Category: Tips
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What Air Travel Search Sites do You Like?
When trying to find the best flights to take for my mother/daughter trip to San Juan earlier this month, I searched using my usual collection of options including Expedia, Priceline and Travelosity. Seth Kugel, however, reports that there are so many more available search sites. This New York Time’s Frugal Traveler suggests that we…
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Mother-Daughter San Juan Trip and AARP Boomer Travel Trends
A couple of weeks ago, my daughter Sarah and I needed to brave an early morning snow storm in order to catch a flight to San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was touch and go as we moved at a snail’s pace behind two huge plows that plodded along through the almost white-out conditions. And it…
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Travel Gift of Health : Virus Zero Portable Air Purifier
Here’s another potential last minute travel gift that I received: The Virus Zero Portable. With all of the health concerns with traveling this seems like a nice choice. This relatively small device is said to clean the air in the car, the office, or any room up to 230 sq. ft. Its manufacturer, Samsung, says…
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No Holiday for TSA Liquid Rules
Problems with figuring out what liquids you can actually bring on plane? This is especially a concern right now for many of us bringing presents on board for the holidays. I remember years ago passing through security only to find out that a gift for my son, a small snow globe, was rejected by TSA.…
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Top 10 hostel rules: the don’ts of staying in a dorm room
Kiki Deere of Lonely Planet provides some interesting tips on improving your hostelling experience. They are: Don’t treat shared bathrooms like a spa Don’t be the late-night rustler Don’t be the late-night rustler Leave romance at the dorm room door Leave romance at the dorm room door Keep your clothes on Don’t be the guy…
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Travel Health: Tips On Traveling While Pregnant
Traveling during this busy holiday season can be a bit stressful. But what about the added component of being pregnant? For some of us this may add another complication such as the more urgent need to use a bathroom on the plane. Do you have any tips? Dr. Jan Rydfor provides a few suggestions to…
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Travel Security: How to Safeguard Your Privacy While Using Free Wi-Fi
Many of us love to use free Wi-Fi while we’re traveling. But, as Stephanie Rosenbloom notes, this may put our public information at risk. Ms. Rosenbloom offers four rules for staying reasonably safe while connected on the road: 1) Make sure that any site you visit has ‘HTTPS’ in front of the URL which means…
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More Holiday Travel Gift Ideas
We’re getting closer to this year’s major gift giving season, and here are some more travel gifts that were sent my way: BOOKS: Lonely Planet has some nice books that have recently been published including: 1) “Best Ever Travel Tips” by Tom Hall. This small book is easy to carry around and offers interesting…
Travel Gal Kim Swidler 