Posted in Airports, Cheap Activities, Europe, Free Stuff, Internet Access, Luggage, Museums, Public Transport, Rail, Travel, United Kingdom, Web Tips, tagged day trips, London, Stansted on 7 May 2008 | No Comments »
An unfortunate scenario: you’ve booked yourself on two low-cost flights connecting at London Stansted airport and find yourself with an entire day to kill between them.
Common sense dictates that if you’ve got less than four hours between arrival and the next two-hour check-in window, you simply stay put. There are plenty of restaurants [...]
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Posted in Airlines, Europe, Information, Luggage, Packing, Travel, Web Tips, tagged correction, musical instruments, reader questions, RyanAir, traveler rights on 5 May 2008 | No Comments »
First up this Monday is musician Marie from Canada, who is trying to fly on RyanAir with two violins and a guitar. She writes,
Hi, I’ve been trying to talk to someone from Ryan Air for the past 3 weeks and it’s impossible! My question is about carrying musical instruments in the cabin. They [...]
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U.S. Divers is offering a free luggage tag here. Enter your email address and another page will open; you can uncheck “subscribe” on the left side of the screen if you are not interested in receiving their newsletter.
Previous luggage tag freebie offers:
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If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, I’ll let you in on today’s activity: RyanAir is advertising another of their “no taxes, no fees, no charges” sales. Included are flights for the month of April only. Tickets must be purchased by midnight tonight. The good news: despite the booking engine [...]
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Posted in Airlines, Airports, Cheap Activities, Europe, Food, Free Stuff, Italy, Luggage, Museums, Packing, Public Transport, Travel, USA, United Kingdom, Web Tips on 6 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
A number of my favorite travel bloggers are in town for the ITB — the team from EuroCheapo and I ascended the dome of the Reichstag in record time last night, while a reception tonight promises a meeting with Karen from Europe a la Carte. It’s always nice in the largely anonymous blogosphere to [...]
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If you’re like me (and I’m not even *that* high maintenance), you have trouble fitting all the bath products you use into your 1-liter resealable ziploc for carrying on your flight. Perhaps you’ve even trimmed down your travel beauty routine or taken to purchasing and tossing at your final destination, since there’s no way [...]
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You’ve probably already heard the news that United plans to start charging the majority of its customers $25 for the second piece of checked luggage on domestic U.S. and Canadian flights. You can check out their new policy here. This comes as no surprise to airline insiders and follows the “successfully introduced” [...]
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A recent comment to an older post on RyanAir’s online check-in policies has me mulling over the obvious benefits of carrying on vs. checking luggage when you travel. There are times when nothing but checked luggage will do (which I promise to cover in another post), but even if you’re a tried and [...]
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I know it seems like we just got back (here too, here too), but the blog’s off again . . . this time to Sweden, land of the suitcase-thieving dwarves? Just another reason to keep your suitcase locked anytime it’s out of your hands. Thanks to Courtney for the tip! Back Wednesday.
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A recent reader question spawned a piece of advice which I believe is valuable to every traveler’s sanity: don’t plan to visit any city you won’t stay for at least three days. This is not a hard and fast rule, but should be a guiding principle when charting out your travels. Wondering [...]
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