There are constantly stories about TSA luggage screeners, airline baggage handlers, and random people stealing items or whole bags. If you have jewelry, electronics, or other items of value keep them with you in your carry-on luggage. Also, if you are flying on a regional jet and need to gate-check your bag please make sure…
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Travel Tip of the Week: Keep your room number secure
This one is thanks to the ladies from http://www.wickedgoodtraveltips.com/ As a woman traveling weekly I have to balance safety and convenience. The safety people say “Never leave your key in the folder/envelop with the room number” because if someone finds your packet they know the room number AND have the key. The convenience part of…
Travel Tip of the Week: Always bring a blanket or jacket
I’ve started leaving a blanket in my car so if I have a red eye I’m prepared, but I left it at home since my upgrade had cleared. That meant the plane was super freezing. If you aren’t in first class now-a-days your odds of having access to a blanket on the plane is getting…
Travel Tip of the Week: Don’t get burned
I just spent the week on vacation at Holden Beach, NC. I love the beach and I had an audio book I was really interested in so I spent a lot of time laying out listening to it. I had to be very careful with sunscreen since I have to fly this week. Flying while…
Travel Tip of the Week: Cookies Matter (or do they?)
I’m not talking about Otis Spunkmeyer, I’m talking about internet tracking cookies…or should I say Chris Elliot is. Good food for thought if you notice your itinerary always goes up but others don’t. I haven’t noticed any issues with price fluctuations recently. I noticed it quite a bit 10 years ago, but side step yields…
Travel Tip of the Week: Make sure someone knows your passwords
This was actually an entry for the Gold Coast contest on one of the other blogs (and I need to search to remember which one). This has also been discussed on Flyertalk when a jetsetting family member dies. The way the airlines have it set up frequent flyer miles belong to the person on the…
Travel Tip of the Week: Cliffs notes of contest submissions I
I’d suggest reading all 398 comments to the Gold Coast post if you have time, but if you are like me I filtered out the duplicates to leave you with the best of the best with my commentary. Since many posts were the same I am not attaching names to these comments. Life is short,…
Travel Tip of the Week: The open middle seat trick
This won’t work on many US Airways flights since they are always full. I knew I was taking a risk with a long haul United flight as well, but decided there is nothing to lose and an empty middle to gain. The trick is that since most people only want a window or an aisle…
Travel Tip of the Week: Mind your Gs and Ss
Most airports have a gate naming convention of LetterNumber and most seats have a naming convention of NumberLetter. Concourses start at the beginning of the alphabet and so do seats so often there will be a gate B9 for a flight with a seat 9B. You’d be amazed how many times I’ve seen people claim…
Travel Tip of the Week: Avoid “direct” flights
Now many frequent flyers who qualify on segments will tell you to add a connection and increase your segments, especially short flights which can add 500 mile minimums on certain airlines. That works for many, but this post is actually advising something different…avoiding “direct” flights. To be competitive in certain markets airlines will use a…