News
Capri's funicular climbs 450 feet in 4 minutes and the line decides your day
12+ hour, 31+ min ago (620+ words) Capri has one commercial port. Ferries from Naples take about 80 minutes; hydrofoils cover it in 50. From Sorrento, the hydrofoil takes 25 minutes and costs around $17 one-way. All of them dock at the same quay, and all of them unload into the…...
A 1990s Spanish law banned hotels from this Majorca beach and kept it empty
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (629+ words) Majorca gets more than 13 million visitors a year. It's Spain's most-visited island, and its northeast coast runs wall-to-wall with resort towers and lounge chairs stacked to the waterline. Then there's Es Trenc, on the southern tip, where you step onto…...
Aruba's widest beach exists because hotels were banned from building on the sand
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (505+ words) Journ'e Mondiale...
El Nido has 4 tour routes and the letter you book decides which beaches you see
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (697+ words) At 7: 30am on the beach in El Nido town, four clusters of wooden bangka boats load simultaneously, each tied with a different colored rope. Outboard exhaust mixes with the smell of low tide and salt-wet rope. Every tourist is heading into…...
S'o Miguel's caldera sits 2, 480 feet above the beach and the fog clears by 10am
1+ week, 1+ day ago (351+ words) And that gap is what most itineraries miss. Geography controls the experience in places like this more than any hotel or tour. In the Azores, the controlling variable is vertical. Local restaurants bury their cozido das Furnas, a slow-cooked meat…...
Every photo of Navagio Beach was shot from 300 feet up, the sand tells another story
1+ week, 1+ day ago (411+ words) The MV Panagiotis, which ran aground in 1980 reportedly carrying contraband cigarettes, occupies most of the eastern half of the beach. Up close, the hull is rusted orange-brown and significantly larger than it reads from above. But you can't go inside....
Corsica's most famous beach gets this quiet for exactly 6 weeks a year
2+ week, 2+ day ago (675+ words) The sea temperature in May sits around 64 F, cold enough that you feel it on entry, warm enough that you stay in. Because the water is still brisk, casual summer tourists haven't arrived yet, and the beach behaves like a…...
London just opened 7 new hotels for 2026 and the Bayswater one used to be a department store
2+ week, 4+ day ago (573+ words) Six Senses Bayswater sits two stops from Paddington on the Circle line, which matters because the Elizabeth line from Heathrow reaches Paddington in about 30 minutes. Because the wellness angle is built into a Victorian structure rather than a glass tower,…...
Forget Boracay where 5, 700 tourists cost $150 and this sandbar stays empty for $40
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (354+ words) Boracay welcomed 2, 155, 217 visitors in 2025. That averages 5, 700 daily across 10. 32 square kilometers. Peak days saw 20, 000 people on White Beach before the government forced a six-month closure in 2018. The island reopened with promises of sustainability. Hotels still line the sand. Beach clubs still…...
Forget Cinque Terre where 2. 5 M tourists cost $250 and Bonifacio keeps white cliffs quiet for $120
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (985+ words) The numbers tell the story. Cinque Terre pulls 2. 5 million visitors annually. Trains run every 20 minutes between villages. Monterosso hotels cost "200-300 per night in summer. The famous Via dell'Amore coastal path has been closed since a 2012 landslide, reopening and closing in…...