Staying at a hotel popular with celebrities means you could swim in the same pool as Kate Hudson once did or sleep in Madonna’s favorite oceanfront suite. But imagine if you could

She is the Shirley Temple of samba, a 7-year-old named to a coveted Carnival role normally reserved for barely clad models who have undergone more plastic surgeries than little Julia Lira has

Subtropical Miami basks in the limelight of the Super Bowl football championship this weekend, showing off its sunny beaches and devotion to revelry. The palm-fringed Art Deco hotels and glitzy Ocean Drive

Attention Road Warriors: Business travel doesn’t have to be all business. And timing need not matter, either. A stay of only 24 hours is easily squandered, with sights as exciting as an

United States Olympic fencing team silver-medalist Emily Cross brought back more than just a medal from her victorious Beijing 2008 competition. Sure, there was the expectedly odd fortune-cookie message (“You emerge victoriously

Hotel companies may not be earning any points with Wall Street  this year, but many analysts expect 2011 will hold rich rewards. In quarterly reports this month, the largest lodging companies are

My friend and I recently booked a tour of Australia, New Zealand and Fiji through Grand Circle Travel. The trip never happened, and now it looks as if it never will, even

The parents of Team USA bobsledder Steve Mesler had it all figured out. Through an Internet contact, they paid $8,000 to rent a condo at Whistler. The plan was to watch their

No Super Bowl host does the spectacle quite like Miami, thanks to perfect weather, hard bodies and parties galore along South Beach. Miami is an especially golf-friendly Super Bowl destination as well.