Welcome to part three of the Travel Column with D.G. Kaye.. Debby Gies and this week Debby shares some great tips to get the best value and maximum enjoyment from your holiday. There is much to prepare for to ensure a safe and enjoyable holiday including insurance, luggage security, extra fees for exclusive holidays. Debby has all that covered and more.
Part Three of Travel Tips – Preparing for a Safe Trip
For today’s edition of Travel Talk, I’ve prepared a list of important things to do to prepare yourselves for a snag-free travel experience.
Important Tips to Consider When Booking a Trip
Travel Insurance – Don’t leave home without it! Always make sure to purchase travel insurance before leaving your country (or province for fellow Canadians). We don’t plan on mishaps, but they surely do happen. In many countries, particularly the U.S., if you need medical care and don’t have travel insurance it can easily cost you six-digit figures for medical aid. A few hundred dollars for insurance is worth the peace of mind.
Price Checking – Do your homework when booking a trip. Compare prices on various sites and with airline packages.
Check for Discounted Rates – Most hotels worldwide and car rental companies offer further discounted rates for seniors, members of CAA or AAA (Canadian Automobile Association and American Automobile Association). Remember to ask for those discounts when booking!
Keep on Price Checking – Once you’ve booked a trip in advance, do an occasional price change check. Many companies will honor a price drop if you spot it and will re-adjust your price. Before I went on my last cruise I went on their site to check some packages and noticed a sale on cruises. I saw my same cruise and cabin category listed for $500 cheaper, months after I booked it. I called my cruise rep and got the $500 deducted off the price of my cruise!
Resort Fees – Always inquire at time of booking a hotel if they charge resort fees on top of the initial price. Don’t get caught by surprise! Many U.S. hotels, in particular, are now charging approximately $33 per night extra just for bogus resort fees. Some companies hide them or make no mention of them until you get to the hotel. A one week’s stay in a hotel can run you an extra $230 just for fees, based on a one week stay. I found this out twice by surprise – once while I visited a hotel in Vegas where I was comped with a free 5-night stay, but still got snagged with daily resort fees. And once when I booked an all-inclusive air/hotel trip to Arizona with Air Canada, only to find out that the secret resort fees weren’t part of the all-inclusive. After I booked the trip, I called the hotel in Arizona to inquire about their facilities and that’s where I found out about the additional fees. You can read the article I wrote about this incident HERE and how I rectified it with the airlines.
What are Resort Fees? – Once upon a time when you booked a hotel you had to pay separately to access Wifi, park your car in the hotel’s lot or to have access to their gym facilities. Many hotels decided to put a ‘resort fee’ in place tacked on to your daily bill to use these amenities. Maybe it’s fair if we drive our cars or rent a car for our destination or feel ambitious to work out at the gym during a vacation. Wifi was often complementary in many better hotels, or it could be purchased at a much cheaper fee than the resort fee. It is also always available free in hotel lobbies. But now many hotels have lumped all the amenities under one umbrella whether you have use for it or not. And that’s what stings. I know when I’m on a short vacation I don’t have a car to park and I’m a little too busy to spend hours daily in a gym. Patrons should be given the choice of what amenities they choose to use and not be charged on a one price basis. Just sayin’.
Rewards – I always recommend booking with a site or airline that allows you to use reward points with. These rewards are often accrued from various credit card companies, Air Miles, or through loyalty programs that offer special pricing when cashing in your bonus rewards.
Check Reviews – If you’re wondering what a particular destination has to offer or how other patrons rated: a property, restaurants or city sights for your chosen destination, visit sites such as: Tripadvisor, Yahoo or Google search for the place you’re interested in and read reviews from others. Reading reviews from past visitors can give you a better feel of what you can expect.
Check Exchange Rates – Do a check on the currency you’ll be needing for the country you’ll be visiting. Believe it or not, you will often get a better rate for your money at a bank in the destination you’ll be visiting. Just make sure to purchase approximately $200 in the currency of the country you’ll be visiting before leaving home for immediate cash needs for taxis, tips or even for a coffee until you can get to a bank once you’ve arrived. And beware – only exchange currency in hotels if it’s dire. Hotels will always give you a lesser rate than a bank.
Pack Smart
Protect – Purchase a package of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) credit card and passport protection sleeves. These jackets for your credit cards and passports are inexpensive and are important to secure your personal information from hackers who have the ability to scan your cards and passports from a distance and steal your personal and banking information. In fact, I keep all my credits cards in these jackets even while at home.
