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Arthur Frommer: Miami bustles as a cosmopolitan city

Today at 8:35 a.m.

I am surrounded by Brazilian restaurants, Argentinian steakhouses and Peruvian grills. As I walk along a beachside boulevard, I pass Cuban groceries and sidewalk cafes frequented by people reading Spanish-language books (easily viewed by a passerby). Where am I?

Arthur Frommer: Winter vacations snoozing in the sun

Jan. 29 at 9:18 a.m.

You’re tired and stressed. You’ve overcome a number of recent business problems, and outmaneuvered an ambitious young person anxious to grab your job. Now, all you want is a week in the sun, floating with a snorkel mask on the surface of bathtub-warm waters, thinking of nothing other than the sea life passing lazily below you, and also aware of the lunch that awaits in the buffet-style restaurant whose cost is already included in the price you paid for the stay (and therefore doesn’t seem like an expenditure).

Arthur Frommer: Add bungee-jumping to activities to avoid on vacation

Jan. 22 at 9:02 a.m.

The horrific images are captured in a video available on news-gathering websites, such as The Huffington Post.

Arthur Frommer: Tours to Cuba are less than compelling

By ARTHUR FROMMER Jan. 15 at 9:35 a.m.

Five tour companies – and only five – have obtained licenses to operate cultural, religious or educational tours of Cuba. And here is what they are charging:

Arthur Frommer: Time for making New Year’s travel resolutions

By ARTHUR FROMMER Jan. 1 at 10:02 a.m.

The New Year is upon us, and I’ve been thinking of the travel resolutions I should make for a better 2012.

Arthur Frommer: Learn something new for next vacation

Oct. 16 at 9:23 a.m.

l receive countless inquiries asking me to suggest novel methods of vacationing __ tactics designed to get the listener or reader out of a vacation rut. To my surprise, these questions continue to recur, even though I regard the answers to them to be rather obvious. Here is my take on five suggested tactics for avoiding a "vacation rut":

Arthur Frommer: Airlines trim dates for holiday surcharge

Oct. 9 at 9:06 a.m.

The press is full of reports that most of the major airlines — American, United, Delta among them — have reduced the number of holiday dates to six on which they will be charging surcharges of $20 to $40 each way. So this Thanksgiving and Christmas, it will be only a small number of instances — like the day before Christmas or the day before Thanksgiving, or the day after New Year's — when rates will suddenly skyrocket, as compared with the 12 or so days that saw such surcharges in 2010. Are the airlines frightened that they will be unable to fill their seats if they suddenly charge more on such days?

Arthur Frommer: Dual citizenship is possible for Americans

Sep. 25 at 6:35 a.m.

We live and learn. When a caller to my radio program recently requested information about how to obtain a "European passport" (she meant an Irish passport entitling the bearer to all the privileges of the European Union), I casually responded that this was impossible, it couldn't be; I was certain that an American could not enjoy dual citizenship.

Treasury constricts Cuba travel plans

Sep. 18 at 12:08 a.m.

In January, exceptions to the 50-year-old embargo against travel to Cuba were announced by the Obama administration, raising hopes that this totally counterproductive policy finally would be phased out.

Arthur Frommer: Trans-Atlantic flights are cheap right now

August 28 at 6:35 a.m.

They may be a product of the recent riots in Britain, but autumn airfares across the Atlantic, and particularly to London, are suddenly much cheaper than was recently anticipated.

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