Every traveler has been there: You touch down in an unfamiliar city and feel immediately discombobulated. Getting out of the airport, sleep-deprived, with all of your luggage in hand is one thing—then you’re faced with the sometimes gargantuan task of figuring out how to get into town. Some of us jump in a taxi—and pay dearly [...]

Insiders expose little-known facts the industry would rather you didn’t think about.
“Airport luggage scales often lie.”
It’s bad enough that the airlines charge a fee for overweight luggage, varying from $39 to $300 per bag industrywide. But it’s galling that they may also hit you with the fee by mistake.
At JFK last November, New York City’s [...]

After much speculation, Toyota has finally confirmed that a concept version of the Prius Plug-In Hybrid will appear at the Frankfurt Auto Show next week.
Designed to take on the Chevy Volt, there is no word on when full public sales of the Prius PHV start, while the Volt is scheduled for sale in early 2011. [...]

Most-improved awards are a mixed blessing: part insult, part praise. Such is the case with Cars.com editor’s top 10.
10. Saturn Vue: The Saturn Vue was in a relatively good position when it launched in 2002. Unfortunately, the Vue was underwhelming. The 2008 Vue redesign garnered a reaction more often attributed to the all-new Chevy Malibu: [...]

Whether poorly executed, ill-conceived or downright dreadful to look at, the 10 cars listed below stood out to the Cars.com editors for all the wrong reasons.
10. Pontiac Aztek(2001-2005): The Aztek was criticized for the duration of its life for its ghastly styling. Were the critics wrong? Yeah, we didn’t think so.
9. Daewoo Anything (1999-2002): We [...]

Orbitz.com made choosing a hotel easier with the integration of Google Street View into its mapping functionality.  Orbitz is the only major U.S. online travel company[1] to integrate Google Street View into its hotel offering, allowing customers to explore the neighborhood around a hotel and check out 360 degree street-level views of hotels, nearby restaurants, [...]

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