And always add luggage tags to your bags for easy identification and in case the airlines lose them.
TSA Locks – An added step of protection for your luggage is to purchase TSA locks. These locks for your luggage are made with the capability that TSA officers or customs officers have a master key or combination for these locks. If they wish to inspect your luggage after it’s checked in, they can do so without breaking your lock or damaging your suitcase in the process (which of course happened to me a few times before I learned about TSA locks).
Travel Scales – Invest in a good hand-held set of travel scales to weigh your luggage before heading to the airport and home again. Knowing that your luggage is within the airline’s guide for weight allowance can save you a lot of agro and cost from being surprised at check-in at the airport that your luggage is overweight and having to open your luggage for the public to view while you go mad trying to move things from one bag to another, or from having to pay steep overweight charges. (Nope, I’ve never had to pay overweight charges yet, but I have been in that humiliating situation where I’ve pulled my suitcases apart publicly to move around articles between bags to avoid those charges. That was when I invested in my travel scale.
Valuables – Never pack your money or valuables in your checked luggage. Besides the danger of possible lost luggage, sadly, there are plenty of dishonest airline employees who steal from luggage. This warning also applies to digital devices such as: laptops, phones, cameras, which should all be in your carry-on luggage. I also never take expensive jewelry with me on a trip, but pack whatever jewelry I’m taking with me in a jewelry roll and keep it at the bottom of my purse until I get to my destination where I then keep all my valuables in a room safe.
Prepare for Weather Change – When traveling, wear layers of clothing if you’re leaving a cold climate and going somewhere warm. It could take you awhile once you land to get settled in your holiday rental where you don’t want to be sweating until you can unpack. In winter, when I travel to a sunny destination I’ll usually wear a T-shirt with a thick fleece hoodie. This idea not only allows me to shed the hoodie once I’ve arrived, but the hoodie keeps me warm on the often, freezing cold airplanes. For same reasons, I like to slip a pair of sandals into my carry-on bag to change into once I arrive somewhere warm.
Last, but not least – Make sure you leave enough time to get to the airport on time. Take into consideration weather and potential traffic delays when gauging your departure to the airport. For cruisers, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND traveling to your port’s destination city the day before the ship leaves and pre-booking a hotel for that night. Again, anything can happen if you leave home the day of your cruise – particularly, weather, but often mechanical mishaps with the airplanes that cause long delays. Be safe, not sorry!
I hope you’ve enjoyed this installment of Travel Tips and will take these steps into consideration for your next vacation. If I’ve missed anything here and you have something to add, I’d love to hear from you in comments.
©D.G. Kaye 2018
Another wonderfully informative post from Debby on how to prepare for and be safe on your holiday… much more to come as the Travel Column moves into its regular monthly slot starting Monday August 13th.
About D.G. Kaye
Debby Gies is a Canadian nonfiction/memoir author who writes under the pen name of D.G. Kaye. She was born, raised, and resides in Toronto, Canada. Kaye writes about her life experiences, matters of the heart and women’s issues.
D.G. writes to inspire others. Her writing encompasses stories taken from events she encountered in her own life, and she shares the lessons taken from them. Her sunny outlook on life developed from learning to overcome challenges in her life, and finding the upside from those situations, while practicing gratitude for all the positives.
When Kaye isn’t writing intimate memoirs, she brings her natural sense of humor into her other works. She loves to laugh and self- medicate with a daily dose of humor.
I love to tell stories that have lessons in them, and hope to empower others by sharing my own experiences. I write raw and honest about my own experiences, hoping through my writing, that others can relate and find that there is always a choice to move from a negative space, and look for the positive.
Quotes:
“Live Laugh Love . . . And Don’t Forget to Breathe!”
“For every kindness, there should be kindness in return. Wouldn’t that just make the world right?”
When I’m not writing, I’m reading or quite possibly looking after some mundane thing in life. It’s also possible I may be on a secret getaway trip, as that is my passion—traveling.
Debby has written a book about her travel adventures – Have Bags Will Travel
About the book
D.G. Kaye is back, and as she reflects on some of her more memorable vacations and travel snags, she finds herself constantly struggling to keep one step ahead of the ever-changing guidelines of the airlines–with her overweight luggage in tow. Her stories alert us to some of the pitfalls of being an obsessive shopper, especially when it comes time for D.G. to bring her treasures home, and remind us of the simpler days when traveling was a breeze.
In her quest to keep from tipping the scales, D.G. strives to devise new tricks to fit everything in her suitcases on each trip. Why is she consistently a target for Canada customs on her return journeys?
