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Bank Card Safety Tips for International Travel
According to international travel guru Rick Steves, there are several safety precautions that can help protect you and your money when you're using debit and credit cards. A great place to start is before you leave: Just pack the cards you think you’ll use and leave...
Robert & Mary Carey Spotlight: Portland, Maine
Where will your Travelpro luggage take you next? We think September and October are perfect months for a getaway to the northeast and we encourage you to spend some time in Portland, Maine! When many people think of Maine, fresh lobster, crashing surf on rugged, rocky...
Hotel Wifi is a Hacker’s Dream
Hotel wifi is leakier than the Titanic. Your credit score and your finances may "go down with the ship" if you're not careful. According to an article in The Guardian, hackers love hotel wifi because it's unsecured and easily hackable, allowing them to spy on guests...
Business Travel
How Can You Get Good Deals on Hotel Rooms?
Business travelers often have to find ways to extend their travel budget, or reduce some of their travel costs. It's possible to reduce the costs of a night in a hotel, with just a little research. These are a few ways we've found, thanks to a recent Business Insider...
Is Curbside Check-in the Best Perk You’re Not Using?
For some people, curbside check-in is a relic of the past that has somehow been overlooked in airport modernization. However, those of us in the know realize that the convenience and service make it the best little-known perk many travelers aren't taking advantage of!...
How to Protect Your Information at a Hotel
It's the same words we hear from friends and loved ones whenever we're headed out on yet another trip. "Be safe," they advise. "Have a safe flight." What about once we arrive at our destination? There's a lot we can and should do to keep ourselves safe once we arrive...
Family Travel
Turkish Airlines to Improve Passenger Experience Even More
A new airport is being built in Istanbul, Turkey over the next five years, with Turkish Airlines slated to be the "flagship tenant." In this new space, Turkish Airlines plans to use cutting edge technology and personal hospitality to create a better passenger...
How Young is too Young to Travel?
A CNN article in March discussed some of the challenges associated with traveling with young children and how to determine when your child is old enough to travel. We were intrigued by the idea but it also made us think about the benefits of traveling with young...
6 Tips for Making Solo Travel Amazing
We've all heard that we should be careful when traveling alone, and we sometimes worry that this keeps people from traveling at all. The whole "you need to be comfortable with yourself" philosophy aside for the moment, we think it's possible, and even enjoyable, to...
Road Warrior
Expect Faster Wifi on Airplanes
If you're a tech-savvy traveler, you likely have a wish list of technological advances you'd like to see in airplanes. Faster and/or free wifi, mobile device charging stations, free live television viewing, and more are all potential tech upgrades that many airlines...
Practice Phone Security While You’re at the Airport
Using the airplane node for your mobile device isn’t just for when you’re traveling in an airplane. There are additional uses for the this mode that many travelers find extremely useful. For example, putting your phone and tablet device in airplane mode can help avoid...
Airplane Seats Are Still Getting Smaller
The airline industry has a lot of potential for innovation, as evidenced by a few of the recent articles we've posted. For example, one of the topics we've discussed lately is upcoming innovations in air travel. We've also covered potential innovations in airline...
Travel Tips
Five Ways to Pare Down Your Briefcase
Some business travelers might as well call themselves pack mules with the amount of weight they lug through airports in their briefcases. I've seen people carry briefcases that weigh as much as their carry-ons. The bags are filled with binders, folders, and loose...
Churning Credit Cards for Points and Miles Can Hurt You
You get the credit card offers in the mail all the time. "Earn 100,000 miles if you spend $3,000 in the first three months." Sounds easy enough. If you worked at it, you could spend three grand and then take a couple flights for vacation. But if you've ever been...
Travel Hacks and Myths That Don’t Actually Work
The number of travel hacks that have been touted across the Internet as "the way" to get the "best" deal have many chasing the potential for something that isn't out there. For example, none of these well-publicized travel hacks for getting a cheaper flight — clear...
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