Alice writes the destination guides, working from park service data, municipal ordinances and tourism-board reporting rather than from other people's listicles.
26 guides
Two weeks buys you three cities properly or six cities badly. Here is the route logic I use, what the new EU border system means at passport control, and what ETIAS will cost.
South Korea waived its travel authorisation for 2026, and that waiver has an expiry date most guides do not mention. This is the trip planning I do before anything else.
Every guide gives you one number for Savannah in February. I checked three sources and they do not agree, and the number they disagree about is the one that matters.
Two hours north of the beach clubs there is a village in the clouds with waterfalls in every direction. It is the best value in Bali and it is not a beach holiday.
Twenty-one miles of water an hour north of Houston, almost all of it fronted by private property. The trick is knowing which handful of places will actually let you in.
Two things put people off Galveston before they arrive: the colour of the water and the seaweed. Both have straightforward explanations, and neither is a reason to skip it.
For one month a year the city bans the things people bring to a beach. The rest of the year, six stretches of Broward coastline offer genuinely different days out.
A South Carolina city of 75,000 that deliberately built itself into a national sports destination, and kept its best two attractions free.
The free-entry national park charges for parking, the state parks charge for nothing, and the music sites are the expensive part. Here is the real cost structure of a Tennessee trip.
The lake on Provo's doorstep is under a swimming advisory for much of most summers. The canyon behind the city is not, and that is where the good days are.
Hungary is landlocked, so it built a coastline. Lupa Beach is a reclaimed gravel pit with imported white sand, and it is where Budapest goes to swim between June and August.
Every beach near Orlando is a drive. The question is which direction, and what you pay when you arrive, which ranges from nothing to $25 for the same afternoon.
Twenty-five boat-in sites on a lake with no other public access, a two-night minimum, and no water, power or toilets once you land. Here is what booking one actually involves.
Tennessee runs the largest state park system in the country with no entrance fee anywhere. Then it puts a $7 permit and a 200-a-day cap on its most famous swimming hole, for reasons worth understanding before you go.
The single most recommended thing to do in Naples has been a construction site since Hurricane Ian. Here is what is open, what parking costs if you do not live in Collier County, and where the town is genuinely good.
Malta capped visitor numbers at the Blue Lagoon and introduced a booking system. The pass is free, the ferry is not, and the time slot you choose decides what kind of day you get.
The city lists nine beach access points, not the two everyone photographs. Two of them have free parking, which matters more in 2026 than it did last year.
Everything about a day at Akchour comes down to one junction beside a small dam. Go right for the short walk, left for the long one, and know which you have chosen before you start.
The sand is the easy part. Lake Michigan takes more lives than the other four Great Lakes combined in most years, and the reason is a current type that only exists here.
Entry to the archaeological site is now split across three separate charges, and the beach is under seaweed for a third of the year. Plan around both and Tulum is still worth it.
A city on the South Plains where the strongest single attraction is a 19-acre outdoor museum of ranch buildings that costs nothing to enter.
The largest measurable happiness effect of a holiday happens before you leave. That finding is more useful than it sounds, and it changes how you should book.
The famous ones sit at the bottom of steep hairpin descents with small car parks. Timing the drive matters more here than choosing the beach.
One of the two baths every Budapest guide recommends has been shut since October 2025. Here is what is open, what it costs, and which of the eleven are worth your limited days.
The most photographed beach in the Caribbean is on a private island with a hard daily cap. There is exactly one way in for non-guests, and it involves a calendar reminder.
One ticket decides the shape of a Peru trip. It is capped, timed, non-transferable and matched to your passport, and it sells out months ahead in high season.
