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5 Reasons to Buy an Annual Travel Insurance Plan
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5 Reasons to Buy an Annual Travel Insurance Plan

Attention travelers! It's important to buy travel insurance not only for big and expensive trips, but for short weekend trips as well. For frequent travelers, the best option would be an annual travel insurance plan. Is it right for you? Here are 5 reasons to buy an annual travel insurance plan.

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8 Ways For Women to Travel More Comfortably
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8 Ways For Women to Travel More Comfortably

Ideas For Women To Travel More Comfortably While the anticipation of a much-needed trip sounds like enough comfort in itself, sifting through what to pack, how to pack, check bags or not to check…. we often sacrifice comfort to meet airline and TSA compliances. With a few simple tips and smart products you can easily avoid common uncomfortable pitfalls while traveling.  Here are 8 tips for women to travel ...
Is it Safe to Travel to Muslim Countries?
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Is it Safe to Travel to Muslim Countries?

Is It Safe to Travel to Muslim Countries? In 2001, I was assigned by Porthole to review a Nile cruise in November. I approached EgyptAir about getting a press discount and was turned down. “We’ve had free publicity for 5,000 years, so why should we pay for it?” responded an official. Then 9/11 happened and my editor said to pick any country that didn’t have a Muslim majority population, since ...
Hotel Safety Tips To Stay Safe in Your Hotel
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Hotel Safety Tips To Stay Safe in Your Hotel

Hotel Safety Tips It doesn’t matter the type of accommodation where you’re staying, there are a number of things you can do to help keep yourself and your belongings safe. These hotel safety tips are particularly helpful if you’re a woman traveling solo as you might find yourself more of a target than someone traveling with friends or family. 1. Never leave the “Please Clean” sign on your door. This ...
How To Overcome the Fear of Flying
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How To Overcome the Fear of Flying

How to Overcome the Fear of Flying Perhaps the most gut wrenching and unnatural activity that human beings regularly engage in is flying.  We as a race have been flying for some 100 years and there is no stopping in sight.  While technology, planes, distances and amenities have gotten better over the years; something still remains the same.  The fear of flying is apparent in everyone from novices to ...
How to Stay Healthy Before, During, and After Your Trip
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How to Stay Healthy Before, During, and After Your Trip

Tips to Stay Healthy Before, During, and After Your Trip

Most people love to travel, whether it be somewhere close to home or somewhere across the world, a place you’ve never visited or a place you consider your second home. Whatever the case, traveling is most fun when you are healthy, but traveling also increases exposure to germs while decreasing the power of the immune system. Nobody ...
Smartphone Tips for Preparing for a Family Vacation Emergency
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Smartphone Tips for Preparing for a Family Vacation Emergency

11 Smartphone Tips for Using Your Phone to Prepare for a Vacation Emergency Play all day, wake up rested and refreshed and enjoy the vacation you have been planning for months.  That is the goal of all vacations, but sometimes, things happen. Emergencies can range from the luggage not arriving, the fire alarm in your hotel going off in the middle of the night,  car problems, to unexpected weather such as ...
Best Ski Trip Tips
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3 Best Ski Trip Tips Every Snow Enthusiast Should Know

Ski Trip Tips #1: Trying A New Resort Flexibility and savings define a reasonable prospective experience at a new resort and is important to take into account, making this the first tip on our Skip Trip Tips list. There are a number of reasons why. For one, the new resort is still finding its “legs”, as it were. As a result, they’ll ...
How to Find a Safe Tour Guide in France
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How to Find a Safe Tour Guide in France

How to Find a Safe Tour Guide in France

Failure to travel safely in Normandy can result in a disastrous trip and we're here to help with our tips for finding a safe tour guide. In order to ensure that you travel safely in Normandy, it is important that you are aware of French Legislation. There are a number of documents that your tour guide must have present at all times to prove that ...
Medical Tourism: Is It Worth It?
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Medical Tourism: Is It Worth It?

Medical Tourism: Is It Worth It? Medical procedures in the US are quite expensive. The average medical cost for a person living the United States is over $10,000, that’s more than most Americans spend on food. It can be worth it, or even financially necessary, to leave the country in order to get surgery; plus, who wouldn’t love to have a long vacation relaxing at a resort after surgery instead of hiding ...
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