Tag: Travel tips

• Senior Travel: Useful Apps

  Check out Jonah Bromwich’s article on smartphone apps that can especially help senior travelers. They include: 1. EyeReader: an app that can help turn your smartphone into bifocals when you’ve got a hard-to-read menu, 2. Skyscanner: an app that takes your preferences into consideration when picking the best flights, and 3. Localeur: for domestic travel, this…

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  March 13, 2015

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  AARP Travel, retiree travel, Senior Travel, smart phone apps, Travel tips

• Answers to Ten Top Travel Questions

  Check out Stephanie Rosenbloom’s interesting article on what she found so far were the top ten travel questions for this year. They are: 1. How to pack a suite case. 2. How to get cheap flights. 3. What is a hostel? What is a pension? 4. What to pack for a cruise? 5. How old…

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  February 3, 2015

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  best resorts in Jamaica, booking transfers, cheap flights, Hostels, packing a suitcase, Travel tips

• 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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  January 28, 2015

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  travel search sites, Travel tips

• How to Survive Multigenerational Family Travel

  Check out Lonely Planet’s informative piece on surviving a trip with different generations of your family members. Written by Greg Benchwick, this post  provides various tips including: Have a safe word, Let tempers cool, Take the blame, Separate and conquer, Little pleasures, and Family hug.   Click here to read the whole story.      

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  September 3, 2014

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  Travel tips