Destination of the Week

There’s plenty of buzz around the Music City these days thanks to a blockbuster new TV show (are you rooting for Connie Britton’s Rayna James character, Hayden Panettiere’s Juliette Barnes?), and TPG flew to Tennessee just yesterday to attend the Country Music Awards, so for today’s Destination of the Week, we visit the hottest city [...]

As people start to make their holiday plans, we head south of the border for some sea and sun for today’s Destination of the Week to one of Mexico’s all-round best vacation destinations: Puerto Vallarta. WHAT TO DO Ever since Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor spent a few languid months in what was then a [...]

As the US presidential election heats up, we thought we’d swing by the nation’s capital for today’s Destination of the Week and visit Washington, D.C. TPG contributor Melanie Wynne Waldman was born and raised in Washington. D.C., where she grew up thinking of the Smithsonian as her playground, and attended middle school alongside former First [...]

 Machu Picchu is one of the world’s great tourist destinations, though there’s plenty more to see and do in Peru. With bustling cities, stunning Pacific coastline, primordial rainforests, fascinating ancient cultures and the mysterious peaks of the Andes, Peru is truly one of the world’s top travel destinations, so for our Destination of the Week [...]

For today’s Destination of the Week, we head to TPG Managing Editor Eric’s hometown of San Diego to soak in the sun at the world-class beaches just north of the city in La Jolla and beyond. Now that the June gloom has cleared for good, the Del Mar Fair traffic has cleared out and the [...]

To celebrate Canada Day (that’s July 1 for all you hosers), we had a new TPG contributor named Melanie Wynne Waldman guide us north for today’s Destination of the Week and take a look at one of Canada’s (and North America’s) coolest cities: Vancouver. Gorgeous scenery, fantastic cuisine and a slew of top-notch hotels all [...]

For this Friday’s Destination of the Week, we’re celebrating TPG’s recent one-year anniversary as a full-time blogger by taking a look back at the first destination he visited after leaving his office job and starting his career as The Points Guy: Tokyo. TIME FOR TOKYO Since TPG already wrote a full series on his whirlwind [...]