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5 Best Clothing Items for Layering: our Argentina trip will take in 2 climates.
Since many trips take in more than one climate, here are a few tips for layering when the need arises.
1. Good tights, not cotton but get a mix of rayon and lycra.
2. Long sleeved silk or nylon body-hugging shirt.
3. North Face or other puffy jacket with pockets inside and out. I prefer black.
4. Cheap scarf: $5 on a Manhattan street corner!
5. One pair of pants a size too large so you can fit the tights underneath them.… -
Carnival Cruise Apology
When your trip goes awry like it did with Carnival’s cruise, you lose more than money. You lose your allotted vacation time for this year. Admittedly I have no marine experience, but here are the things I would have been wondering had I been a passenger:
The map shows they were nearer Cozumel than Mobile. And the drift was away from Mobile and towards Cozumel. Could Carnival have dug deeply into financial pockets and leased 15 planes at 200+ passengers each, flown them out of Cozumel and cut 2 days off this miserable experience?…
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Travel Tips for Women for a Snowy Vacation
Whether or not you have bought Travel Insurance from us, here are five reminders before you travel during snowy weather.
1. Shower cap to wear under your knitted hat.
2. Clip Chip to hang wet socks up, hopefully above the hotel heater.
3. Plastic bags to hold wet shoes and sturdy shoes are a must.
4. Big (not wool) scarf to lend a second cover over your shoulders and coat. Wool dries slowly and smells too sheepy.
5. An alarm clock set extra early so you do not rush.… -
Stephanie Abrams, travel expert, interviews Phyllis Stoller
On February 17, 2013, the interview with Stephanie Abrams, will air and remain on line. We will publish it also here. It is an honor to be asked onto her select show. More of Stephanie Abrams insights are on sabrams.com
In the meantime, check out ‘Rumors’, a mystery thriller from Stephanie Abrams. This book will literally make your airplane ride ‘fly by’. You can buy it on Amazon.…
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Peter Greenberg Posts Our Tips for Travel for Women 50+
We are delighted that travel guru, Peter Greenberg, has posted our Top Ten Tips for 50+ Women Traveling on his excellent site: www.petergreenberg.com. We collected these from several of our travelers and appreciate their input. When, or if, you need to know if a trip is good for you, we are happy to go over it in-depth on the phone or by email.
Happy and Healthy Traveling to China, Argentina, India and stay tuned for more.
The Tips are on This Link and listed below also.…
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Airline Rules Contested
The papers today suggest that the announcement: “You must stay in your cabin and class of service”, is not actually an airline rule! However if you breach instructions and ,heaven forbid, push back the curtain or use the business class toilets, yikes, staff might strong arm you. Suggestions here:
1. Get all names of staff involved. If they say they will contact the captain write down his/her name as well. Be discreet.
2. Record witnesses’ statements on your phone.
3. Send a certified letter to the airline asking for an apology- they will not compensate you so just go for the apology then tell the world.… -
Mary Beth Bond, Gutsy Traveler, adds The Women's Travel Group to her 'Good Housekeeping' List
Long the leading women’s travel writer and adventurer, Mary Beth Bond added our group to her list of top women’s travel companies. We read her Gutsytraveler.com site daily and always learn. Mary Beth speaks at major women’s events and you will never be disappointed. Check out her books and site frequently, and recommend her to friends. Contact her directly if you wish a fine speaker.…
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Where is The Women's Travel Club?
Some history: The Club was founded by Phyllis Stoller in 1992. It grew into a national organization with accolades and awards. In 2006 Phyllis sold the Club to ABC Destinations, a group tour company. The new owners closed all their businesses in October 2012, including our wonderful Women’s Travel Club.
We reopened as The Women’s Travel Group, same people, same themes with a slight twist. We are now offering longer, more in depth tours with ‘smart itineraries’. We are the only women’s travel group to identify this new untapped area: college educated women who want to learn as well as have fun and who want a more comprehensive tour about the country and its people.…
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The Women's Travel Group Fitness on the Road Tips
Some of these tips are from a ‘Times’ article. Hotel room exercises include:
lunges, squats, with the use of the hotel iron as an arm weight. Use the chair to stretch your back and waist by twisting and holding onto the opposite sides. The bed makes a good bar for triceps push ups and soft sit ups. Even if you hate exercise, do some stretching in bed after a long flight. The move onto to floor with a towel as a matt, and continue with your stretches.… -
What We Learned at The New York Times Travel Show
Women want smarter tours. They told us that free time, shopping with the guide, cooking and hobby type classes are not what they want to pay $$ for in a tour. We learned that many former Women’s Travel Club members miss our type of quality vacation and that the word is spreading.
We realized that our Yunnan tour was not geographically understood. Yunnan is North of Nepal and West of Burma, fyi. It is minority, tribal and Himalayan China, a trip for the second time visit to China.…
