Here is the first batch of readers’ Q Ratings of international airports — plus, as you’ll see, a few revisions in the instructions which will make the tallies more useful. The goal is to generate an idea of the comparative wait times at airports.

To recap, with Q Ratings a perfect score is zero, meaning there were no lines to wait in. The next time you pass through an international airport (even one in the U.S.), for each queue/line you have to stand in — for check-in, tax payments,...

Zermatt’s beauty and remoteness had entranced me on a visit 25 years earlier, which I made without my wife, JoAnn, so I was anxious to share with her a delightful travel experience on our trip March 9-20, 2007.

Because Zermatt permits no cars or trucks, we parked in a large garage at the train station in Täsch (CHF26, near $25, for two nights) and took the 10-minute train ride into town (CHF31 round trip).

On arrival, I knew right away that Zermat was as beautiful and quaint as...

My wife and I took our fifth trip to Bali, Indonesia, in October ’07, again guided by Gede (e-mail balihaiguide@hotmail.com or visit www.balihaiguide.com). It is impossible to recommend him highly enough.

On-time and intelligent, Gede knows what we want to see and do almost before we do, and he will go the extra mile. We find him to be happy, with a great sense of humor.

On this trip we paid him $30-$50 per day, depending on the distance traveled (we toured from four to eight...