Honest reviews of destinations, stays, food, attractions and experiences.
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Nice · destination · Nice
Nice is the entry point to the French Riviera and the most usable city on it: a real airport, a real old town, a real beach, and trains along the coast to Mona…
Nassau · destination · Nassau
The Bahamas had the biggest year in its history in 2025: a record 12.5 million visitors, up 11.4 per cent year on year and more than 70 per cent above 2019. Al…
Manila · destination · Manila
Manila is where almost every Philippines trip begins, and it is the part most people are least prepared for. Ninoy Aquino International Airport handled a recor…
Krakow · destination · Krakow
Krakow is the best-preserved historic city in Poland and it is being loved at industrial scale. Nearly 15 million people visited in 2024. Tourism is about 8 pe…
Punta Cana · destination · Punta Cana
Punta Cana is the machine that made the Dominican Republic the biggest tourism market in the Caribbean, and in 2025 the machine broke its own records. The coun…
Phuket · destination · Phuket
Phuket is having the strangest kind of boom. More than 5.41 million passengers arrived through Phuket International Airport in 2025, up from 5.29 million in 20…
Naples · destination · Naples
Naples spent decades as the Italian city people were told to skip, and it has spent the last three years being discovered so fast that the city is now arguing …
Ho Chi Minh City · destination · Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City is the most energetic city in Southeast Asia and the one that most reliably overwhelms people in the first hour. It took more than 6.58 millio…
Venice · destination · Venice
Venice is the rare destination where the crowding problem is not an opinion, it is arithmetic. The historic centre, the actual island city everyone comes to se…
Tulum · destination · Tulum
Tulum is the clearest example anywhere of a destination pricing itself out of its own market, and 2025 and 2026 are the years the numbers stopped being deniabl…
Siem Reap · destination · Siem Reap
Siem Reap exists to serve Angkor, and Angkor is having its worst year in a long time. In 2025, 955,131 international visitors bought tickets to the Angkor Arch…
Copenhagen · destination · Copenhagen
Copenhagen is a city of roughly 670,000 people inside 90 square kilometres, with another 730,000 in the surrounding urban area, and in 2025 it recorded more th…
Porto · destination · Porto
Porto is a city of 273,476 people at the mouth of the Douro, inside a metropolitan area of 1,861,727, and its historic centre has been a UNESCO World Heritage …
Maldives · destination · Maldives
The Maldives is 1,192 coral islands across 26 atolls, 298 square kilometres of land scattered over roughly 90,000 square kilometres of ocean, with a 2024 popul…
Las Vegas · destination · Las Vegas
Las Vegas is a 679,817-person city in a metro of 2,265,461, sitting in a Mojave Desert basin at about 2,030 feet, incorporated on March 16, 1911. The thing mos…
Kathmandu · destination · Kathmandu
Kathmandu is a city of 856,767 people at roughly 1,400 metres, in a bowl-shaped valley holding around four million. It is the entry point for essentially all N…
Stockholm · destination · Stockholm
Stockholm was founded in 1252 by Birger Jarl and spreads across fourteen islands where Lake Malaren empties into the Baltic. The city proper counted 996,264 re…
Osaka · destination · Osaka
Osaka is Japan's third most populous city, with 2,816,247 residents as of October 1, 2025, at the center of a metropolitan region of more than 19 million. It i…
Montego Bay · destination · Montego Bay
Montego Bay is Jamaica's second largest English-speaking city in the Caribbean after Kingston, a north coast port town of roughly 110,115 people at the last ce…
Boracay · destination · Boracay
Boracay is a 10.32 square kilometre island off the northwest coast of Panay, home to 37,802 people at the 2020 census, and famous almost entirely for one four-…
San Jose · destination · San Jose
San Jose is Costa Rica's front door, not its destination. Juan Santamaria International Airport, about 20 kilometers northwest of downtown, handled a record 6.…
Petra · destination · Petra
Petra was carved and built by the Nabataeans starting around the 4th century BC, who called their capital Raqmu, and by the 2nd century BC it was the seat of a…
Jaipur · destination · Jaipur
Jaipur, founded on November 18, 1727 by Sawai Jai Singh II, is one of the earliest planned cities in modern India and earned UNESCO World Heritage City status …
Dubrovnik · destination · Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik's Old Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed in 1979, built around a limestone-paved core ringed by roughly 1,940 metres of medieval stone wall…
Zurich · destination · Zurich
Zurich is Switzerland's largest city and its financial capital, sitting at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich where the Limmat river flows out past the old to…
