Discover the best guided tours, day trips, and experiences worth booking in each destination. Our honest travel guide comparisons help you spend wisely on what matters. Book the moments you’ll remember!
Sydney is a city that rewards getting out of it. The harbour is glorious, but some of New South Wales’ best days start with a morning drive out of the city: blue-hazed mountains two hours west, Australia’s oldest wine region to the north, and a national park of empty beaches and coastal lagoons just south … Read more
Bangkok can fill a week on its own — temples, markets, rooftop bars, more street food than anyone can finish. But some of the best days of a Thailand trip start with leaving the city. Within a few hours of the capital you can walk through the ruined temples of a former Siamese capital, watch … Read more
Playa del Carmen might be the best day-trip base on the whole Riviera Maya. Cancun has the airport and the mega-resorts, but Playa sits in the middle of everything: Tulum is 45 minutes south, Cozumel is a ferry ride from the dock in town, the cenotes are scattered through the jungle on every side, and … Read more
The northern lights are back. Aurora season in Iceland runs from late August to mid-April, and October sits right in the sweet spot: the nights are already long and dark, the summer crowds have gone, and the Ring Road is still — weather permitting — a realistic drive. If Iceland has been sitting on your … Read more
Cancun’s Hotel Zone beach is a fine home base — but the days people talk about for years are the ones spent outside it. A Wonder of the World is three hours away. So are clifftop Maya ruins above a turquoise cove, sinkholes of crystal-clear water hidden in the jungle, and an island where the … Read more
Mexico City could fill a month on its own — but some of the best days of a trip start with leaving it. Within two hours of the capital you can stand on top of one of the largest pyramids on Earth, float through canals the Aztecs dug, eat the most famous mole in Mexico … Read more
Queenstown has a habit of making you feel like you’ve landed in the middle of a postcard — and then it casually suggests you drive somewhere even prettier. The town is New Zealand’s adventure capital, but it’s also one of the best bases on the South Island for day trips. Within an hour or two … Read more
Marrakech could fill a week on its own — the medina’s maze of souks, the call to prayer rolling over the rooftops, Jemaa el-Fnaa square turning into the world’s greatest open-air food court every night. But some of the best experiences in Morocco start an hour or three beyond the city walls. The snow-dusted High … Read more
Iceland’s Ring Road — Route 1, the 1,332-kilometre (828-mile) loop that circles the entire country — is the great self-drive trip of the North Atlantic. Most drivers take seven to ten days, usually going clockwise, ticking off waterfalls, black-sand beaches, and glacier lagoons on their own schedule. But some Ring Road moments don’t work as … Read more
Dubrovnik has a way of making you want to stay put. The Old Town is compact enough to cross in fifteen minutes, the Adriatic is right there, and every sunset over the city walls looks like it was staged for your benefit. But some of the best experiences of a Dubrovnik holiday start at the … Read more