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The cozily elegant drawing room of Robert De Niro's Greenwich Hotel in TriBeCa is for guests only. And considering that the most popular guest room, the ''superior Greenwich'' goes for [...]

Byline: SETH KUGEL The cozily elegant drawing room of Robert De Niro's Greenwich Hotel in TriBeCa is for guests only. And considering that the most popular guest room, the 'superior [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED''Are you Mr. Kugel?'' asked the uniformed doorman in a town shell top hat as I approached the St. James's Hotel and Club, a scone's throw from Buckingham Palace. [...]

Byline: SETH KUGEL 'Are you Mr. Kugel?' asked the uniformed doorman in a town shell top hat as I approached the St. James's Hotel and Club, a scone's throw from [...]

For decades, Rio de Janeiro has evoked a distant fantasyland of skimpy bathing suits and Carnival spectacle wedged between the sea and a riotous upheaval of tropical mountains. All this, [...]

The document in my email, set on elegant Four Seasons Hotel letterhead, was entitled ''One Perfect Day in Hong Kong.'' It specified a one-day, $1,000 agenda that included a Michelin-starred [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIn the second grade, I spent many hours with a World Book Encyclopedia, an opaque projector and a vast stretch of butcher paper tacked to the classroom wall. My [...]

Byline: SETH KUGEL In the second grade, I spent many hours with a World Book Encyclopedia, an opaque projector and a vast stretch of butcher paper tacked to the classroom [...]

Tickets for the discount bus company Megabus start at $1, plus some pesky fees. Its routes connect dozens of United States cities from Maine to California (along with more in [...]

Ale-8-One is a ginger-ale-like soda usually sold in glass bottles and popular in the hills of eastern Kentucky. During a bike trip through the region last month, for example, I [...]

As a general rule, I'm against an alien takeover of our planet -- unless they bring along one thing: a global wireless system that would simplify the endlessly complex world [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe Citadel of Besanon is an imposing 27-acre fortress on a bluff high above the city's Renaissance-era center, which spills out from a teardrop-shaped oxbow on the Doubs River. [...]

As a concierge at the elegant Pavillon de la Reine hotel in Paris, Arnaud Ilisca dresses in tails. His manner is elegant yet personable; his advice comes in flawless English [...]

Assuming you're not a lobbyist in town to woo steak-loving senators, Washington can be a great place to visit on a budget. With 17 free Smithsonian museums, gratis gorillas at [...]

Traveling on a budget can mean counting every penny, but that's a lot harder to do if you are converting from centimes or centavos. Most of us do a lot [...]

The two days I spent in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, were Feb. 25 to 27, 2015. But it didn’t feel that way. Everything I did and everywhere I went seemed [...]

The clotheslines that extended from balconies in Stepanakert showed an extraordinary degree of precision, if not obsession. In this city of 50,000, families had ordered the clothes from smallest to [...]

Byline: SETH KUGEL The clotheslines that extended from balconies in Stepanakert showed an extraordinary degree of precision, if not obsession. In this city of 50,000, families had ordered the clothes [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWhen paying so little for lodging, you can hardly complain if your host describes your homemade breakfast rather enigmatically, as Nana Kokiashvili, proprietor of Nana's Guest House in the [...]

Byline: SETH KUGEL When paying so little for lodging, you can hardly complain if your host describes your homemade breakfast rather enigmatically, as Nana Kokiashvili, proprietor of Nana's Guest House [...]

Interested in 37 newfangled apps that will save you 0.01 percent on travel for the coming year? I didn't think so. At some point, you have to stop trying to [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIn July, I got an email from my friend Caroline that read: ''I asked my friend Deepa from Seattle about yoga resort kind of places and she said this [...]

Byline: SETH KUGEL In July, I got an email from my friend Caroline that read: 'I asked my friend Deepa from Seattle about yoga resort kind of places and she [...]

Byline: SETH KUGEL What's the best method for seeking discount hotel rooms? The most obvious place to start is the standard booking sites like Hotels.com and Orbitz. But dig a [...]

