These days, making a "simple" hotel reservation can be as complicated as booking an intricate air itinerary. With computers and multiple booking channels, suppliers can and do change rates and availability at any time. This means that many travelers learn to check and double check, to see if they are getting the best possible deal. Hotels, sometimes, encourage this behavior.

And the snobbiest city in America is … According to readers of Travel + Leisure, the snobbiest city in America is San Francisco. Based on the magazine’s America’s Favorite City survey, readers ranked 35 major U.S. metropolitan areas on their snobbishness. Not without positive accolades, the results also highlighted good reasons to visit each of [...]