Safety Tips
Travel Tips for Students
As students get ready to travel, there is more to consider than what bathing suit to pack. Here are some useful tips to prepare you for a seamless vacation. Lock it up Many hotels, condos, or hostels don’t have “in-room safes”. Put your passport, cell phone, tablet, and extra cash in your luggage when you (….Read more)
Safety Tips for Women Travelers
In view of the recent rape in India and concerns for women traveling worldwide, it’s even more important to be prepared and take precautions. I plan my accommodations, daytime activities and clothing to avoid being a target. You may wonder why are women vulnerable targets for theft or random acts of violence when they travel? (….Read more)
Students Abroad Safety Tips – Tourist Advice
Safety Tips for students going abroad. From experienced college students and travel expert, Marybeth Bond. Women Travel Statistics indicate that the number one issue for women travelers is safety. Here are practical safety tips compiled by my college-age daughter and her friends, who have recently returned from studying abroad; from Florence to Kathmandu to Buenos (….Read more)
Safety Tips Before You Go and On The Road
What should you know when you check into a hotel? What should you take out of your wallet or purse when you go out on the town? What can you do to protect your home before you go out for an evening or on a trip? How do you make your home look “lived-in”? Here (….Read more)
Five Ways to Stay Healthy When Traveling
Getting sick while traveling can put a damper on all your plans. This is how you you can minimize the germs you are exposed to. 1. Above all use hand sanitizers often. 2. Don’t put your head down on the food tray in an airplane to sleep. 3. Don’t put your bread or snack directly (….Read more)
Travel Safety Tips
We are more vulnerable and less aware of what’s going on around us when we text or talk on the phone. Learn from my expensive mistake (the fine is $175 in California). The police are watching for drivers who are on their cell phones and so are thieves. Here are way to prepare ourselves and (….Read more)
The Perfect Travel Bag – Travel Expert Advice
Someday you too may be dropped off on a beach in Southern Thailand and have to drag your bag up to the resort. At that moment, you’ll know if you the perfect travel bags and if you’re an accomplished packer. Because the skill of traveling light depends upon your carry-on bag, your luggage choice (….Read more)
Lessons learned from the Costa Concordia and Titanic tragedy?
Public’s memory is short and enthusiasm for cruising is high but there are some cruise survival tactics we can take away from this tragedy. See insurance Q&A below. Don’t panic. Have a plan. Make your own decisions. In an emergency pack your passport, and other IDs, credit cards, all your cash and warm clothes. Listen (….Read more)
Ten Ways to Protect Your Eyes When Traveling
Some of us have to learn the hard way. After my two-year-around the world trip I discovered I had damaged my eyes by not wearing proper eye protection. My perfect 20/20 eyesight was compromised due to over- exposure to harmful UV rays. How do you protect your eyes from dry airports, hotels, and the elements? (….Read more)
Seven Best Things To Do If Your Flight is Cancelled
Airline Passenger Rights 1. Request rule 240, which in the US stipulates that the airline must deliver you to your destination within 2 hours of your scheduled flight time. If it can’t (and delay isn’t due to weather) it must arrange your ticket on another flight at no additional cost. But you must ask for (….Read more)