There are so many ways to wrangle deals on hotel rooms these days that no matter how great a bargain you find, it's not uncommon to worry you missed a [...]

Byline: SETH KUGEL and LUCY JORDAN BRASÈìLIA -- The yellow-clad fans arrived at Estádio Nacional later, more quietly and with far less face paint than usual. And no wonder: They [...]

BRASILIA -- The yellow-clad fans arrived at Estßdio Nacional later, more quietly and with far less face paint than usual. And no wonder: They were attending the World Cup's third-place [...]

SEO PAULO, Brazil -- The World Cup has brought hordes of first-time visitors to Vila Madalena, a hilly, low-slung neighborhood of winding roads, countless bars and world-renowned street art in [...]

SEO PAULO, Brazil -- A police investigation into an illegal ticket-selling scheme at the World Cup took a cinematic turn as one of the suspects slipped out of an employee [...]

Byline: SIMON ROMERO and SETH KUGEL RIO DE JANEIRO -- When Brazil's national soccer team lost to Germany in a 7-1 rout, it lost something much larger than a game. [...]

RIO DE JANEIRO -- When Brazil's national soccer team lost to Germany on Tuesday in a 7-1 rout, it lost something much larger than a game. The sports newspaper Lance [...]

Where I come from, we don't put ice in our Guinness. Or Red Bull. But in the gold-mining frontier town of Bartica, Guyana, I became a (temporary) convert. Ice-cold beer [...]

SEO PAULO, Brazil -- FIFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against the Mexico team for what it has called the ''improper conduct of spectators'' at the World Cup. Mexican fans taunted [...]

Byline: SETH KUGEL CUIABÈü, Brazil -- The four-day annual rodeo here draws about 80,000 fans, almost twice as many as the state soccer league attracted all of last year. No [...]

You may have heard that the best day to buy an airline ticket is a Tuesday. Other things you may have heard: Polaroid cameras now let you see photographs shortly [...]

Belo Horizonte, the lively industrial capital of Brazil's second most populous state, Minas Gerais, has always attracted hordes of visitors -- the kind who carry briefcases and laptops, that is. [...]

Byline: Seth Kugel Belo Horizonte, the lively industrial capital of Brazil's second most populous state, Minas Gerais, has attracted hordes of visitors - the kind who carry briefcases and laptops. [...]

It was a daunting challenge for a lone traveler in the African bush: Using only a tiny $23-a-day Fiat and my wits, I had to sneak around the six sleeping [...]

Byline: SETH KUGEL It was a daunting challenge for a lone traveler in the African bush: Using only a tiny $23-a-day Fiat and my wits, I had to sneak around [...]

I assumed it was luck that within two minutes of clearing customs in Maputo, I found myself sharing a cab with Darcio Arsnio Novela (stage name Mr. Arssen), one of [...]

In the 18th century, the northern half of Manhattan Island served as a bucolic escape for New Yorkers with the cash to afford it and the horse and carriage to [...]

Byline: SETH KUGEL NEW YORK -- In the 18th century, the northern half of Manhattan Island served as a bucolic escape for New Yorkers with the cash to afford it [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDOn a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest. [...]

Byline: SETH KUGEL Break a resolution yet? If any were travel-related, here's some good news: In 2014, you can save while being true to yourself. In other words, set your [...]

Break a resolution yet? If any were travel-related, here's some good news: In 2014, you can save while staying the traveler that you are. In other words, set your nonnegotiable [...]

It's not every day that your family photo appears on a 15-foot storefront sign in the Brazilian Amazon. But for at least the last year, a larger-than-life version of the [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDI recently asked my friend Doug if he still uses guidebooks to plan his trips abroad. He's a smart guy and a veteran traveler, so I figured he would [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED''My sofa is very comfortable,'' boasted Marcos, the pony-tailed, Iron Maiden-loving Chilean who had met me at the centrally located Parque O'Higgins metro stop in the Chilean capital of [...]

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Byline: SETH KUGEL On a quaint square of São Paulo, Brazil, across from a tiny 112-year-old church, a bar called Frangó offers worn wooden tables in cozy nooks, a 500-label [...]