Of all the ways to travel a road trip is still the most elemental. They call it the 'open' road for a very good reason.

Helen van Berkel is well prepared for a camping weekend with teens at Martins Bay and takes everything but the plastic box.

When the sun shines on you during a holiday and it's raining back in your hometown, you're doubling your holiday pleasure.

Kiwis are so naive. New Zealanders trust their post. Too much. They believe in what they read. From abroad.

I had dinner with the Prime Minister last week. Granted, there were 298 other people in the room.

I've heard that cruise passengers often end up spending heaps on alcohol. Am I allowed to take my own booze on board? Travis Bell It

She was heading towards me. A classic Asian granny: hands behind back, slightly bowed, determinedly shuffling.

Top off activity-filled days with happy hour mai tais, writes online guru Eli Orzessek.

Cedric Claude Rene Rault-Verpre declared that New Zealand should be renamed 'Nazi Zealand'.

Among the Brits who voted for Brexit, it seems few had given much thought to the possibility that they might find themselves needing visas to visit the Continent.

Every now and again you chance upon someone special while on the road, writes Robyn Yousef.

I am going to Burma and Cambodia in October but I can't seem to find out what vaccinations, if any, I should have.

Air New Zealand's latest safety video won praise in a review by film guru Russell Baillie in these pages a few weeks back - but it seems the Civil Aviation Authority is not a fan.

Apparently you can even get a very ticklish fish foot massage and pedicure in Kuala Lumpur at Kenko on the fifth floor.

This issue is brought to you by the letters B, I, K and E.

Family holidays are fraught things. Why do we make such an ordeal out of what should be a treat?

Be prepared, not scared, of US airport security, writes online guru Eli Orzessek.

Hawaiian tourism boss George Szigeti floated an interesting idea when he paid Travel a visit last week.

Jim Eagles says he's more likely to buy something if he's not harrassed.

Travel received excellent tips on road trips from Melbourne to Adelaide from readers. Here's a selection of your best advice.

It's always a bit awkward, isn't it, that moment when the plane has landed and we all stand up at once to retrieve our bags from the overhead luggage.

Randye Hoder found herself employing a dose of helicopter parenting earlier this year as her 18-year-old son headed to Europe for a well-deserved holiday.

Sydney's buzzy festival has become a mess - but it would thrive in Auckland, writes Chris Schulz.

Twenty-five dollars seems a hefty price for tourists to pay to access Auckland's War Memorial Museum, writes Stephanie Holmes.

Ten years since her first major taste of international travel, Shandelle Battersby is back on the road.

Simon Calder has more great advice for taking care of yourself while travelling.

Our monolingualism limits our interactions when travelling, writes Winston Aldworth.

Truth really is stranger than fiction when you're giving away a tropical paradise, writes Eveline Harvey.

The hell of 'table-for-one' could be why room service was invented, writes Kevin Pilley.

Like the videos or not, Air New Zealand has done it again.