10 Ways To Not Be The Worst Plane Passenger Ever, Aka The Gloss Guide To Plane Etiquette

Contiki Tours Are Not Happy I Outed Their Traffic Light Dating System

>A few days ago, I wrote about Contiki Tours' policy of asking participants to identify their dating status as "red l …

Contiki Tours Require You to Identify Your Relationship Status With Traffic Lights

Contiki, the hugely popular international group-trip program that enables young people to see the world, has a reputatio …

5 Super Cute Sleep Masks

My grandmother used to sleep with gloves and a sleep mask on. Though I haven't retained all of her beauty tricks, the sl …

An Analysis of People Who Get Paid to Touch Your Junk

I'm sorry, your "private parts."

5 Ways To Pass The Time While Stranded at an Airport

For those of us who fly home to visit family every year, getting stranded at an airport is part of the holiday experienc …

12 Gifts for Your Favorite Jetsetter

These travel-ready gifts will be loved by everyone who is sick of shopping in airports. And they'll also make you the co …

10 Places I Don’t Want to Go on Vacation

In the spirit of Kentucky and their great big boat, I've put together a slide show of some other tourist attractions tha …

10 Celebrities I Wouldn’t Want to Sit Next to On a Flight

Being famous doesn't exempt people from air rage, cell phone drama, and other bad plane behavior. While sitting next to …

Poll: When Are You Too Old to Go to Amusement Parks?

I have several adult friends who love Disney World. They are in their 20s, successful, and could easily jet off to Paris …

Three Ways to Know You Are Staying in a Crappy Hotel

Sometimes, you think you’ve booked a perfectly fine hotel room, only to find out one to two nights into your stay that i …

Modern Etiquette: How to Have Sex In Someone Else’s House

Today on The Stir, there's some advice about having sex in someone else's house. However, one thing they didn't take int …

What’s the Grossest Airline Behavior You’ve Ever Witnessed?

Last week, my friend "Brenda" was flying home from a family function. Because the tickets were last-minute, she wasn't a …

Will a Cross-Country Road Trip Save Your Relationship?

Around 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, so how can newlyweds make their love last? Soon after their 2008 weddi …

Bullish: How to Travel Like a Gentlewoman

Travel writer Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, has just finish …

One Resort Says: The Blonder, The Better

Allure just reported that a Lithuanian company called Olialia is developing a resort in the Maldives that would be staff …

Link Love: The Day They Had Photoshop In Ancient Egypt

Turns out no one is safe from cosmetic alterations: apparently, the famous bust of Nefertiti was given a makeover by the …

How to Live Like You’re On Vacation

Our sister site Blisstree has a great post about the way that movies romanticize falling in love with someone while on v …

Watch Out, Terry Richardson: Photographers Are on an Airport Security Watch List

Be careful the next time you wear a sweatshirt to the airport - the TSA is now targeting photographers who wear hoodies …

Random Photo: How to Screw With Airport Security

If you're brave enough to try and make a joke at the expense of airport security, The Cheeky has super funny suitcase st …

Going Shirtless In France Could Cost You $49

So much for thinking that Europeans are more liberal than us: France actually has some very specific laws outlining what …

Why Is It So Much Fun To Hate ‘Eat, Pray, Love’?

Eat, Puke, Barf. Shit, Shit, Shit. Eat, Brains, Love. There are a lot of ways to express hated towards Eat, P …

Are You Going To See Eat, Pray, Love Tonight?

I'm going with "maybe." I think I just like scenic shots of exotic lands, though, and seeing those lands reflected in Ju …

10 Ways To Make Plane Travel Not So Hellish (Inspired By Steven Slater)

Planes. Like coffins with wings, aren't they? No, that's not quite true. Coffins have leg room. Probably the only fun th …

Party Favors: Because Black Leggings Could Kill You

Thailand is asking residents and tourists alike to stop wearing black leggings. Apparently, the dark color attracts the …

Video: Do ‘Flying Pasties’ Actually Work?

Now that airlines have full-body scanners in security lines, what's a modest girl to do? A new product called Flying Pas …

Video: Now You Know What Models Pack In Their Suitcases

And it's more fabulous and expensive than whatever you pack in your suitcase, of course. See more videos on modelin …

Every Vacation Would Be Better If You Stayed in a Barbie Hotel Room

This one, which is aimed for absurdly wealthy child guests, is in the Hotel Plaza Athenee in Paris and is only available …

Jessica Simpson’s ‘The Price of Beauty’ Show Decides to Become Less Interesting

Jessica Simpson's VH1 documentary-style reality show The Price of Beauty featured the singer/actress/whatever going to c …

Our Feet, Ourselves: Visiting Toronto’s Bata Shoe Museum

If you think about it, a shoe museum is a brilliant idea for people who are addicted to shopping. You can go ooh and aah …

Video: New Yorkers and Tourists Get Their Own Separate Sidewalks

It's summer in New York, and that means several things: outdoor barbecues, crazy Hamptons-bound traffic, and an abundanc …

British People Win Coveted ‘Worst Dressed Tourists’ Award

Congratulations, America! We have finally found someone who is possibly more disliked internationally than we are. 2,717 …

Why Yes, This Is a $450 YSL Power Adapter

In today's installment of "things that are ridiculously expensive for no reason but that some idiot will buy anyway beca …

If You Are Going to Australia, Do Not Bring Porn

If you're planning a trip Down Under, make sure you don't bring any porn with you. Customs agents in Australia have been …

TGIF: Friday Sales

After this weekend, I won't be home very much for about a month - I'm going on a cruise launch in a few days, and then I …

JetBlue Airlines Goes to the Dogs

In an effort to establish their position as the pet-friendly airline, JetBlue launches “JetPaws,” a program that makes t …