Lindsay Rogers

Hotels are back , baby. It's been a busy travel year once again — since the pandemic, every year is a busy travel year — and while the most in-demand

Happy (early) birthday, YouTube. To celebrate the site's 20th anniversary, we present: The InsideHook Guide to YouTube , a series of creator profiles, channel recommendations and deep dives about the viral, controversial, unstoppable video-sharing giant.

Bogus hacks and bad advice abound on the internet, but these seven channels are essential viewing for new and seasoned travelers alike

As a travel editor, there are a few things that instantly set off alarm bells in my head, none more so than so-called “travel hacks” that go viral. This stems mostly from my distrust of viral travel advice from TikTokers who, frankly, don't know what they're talking about. In my experience, many of these hacks are potentially problematic at best, downright dangerous at worst. But before there was TikTok, there was YouTube, and on YouTube there are content creators who have been peddling travel tips and tricks since before my frontal lobe was fully developed, and certainly before virality was the end goal.

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The Cubo Small is the perfect case

On my most recent trip abroad, I met someone whose philosophy surrounding luggage was to buy cheap, expect to use it a handful of times and then dispose of it when it inevitably reached a point of disrepair. I believe this is both bad and wrong. Why purchase luggage with the intent to replace it in a year? Is it even a cost saver if you're routinely having to swap out your cases?

When purchasing luggage, it's perfectly reasonable to conceive of all the scenarios you might find yourself in with said luggage. How, you might wonder, will it fare in extreme conditions? On safari? An expedition cruise to Antarctica? A cross-country road trip? At 40,000 feet? What about a literal trip to space? Because

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