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Reasons to Leave Friends Home for Women Travelers
Most of us do not have friends who travel. If you are lucky to have friends who like to travel, you are also unlucky since you are pressured to compromise. Travel is expensive and your hard earned money should be about your goals, not about what your friends want to do. Joining a small group women’s tour without friends can be the answer for you.
There are many reasons to leave your friends behind. All of these will make for a better travel experience.…
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Avoid Travel Panic with www.womenstravelgroup.com Travel List
Getting ready for a solo trip includes being organized and being smart. Traveling in a group like The Women’s Travel Group is easier as you have others to help if you need it. Traveling alone is more edgy since you must be self sufficient. It will be more comfortable if you are going to an English speaking area like Ireland.
When you travel alone, you are your own defense, your only money holder, and your only companion. This means that if you leave anything behind because you are tired or nervous, you have no back up.…
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Events to Avoid Overseas
This is from a Huffington Post Article by Phyllis Stoller, President of The Women’s Travel Group.…When you plan your next trip, you will likely consider weather and hopefully check into seasonal costs of flights/hotels etc. Travelers today are traveling during what are called ‘shoulder’ seasons which relate to good, not perfect weather, which avoid peak season crowds and can offer lower airfares. However, many travelers do not check other factors that might make a trip excessively expensive or full of unpleasant surprises. -
Don’t Be A Travel Widow
Here is a summary of our most recent Huffington Post Article. It is all about the phenomen of us Travel Widows. We are the women whose husbands or partners do not like to travel. The blog post covers
–statistics of women traveling alone
–how recent news of sexual harassment has propelled us to be more confident
–why women want to travel and men don’t
–and yes you will recognize either yourself or your friends in this article.
Phyllis Stoller writes often about women and travel.…
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Women TRAVEL
This is a blog post from Huffington Post which we hope you will follow:https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-8-worst-mistakes-a-veteran-traveler-made-in-2017_us_5a2ec58ce4b04cb297c2aefb Look for Phyllis Stoller, a contributor and follow her there. Most posts are not repeated here.These mistakes are commonplace and can make your trip pretty miserable. Follow the link above for more information about safe traveling and below use the link for more about The Women’s Travel Group and our tours.Yes, all of these mistakes are common even for a veteran traveler, former ex-pat and the President of The Women’s Travel Group.… -
Timing is Everything for the Woman Traveler
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/timing-is-everything-for-the-woman-traveler_us_5a216c46e4b05072e8b56852
Here is another article about women and travel published on the Huffington Blog. Follow the link above and away you go.…
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Our Profile and How To Find Us on Huffington Post
Phyllis Stoller is a contributor to Huffington Post. Here is her profile:click here.
You can find her articles on Huffington Post by clicking on profile above. The articles are primarily travel tips for solo women travelers. However, some articles are based on current travel news, we believe important for our readers. These range from airline alerts to safety to Being an American World Traveler in Today’s Political Arena.
We are not afraid of talking about sensitive topics like widowhood and travel or mixing ethnicities in a travel group.…
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What You do not Know about New York City
New York has an ancient history, ancient by US standards. Each group of people has left its mark here. The Dutch filled land which we now call Alphabet City (Avenue A, B, and C). It is this low lying land that flooded in Hurricane Sandy. They also leveled the hills in Manhattan to make it easier for their horses.
The British gave names: New York after the king’s brother, Broadway (meaning a large street), and so forth. There are many buildings left from British pre-independence times.…
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Stopover NY before a flight?
Consider a stopover NY. Spending a night at JFK or in town, before a transAtlantic flight is a good idea for two reasons: 1- airfares broken in two might be cheaper and 2- you will have less jetlag and more time to relax. Oh yes there is a 3- a visit to New York City for a day.
We can book both flights for you if you decide to spend a night in NY.
There is excellent subway service directly from JFK to midtown Manhattan, safe, cheap, fast, air conditioned and somewhat wifi activated.…
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A Three Act Play for Widows and Others on a first Solo Trip
www.thewomenstravelgroup.com has written a Three Act Play for widows and Others who lost a partner. There is no travel niche called widows travel so here we go.
Please share this three act play for widows, with your friends; you might be doing them a great favor.
Act One
A first solo trip: are you not interested, worried about finances, unable to concentrate on one own’s needs. Want to get away from friends, who look with care and underlying pity. Need a vacation from paperwork and loneliness.…
