Florida is so convenient, but祐outh Beach, again? Eight attractions for sun seekers who want nothing to do with clubbing.

Leave Friday afternoon and get to the mountains, the water, or a gently old-fashioned city in time to soak in summer’s last long weekend.

And seven other New York hotels for every visitor you might get this summer.

Cost aside, private travel is a no-brainer: Set your schedule, skip JFK, stretch your legs. But once the jargon (fractionals, jet cards, charters) is decoded, how realistic is having your own plane? For most, it’s still going to be a pie in the sky.

For some, Shanghai is already over. Next up? The dumplings and reptile venom of Taiwan’s buzzing capital.

For this special edition of Strategist, we subjected six great metropolises有ondon, Paris, Los Angeles, Sydney, Rome, and Miami葉o the same scrutiny we bring to our own city every week. Now all you have to do is get on the plane.

For this special edition of Strategist, we subjected six great metropolises有ondon, Paris, Los Angeles, Sydney, Rome, and Miami葉o the same scrutiny we bring to our own city every week. Now all you have to do is get on the plane.

For this special edition of Strategist, we subjected six great metropolises有ondon, Paris, Los Angeles, Sydney, Rome, and Miami葉o the same scrutiny we bring to our own city every week. Now all you have to do is get on the plane.

For this special edition of Strategist, we subjected six great metropolises有ondon, Paris, Los Angeles, Sydney, Rome, and Miami葉o the same scrutiny we bring to our own city every week. Now all you have to do is get on the plane.

For this special edition of Strategist, we subjected six great metropolises有ondon, Paris, Los Angeles, Sydney, Rome, and Miami葉o the same scrutiny we bring to our own city every week. Now all you have to do is get on the plane.