SLS Hotel

The hotel’s beachfront club.

The SLS Hotel South Beach is sprinkled with celebrity pixie dust, but the customer service isn’t quite as magical.

Seth Kugel

Singleton’s Mini Mart sells Vietnamese food on Saturdays.

When you think about eating in New Orleans, does pho come to mind? Or banh mi? Perhaps they should, as the Frugal Traveler discovered.

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From backpacking to glamping, the postwar generation has long influenced travel choices. This year it’s truer than ever.

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Beach near George Town, on Great Exuma.

On mail boats, as little as $45 buys a one-way ticket to the island of your choice. The local tips you get on the way are free.

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A trip to Shantiniketan, three hours north of Kolkata, is a cultural pilgrimage for Indians thanks to what the Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore started there in 1901.

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Innsbruck as seen from Seegrube mountain.

Sure, you can ski nearby. But the “capital” of the Austrian Alps pulses to everything après, from upscale dining to all-night dance clubs.

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Inside the Casa del Lector (Reader’s House) in Madrid.

Matadero Madrid has transformed a space built for butchery a century ago into a center for music, design and film.