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You’ve planned every aspect of your next trip; the flights, rental car, and hotel nights are booked, reservations are made at that restaurant you keep hearing about, your distant cousin picked out a great place to meet up for coffee, and directions to the art museum are saved in your phone. Perfect, right? Well, what are your plans for when nature calls and …
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Yes, it is quite legal for airlines to overbook their flights. From experience, they know some passengers will become ill, oversleep, miss their connections, or have other reasons why it will be impossible to be on the plane. But sometimes this backfires and suddenly the airline has too many passengers for too few seats. The U.S. Dept of Transportation (DOT) …
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You’ve booked your ticket well in advance of the flight; you’ve scheduled meetings around your arrival time, and you’re packed and ready to go. The best-laid plans, however, can be interrupted by weather delays, mechanical problems, missing flight crew, and a host of other crazy reasons that impede your planned arrival time. For example, on one flight I was …
Though i shared a few travel safety tips (leisure or business trip) in the past, there are many more tips, starting with safety precautions you should do before ever leaving home. Leave a copy of your itinerary with your emergency contact, whether that be a family member or friend. I use TripIt for easily keeping track of my itinerary and I have automatic …
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A reader, traveling from the U.S. to multiple European countries, wants to know the best place for exchanging U.S. Dollars into other currencies. This got me reminiscing about the ‘old days’ when American Express Travelers Checks (Cheques) were the thing to get. Whether domestic or international travel, it was always fun adding my first signature to every …
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Lately, I’ve been leading a client project where colleagues around the world are coming to the U.S. for the first time. It’s been interesting to hear what they want to do during the week or two that they’re in the U.S. Here’s a few of the interesting requests from these first-time visitors: Eat at Taco Bell, IHOP, and Subway. Meet a real cowboy. Go …
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I can remember the good old days when staying occupied during long car rides consisted of my brother and me punching each other. My, how times have changed. Kids today still revert to the age old practice of tormenting their siblings, but at least nowadays there are plenty of distractions to keep them from making a road trip a living nightmare. IPod's, PSP's, …
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