent experience up close with a glacier. We were standing on a glacier -- a river of ice -- and water was running everywhere. At our feet, into the crevasse...

Between the TSA grope and a long flight in a too-small seat comes a travel moment that passengers regard with equal dread – the Luggage Game . That’s when travelers, in an attempt to bypass the check-in fee instituted by airlines three years ago, stuff...

You probably haven’t thought much about do-not-disturb signs, those tags that you hang on the doorknob to let housekeeping know that you want some privacy. And why should you have? Most of them are nondescript white plastic cards with “Do Not Disturb...

Quick: What’s the worst airport you’ve ever encountered? It’s a tough question – these days there are so many bad airports to choose from. If you’ve traveled anywhere by air in the past few years, you’ve undoubtedly...

Where can you get a taste of Tokyo — in Paris? Or take a ramble through Russia without leaving New York? Ethnic neighborhoods, places populated by immigrants and the children of immigrants, are in almost all major cities nowadays, allowing people...

Don’t fight winter – embrace it! This time of year it’s all about snow, so find a place to settle in for a long winter’s night, preferably somewhere with a roaring fireplace. To help you out, travel writer Eric Lucas sought out...

After 9/11, foreign travel to the U.S. dropped sharply in the wake of sweeping security (and, possibly but not definitively, visa) changes, leading to a 4.6-percent decline in its share of the global travel market between 2000 and 2010. Bad news for the...

Being comfortable on a flight matters – ask anyone who’s had to endure knees compressed by heedless recliners or any other bad behavior by jerks on a plane . On a long flight, it matters even more, as cramped seating, lack of privacy and the near-impossibility...

Sometimes, in the dark, short days of winter, all you need is some sun. Just a little bit. Anywhere. As a longtime Seattle resident, I can remember many evenings in January and February looking for last-minute tickets to Arizona or California in the desperate...

You don’t have to be a scuba diver to enjoy the fun and adventure of underwater attractions – far from it. Maybe you’ve tried snorkeling on a tropical vacation and really liked what you saw: colorful fish, vibrant coral, and swirling...

Where are you going in 2012? If you’re like us at Bing Travel, you have a long bucket list of destinations that have caught your eye. But so many places, so little time! How do you prioritize where to go? We asked globetrotter extraordinaire Pauline...