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The art calendar does not wait for cheap fares. Frieze opens in London on October 14, Art Basel Paris on October 23, Artissima in Turin and the Bangkok Art Biennale on October 29, and the Venice Biennale closes on November 22. What follows is the travel news that bears on those dates, each item with its source.

Thailand Halves the Visa-Free Stay

Americans entering Thailand without a visa now get 30 days, down from 60. The change took effect on September 15, 2026, after publication in the Royal Gazette on August 31, as Travel Pirates reported, citing the Thai foreign ministry; a further 30 days may be granted at the discretion of immigration officers. The New York Times reported the plan on May 20, when the Thai foreign ministry counted 54 countries affected. Thirty days still covers a long look at the Bangkok Art Biennale, which runs October 29 to February 28.

The Last Train Out of Singapore

The five-minute shuttle across the causeway from Woodlands to Johor Bahru is the only passenger train left in Singapore, and it is on notice. Singapore’s Ministry of Transport has said all KTM services in the country will cease within six months of the new Rapid Transit System Link carrying passengers; a Johor state official put that opening at January 1, 2027, according to TheSmartLocal Unconfirmed. The shuttle is the first link in the overland chain to Bangkok, a journey of about 48 hours by The Man in Seat 61’s count. Nicholas Yong rode the whole route for The New York Times, which reported on October 4 that the shuttle is due to stop by mid-2027; see Trains.

Friday Is the New Tuesday

Expedia’s 2026 Air Hacks report, drawn from its own bookings, finds fares about 3% lower when booked on a Friday instead of a Sunday, and about 8% lower for Friday departures. Its cheapest windows are short: 15 to 30 days before a domestic flight, and 31 to 45 days ahead for international travelers who dislike suspense. These are averages from one seller, and fair weeks are the exception to every average.

Air France Widens Its First Class

La Première, the four-suite cabin at the front of selected Air France Boeing 777-300ERs, reached Atlanta in March and Houston and Boston in July, bringing the American network to eight cities by the end of 2026, The Points Guy reported. Each suite has an armchair and a separate chaise that becomes a bed more than six feet long. The New York Times wrote about the cabin in April. For Art Basel Paris the relevant fact is the destination: Charles de Gaulle.

Two Hotels With Stories

In London, The Chancery Rosewood occupies Eero Saarinen’s 1960 United States Embassy on Grosvenor Square, a Grade II listed building reborn as an all-suite hotel with eight restaurants and bars. In Paris, L’Aventure opened on February 9 near the Arc de Triomphe with 15 rooms, a restaurant and a club, under the Beaumarly group of Gilbert and Thierry Costes, according to Hospitality Net. Both are easier to drink in than to sleep in. See Hotels.

Small Ships, Famous Names

The luxury end of cruising is being rebuilt around hotel brands. Cruise Industry News lists the 2026 arrivals: Four Seasons I, for 190 passengers; Orient Express Corinthian, for 108; Explora III, for 922; and Regent’s Seven Seas Prestige, for 822. Aman follows in 2027 with the 94-passenger Amangati. The New York Times reported fares in September that start at $4,340 a person for seven nights on Explora III; its passenger counts differ slightly from the list above. For an art traveler the question is practical: which of them call at Venice, Piraeus or Istanbul in a biennale year.

Sleepers, Suites and a Desert Line

Rail keeps adding ways to arrive slowly. La Dolce Vita Orient Express begins a five-day Rome to Istanbul itinerary this month, and Saudi Arabia’s Dream of the Desert is due late in the year, Business Traveller reported. At the useful end, European Sleeper added an Amsterdam, Brussels, Bern and Milan night train in June, and Etihad Rail’s passenger service is to link Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and Fujairah this year, according to National Geographic. That last one matters in January, when the Sharjah Biennial opens.

An art trip has a fixed point that a beach holiday lacks: the preview day. Everything about the flight follows from it.