D.G.’s witty tales take us from airports, to travel escapades with best friends, to reflections on how time can change the places we hold dear in our hearts. Her memories will entertain and have you reminiscing about some of your own most treasured journeys–and perhaps make you contemplate revamping your packing strategies.
A recent review for Have Bags Will Travel
“Have Bags, Will Travel” is a delightful read on the experiences of travel, fashion, the art of packing suitcases with the emphasis on having a good time. Author, D.G. Kaye details her days on board planes to many popular destinations and her vivacious antics with friends. She also relates her solo travels to exotic destinations with steep cliffs and too much baggage. I particularly enjoyed the details of the by-gone, romantic days aboard Wardair, and the exquisite details of vintage Las Vegas.
A consummate shopper, D.G. Kaye relates her rather humorous run-ins with customs officials. How does it feel to be singled out routinely by airline officials? A read through this humorous pages will give you the insight to these first-hand conflicts.
I would say this might be required reading for shoe connoisseurs and fashion mavens especially if they have a plane ticket in hand. Germ avoidance theory is also discussed, and it may never be possible to look at airplane bathrooms the same.
D.G. Kaye brings back the memories of best friends and blazing trips through the desert. Many readers will identify with the struggles of this stylish lady attempting to blend in to avoid a custom’s mishap. A short and super fun read, “Have Bags, Will Travel” is perfect for your next airplane ride.
And Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Have-Bags-Will-Travel-Over-Packer-ebook/dp/B015HP1R6S
Other books by D.G. Kaye
Read all the reviews and buy the books: http://www.amazon.com/author/dgkaye7
and Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/D.G.-Kaye/e/B00HE028FO
More reviews and follow Debby on Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/dgkaye
Connect to Debby Gies
Come and visit me at our Literary Diva’s Library group on Facebook
Blog: http://www.dgkayewriter.com
About me: http://www.wiseintro.co/dgkaye7
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@pokercubster (yes there’s a story)
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Thank you for dropping in today and please help spread the news of Debby’s travel column and we look forward to your questions and comments. Thanks Sally and Debby
Sally, thanks again for inviting me over to write for this column, I’m thoroughly enjoying it and hoping I’m passing along some helpful info to make other’s vacations run a little more smoothly. ❤ xoxo
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It is fantastic Debby and clear, that like me, many things get overlooked in the excitement of going on holiday!! Thanks for all the great tips we shall all be better prepared… xxxx♥
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I’m so glad to be able to share my experience here. Thanks again Sal ❤ ❤
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I did not know about those credit card sleeves, that’s an amazing thing to buy. Or the resort fees, omg, you’re right to check all these things. Great post, Debby, thanks, Sally. ❤
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Debby is a mine of information and so lucky to have her expertise here…♥
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That’s very true, Sally. Debby, and Sally I have a new idea for our cruise. We’ll buy a boat, hire a crew and sail to where ever the pin lands in the map. ❤
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You got it Adele… perhaps we could hire a super yacht and crew for three months.. there are plenty lying idle in the ports in the Mediterranean … a couple of million should do it… hugsxx
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Thanks Adele. I hope there’s a trick a two everyone here can take from my post for safer travels. 🙂 ❤
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I think so, and the dreams of travelling to everywhere I want to go. ❤
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Thanks so much, Debby and Sally. Some amazing tips. I’m bookmarking this for reference!
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Great thanks Olga… there is certainly a great deal more to think about than just packing and going! hugsxx
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Wonderful Olga. Thanks for visiting. ❤
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Goodness I learned a lot from this post! Thank you Sally and Debby. XX
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Great to hear Brigid.. hugs xxx
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I’m happy to hear that Brigid. Thank you. 🙂 xx
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Again, thanks Debby for these tips, especially for the price checking and resort fees info. Might come in handy if I ever decide to travel again.
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My pleasure Stevie. In case you forget when you’re ready travel, you know where to find me, lol. 🙂 xx
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I have tucked away Stevie… one never knows.. xx
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This was so interesting, Sally and Debby. I’ve never heard of a radio frequency protection cars sleeve, nor a TSA lock. What a great piece of advice. Best of all, Debby finds a way to write all of the preparation advice in a way that makes the reader eager to read!
