Tips

Tips on savings, planning, and general travel advice.

Coach Class No Longer the Culprit of Blood Clotting

You are now encouraged to move about the cabin © Gene Eaton “Economy class syndrome”, the nickname that suggests Coach seating causes blood clots, is in fact not true. New guidelines state that the real risk of deep vein thrombosis during plane travel is from not getting up and moving around enough during long flights. [...]

SFO Opens Yoga Room

Just say ‘Om’ to the new yoga room at SFO © lyn tally Yesterday SFO opened the very first airport-based yoga room. Stressed out travelers are free to come in and practice independently. The room is open during operating hours of Terminal 2, where it is located. The new yoga room is bathed in calming blue [...]

8 Ways To Stretch Your Short Vacation Days

For many, extended vacations are all but impossible. Lola Akinmade reveals eight tips to get the most out of your short vacation weeks.

5 Simple Ways to Beat Your Travel Budget

Chris Cook outlines five simple ways to whip your travel budget into shape.

10 Essential Tips to Improve Your Hitchhiking Game

After hitching all over the world, Turner Wright reveals his 10 best secrets for improving your hitchhiking game.

A Brief Guide to Travel Insurance

When booking a holiday or long weekend away, there are many things to consider and more often than not, ensuring you have the correct type of travel insurance is usually far from the front of your mind and can sometimes be a mere afterthought. Just like choosing any type of insurance cover, whether it is [...]

8 Simple Steps to Achieve Your Travel Goals

Turn your vacation daydreaming into travel reality with these 8 simple steps.

How to Travel Independently for the First Time

Amanda Kendle offers five steps to traveling independently for the first time.

9 Tips for Finding the Perfect Travel Souvenir

Isabel Eva Bohrer reveals 9 tips to help you navigate the tricky path towards finding the perfect travel souvenir.

5 Things to Consider When Deciding Between All-Inclusive or Not

You are researching hotels for your upcoming beach getaway and it’s clear that you have a decision ahead of you: Is it better to book an all-inclusive resort or a non-all-inclusive hotel? Of course, the answer is the one that you don’t necessarily want to hear: “it depends.” Sunset Beach, Fiji © Jennifer Here are [...]

Take Your Car to the Airport and Enjoy the Freedom

When making your way to the airport, you of course want to arrive at the check-in desk with plenty of time to spare so that you are not late for your flight. It is therefore really important that you plan your journey to the airport in advance, especially if you live a fair distance away. [...]

Confessions of a Traveling Packrat

Jessica Spiegel eschews minimalist travel in favor of hoarding every last scrap of souvenir trash she can collect.

5 Essential Tips for the Traveling iPhone Photographer

For many, the iPhone has quickly gone from a luxury item to a travelling essential. A wonderful piece of palm-sized equipment that provides 1,001 ways to navigate, communicate, translate, entertain and (as camera technology improves year on year) take photos. Such good photos in fact, that at Foto Ruta in Buenos Aires, we’re seeing more [...]

Skipping Machu Picchu: 5 Other Awesome Ruins in Peru

Machu Picchu is like the quarterback of Peru. Essential, appreciated, but always hogging the attention, winning the awards, and getting its face on the posters. You want its autograph, but so does everyone else. One million other people, according to Peru’s National Chamber of Tourism which estimates the number of Machu Picchu visitors will actually [...]

Seven Tips for Travelling London’s Underground

For many visitors coming to London, one of the greatest fears is of not being able to get around town. Of getting lost on the tube, of catching the wrong bus and ending up in Battersea instead of Bayswater, of being ripped off by a taxi driver or being clattered by a cyclist. My preferred [...]

Rainy Day Travel: 5 Places to Beat the Crowds When the Sun Doesn’t Shine

Eva Holland discusses how to save money and soak up the local scene when the sun doesn’t shine.

5 Ways to Score an Upgrade on Your Next Flight

Wan’ to get upgraded on your next flight? Isabel Eva Bohrer shares 5 great tips on how to go about it.

Really Slow Travel: Walking Your Way Around the World

Amanda Kendle advocates slowing down on your travels and truly absorbing your surroundings.

Budget Travel 101: 5 Tips for Traveling on the Cheap

If you’ve been refraining from making a holiday plan because your pockets are not full, think again. Get a little proactive, seek for opportunities, talk to the right agent and ponder on the choices placed before you. There is a bundle of travel deals which could meet your needs. To make this simpler, I have [...]

Budget Travel 101: 5 Ways to Save on Flights Abroad

You don’t want to break the bank when traveling abroad. Isabel Eva Bohrer shares 5 simple tips for reducing flight & transportation costs.

The World’s 10 Worst Travel Diseases

Turner Wright explores the ten worst diseases for world travelers.

Keep It Simple: 8 Ways to Find Travel Planning Zen

Amanda Kendle reveals 8 tips to mastering the art of simplicity in travel planning.

6 Real Tips To Beat Jet Lag

Forget the endless online tips, cure-all medications and bits of expert advice that claim to beat jet leg. Amanda Kendle reveals the six ways that actually work.

Private Jet Charter and Other (Surprising) Travel Options for Vacationers

Traveling isn’t always as fun as it should be. Crowded airport terminals, a nosy stranger on a bus, and a high-speed taxi driver can all turn what might have been the trip of your dreams into a nightmare. For many vacation travelers, chartering is a very convenient and sometimes cost-effective way to make taking a [...]

Gay Travel: 5 Tips for Planning a World Trip and Staying Safe

Many countries around the world are gay friendly and encourage gay tourism. Some cities advertise gay travel and certain countries even encourage gay marriage ceremonies and provide resources for gay couples. Certain places like Denmark have gay bars like the Central Hornet which is about to celebrate it’s 100th anniversary as an openly gay bar [...]

Top Travel Destinations for 2011

Looking to take a unique vacation this year? Can’t figure out where exactly you want to go? Thankfully, you’re not alone. Plenty of people get urges to travel, but either they don’t know where they want to go, or their lists of desired destinations are too long to sort through. This is why there are [...]