When to Book

The averages favor patience. Expedia’s 2026 data puts the lowest international fares 8 to 15 days out and a calmer saving at 31 to 45 days, and names August as the cheapest month to fly, about 29% below December. None of this survives contact with a fair week. When 272 galleries and their clients converge on one airport, as they will on Miami in early December, the seat map behaves like the fair itself: the good positions go first. The working rule is to book the outbound flight as soon as the dates are public, keep the return flexible, and read the last-minute advice for Miami if the rule has already been broken.

A second rule: arrive the day before the thing you came for. Opening days are the ones that cannot be rebooked.

Seven Rules From a Bad Summer

The New York Times set out seven rules for air travel on September 24. The first is this page’s own: leave at least a day before anything with a fixed start. The rest: take the first departure of the day on a route flown several times daily, fly nonstop when the price gap is bearable, book with the airline instead of an online agency, allow more than an hour between connections, keep the airline’s app alerts on, and buy insurance. First flights run more than 10 percentage points better on punctuality, Anna Brown of Going.com told the Times. The Times also named Europe’s new Entry/Exit System among the causes of delay, a reason to lengthen any connection on the way to Venice or Basel.

Layovers Worth Having

A long connection is a small free city break, provided the airport cooperates. The New York Times ran a guide in March, “7 Hours in a City? You’ve Got Time to Sightsee.” Its advisers prefer airports within 45 minutes of the center and one or two plans, not a schedule. For art, four airports earn the detour.

• San Francisco (SFO). SFO Museum programs galleries across the International Terminal, Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, many of them past security. Its mission statement covers both a broad exhibition program and the history of commercial aviation. No detour required, only a slower walk to the gate.
• Doha (DOH). Hamad International works with Qatar Museums to place art in the terminal, including murals by Faraj Duham and a desert horse sculpture by Ali Hassan, according to the airport.
• Istanbul (IST). Turkish Airlines runs Touristanbul, a free city tour for passengers connecting between international flights with 6 to 24 hours to spare. Tours last from three and a half to six and a half hours and include a meal. The airline is clear that they do not enter museums, so expect the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia from outside, and allow the required 1 hour 25 minutes between the tour’s end and the next departure.
• Singapore (SIN). Changi offers a Free Singapore Tour for transit passengers, listed on the airport’s site; check the eligibility rules there before counting on it. The Times counted four different tours, each two and a half hours and free.

The arithmetic for leaving any airport is unforgiving. Subtract immigration both ways, the transfer both ways and a security line, and a six-hour layover holds about two hours of city. Check visa rules for the transit country first, and leave the checked bag checked.

The Front of the Plane

Premium cabins sell sleep, and sleep is worth most on the overnight flight that lands on preview morning. Business class with a flat bed does that job. First class, where it survives, sells privacy and ground service: the Air France suite described above is one of four on the aircraft. The sensible test is the first day on the ground. If it holds eight hours of standing in a tent, pay for the bed; if it holds a nap and dinner, premium economy and an early night will serve.

When the Flight Goes Wrong

Rights depend on where the flight starts and who operates it. Two regimes cover most art itineraries.

European Union. The rules cover any flight departing the EU and flights into the EU on EU airlines. A delay of three hours or more at the final destination, or a cancellation, can bring fixed compensation of €250, €400 or €600 depending on distance, unless the airline proves extraordinary circumstances such as weather or air traffic control decisions. Meals, a hotel when needed and transport to it are owed regardless, as Your Europe, the EU’s official portal, sets out.

United States. There is no delay compensation for domestic itineraries, the Department of Transportation notes in its Fly Rights guide. There is a refund right: a passenger who declines the alternative offered is owed money back when a flight is canceled or significantly changed, which the department defines as a domestic arrival three or more hours late or an international one six or more hours late. Refunds are due within seven business days on a card, per the department’s refunds page. Passengers bumped against their will are owed up to 400% of the one-way fare, capped at $2,150.

