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TripBuddy Guide Sicily rewards drivers and punishes drivers in roughly equal measure. A car unlocks the southern coast, the Valley of the Temples, hill towns no bus reaches, and the freedom to stop wherever the view demands it. It also delivers you into medieval streets built for donkeys, parking systems with their own color code, … Read more
TripBuddy Guide Every hotel chain wants you to join its loyalty program, and every program promises the same dream: free nights, room upgrades, breakfast on the house. The promise is real enough that millions of travelers plan entire trips around earning and burning points. But here’s the question nobody in the points game wants to … Read more
TripBuddy Guide You have seven days, an island roughly the size of Vermont, and a list of places — Palermo, Taormina, the Valley of the Temples, Mount Etna, a beach somewhere — that will not all fit. That’s the Sicily problem: it isn’t one destination, it’s five or six packed onto one island, and first-timers … Read more
TripBuddy Guide You’ve seen it: a “5-star hotel” with a lobby the size of a closet and reviews complaining about the breakfast, and a “3-star” with spotless rooms, a great host, and guests who say they’d never stay anywhere else. It feels like the stars are lying to you. They’re not — but they’re not … Read more
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