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Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Want to see the latest flight deals as soon as they’re published? Follow The Points Guy on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to text message alerts from our deals feed, @tpg_alerts.Airfare deals are typically only available on limited dates. We recommend you use Google Flights to find dates to fly, then book through an online travel agency such as Orbitz or Expedia, which allows you to cancel flights without penalty by 11pm Eastern Time within one day of booking....

Spain’s Canary Islands probably occupy a spot on most people’s dream travel checklist — and for good reason. The archipelago touts breathtaking natural diversity, from the lush Teide National Park to stunning beaches.Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, exemplifies what makes them such a popular destination. You can discover it for yourself with a new fare deal that has excellent prices on flights from key U.S. departure cities like Boston, Miami and Newark....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.If you’re loyal to Avis, you’re about to be rewarded. The rental car agency is offering a lucrative new promotion, called Earn Free Days, offering members of its loyalty program a free rental after completing two rentals. This offer is comparable to National’s recently launched One Two Free promotion.To qualify, you must be a member of the Avis Preferred membership program and register for the promotion here....

When you are exploring the universe of Star Wars, you’ll encounter dates listed as BBY and ABY and you may wonder what they mean. ABY stands for “After the Battle of Yavin,” while BBY stands for “Before the Battle of Yavin.” As with the birth of Christ and dates being designated B.C. and A.D. in Western cultures, this battle was so significant that they use it as the ultimate demarcation of events, the “year everything changed....

Two additional sailings have been canceled following a fire that caused structural damage to the funnel on Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Freedom on May 26.There were no injuries, but the incident prompted the line to cut the ship’s last voyage short and cancel its May 28 departure. It has now canceled the subsequent June 2 and June 6 departures also.Passengers were transferred to Carnival Conquest for their return home, allowing Carnival Freedom to sail to Freeport, Bahamas, where it is now docked for repairs....

Jump to Recipe If you are wondering how to activate yeast, or what yeast even is, you are not alone and I’m here to help answer those questions! Yeast is an important ingredient in most baking and it will make your future culinary endeavors much easier if you learn how it works! These key things will help you get the most from your yeast and make the best baked goods yet!...

Here’s the thing: When it comes to cankles—a hybrid word of calves and ankles—there’s really no use being delicate about it all. When you have calves that emerge from your ankles without much definition, it doesn’t make for the most feminine figure. Women who have thick ankles (something you can’t much control, unfortunately), find that it’s not an easy body flaw to disguise, but take heart, it’s not impossible. Things like fluid retention and weight gain as we age can contribute to the appearance of cankles....

In most residential swimming pools, the multiport valve is a most important piece of equipment, second only to the pool pump and filter itself. The multiport valve, also known as the Vari-Flo, backwash, or filter control valve, is a multi-purpose fitting that is found on most pools with sand filters or diatomaceous earth (DM) filters. Different settings on the valve allow you to route the water through the filter system in different ways to perform various maintenance operations....

Marriott’s Edition brand – a collaboration between the chain and storied hotelier Ian Schrager – has made a name for itself since it first entered the scene several years ago.Edition has become synonymous with minimalistic luxury and gorgeous public spaces that have become magnets for hotel guests and locals alike.For more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter.As it stands today, Edition has 11 properties around the world: Two locations in New York; Miami Beach; West Hollywood; London, Bodrum, Turkey; Barcelona; Sanya, China; Shanghai; Tokyo and Abu Dhabi....

This meal prep sweet & sour chicken recipe features juicy stir-fried chicken, tender vegetables, and homemade sweet & sour sauce! It makes for an easy high-protein lunch or dinner that is loaded with flavor. You won’t even need cheat meals with food this good! Easy Make Ahead Sweet & Sour Chicken Recipe There are so many great reasons to meal prep! It can help you achieve or maintain weight loss, promote muscle gain, and regulate your portion control....

If you need another reason to book that New York City summer trip you’ve been thinking about, here’s one more: Hotel rooms just got a little bit cheaper.Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed an executive order that suspends the city’s 5.875% hotel room occupancy tax for the summer to help kickstart the ailing hotel industry, one of the hardest-hit business sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic.Sign up to receive the daily TPG newsletter for more travel news!...

Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.During the COVID-19 crisis, our team has temporarily ceased taking review trips. Instead, we have been publishing a selection of our most popular reviews from the past year. However, as of this week we have resumed the publication of new, previously unpublished flight, hotel and lounge reviews, from trips taken before the lockdown. We hope this will help you choose once we’re all ready to start booking trips again....

As Mario would say, “Here we go!”When Super Nintendo World opened at Universal Studios Japan in March 2021, plans were already well underway to build similar parks in the U.S. at both Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort. Unfortunately for stateside fans who were chomping at the bit to enter the world of Mario, Luigi and the gang, there was no concrete timeline for when those lands within the U....

Chase is running a new set of offers that could yield up to 5 points per dollar on your spending. These are targeted offers, meaning not everyone will be eligible.These offers are available for common spending categories, meaning you should be able to use them quite easily. Unfortunately, fewer people are targeted for this round of offers than what we’ve seen in the past. We’re seeing around 40% of cards targeted for an offer....

Higher leisure travel demand during the pandemic sent hotel rates soaring across all segments of the market, and luxury chains led the pack.But with the world mostly adjusting to viewing coronavirus more as endemic — akin to treating surges more like spikes in the flu as opposed to something requiring travel restrictions — the hotel industry is settling into a new normal. That means an opportunity to pursue shifts in business strategy — some of which you’re likely already feeling when you check into a hotel....

American folk music has no precise nameable origin because it organically grew out of a communal tradition more than for entertainment or profit. There are folk songs that date so far back they can be considered oral histories. Certainly, in America, songs by traditional American folk singers like Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie tell stories that often don’t even appear in history books. From its origins, folk music has been the music of the working class....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.One of the greatest features of American Express Membership Rewards is obviously the point transfer feature. Of the 17 airline partners, nearly all (save the exception of Virgin America and Jet Blue) have a 1:1 transfer ratio, and on top of those there are dozens of other travel other partners in addition to hundreds of other shopping, entertainment and dining partners....

Just about every question in my inbox this week asked about one thing: the very sought-after French digital health pass that enables tourists and locals alike to seamlessly access public indoor spaces in France during COVID-19. Applications for such abruptly shut down this week, leaving American travelers heading to France scrambling and wondering what to do.Rest assured, travelers to France can still enjoy their trip as planned, either by heading to a French pharmacy to request their foreign vaccination certificate be transferred to a digital health pass or by securing a temporary pass via a COVID-19 test....

Editor’s note: The newly opened Hammetts Hotel provided a complimentary stay to TPG. The opinions expressed below are entirely from the author and weren’t subject to review by the hotel.My first job after college was as a reporter for The Providence Journal. I’d often find myself assigned to the weekend shift, covering all the summer festivals and events in Newport, Rhode Island.The city is famous for its Gilded Age mansions, world-class sailing and jazz and folk festivals....

Jump to Recipe Creamy, fresh, and savory, this tzatziki sauce is the absolute perfect accompaniment to any Greek or Mediterranean dish! Serve chilled with any appetizer, side, or main dish, and enjoy the light, yet rich flavor! Easy, Versatile Tzatziki Sauce Making a Mediterranean dish but need that extra zing to go with it? This traditional condiment functions as a sauce or a dip that pairs with anything, from celery and carrots to chips or pita bread!...