Claiming is a matter of paperwork: boarding pass, booking reference, the delay as recorded, receipts. Airlines accept claims directly and at no charge. Travelers who would rather hand the file to a claims service, which takes a share of any payout, can try Compensair. For rebooking in a hurry, Kiwi.com searches combinations of carriers that do not sell each other’s seats; remember that separate tickets mean separate responsibilities if the first leg runs late.

Miles, Points and Status, Plainly

Three currencies are in play. Airline miles are earned by flying or spending and are redeemed for seats on that airline and its partners. Hotel points work the same way for rooms. Bank points, earned on certain credit cards, are the flexible kind: they can be moved to a list of airline and hotel programs, called transfer partners, usually one way and for good.

Alliances are why the miles of one airline can buy a seat on another. Oneworld, SkyTeam and Star Alliance each group a set of carriers, so a traveler loyal to one member can book, earn and use lounges across the group. Status is separate from the balance: it is a tier earned by a year’s flying or spending, and it buys the things that matter in a disrupted fair week, namely priority rebooking, a second checked bag and a shorter line.

What a point is worth depends entirely on what it is spent on, and anyone quoting a single figure is selling something. Two habits are enough for most people. Credit every flight to one program per alliance. And look at award seats before paying cash for peak weeks, because fair-week cash fares are high and award charts do not always notice.

Between art cities a few hundred kilometers apart, the train wins on the measure that matters: door to door, with a catalog open on the table.

Venice, Milan, Turin

Northern Italy’s autumn runs along one railway. Trenitalia’s Frecciarossa and the private Italo both work the Turin, Milan, Verona and Venice line, and their rivalry has raised quality and lowered fares, in the judgment of The Man in Seat 61. That puts the last weeks of the Venice Biennale, Milan’s museums and Artissima in Turin, October 29 to November 1, on a single ticket-buying session. Venezia Santa Lucia station opens directly onto the Grand Canal, which no airport can claim. Check times with the operators; this page gives none it has not verified.

Paris to Basel

TGV Lyria runs from Paris Gare de Lyon to Basel SBB in about 3 hours 4 minutes, with fares from €29 in second class, according to Seat 61. In June that is the Art Basel commute. In October it runs the other way, bringing Basel to Paris for the fair.

London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam

Eurostar’s fastest London to Paris trains take about 2 hours 15 minutes from St Pancras to Gare du Nord, and check-in closes 30 minutes before departure, Seat 61 notes. Direct trains reach Amsterdam in about four hours. Frieze closes in London on Sunday, October 18; Art Basel Paris runs Friday to Sunday, October 23 to 25. The days between are what the train is for.

Tokyo to Kyoto

The fastest Nozomi covers Tokyo to Kyoto in 2 hours 18 minutes, with departures every 15 to 30 minutes; the Hikari takes 2 hours 38 minutes and is the one a Japan Rail Pass covers without a supplement, per Seat 61. National Geographic reports that private rooms with closing doors return to the Tokaido line this autumn for the first time in two decades.

Singapore to Bangkok, While It Lasts

Nicholas Yong made the trip for The New York Times in March 2026: about 1,200 miles on six trains in seven days, for $135 in tickets. It begins with the five-minute Shuttle Tebrau and ends with a 15-hour sleeper from Hat Yai into Bangkok, about 1,800 baht in first class. Two stops reward an art traveler: George Town, the UNESCO-listed capital of Penang, where Ernest Zacharevic’s six street murals of 2012 have drawn others around them, and Bangkok’s Song Wat district of shophouses, cafes and street art. The Bangkok Art Biennale runs to February 28, so the slow route fits inside the 30-day visa-free stay.

The Northeast Corridor

Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Boston sit on one line, each with its museums a short ride from the station. Amtrak’s NextGen Acela trains, with a stated maximum speed of 160 miles per hour, now run on selected departures. Station to station, city center to city center, with no liquids rule.

