Where to go, what it costs, and the rules that change the trip
New York's two great museums face each other across Central Park, and they price visitors the same way. Pay a lot if you're from out of state. Pay what you like if you live in New York.
If you're not an EU citizen and you've crossed into Europe this year, you've probably met the Entry/Exit System. It's the reason the passport booth…
Oktoberfest closed a week ago with a Mass costing up to €15.90 in the tents. A twenty-minute walk away, the Hofbräuhaus on Platzl serves the same…
The Hundertwasserhaus is one of the most photographed buildings in Vienna, and you can't go inside. It's a council housing block. People live there…
Walk out of the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux and the next building along is where you eat. Les Halles de Bacalan opened on November 9 2017 at 10 Esplanade…
Nantes is the city where you can ride a mechanical elephant. The Grand Éléphant is about 12 metres tall, 21 metres long and weighs 48.4 tonnes. It…
For most of its history, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York let everyone pay what they wished. The "recommended" $25 was a suggestion, and a…
Most visitors to Munich spend their money in beer halls and their time on Marienplatz. A few hundred metres away, the Residenz, the old palace of the…
At the southern tip of Lyon's Presqu'île, where the Rhône and the Saône meet, there's a museum that looks like a cloud of glass and steel crashed…
For six months this year it looked like Britain's free national museums might start charging tourists. In March the Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy…
