If You’re Booking A Hotel Room At Prepaid Rate, Be Sure To Read The Fine Print
If you’ve booked a room directly through a hotel chain’s website, you’ve more than likely seen lower-cost options for visitors who agree to prepay for at least some of their stay. Before you choose...
View ArticleKimpton Hotels Investigating Possible Credit Card Breach
You might not be familiar with the Kimpton chain of boutique hotels, but we can guarantee that a lot of business travelers (and the folks in their companies’ accounting departments) are now keeping an...
View ArticleHomeowner Says Airbnb Guest Did $25K In Water Damage, May Have Shot Porn In...
We’re not saying this is the way things should be, but it’s the way things are: If you’re going to use Airbnb or some other service to rent out your house like a hotel, you need to know there’s a...
View ArticleBad Hollywood Tour Guides Charge $50 To Tell Lies, Put Homeowners At Risk For...
You’d like to think that if you’re forking over a sizable amount of cash to be shown the sites of Hollywood, your tour guide would at least have some idea what they’re talking about. Yet a new report...
View ArticleHollywood Tour Buses Not Just Lying To Customers, They Could Be Putting Their...
Last week we told you about the undercover report that found numerous Hollywood tour bus drivers charging top dollar to just point to random houses and pretend that celebrities live in them. But even...
View ArticleKimpton Confirms Credit Card Info Stolen From More Than 60 Hotels
In July, boutique hotel chain Kimpton revealed it was investigating indications that its credit card payment system had possibly been the latest to fall victim to a data breach. Now the company has...
View ArticleSouthwest’s “No Gotchas” Airfare Sale Comes With Its Fair Share Of Gotchas
We all know that airfare sales generally come with all sorts of strings attached — restrictions on dates, routes, and seat types are to be expected — but if you’re going to advertise a sale as having...
View ArticleNo More Wearing Glasses To Look Smart In Your Passport Photo
Some folks wear glasses so frequently that they look like a different person when they aren’t bespectacled, so it would seem to make sense that they should be wearing eyeglasses when getting their...
View ArticleScammers Ran A Fake U.S. Embassy In Ghana For A Decade Before Being Shut Down
The U.S. Embassy in Ghana is a large, secured office building in the bustling West African port city of Accra, but for a decade scammers convinced some folks that their humble two-story structure —...
View ArticleDHS Bans Laptops, Other Electronic Devices From Airplane Cabins For Flights...
If you’re doing any travel to or from the Middle East, northern Africa, or Turkey in the coming months, you may not be able to work or watch videos on your laptop or tablet. A new Department of...
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