Warsaw · destination · Warsaw
Warsaw's Old Town looks medieval, but almost none of it is original. The district was hit hard by Luftwaffe bombing during the 1939 invasion, and after the 194…
Seminyak · destination · Seminyak
Seminyak sits just north of Kuta and Legian on Bali's west coast, in Badung Regency, and it has grown into the island's polished beach club and surf coast, dis…
Budapest · destination · Budapest
Budapest's thermal baths are not a tourist gimmick, they are a genuinely old civic institution built on more than 100 medicinal geothermal springs beneath the …
Shanghai · destination · Shanghai
Shanghai is one of the easiest arguments for visiting China you'll find anywhere, and also one of the clearest examples of why you need to prepare before you l…
Milan · destination · Milan
Milan's single most photographed experience, the rooftop terraces of the Duomo, is not an add-on you decide about at the door. The cathedral's own ticket syste…
Dublin · destination · Dublin
Dublin sells itself on charm, and most of that sales pitch is true. Trinity College's Long Room, the Guinness Storehouse, the Georgian squares, and a pub cultu…
Casablanca · destination · Casablanca
Casablanca is the city most travelers fly into and then leave as fast as possible, and honestly, that reputation is mostly earned. It is Morocco's largest city…
Tel Aviv · destination · Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv is Israel's secular, sun soaked commercial capital, a city that runs on Mediterranean beaches, sidewalk cafes, and a food and nightlife scene that rar…
Singapore · destination · Singapore
Singapore markets itself as squeaky clean and rule bound, and that reputation is earned, but the specifics matter more than the cliches. The chewing gum myth i…
Rio de Janeiro · destination · Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro sells itself on two postcards, Christ the Redeemer with arms spread over Corcovado and the cable car ride up Sugarloaf Mountain, and both still …
Athens · destination · Athens
Athens earns its reputation as one of the great historic cities of the world, and the Acropolis is genuinely as good as advertised the moment you're standing u…
Vancouver · destination · Vancouver
Vancouver sells itself on postcard geography, snow capped mountains framing a glass tower skyline with the Pacific right there, and on that front it delivers e…
Munich · destination · Munich
Munich earns its reputation as one of Europe's most livable cities, but livable does not mean cheap. Munich is consistently ranked Germany's most expensive cit…
Havana · destination · Havana
Havana is not a normal Caribbean trip for Americans, and the paperwork starts before you book a flight. Pure tourism is not a legal reason to go. US travelers …
Cancun · destination · Cancun
Cancun in 2026 is having one of its worst sargassum years on record, and that single fact should shape how you plan the trip. Early arrivals of the brown seawe…
Paris · destination · Paris
Paris earns its reputation, and two years after hosting the 2024 Olympics the city is still cashing in the legacy. The Seine reopened to public swimming after …
London · destination · London
London's transport system is actually one of the city's better values if you use contactless or an Oyster card instead of paper tickets. In 2026 the daily pric…
Chiang Mai · destination · Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai has become one of Southeast Asia's most talked about bases for remote workers, and the numbers explain why. Thailand's Destination Thailand Visa, a …
Cartagena · destination · Cartagena
Cartagena's Ciudad Amurallada, the UNESCO-listed walled city, is one of the best-preserved colonial cores in the Americas, and the postcard version of it is ac…
Santorini · destination · Santorini
Santorini earns its reputation. The blue-domed churches of Oia stacked above the caldera, the volcanic cliffs dropping straight into the Aegean, and the sunset…
New York City · destination · New York City
New York City still earns its reputation as one of the world's great cities, but 2026 visitors are navigating a denser layer of fees, tolls, and price hikes th…
Dubai · destination · Dubai
Dubai's tourism low season runs June through August, and for good reason. Average August temperatures swing between roughly 31C and 41C, with afternoon reading…
Accra · destination · Accra
Accra is the loud, humid gateway to a country that has spent the last several years building an entire tourism identity around bringing the African diaspora ho…
Nairobi · destination · Nairobi
Nairobi is the only capital city in the world with a full national park inside its boundaries, and that single fact does more to explain the place than any tou…
Lima · destination · Lima
Lima earned its current bragging rights the hard way. In June 2025, Maido, chef Mitsuharu Tsumura's Nikkei restaurant in Miraflores, was named the World's Best…