Curiosities

Amtrak will still couple a privately owned railcar to its trains. Owners pay an annual registration fee and a mileage charge, and the railroad supplies power, water and switching, according to its private car page. The New York Times rode one from Chicago to St. Louis and reported in September that Amtrak’s charge from October 1 is $4.91 a mile for the first car, against $2.90 in 2017, and that one owner charters a dome car with a sleeper for $16,000 a day. They are the rail equivalent of chartering: unnecessary, and hard to forget.

The New York Times’s T Magazine reported in January that the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express carries a suite by the French artist JR that fills a 75-foot carriage, that Orient Express is restoring carriages of the 1920s and 1930s under the Paris architect Maxime d’Angeac for service in 2027, and that spas have moved aboard.

Grand Hotels Without the Room

A grand hotel is a public building with bedrooms attached. The lobby, the bar, afternoon tea and often the spa are open to anyone who books a table, and during a fair week they are where half the business is done. The Chancery Rosewood lists eight restaurants and bars, among them an afternoon tea room and a café, and none requires a key. The New York Times listed six such hotels in September. In London, The Goring holds a free jazz evening on Thursdays, with no reservations. In New York, the Gold Room at the Lotte New York Palace keeps Stanford White’s design and John La Farge’s lunette paintings. In Paris, La Réserve pours four vintages of Cos d’Estournel in a 90-minute tasting for €145. The method is simple: reserve, dress for the room, and order something.

Rome’s Religious Guesthouses

Convents and monasteries have taken paying guests for centuries, and the sector is larger than most visitors suspect: about 3,000 houses and 193,945 beds across Italy, with Lazio in the lead at more than 31,000, Il Sole 24 Ore reported, drawing on the Italian religious hospitality association. Its Rome examples run from €60 to €100 a night, with the House of Santa Brigida at €120 for a single. Each house sets its own rules, and some keep a curfew, which suits anyone due at the Vatican Museums at opening. The New York Times profiled five of them in April and reported about 350 church-run houses in Rome, where a double averages €90 a night against €190 in a hotel, by the Italian Religious Hospitality Association’s estimate. Casa di Santa Brigida is near Palazzo Farnese; the guesthouse at Trinità dei Monti stands at the top of the Spanish Steps.

Choosing a Hotel for Fair Week

• Measure in minutes, not stars. The right hotel is the one within a walk of the fair or one direct transit line from it. A better room 40 minutes away costs two hours a day.
• Book refundable, then improve. Reserve a cancelable room when dates are announced and trade up if rates soften.
• Check the minimum stay. Hotels near fairs often impose one in the peak nights. Arriving a day early can cost less than it looks.
• Ask about storage. A hotel that will hold a tube or a crate for a day is worth more than one with a rooftop.
• Read the neighborhood. In Venice, sleep near a vaporetto stop on the right line. In Miami, decide between the beach and the mainland first; the Miami Art Week guide explains the trade.

Airports and Transfers

The first hour sets the tone. Where a train runs from the airport, take it. Where it does not, or where the flight lands late with luggage, a booked car at a fixed price removes the negotiation. Kiwitaxi and GetTransfer both quote before travel. Venice is the special case: the airport is on the mainland, the hotel is not, and the choice is between the public water bus, a shared boat and a private water taxi. Decide before landing.

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A fair day is six hours on a hard floor. A biennale day is the same, outdoors, with bridges.

Fair Week

Shoes first: broken in, cushioned, and dark enough for dinner. Fair tents and convention halls are cold in the morning and warm by three, so dress in layers that come off without ceremony. Carry a tote that closes, because it will hold catalogs by noon, and a battery, because the phone is the ticket, the map and the notebook. Cards, a pen, and one outfit that can go from the booth to the opening without a hotel stop.

Biennale Week

Venice in the last weeks of the Biennale is damp, and the Giardini and Arsenale are largely on foot. Add a waterproof layer, shoes that tolerate wet stone, and a bag that leaves both hands free on a vaporetto. Gwangju and Bangkok ask for the opposite: breathable fabric and a light layer against air conditioning. In every case, travel with one bag fewer than seems necessary. It will be needed on the way home.

