Trip planningIsland travelOct 11, 2026Where to Stay in the Maldives: Local Island or ResortLocal island or resort: what each kind of island is like to wake up on, what the beach and the transfer change, and who each one suits.
Trip planningSep 27, 2026The Philippines in the Rainy SeasonThe wet half of the Philippine year is not six months of rain. It is a handful of bad days scattered through a season the weather bureau itself describes in terms of breaks. Here is what you give up, what you get, and how to build a trip that absorbs it.
Island travelTrip planningSep 24, 2026Male Airport to a Local IslandThe cheap boat does not leave from the airport, and on Fridays it does not leave at all. What your landing time buys you on a Maldives arrival day.
Trip planningBudget travelSep 20, 2026Renting a Car on the Riviera MayaMexican third-party liability is required by law and your credit card does not provide it. What a week's car on this coast costs once everything is on it, which line you can decline, and when not to rent at all.
Trip planningSep 13, 2026Landing at Tulum AirportTulum's own airport was built for 5.5 million passengers a year and has never handled a quarter of that. When the second door to this coast is the right call, and when Cancun still wins.
Trip planningSep 10, 2026Where to Stay for Chichen ItzaPiste, Valladolid, Merida or the coast. Five bases for Chichen Itza, ranked by the only thing that changes the day: what time you get through the turnstile.