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Five Situations to ruin your trip
The Women’s Travel Group plans its tours to avoid certain events . Below are 5 situations to ruin your trip.
A few ladies on a WTG trip in Italy Elections. Elections in many countries come with protests and/or special legislation. For example, let’s look at Paris this week. The election results spawned serious street protests with violence. There was fighting in a major square and protesters shot fireworks at police. In some countries elections are on special dates; ie in the US.…
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Junk Fees and Women Travelers
If you travel, you now face all kinds of surprising junk fees. They are activated by “drip pricing”. There is little you can do to avoid junk fees. See end of this article for what you can do! These are travel tips from award winning, The Women’s Travel Group.
Give it a try: locate junk fees added to hotel bookings. To hide the real hotel cost and get a top spot on an online booking engine list, hotels add junk fees to basic room costs.…
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Who says Too old to Travel?
Tuscany Cooking Trip April 2024 www.thewomenstravelgroup.com Today we had another telephone call : Am I too old to travel? We live in a young society where internet celebrates youth: movie stars to humans called ‘influencers’. Travel brochures display handsome, fit, groomed, ‘seniors’. In our best days we will never look like these fake brochure passengers.
To travel you need attitude, mobility, organization, health, diet, overall strength. Most importantly– resistance to your family.
Attitude: Assess yourself as a person not as a senior.…
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Airport Walk Through for Women
The Women’s Travel Group was recently asked: Can you ‘walk’ me through the airport? I have not traveled overseas in a long time. Re-entry to travel is daunting. So here is The Women’s Travel Group’s step by step airport walk through.
When you arrive at the airport, have handy your passport and booking information. The latter might be a print out of your flights? An electric pass in your phone? Or just a record locator you jotted down.
Walk to your airline.…
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Loss, Bereavement Travel and Women
Please share these experiences from The Women’s Travel Group, with bereavement groups and friends.
Meeting new people in Dubai who have totally different lives Making travel plans can be fantasy or misery. We have been contacted many times by women in bereavement groups. Our first was in 2004. We were asked to meet and talk with a group of New York City Firefighter widows at Ft. Totten NY. Studies had been done which showed that 3 years after 9/11, an important priority was travel.…
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Back from Italy France, England Travel was not complicated
I regret to inform you that travel is not that complicated. Can you make a grocery list? If so, you can complete a travel list.
- Passport valid for at least 6 months past return date. If you don’t know about passports, don’t read the rest of this email.
- Be fully vaccinated and keep your CDC card in a safe place. The original is what you need for most countries/airlines/trains/and inside activities.
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Overseas safety was better than in my hometown.
I just returned from our first Women’s Travel Group trip over the Atlantic since early 2020. I felt safer in Dubai than in New York.
Airport: Everyone was excited to be traveling again and yes was masked. Our airline, Emirates, required a PCR test. I went on Yelp.com and found a local pharmacy, where the test was less money, with results next day. I booked on line. At the store, a pharmacist swabbed my nostrils. Next day I got an email with the needed document. Easy.…
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5 Stages of Mourning for Travel
One can never compare loss of family or friends to mourning for travel. Personal losses stay deep in our hearts. Mourning for travel is also real. Travel can be such an important source of joy, that its loss must also be mourned in 5 stages.
Let’s start this conversation with a comment by British author, CS Lewis. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear”. Today we are scared along with mourning. Are we going thru the 5 stages of mourning?…
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Shocking Reasons Women Travel
Shocking reasons women travel. To get away from routine or boredom. Many women travel to reaffirm independence. Many women travel to learn. Even more travel to avoid loneliness.
Who doesn’t like to get away from routine and miserable weather? Going South in winter is a welcome break. However, that women travel break can also include going to a beach alone with no one to hold your wallet. It can include trying to enjoy dinner amongst talkative families. My first trip to Ixtapan Spa in Mexico was alone (admittedly at the invitation of the owner.)…
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Widows: Your Wanderlust and Wishes
Please share with friends who are widows who wish to travel. Vacations for widows?
Being quarantined has made loneliness worse. This blog post was originally sent out only about taking a first trip alone. It is revised to reflect what we are going through during the pandemic: March-May 2020. Vacations for widows are even more intimidating now.
Let me start by saying these thoughts come from talking to you out there and from my friends.
Planning a trip as a solo is a different exercise.…
