Host City Guide

Why you can trust 15+ years of travel experience 550+ products tested 50+ countries visited We hold ourselves to a rigorous editorial standard. Financial incentives don’t sway our recommendations—experience and data do. Read Our Editorial Policy Philadelphia is unapologetically bold – and it’s the city’s greatest quality.  While every other major US World Cup host […]

Cascades to the east. Olympics to the west. Puget Sound at your feet. A skyline wedged perfectly between water and mountains – and a city that has spent decades not caring whether the rest of America noticed, doing things its own way, in Gore-Tex and flannel, with exceptional coffee and no particular need for your

Vancouver’s skyline looks something like a dreamscape.. Mountains that rise directly from the water. A downtown skyline with the Coast Mountains immediately behind it – close enough that you can see the snow on the peaks from the streets. Ocean to the west, forest to the north, a harbor threading through the middle of it

Toronto – the fourth-largest city in North America, larger than Chicago, home to more nationalities than any other city on earth – simply gets on with being one of the most remarkable cities in the Western Hemisphere without making much noise about it. Often described – including by the United Nations – as the most

Why you can trust 15+ years of travel experience 550+ products tested 50+ countries visited We hold ourselves to a rigorous editorial standard. Financial incentives don’t sway our recommendations—experience and data do. Read Our Editorial Policy Every iconic thing you picture when you think of Mexico was invented here. Tequila comes from Jalisco – the

San Francisco doesn’t need the World Cup to prove anything. The food – the dim sum in Richmond, the Mission burrito with a cult following that spans decades and continents, the sourdough that fully earns its mythology – makes most American cities look like they’re not even trying. The neighborhoods feel like separate cities stacked

Why you can trust 15+ years of travel experience 550+ products tested 50+ countries visited We hold ourselves to a rigorous editorial standard. Financial incentives don’t sway our recommendations—experience and data do. Read Our Editorial Policy You’re standing outside the stadium. You can hear the chants, the drums, the roar building toward kickoff. You refresh

Dallas doesn’t care that you underestimated it. Dallas-Fort Worth is so large it doesn’t feel like a city. The metro area is home to approximately 7+ million residents and a land area larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined!  It has two major international airports, one of the most diverse food scenes in America, and