And a Swimsuit, for London

Frieze week is spent on foot, and a swim undoes some of it. The pilot Mark Vanhoenacker chose six London swims for The New York Times in September. The first is architecture: Zaha Hadid’s London Aquatics Centre in Stratford, built for the 2012 Olympics, from about £8. London Fields Lido in Hackney is heated and costs about £7. Sea Lanes Canary Wharf, opened in June, floats unheated in a dock beside the Thames.

Staying Connected

An eSIM bought before departure avoids both roaming charges and the airport kiosk. Airalo sells country and regional data plans that install over Wi-Fi; check first that the phone is unlocked and supports eSIM. Download the fair map and tickets while still on hotel Wi-Fi. Convention-center signal on opening day is a known casualty.

Carrying Art and Catalogs Home

Cabin rules are the airline’s alone. The International Air Transport Association says plainly on its baggage page that it plays no role in setting them, and that they vary with route, fare and status. So measure the tube or portfolio, read the carrier’s limits for that exact fare, and ask at the gate rather than assume. A rolled print in a rigid tube usually travels as the one personal item; a framed work rarely travels as anything.

For anything larger, heavier or more valuable than a print, let the gallery ship it. Galleries at fairs deal with fine art shippers daily, and the invoice, packing and insurance arrive as one arrangement. Catalogs are the quiet problem: ten of them weigh more than a suitcase allowance forgives. Post them home from the fair’s shipping desk or leave the heavy ones as a list of ISBNs.

At the border, declare what was bought and keep the invoice with the work. Duty and tax treatment of art differs by country and by what the object is, and some countries require an export license for older works. Customs authorities publish the rules; a gallery or shipper will know the ones that apply. This page could not reach the United States customs site while reporting, so it gives no figures. Confirm with customs

The Travel Journal

Ten pavilions in, memory fails. A notebook fixes it: the artist’s name, the room, one sentence on why it held attention, a ticket stub taped in. The New York Times published a method in July that suits a preview day: begin each entry with the date, time, weather and place, index the first two pages by museum name, and write for a timed 15 minutes each night without editing. My Biennale keeps the digital version, with saves and notes attached to exhibitions, in the MY area. For paper, the Biennale shop has notebooks and stationery and the totes and accessories to carry them in.

Planning With AI, Sensibly

Chat assistants are good at drafts: a first itinerary, a packing list, a sequence of neighborhoods that does not cross the city four times. They are unreliable on facts that change, which in the art world is most of them. Opening hours, ticket prices, preview days and whether an exhibition has already closed should come from the organizer. Give the tool the fixed points, such as dates, hotel and the three things that must be seen, ask for a route between them, and verify every time and address it produces.

Seth Kugel tested ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude for The New York Times in September. Paste in a few paragraphs about your own tastes, then have the assistant ask five questions before it plans. Ask which sites it can read and demand URLs, because access differs: by his account ChatGPT and Gemini could read Reddit in full and Claude could not, and the Times blocks bots from some or all of its pages. Then check every venue. Gemini recommended a restaurant and a music venue that had closed; two bakeries from Claude turned out to be a parking lot and a Japanese restaurant.

Insurance, and Claiming on It

A policy is worth what its claim is worth. The steps are the same everywhere, as the comparison site InsureMyTrip sets out: call the insurer’s assistance line as soon as something goes wrong, keep every receipt and the airline’s written confirmation of a delay or a lost bag, get a police report for theft, and file promptly on returning, because policies set deadlines. Read the exclusions before buying. Art bought on the trip is rarely covered by a travel policy at more than a token sum; that is the shipper’s insurance or the buyer’s own. The New York Times walked through a claim in June, with one detail for this readership: prepaid museum admission counts among the nonrefundable costs a policy can repay after a covered delay. An Allianz spokesman told the Times that missing paperwork is the main cause of slow payment.

