Posts Tagged ‘savvy travelers’
The World’s 10 Worst Cities to Make a Connection
In order to get to the world’s remote locations or else simply to get the best prices, connecting is an unavoidable inconvenience. The time-consuming nature of landing an airplane, the de-boarding, re-boarding and making sure your bags follow can add up to a ruinous day. Stops may be a necessity but the headaches will usually rise in correlation with the number of times your plane touches down.
Here are the world’s worst places to route through, and why:
It was a tough week for my RSS reader, bulging at the seams, barely able to contain itself. Hence, I got a little behind reading it all, but you, dear reader, get it sorted for your pleasure.
Here’s what I’ve been reading on the web!
Keeping up with best information on the web can be difficult as balancing a pyramid of champagne flutes on a sword held between your teeth. To help in the act, here are the top travel posts I’ve been reading this week.
In no particular order:
It sounds like a country-western song, but you need money to make it on the road. Food, lodging, transportation, activities, each require you to pay and pay alike. Unfortunately, to best know how to spend your money practically requires a degree in economics. With fees, limits, percentages and acres of fine print it’s extremely difficult to avoid being nickled and dimed.
Here’s your how-to for avoiding the dreaded “fee fatigue”:
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There’s little doubt it’s a great time to be a traveler. With so much available to the modern nomad it’s amazing everyone’s not dumping their possessions and flagging down the next nonstop to Points Unknown.
Because travel is currently so accessible and cost-effective, you may want to take advantage of this time. But being among the new traveling masses, it should also be important to be as sensitive and considerate as possible while on your journey. Being a courteous traveler is the new standard, and it says a lot about your character just how you travel. You owe it to yourself, and the world, to be as thoughtful as possible in the face of the unfamiliar.
So how do we do it?
You’ve chosen, probably unknowingly, the best of the AirTreks blog for the first month of 2010. And from
the looks of it, it appears that money is still weighing heavy on people’s minds; 3 of the 5 top posts are related to saving money on their trip.
Here is your recap of the 5 most popular posts for January 2010:
If you’ve ever taken an excursion to the Greek Islands you know just how amazing the Aegean Sea can be. The wine dark waters, tiny whitewashed houses speckling the horizon, the salt and olive air. It’s simply like no other place.
If you’ve never been but are considering exploring this stunning region, good for you! Island hopping isn’t difficult and absolutely worth every penny. For the average traveler there are a few different ways to do it, the most common being with the Greek Ferry system.
You can’t be too safe with your online identity. Bots, hackers, spiders, phishers, spammers, generally unsavory characters more savvy than you—they’re all lurking just across the computer screen. And they want you, but not in a good way. Trust me, identity theft happens.
Hence, booking travel and dropping your credit card number on any random website is precarious decision to say the least. The general rule of thumb is if it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t just untrue, it’s also dangerous to your online security and potentially sets you up for credit card fraud down the road.
Shopping can be a real dilemma for people traveling on long trips, especially if you already have a weakness for hitting the rack. Retail therapy is an extremely satisfying passtime on a blue day at home, but on the road it can ruin a perfectly good pack-job, as well as your back if you have to carry that stuff around.
I’ve put together a few ideas on how to decide what and what not to buy when you’re traveling in foreign countries:
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