Category: Travel tips
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Consider an airport hotel #TravelTipTuesday
When we travel, it is typically my husband who makes the travel arrangements. On our last trip, he reserved an airport hotel for our last night in Santiago, Chile. At first I was not thrilled with his selection. Sure, we’ve used an airport hotel for the first night after a late arrival, or a last night…
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Roll with the Punches- #TravelTipTuesday
As I type this week’s Travel Tip, I’m doing so with one finger hunting & pecking on my phone, using hotel wifi after having been scheduled on one international flight which sat on the ground for 4 hours before it was cancelled and de-planed, and then having the second flight suffer cancellation issues, as well. …
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Check passport expiration dates and country requirements #TravelTipTuesday
Planning to travel internationally anytime soon? Check your passport’s expiration date and then check the passport validity requirements for the country you are visiting. Then check the airline requirements just to be sure you can board that plane. (Some airlines have more stringent guidelines than the countries themselves.) Your passport expiration date is a strange…
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How to avoid texting charges when traveling internationally (or anywhere, really)
This week I am in Canada for the Wine Bloggers Conference (yep, I’m also a wine blogger over at VineSleuth Uncorked) and I want to keep in touch with friends and family back home, but I don’t want to incur hefty data charges for messaging. App for messaging internationally for FREE Back when we hosted…
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Holiday travel tips for familes with young children
Looking for a few tips to make family travel even better this holiday season? Last year I shared 12 days of travel tips on Moms Travel Tales. Since the advice still rings true, I thought sharing those links might help yet again this year. Plus, you’ll find links in each of those posts to other…