Month: August 2022

It’s officially August, which means with every passing minute, your time to take a summer vacation is rapidly dwindling. I don’t know about you, but I have spent way too much time in the past two months worrying about the fact that I have no plans to go to Europe. Despite the fact that my entire Instagram feed appears to have decamped to the Mediterranean, the obstacles to taking a big fat summer vacation have never been higher. Flying these days is a journey through the seven circles of hell and, with a few exceptions, everything fun is expensive or bad for the environment or both. With that in mind, may I suggest you take the pressure off a little? There are three weeks left of summer: just enough time to plan a super low-stakes vacation.

This is not a staycation, and it’s also not a road

Vacations are supposed to be fun, but they can cause a surprising amount of stress and drama—particularly where money is concerned.

A woman not wanting to split the cost of a holiday cottage evenly with her friends is being bashed online, with Mumsnet users telling her “you need to pay.”

Posted to the site’s AIBU (Am I being unreasonable?) forum on 4 August, user Peachyroll asked if it was “ridiculous” that her friends expected her to pay for a full week’s stay at the vacation rental, when she could attend for three days.

She wrote: “A couple of friends who live abroad are returning to the UK next month to visit family in Devon, and a group of us are going [to] rent a cottage down there for a week to meet up with them and have a cycling/walking holiday.

“I can only make the first weekend, Friday to Monday,

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued an official consumer alert, warning tourists across the country to watch out for vacation rental scams this summer.

“Florida is one of the most popular vacation destinations in the nation. Scammers will take advantage of this by creating fake vacation rental listings in hopes of stealing personal information and money. Whether you are traveling within the state or from out of state, make sure to take extra precautions when renting a vacation home to avoid being burned this summer vacation season,” Moody said.

Florida’s beaches draw in millions of tourists each year, but the Sunshine State is known for scams. Some cybersecurity experts refer to Florida as the “Scam Capitol of the World,” but rental scams have expanded across the country. In July, the FBI’s Boston Division warned Americans of increasing