-
Tips to Recover from a Spa Vacation
Clean out the fridge except for your must have delights.
Try on clothes and feel good about how they fit.
Exercise even if you are still unpacking.
Take a long walk and do errands ambulatorially. If that is a word.
Buy cut up fruit and veggies today!If you need to choose between organizing photos and something active. Do the active bit.
Join us to Canyon Ranch for a deal price May 1-4/5 or wait till next year and Ixtapan Spa Feb.… -
Women are still scared of hotel showers!
I still hesitate when pulling that hotel shower curtain across my face. Despite the fact that Psycho was filmed over 40 years ago,the knifing in the shower scene still terrifies me.
More than men, women need extra assurance to feel comfortable in a hotel room alone. Women more than men have difficulty sleeping away from home which is a factor. Here are a few small ways to settle into your room. Our company arranges shares for anyone who wants to avoid the single supplement.…
-
Womens' travel statistics and review sites.
Statistically women do more research than men for choices on travel. But research is hard to find for more exotic travel. So after reading the brochures (If any), women will go behind the scenes to get the ‘skinny’.
Where do we go? We use review sites. Love them or hate them, statistically review sites are used by women more than men. We rely on Tripadvisor,Yelp, Chowhound, Trivago, Hotels.com and others.
Women know how to filter out whinny women- a necessary evil-, so we are experts in filtering out whinny reviews.…
-
New Health Plans and Overseas Travel?
Medicare does not cover Americans overseas so I contacted the new government site for the Oct. 1 launch of federal health care. This is what I got from the Live Chat on the federal site? And I do believe in national health care options….With an answer like this, I’ll still buy Travelguard for myself and recommend it to you when you travel!
Upcoming India and Morocco tours have $Solo $Savings for solo travelers and travel insurance from Travelguard is still available.…
-
A new travel phrase: Solo Savings $$
After deciding to offer guaranteed shares on our trips, we heard,hat too many women ask what that means. It means you get a room share if you ask for one. And, if there is no share available, you get a room as a single with no supplement to pay.
So rather than keep explaining our new money savings policy for solo women travelers. We are going to call it Solo Savings or $Solo $Savings. We specialize in offering exotic travel and many of us prefer to use the cash to shop in bargain places like India or Morocco.…
-
Travel Smart: Be Prepared Health-Wise
Travel Smart: Be Prepared for Illnesses, Injuries and Variable Weather | HealthyWomen. Phyllis Stoller from The Women’s Travel Group is an expert on issues that effect women on the road. This is one in a series of articles for Healthywomen.org
Upcoming tours to India and Morocco have a roomshare guarantee for solo women travelers who wish to avoid paying the single supplement.…
-
How to Tell if a Travel Review is Fake
Headline news today about the NY Attorney General going after companies that create fake reviews on Yelp, TripAdvisor and such. Who knew these companies were out there?
When you look at reviews, assess the following:
Do they all use the same vocabulary?
And the same themes?
Are they all generic on-line names?
Were all the reviews flooded in on the same days?
Do you see bad grammar or poor spelling, especially if either of these is repeated in more than one review?… -
Singles Tours Vs. Solo Tours for Women
Why do readers and travel agents refer to us as a ‘singles’ group? Some of us are married and some single but we are SOLO travelers. There is still an old fashioned idea that women who travel solo must be single. Travel agents who contact us always ask if this is a group for ‘single women! Could it be that married women who are looking for a trip do not actually use agents? …
-
5 Tips for Travel Agents to sell Women's Tours
Remarkably few travel agents actually sell women’s tours. Why?
Most women’s tour groups do not even sell through agents, as they are small sole proprietorships.
Most women’s tours do not pay commission: SITA our partner does!
Most do not have the professional licensing required by agents.
Reaching clients who want women’s tours is different marketing than traditionally done by travel agents.
Room share guarantees for solo women on women’s tours are not an understood service. (The Women’s Travel Group offers this deal on India, Morocco and beginning in 2014 on most trips)
So here are tips for travel agents who wish to enter this untapped market:
Have an in office women’s evening.…
-
Solo Travel: Tips to Make Safe New Friends
TEN TIPS FOR MAKING FRIENDS WHEN YOU TRAVEL
So let’s say you are now traveling for the first time as a solo. Maybe the last solo travel was in college and involved hostels? How do you present yourself and open this new door:
Here are tips for solo women travelers, to help you make safe new friends.
Know your destination. Study the area and check online for what is happening now. A good site is Time Out. You might find events that attract others who also do their research in English.…
