Tag: international flights
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How To De-Stress Before an International Flight
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Use These Tips to Relax and Chillax Before Your Next International Flight Finalizing all the arrangements for an international trip can feel anticlimactic because you’ve done all this work but have yet to reap any of the rewards from your research, bookings, and time spent putting everything together. You may…
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Tips for Putting a Last-Minute International Itinerary Together
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Stepping Off a Plane In Another Country Is Exciting, But What Comes Next? Recently, I traveled to Dublin, Amsterdam, and several cities in Belgium. It was the most last-minute international trip I’ve ever taken, and I put it all together in less than two weeks. Maybe three weeks at most.…
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Always Have Back-Up Travel Options While On Vacation
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You Might Have Every Detail Planned, But The Travel Gods Have Other Ideas My travel itineraries tend to have a lot of details, and I normally don’t leave a lot of time to chance. I’ll have all the travel already purchased (when possible), I’ll have the activities booked, and I’ll…
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Is It Worth Flying One Airline for the Points?
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Can You Really Accumulate Enough Points On One Airline? About 25 years ago, I had something like 80,0000 frequent flyer miles with Delta Airlines. I’d spent years accumulating them during flights back and forth across the country. I went to college on one side of the country, and my parents…
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Is Basic Economy Always Terrible On Transatlantic Flights?
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And What About Transpacific Flights? Is Basic Economy Just a Recipe for Disaster? Can you actually enjoy air travel when you’re packed alongside other people like a sardine with no room to cross your legs, move your elbows, or move your seat back? Is that cheap $250 flight you scored…
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How Not to Have a Terrible International Flight
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Can Certain Decisions Make Your International Flight Terrible? It seems like there are only two things you read about airplane travel. It’s stories about how great business class and lay-flat seats are when you’re flying across an ocean, or it’s how terrible flying is at virtually any other moment. From…
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Travel & Luggage: To Check or Not To Check Your Bags
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Should You Always Carry-On or Is It Okay To Check Your Luggage? One of the easiest ways to save money on your vacation is to use a small bag and carry your luggage on the plane rather than having the airline store it for you during your flight. These days,…
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International Travel as a Single Lingual
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Can you enjoy international travel if you only speak one language? As an American, I’m regularly chided for speaking only one language fluently; however, less than half of the world’s population is bilingual, so I’m actually in the majority when it comes to my language skills. I speak a fair…
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Do You Need a Premium Economy Upgrade?
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What is Premium Economy Class on an Airline? Premium economy seats were first introduced more than 30 years ago by airlines interested in scoring a few extra dollars from economy class patrons who wanted just a little more room for their journey. These airlines (initially just EVA out of Asia…
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Flight Booking Advice for First-Time Flyers
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Are You About To Book Your First Flight? As someone who first flew so long ago that I can’t even remember the trip (it was the 1980s on a flight somewhere with my mom), I can’t imagine never having flown before. So, it’s tough for me to imagine what the…