My wife, Patti, and I ordered two luggage tags from RuMeID (Centennial, CO; 303/799-4256, www.rumeid.com) on the TripAdvisor store, and they have a unique feature: each RuMeID tag comes with a QR code that helps you be reunited with your bag if it’s lost.Before a trip, you log in to the RuMeID website and register your tag, then enter the names of the hotels you’ll be staying at plus the dates.Once you do that, if your luggage goes missing during your trip, anyone who finds it...

On a 10-night “Malaysian Peninsula & Indonesia” cruise that I took on the Diamond Princess in January 2017, the itinerary, round trip from Singapore, included full-day port calls at the island of Bali in Indonesia, at Kuala Lumpur city and Penang state in Malaysia, and at Phuket, Thailand.

This was with Princess Cruises (Santa Clarita, CA; 800/774-6237, www.princess.com). The cost of the cruise, alone, was over $8,800, which included single occupancy of a full suite....

While staying in Costa Rica for a month in January-February 2017, my husband, John Doellinger, and I spent the first week on a tour with Natural Habitat (Boulder, CO; 800/543-8917, www.nathab.com). For weeks three and four, we rented a condo in Playa Langosta, Guanacaste, through Airbnb. However, for the second week, Jan. 21-28, we were on our own in La Fortuna, near Arenal Volcano. On our first day in La Fortuna, we just wandered through town to explore. The second day, we went to...