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Expert Travel Advice to Save Your Next Trip
Thanks to Mr. Murphy and his terrible law, you can count on having things go awry seemingly at the worst times, like when you travel. Delays, lost luggage, overbooked hotels, and lost reservations all await business travelers and vacationers alike. It may not be...
How to Avoid Getting Sick While Traveling
Several weeks ago, we wrote about how one of the dirtiest places in the airport is the check-in kiosk at the front of the airport. Thousands of fingers poke at the screen every day, and no one cleans it off. Compare that to the airport bathrooms, which are cleaned...
Air Travel Secrets from a Professional Airline Critic
When it comes to finding the hidden secrets about air travel, there's no one better to turn to than a tried-and-true expert. And not just an expert, but someone who's paid to find problem areas in the airlines' performance. Brent Bowen is America's leading airline...
Business Travel
How To Improve And Differentiate The Passenger Experience
Go through enough harrowing travel experiences, and you might start to wonder whether airports, airlines and security personnel are conspiring to conduct a cruel, long-term experiment on just how much stress and misery travelers can take. Contrary to popular belief,...
Airliners, Travelers Need Luggage Etiquette
As airlines keep raising and creating fees, people are always going to look for ways to avoid paying them. Luggage fees are no different. No one wants to spend an extra $50 just to to check one suitcase, so everyone is bringing on carry-on’s, which are creating...
Here’s Why Plane Ticket Prices Change Every Day
These days, air travel seems pricier than ever (and that the amenities less amenable than ever). Would you believe, though, that when you adjust for inflation, airfares have actually fallen by about 50 percent in the past 30 years? It's true, according to a...
Family Travel
How Do American Airlines’ New Planes Compare to JetBlue’s?
First class is officially getting an upgrade. American Airlines recently released its new transcontinental fleet at JFK airport. Perhaps the most impressive is the new Airbus A321, which will run from JFK to LAX and SFO (Los Angeles and San Francisco). This particular...
Bring This, Not That: Layers vs. Big Coats
How many times have you left home in a big coat and regretted it the minute you arrived at your destination? Even a trip to the mall in the winter can make a big coat seem like a bad idea when you have to lug it around, after only needing it to walk the 200 yards from...
Frequent Flier Miles Being Devalued
If you've been thinking about signing up for an airline’s loyalty program, you may want to think again. Some airlines are devaluing their frequent flier mile programs, making free airline seats harder to earn. Several years ago, airlines said they would never be so...
Road Warrior
How To Ease Travel Sickness
It's easy to deplete your body's natural defenses when traveling. Who among us hasn't foregone sleep, skipped exercise or strayed from a balanced diet when on the road. And the all-too-common result from these lapses? Our old friend, travel sickness. But, fear not....
Travel tips for Hungary
This guest post was written by our favorite French expatriate, Julie Duran-Gelleri. Julie has lived in several different countries around Western Europe, so we asked her for some travel tips in some of her previous homes. Hungary has everything a traveller could wish...
Security Tips For European Travel
The good news is that in many European destinations, violent crime is extremely rare. The bad news is that in most of those same destinations, criminals focus on scamming tourists. And the tourist of choice for these enterprising scam artists? You guessed it ......
Travel Tips
How Airports Can Get Rid of the TSA
Who hasn't thought while standing in a slow-moving TSA security line, "Couldn't somebody do this better than the federal government?" There actually is somebody, and there may be a way for your airport to replace the TSA with a private firm. And after a very hectic...
5 Financial Mistakes Road Warriors Never Make
There are several categories of traveling business professionals: the occasional business traveler, the frequent flyer, and the road warrior. Road warriors spend significant portions of the work week traveling between clients, and have a few tricks up their collective...
Five Things to Do in a Hotel Room
Whether you’re staying at a high-end resort or a budget motel, there are some aspects of staying in public accommodations that are universal. Everyone should do them, no matter in which part of the world you're resting your head for the night. SmarterTravel.com shared...
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