Traveling With Pets

Start months ahead. For leaving the United States, the Department of Agriculture’s pet travel service advises contacting an accredited veterinarian as soon as the trip is decided, since the destination’s tests, vaccinations and endorsed health certificate take time. For coming back with a dog, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sets requirements by where the dog has been in the previous six months and where it was vaccinated against rabies. Fair tents and most museums admit service animals only. The New York Times addressed travel with cats and dogs in January.

Listening on the Way

A long flight is an audio opportunity. The New York Times assembled “6 Travel Podcasts to Inspire Your Next Trip” in June. For the art itself, most major museums publish free audio guides; download the one for the first museum of the trip before boarding.

Plan It on My Biennale

The companion site does the bookkeeping. All of it is free to use.

• Start a trip. Name the city and dates, and collect exhibitions, fairs and museums into one itinerary.
• Wallet. Keep tickets and passes for the week in one place.
• City guides. What is on, by city, with listings and maps.
• Tickets. Museum and attraction tickets, bought ahead.
• Calendar and saves. Dates for the fairs and biennales being followed, with notes attached.

For the wider map, the directory lists the biennales and fairs Biennale covers, and the country hubs collect them by nation.

Biennale Traveller is built on other people’s reporting as well as its own. These are the pieces behind this issue. Each note describes the piece in a line and is no substitute for reading it. Times articles are listed by headline, byline and date; the rest of the set read for this issue is in The Times File below.

The Times File

The other New York Times articles read for this issue, by subject. Headlines are given as published; city names link to the My Biennale city page.

Getting there

• The 7 New Rules for Air Travel · Elaine Glusac · September 24, 2026
• No Lines, No ‘Regular’ People: Flying Ultra-Luxury From Paris · Sarah Lyall · April 6, 2026
• Thailand Restricts How Long Tourists, Including Americans, Can Stay · Gabe Castro-Root · May 20, 2026

Trains and ships

• 1,200 Miles by Train, From Singapore to Bangkok · Nicholas Yong · October 4, 2026
• In the Private Jet Age, the Quiet Allure of Private Rail · Benton Graham · September 23, 2026
• Are Trains Now the Most Luxurious Way to Travel? · Matthew Kronsberg · January 6, 2026
• No Luxury Spared: New High-End Cruise Ships Set Sail · Ceylan Yeğinsu · September 8, 2026

Hotels

• Get the Perks of a 5-Star Hotel — Without Booking a Room · Amy Tara Koch · September 23, 2026
• London Luxury Face-Off: How Did Two Very Expensive Hotels Compare? · Amy Virshup · May 12, 2026
• A New Costes Hotel Opens in Paris · Tina Isaac-Goizé · January 26, 2026
• 5 Hidden Guesthouses in the Heart of Rome · Elizabeth Djinis · April 1, 2026
• In the English Countryside, a Regency-Era Parsonage With a Walled Garden · T Magazine editors · April 23, 2026
• A Floating Sauna With Mountain Views · T Magazine editors · February 19, 2026

Planning

• Planning a Trip With A.I.? Here’s How to Do It Better. · Seth Kugel · September 16, 2026
• How to File a Travel Insurance Claim · Elaine Glusac · June 11, 2026
• How to Travel With a Pet · Danielle Gelfand · January 30, 2026
• How to Keep a Travel Journal · Jenna Schnuer · July 27, 2026

Art and museums

• Artists on the Must-See Works at Their Favorite Museums · Julia Halperin · April 17, 2026
• There’s More to Phuket Than Mass Tourism at the Thailand Biennale · David Belcher · March 26, 2026
• Kehinde Wiley Wants to Buy His Embassy Painting Back From Trump · Zachary Small · September 28, 2026
• Jamie Wyeth, Meet Uncle Winslow · Ralph Blumenthal · October 1, 2026
• 6 Ways to See Rare Books in London · Sarah Bahr · May 12, 2026

