I am looking for a new credit card and was reviewing the various rewards and perks that each credit card offered. Most of the credit card companies offer Travel benefits like trip cancellation and interruption insurance and baggage delay insurance. Purchase Protection on new purchases or some form of extended warranties. Airport lounge access through Priority Pass but […]
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I am headed on a road trip with my family and was thinking of what we definitely need to take. Disinfectant Wipes — Every trip should start and end with Disinfectant Wipes. Life is dirty and what better way to clean up then with the wipes. Medicine Kit — I can not tell you how many times we
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My friend is in Tokyo and will not stop talking about how he loves 7-Eleven stores there and how he goes at least once a day. After kidding him that he must be homesick for a slurpee, I asked him why? He went on how great the 7-Eleven shops are in Japan. He said the you would not believe their high quality food,
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One of my friends was scheduled to fly to Japan but he was delayed 10 hours because a typhoon was going to hit Tokyo. We started to wonder what are his rights and options in this situation. Little did I know what a can of worms we were opening. It seems that the Department of Transportation has rules
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I was thinking about services that hotel staff provide that used to be valuable but in our day and age are now almost worthless. In the past, when you traveled to a new place, you would want the help of the hotel staff in a bunch of things that now you can find out with the
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I came across an article on HuffPost entitled 7 Perks You Probably Didn’t Know Hotel Staff Can Give You and I was excited to see what perks I was missing out. I thought that their list was not complete and left off many valuable services. HuffPost’s list consisted of 1. Restaurant recommendations. 2. Decoration of rooms for special occasions. 3. Transportation arrangements. 4. Advice on local
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I was in Niagara Falls, Canada a few years back and when I went to pay for the tickets for the Hornblower Niagara Boat Ride, I was offered the choice of paying in Canadian Dollars or US Dollars. Stupidly, I chose US Dollars and the tickets ended up costing me 15% as a result. Why is that you
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Just when you thought that tipping creep reached it limits, we have a new set of folks looking for tips. The airlines. No, not the pilots. But maybe down the road, they will ask for tips so that the plane could be on time or less turbulent. That would be nice. Actually thinking about it,
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Travelling to Lisbon, Portugal has changed over the past few years. A few years ago, you could wander around Lisbon and hit all the sites in a few days. Trvel to Lisbon has grown over 350% over the last three years. Now if you want to visit the must see destinations of Lisbon. Those include
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Just saw this article in which Southwest announced that it was getting rid of its open seating approach and moving towards assigned seating. Also, they will launching red eye flights. These changes make sense. I know that when I fly Southwest, I have some stress on which seat I was going to get but with
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