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Long-haul rail trips on Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada offer single-occupancy sleeping compartments for close to the PPDO price. Some cruise ships have a few single cabins—usually more expensive than the minimum PPDO price but less than you’d pay for single occupancy of a standard cabin. Cruise lines and tour operators occasionally offer reduced single supplements as an inducement to fill unsold cabins/rooms. You’re most likely to encounter these offers as last-minute promotions. We’ve seen single supplements as low as 10 percent and occasionally “no supplement” single pricing. More from SmarterTravel: Single Travel: Tips for Going Solo The 10 Safest Countries for Solo Female Travel 6 Essential Tips for Solo Female Travel in the Middle East This story was originally published in 2008. It has been updated to reflect to most current information. SmarterTravel writers Ed Perkins, Rebecca Johnson, and Executive Editor Christine Sarkis contributed to this … [Read more...] about Solo Travelers: Avoid the Single Supplement

P.S. VisitScotland has almost one million followers on Instagram. Showcasing everything from luminous landscape shots to hard-to-find gems, its feed is a must-follow. Share your favourite pictures with the world using the hashtags #VisitScotland or #Scotland IsNow. … [Read more...] about Travel: The ten most Instagram-worthy Scottish sights

ESCAPE THE CROWDSColorado (Aspen, Vail, Telluride et al) open up to winter sports fans, with wallet-friendly rooms. In Europe, aim for snow-sure glacier-fed resorts with longer seasons, such as Val Thoren in France – the highest resort on the continent. The Med has latter-day blue skies the further south you go: aim for Andalucia, the Balearics or Turkey to eke out glimmers of sunshine. … [Read more...] about Travel calendar: where to go in November

9 Things to Pack for Unpredictable Fall Weather: Because it can still be unseasonably warm (or cold) for Thanksgiving and Christmas. … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Holiday Travel Survival Guide

1. I always try to kiss people. After spending a lot of time in kiss-heavy countries like France, Spain, Argentina and Chile, it feels really normal to kiss others when I greet them. In fact it actually feels cold not to. So when I’m at, let’s say, a dinner party in MICHIGAN, I instinctively rush to kiss people on the cheek- which needless to say, really freaks out most Americans. … [Read more...] about 10 Ways that Travel Permanently Changed Me