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Checked Bag is Lost
It happens to the best of us. You’re waiting to receive your luggage at baggage claim and yours is no where to be found. Luckily, airlines have been doing better with losing luggage, so you’re chances of this happening are a lot slimmer than they were 20 years ago. However, although airline performance has improved, what you do when an airline loses a bag remains about as it was in the ...
Travelers often forget how important travel etiquette really is. Whether you're on an airplane or in a tour group, it's important to be courteous of others. Perhaps if airlines added the travel etiquette tips below to their pre-departure safety presentation, it would make the travel experience more pleasing. Read these travel etiquette tips and brush up on proper travel etiquette before your next ...
Tips for People Who Are Afraid To Fly
For most people, a trip to the airport stirs up feelings of excitement and anticipation due to upcoming travel plans or perhaps irritation at the thought of standing in long lines. Unfortunately, for a few unlucky souls, dread is the overwhelming emotion. These people are afraid of flying. If you or someone you love suffers from the fear of flying, here are five tips ...
Safest Countries to Visit
Safety is a highly subjective term whose definition depends on your comfort level with risk-taking and uncertainty. With all the news focusing on safety and the risks of traveling, you will find that everyone now has a Top Ten or Top Five safest countries to visit based on arbitrary or anecdotal information. That said, there are ways to evaluate a country that take the list from ...
Lost While Traveling?
Getting lost while traveling in a city or country you’re not familiar with can be very frightening. Luckily, there are some tips on what to do if you don’t know where you are or how to get back to your hotel when you’re traveling. Although we live in a world where GPS is easily accessible, this source may not always help you, especially if you’re in a foreign county. Perhaps you don’t ...
Hide Your Valuables
Losing a valuable or getting robbed during a trip can certainly ruin the experience. Many tourist destinations have talented pickpockets, so it’s important to know of the best ways to hide your valuables while traveling. Fortunately, you can keep your things safe with everything from secret underwear compartments to shoes with built-in money slots. Check out these 7 brilliant ways ...
Tips to Avoid Getting Sick While Traveling
Getting sick can ruin a trip and ruin it fast! Here are our tips to avoid getting sick on vacation. In order to make sure you have a sick-free vacation, it’s important to be prepared and take preventative measures to help you avoid getting sick while traveling. Getting sick happens unexpectedly, but there are ways to reduce chances. Check out these 11 simple ...
Top 5 Single Parent Travel Tips
Traveling as a single parent can be challenging, but 100% worth it. I always feel a great sense of accomplishment when I get home from a solo trip with my son. Single parent travel often comes with fear and poses questions of 'Can I really do this?' The answer is, 'of course you can!' Here’s a list of tips and advice for single parent travel.
1. Talk to Your Kids ...
This original content was written on March 30, 2016 by TheHipmunk
Tips for the Ultimate (And Drama-Free) EDM Vacation!
So you’ve decided to spend your precious vacation time at raves and EDM festivals. You are undoubtedly in for a blast of epic proportions. Still, it’ll be helpful to employ a few strategies in advance of your trip in order to ensure that things go smoothly—i.e. sans epic meltdowns, lost ...
Key Insights for Travel
I’ve lived and traveled all around the world. From epic nights of fun in Budapest, Hungary, to roaming the Asia side of Istanbul, a city on two continents, at 3 in the morning with my Turkish friends, to speaking in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, I’ve had my fair share of adventures. As I write this, I’m more than 38,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean on way to Europe, a continent I ...