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I agree Jennie… spot on.. hugs xx
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Thank you so much Jennie for your lovely compliment. I write like I speak and I’m glad that it makes for a smooth read. ❤
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In your own wonderful words Debby, just sayin’. 😀
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Lol, love that Jennie! ❤
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Thank you for the tips I will pin this for future use. X
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Great thank you Ellen.. xx
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Thank you and Debbie, I retweeted too. X
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Thanks so much Ellen. 🙂 x
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Well done, Sis… GREAT tips for traveling around the globe. ❤
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Thanks so much Colleen ❤ xxx
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Excellent advice. I would also suggest to make photocopies of your passport, credit cards, bank card, drivers license etc and keep them separate from the originals. It was a huge help when my purse was stolen in Barcelona as I had copies of everything in my suitcase.
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Great tip thanks Darlene… glad you enjoyed, lots of information to absorb.. hugs
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Thanks Darlene and great tip! Would you believe that was in my rough draft and I forgot to add it? Great minds! 🙂
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Wonderful tips, Debby. Thank you so much for sharing. We can all use these excellent tips when traveling. Happy travels! Hugs & much love xx
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Thanks Janice..hugsxx
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Thanks so much Janice. So glad you found them helpful. ❤ xx
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We booked our next trip to Greece for our 20th recently. We are going on a cruise next May on Holland America. Look forward to it! Hugs xx
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OH fabulousssssssssss Janice! Well I’m happy to steer you in a good direction with my tips! ❤ xx
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Sounds fabulous Janice.. hugsx
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Some great advice here, Debby. Amazing, I’d never heard of “resort fees” before. Hugs, Toni x
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Glad you found useful Toni, I am learning a lot..hugsx
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Thanks Toni. I’m happy I enlightened you. 🙂 x
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Some great advice here, Deb! We missed our flight to Hawaii from San Diego last January due to the airport and their lack of planning for holiday traffic–several check-in kiosks were closed and TSA lines were out the door. By the time we got to the check in (Alaska Airlines) we couldn’t check in because they started boarding. They admonished us for not getting their early enough (usually 90 minutes is enough for domestic flights) A tip from me…do not book the first flight of the day…they’re discounted for a reason. Many airports close at midnight and reopen at 6am and try to get as many planes in the air as possible (this happens in California airports) causing a huge backlog of travelers all trying to check in at once. I have found that afternoon travel to your destination on a Saturday works well and maybe result in a plane with some room! When I finally go on a cruise I will check out more of these wonderful tips!
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Thanks for sharing Terri. Like I said, go the day before if you have to catch a ship. Also, the airlines always says 90 minutes. For the last decade we always arrive 3 hours ahead!!!! 🙂
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Thanks Terri… xx
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Another great post with really useful travel tips Deb! I was pleased to see that I already do most of them, but I had no idea about travel protective sleeves and will definitely be getting those. Also, although we do put luggage labels and padlocks on our suitcases, I didn’t know about TSA locks and the fact that custom’s officials can open them without wrecking them. I haven’t come across resort fees in the UK or Europe. Most now have free wifi but spa packages are always extra and described as such. Parking too is always a good thing to look into, as in Italy, it cost us 140 euros to park the hire car in the hotel’s car park for 7 nights, but we did know about it ahead of time. Parking is impossible in Italy, at least on the Almalfi Coast. It really is all those ‘little’ extras that add up, and so much better to be forewarned so as no big shockers! And of course, allowing plenty of time is always the best advice. Right. Time to update my travel supplies! Thanks so much Deb! 🙂 ❤ 🙂 xoxo
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Thanks Sherri and for the information on Italy.. somewhere we have on our wish list… hugsxx♥
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Thanks again Sally, and as with Deb, so sorry for my late reply. Really hope you get to visit Italy one day. We have yet to visit the Tuscany region…definitely also on the wish list! Will catch up with you as the week goes on, meanwhile, hope you’re enjoying this amazing summer, although it was soooo hot down in Lewes, so humid. Ha…we are never happy with the weather, us Brits, are we?! Hugs back Sally! 🙂 ❤ xxx
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No we are not Sherri..we are definitely not complaining here in Ireland. this is the first real summer in over 50 years. But no so much the Emerald Isle at the moment.xxxx♥
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Amazing isn’t it Sally? Ahh….yes, it’s cooler here today, but London is supposed to get up to 35 tomorrow…! Thankfully we don’t have a hosepipe ban in the west country, although we water the garden by hand with cans for the most part anyway. As for my lovely nasturtians, I’ve discovered that cabbage white butterflies love them, as they’ve laid eggs all over the leaves, and now those leaves and all their pretty flowers are gobbled up by a great many, very hungry caterpillars! I wonder if the heat has had anything to do with it? I’ve never seen so many cabbage whites – or caterpillars!!!! ❤ xxxx
