When you stay in nice hotels, you can easily assume the price tag or star rating means a certain level of cleanliness, but there are hidden nasties lurking unseen.

Who really believes that listening to a song on your MP3 player at takeoff could cause a crash?

Justine Tyerman’s obsession with home swapping goes up another notch after a weekend at one of Australia’s most exclusive beaches.

Excellent DoC and council-approved camping sites and well-priced holiday parks may still be found across the country, Paul Charman discovers.

Paddle your way and around the City of Sails.

I'm from the States and want to show my Kiwi partner the real USA - an off-the-beaten-track-style road trip from coast to coast.

We're getting married in October and my fiance and I need help in choosing a honeymoon destination.

I'm a little fussy about the music I listen to.

Hamilton's river and gardens put you in the mood for wonderful walking It's a 45-minute walk around Hamilton Lake.

Each week, Lonely Planet's Sarah Bennett and Lee Slater answer your questions.

Winston Aldworth flies takes a flight across Nepal.

The Pacific Coast sand stretches 5.6km between Venice Beach and Malibu and the well-heeled town of Santa Monica sits in the middle facing the best sunsets in California, writes Megan Singleton.

It's bad news for Wogistani knife-wielding loons and non-Wogistani knife-wielding loons alike.

Sometimes wildlife is a bit too wild, so we appreciate sculptures of animals instead, embedded in concrete, as nature could have intended.

Rarely are hikers rewarded so richly for their toils as on the steep slopes of Italy's Cinque Terre region, where five ancient fishing villages cling to the sheer slate cliffs below.

The drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco is only about six hours, but with so much to see on the way, you could make a week of it.

Yvonne Tahana flies from Hawaii to Auckland.

With Dean Barker taking his feud with Russell Coutts to San Francisco Bay later this year, plenty of kiwis will be heading over to support him. But outside of the wealthy boys and their toys, here are five very cool things to do in San Francisco.

I knew it. A knockabout unscientific survey from Britain's Stansted Airport has reiterated what many male travellers who fly with their female partners have long suspected: We're losing luggage space for girlie things.