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Holiday gatherings often alternate between joyful and fun and overwhelming and stressful. Simply traveling out of town this time of year is apt to be expensive, irritating and exhausting.

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Here’s a rundown of airlines flying within or to the U.S. which are offering their best fare deals only on their own sites.

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The rental car that Earnest Hoenck reserves from Hertz isn’t available when he arrives in Hamburg, Germany. He’s offered two choices: A smaller car that won’t fit his luggage, or a bigger car for an extra 10 euros a day. He picks the big car, but when he returns the rental, he finds that his bill is even bigger than he expected. What can he do?

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“Get a passport before you get a tan!” implored the Mexico Tourism Board last December in preparation for the U.S. Department of State’s requirement, effective Jan. 23 of this year, that U.S. citizens carry passports — assuming they wanted to return home.

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