Posts by SportsVacay Staff
Three Ways to Do a College Football Weekend in 2026
The season starts before most people think it does. A short Week 0 slate opens on Saturday, August 29. The first full weekend runs Thursday, September 3 through Monday, September 7, with the bulk of it landing on Saturday, September 5, over Labor Day. That gives you about three weeks. Not to watch, to book.…
Read MoreYankee Stadium Last-Minute Tickets: How Waiting Got Us Better Seats for Less
We spent nine innings at Yankee Stadium without ever figuring out why the players on the scoreboard were wearing wizard robes. It turned out we’d walked into Harry Potter Night. Not the one on the schedule, either. Harry Potter Night was booked for Tuesday, July 21, against Pittsburgh, and that game got rained out. When…
Read MoreHow to Do The Open 2026 at Royal Birkdale (Even Though General Admission Is Sold Out)
The Open returns to Royal Birkdale this July, and the world’s best players will spend four days fighting the wind off the Irish Sea for the Claret Jug. The 154th Open runs from Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 July 2026, with practice days the Sunday through Wednesday before. If you’ve been thinking about going, here’s…
Read MoreThe Open and the Scottish Open: How to Do a Two-Week British Golf Trip in 2026
Most people plan a golf trip around one event. In July 2026, the calendar hands you two, back to back, a short drive apart on the same island — and following both is the best version of a British golf trip you can build. Here’s the setup. The Genesis Scottish Open runs 9–12 July at…
Read MoreWNBA All-Star 2026: How to Plan a Chicago Trip Around It
The league’s biggest weekend lands at the United Center on Saturday, July 25 — right in the middle of the hottest stretch the WNBA has ever had. Here’s whether it’s worth the trip, when to book, where to stay, and how to build a Chicago weekend around it. The quick verdict If you follow the…
Read MoreSeattle World Cup 2026
Seattle is hosting six World Cup matches, and the marquee is the one American fans circled the moment the draw came out: USA vs. Australia on June 19, the host nation playing in the loudest, most established soccer city in the country. There’s a Round of 16 on July 6 here too. But Seattle’s real…
Read MoreHouston World Cup 2026
Houston is hosting seven World Cup matches, and it has the two angles no other host city can match. Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal plays twice here in the group stage — June 17 and June 23 — and the city draws a Round of 16 on July 4th, a noon knockout match that ends with the…
Read MoreKansas City World Cup 2026
Kansas City is hosting six World Cup matches, and two of them are the kind you build a trip around. Defending champions Argentina open here on June 16 with Lionel Messi — possibly the last World Cup opener of his career — and the city closes its tournament with a quarterfinal on July 11, the…
Read MoreFIFA World Cup 2026 in Los Angeles
Los Angeles opens the United States’ World Cup on June 12 and runs all the way to a quarterfinal — eight matches at SoFi Stadium, including two USMNT group games that will be the biggest sporting events the city has hosted since the 1984 Olympics. The soccer is the easy part. The catch, because it’s…
Read MoreFIFA World Cup 2026 in Mexico City
Mexico City opens the entire tournament on June 11 — and it does it in the one stadium that has already seen all of this. The Azteca becomes the first ground in history to host matches at three men’s World Cups: 1970, 1986, and now 2026. Pelé lifted the trophy here. Sixteen years later Maradona…
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