City guides A to Z

• Amalfi Coast. 36 Hours: Amalfi Coast, Italy · Ondine Cohane · May 14, 2026
• Amsterdam. Your Guide to Amsterdam · Noëlle de Leeuw · April 15, 2026
• Athens. 36 Hours in Athens · Iliana Magra · June 11, 2026
• Bangkok. What’s New in Bangkok · Seth Sherwood · March 27, 2026
• Barcelona. 36 Hours: Barcelona · Jason Horowitz · April 30, 2026
• Barcelona. In Barcelona, Finding the Perfect Spot for Vermut and Snacks · Danielle Pergament · August 15, 2026
• Bergen. 36 Hours: Bergen, Norway · Lynsey Chutel and David B. Torch · August 13, 2026
• Canal cities. Beyond Amsterdam and Venice: 6 Delightful European Canal Cities · Noëlle de Leeuw · July 28, 2026
• Chicago. 36 Hours in Chicago · Natalie Y. Moore · August 6, 2026
• Copenhagen. Your Guide to Copenhagen · Ingrid K. Williams · August 11, 2026
• Cotswolds. 36 Hours: The Cotswolds, England · Sharon Martin · August 20, 2026
• Dallas. 36 Hours in Dallas · Jesus Jiménez · May 28, 2026
• Dublin. A Cheapskate in Dublin · Elaine Glusac · May 5, 2026
• Lagos. 36 Hours in Lagos, Nigeria · Dipo Faloyin · February 5, 2026
• Lisbon. The Sun Is Shining on Lisbon · Alexander Lobrano · June 3, 2026
• London. Diving Into London: 6 Places to Swim, No Matter What the Season · Mark Vanhoenacker · September 14, 2026
• Madrid. Your Guide to Madrid · Andrew Ferren · March 17, 2026
• Mexico City. 36 Hours in Mexico City · Michael Snyder · January 22, 2026
• Montreal. 48 Hours in Montreal With an Airline Pilot · Mark Vanhoenacker · February 26, 2026
• New York. Your Guide to New York City · Julie Besonen · July 7, 2026
• Philadelphia. 36 Hours in Philadelphia · Regan Stephens · July 2, 2026
• Rome. In Rome, It’s a Pizza Renaissance · Anya von Bremzen · July 28, 2026
• Salvador. Wagner Moura’s 5 Favorite Places in Salvador, Brazil · Danielle Pergament · August 31, 2026
• Seville. 36 Hours in Seville, Spain · Andrew Ferren · February 12, 2026
• Shanghai. 36 Hours in Shanghai · Erin Vivid Riley · March 19, 2026
• Skåne. A Paradise for Food Lovers in the Swedish Countryside · Lisa Abend · May 14, 2026
• Stockholm. Fresh Takes on Old Favorites at 5 Stockholm Bakeries · Ingrid K. Williams · May 1, 2026
• Thailand. The Perfect Thailand Tour: 10 Days, 2 Budgets · John Wogan · May 20, 2026
• Toronto. A Food Lover’s Tour of Toronto · Elaine Glusac · September 18, 2026
• Veneto. So Close to Venice, So Far From the Crowds: 3 Great Trips Nearby · Alex Crevar · July 14, 2026

Other Outlets Used in This Issue

• Expedia, 2026 Air Hacks report (Business Wire, February 17, 2026). Booking days and windows, from Expedia’s own data.
• The Points Guy, December 6, 2025. Air France’s La Première expansion in the United States.
• Business Traveller, August 19, 2026. Luxury sleeper trains new for 2026.
• Cruise Industry News, March 2026. The luxury ship order book.
• Il Sole 24 Ore, 2026. Italy’s religious guesthouses, counted.
• Travel Pirates, September 15, 2026. Thailand’s 30-day visa exemption.
• VRT NWS, August 10, 2026. A Belgian report on a Times list of six canal cities to visit instead of Venice: Ghent, Haarlem, Aveiro, Hamburg, Strasbourg and Livorno.