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Amazing Sherri. .not noticed the butterflies but we seem to have a lot more bees in the garden and I am saving grey water from the tumble dryer etc for my plant pots and last night the bees were settling on the leaves and petals and appeared to be drinking.. I think they are all in need of moisture.. xxxx♥
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Yes, same here with the bees too Sally, which is wonderful to see them, but they are definitely parched. We have a few coming by the drain outside the kitchen, poor things. Tumble dryer water is great for plant pots, I heard some years ago, great reminder, thank you! Hugs ❤ xxx
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Wow Sher, thanks so much for sharing some of your own helpful tips here, especially when traveling in Europe. We may have to have you write a post or two for this wonderful Travel Column! ❤ Hugs xxxxx
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Your wonderful travel column inspires me Deb! I wouldn’t be able to offer anything like the great tips and wisdom you do, but thanks for the sweet thought, my friend 🙂 Hugs right back! ❤ xoxo
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Ha! Don’t underestimate yourself my friend. 🙂 ❤ xxxx
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Ha…story of my life!! Thanks Deb 🙂 ❤ xoxo
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Time to write you a new story! 🙂 ❤ xxx
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I like your thinking Deb…I’m on it! 🙂 ❤ xoxo
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Great tips…Debby, I didn’t know about those sleeves or TSA locks so thank you both good tips. The sleeves a great idea for general use in this day and age …Have press this for Sat …Thank you, Sally and Debby Hugs xxx
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Thanks bunches Carol for sharing. And happy I could reciprocate and teach you a few trick LOL 🙂 xoxo
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You did and thank you…Debbyxxx
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No airport travail this time . . . just a roomy conversion van with a clothes rod in the back. No smashed clothes and no worries about luggage safety. Thanks for this, Debby and Sally!
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Stress-free travel, lol. 🙂
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Good post Debbie. Thanks.
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Thanks Rob..
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Thank you Rob 🙂
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So much valuable information here!!! I obviously haven’t done much travelings since I never thought of most of these things. I do get to the airport on time, but the rest is all new to me. TSA locks! That’s an awesome tip! I’m saving this to my travel folder. 🙂
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Wonderful Diana. I’m happy to share my experiences and hopefully alleviate some of the snags of traveling these days. 🙂 ❤
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Great thanks Diana.. and if it saves time and money it will be worth it.. hugsxxx
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Hi, Sally! Debby’s tips are wonderful! I’m taking notes, since I’m traveling next month. Great post!
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Thanks so much Vashti. Is that the Japan trip? 🙂 ❤
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Yes it is! Thanks for the tips. ❤ xx
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How exciting!!! 🙂 xxx
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Great Vashti and look forward to hearing about the trip.. hugsxx
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Thank you, Sally. ❤ xx
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Wow, always another useful tip! I’m straight off to buy some of those RFID card holders – thanks Sally and Deb.
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Great Deborah… hugs
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So happy to help out Deb! They are so cheap to buy, offering great piece of mind. 🙂 x
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They will put my mind at ease. I’ve had a card cloned once – such a nuisance to deal with though fortunately no money lost.
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Wow, that’s scary! Well now you can have piece of mind with those jackets. 🙂
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That is awful Deborah.. I am paranoid… xxx
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I only knew about it when I tried to pay for some groceries and my card was declined. My card provider had noticed unusual charges and blocked my card, thank goodness!
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We got a call a few years ago on Christmas Eve from our Spanish bank asking if we were in Rome for the holidays? There had been a couple of charges but someone was trying to pay for a very expensive gift for someone and it was blocked until the bank had checked with us. That would have been a couple of thousand Euro… There are times when the system works..xxx
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Too true. I’ve moaned when there have been problems paying for large items because they were ‘out of my usual spending habits’, but probably worth that inconvenience for the one time when it really IS someone else, and not you.
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Quite…xx
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Great advice from Debby. I think of Debby as a travel guru. The only thing I wasn’t familiar with is the resort fees. I think parking is usually free, or I haven’t encountered otherwise, and wi-fi isn’t always, but mostly, free in Australia too. I’m not aware of any “hidden” charges.
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Thanks Norah… I have not stayed at a resort for many years… so I am very out of date.. xxx
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Once again, great tips, Debby. True and tested. I’d never heard of resort fees. But, then again, I never stay in hotels or resorts. 🙂 In the age of internet, we always check reviews, whether it is for a campground, a restaurant or a product on Amazon. So valuable!
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Thanks Liesbet.. hugsx
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