If you want to sit in a certain part of a restaurant, ask for it. Don't expect people to read your mind. For those who travel on expense accounts, Sims says she once attended a seminar at which one of the biggest topics of conversation among attendees was about how to be creative with expense reports. An expense account is a lot of fun. You order a burger and a chocolate shake, and it goes on the sheet as a porterhouse steak.
Parents share strategies that help make trips with teens enjoyable.
Here's a list of suggestions gleaned from several sources. Not if you're vacationing with kids. With dozens of new hotels, restaurants swathed in their best linen and museums, there isn't a better place to visit on the Mediterranean. If you want to spend part of your vacation a step back in time, try Charleston, S.C., with its Southern gentility, antebellum homes and a very walkable historic district and fort. When you tire of the bright lights and big city, there's a place, just two hours by car from Las Vegas, where eons light the way and silence is the only music.