Travel Briefs

In New Zealand, you can stay at a vineyard overnight in a stationary motorhome that sleeps two (double bed), with facilities en suite, as offered by the motorhome company Maui (phone 011 800 200 80 801).

Vineyards are located on the North Island at Mercury Bay (Coromandel Peninsula, near Auckland), the Linden Estate (on the coast near Napier) and Coney Wines (near Wellington) and in central South Island at Carrick Wines.

A stay costs NZD140 (near $111) per night per home and includes a sampling of each vineyard’s signature wine. Sites are not powered, but each motorhome...

American Airlines has completely revised its economy-class fare structure, listing fees for many items that people used to assume would be included with an economy-class ticket.

A base-fare ticket gets you a seat, period. Passengers wanting certain services now must pay for them individually or in two packaged options: (1) “Choice Essential” costs $68 per round trip and offers a flight change for no fee, one bag checked for free and Group 1 boarding, and (2) “Choice Plus,” at $88 round trip, offers no flight-change fee, one checked bag, Group 1 boarding, same-day flight change or...

Fifty miles from San José, Costa Rica, is the Butterfly & Frog Garden, a 2,150-square-foot, open-air garden in the 12,000-acre park Rain Forest Adventures Costa Rica Atlantic (office at SW Third Ave., Ste. 200, Miami, FL 33129; 866/759-8726 or 305/704-3350).

Visitors will find blue morpho butterflies and blue jeans frogs, red-eyed frogs and black-and-green frogs. A bilingual naturalist answers questions. Garden entry costs $10.

Entrance to the park, itself, is free. Attractions include a 2,300-foot-long zip-line ($10), a guided aerial tram tour ($60) and a canopy tour...