Travel Tips Blog and Statistics
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Women Lie When Booking a Trip and Traveling
What Women Lie About When Going on a Group Trip
The Women’s Travel Group shares its 30+ years of women’s lies when booking a trip.
I know how to pack. Many women arrive with enormous heavier than rocks suitcases. We recommend two smaller suitcases, one carried on and one checked in. You protect your special items/documents/medicine in the carry on and dump the clothes etc into the airplane hold. If you want to move things around your hotel room and or not wait for a porter, smaller is easier!…
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Summer Travel and Flight Attendants Jobs
Summer travel frenzy is upon us; flight attendants will be super busy. Did you know that until last month, Delta flight attendants were not paid until the airplane door closed? Boarding is fraught with anxiety, selfishness and impatience. Flight attendants deserve twice their pay for this part of the journey. Disgraceful for an industry we bailed out with $billions.
Our group in Georgia at an artists atelier https://www.thewomenstravelgroup.com/contact/ 50+ flying years and most with The Women’s Travel Group gives me great respect for flight staff.…
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5 Items I should not have packed
The Women’s Travel Group just returned from a trip to The Caucasus. 5 Things I should not have packed are below. They all added weight, bulk and became annoying to move around each day.
On return from the trip, I examined the non clothing items left in my suitcase. There were items I should not have packed.
Too many snacks: granola bar type. Unless you are on the moon, you can buy snacks anywhere in the world. Under International snack food, As an example: Amazon shows a selection of snacks from around the world.…
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Be a Bus not Bust Girl
Our company provides transfers. When traveling alone, this writer loves Public Transportation: buses, subways, monorails, shuttles, ferries. In the US, bus still means the seedy bus station or rowdy college kids. Subway connotes anti social behavior. Shuttles take too long. Ferries have questionable bathrooms. But if you are overseas in any major European city, try the public transportation. You will save money with public transportation,and move quickly.
Heathrow Express Overseas, public transportation is used by all classes of travelers. In many cities public transportation is available for distances like airport to town or central bus station to ex-urbs.…
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Does war destroy Women’s Wanderlust?
War in the Ukraine; does war destroy our female wanderlust?
Source: European-Union.Europa.eu Let’s start with the fact that no European Union country has issued a travel warning related to war. Quite the opposite in fact, EU countries are easing regulations for what we know as ‘non essential travel’. Flights and hotels are full and flight statistics show price increases related to greater bookings. The Women’s Travel Group is busy and we see many of the same trends.Travel to Western Europe is benefitting from pent up demand from Europeans.…
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Where and How To Store Documents
So you don’t get nuts when you are traveling and cannot find them. During Covid, we experienced a new list of required documents related to health and safety, vaccinations and locator forms.
Here is a video The Women’s Travel Group created showing you how to store documents, what documents are important, which need to be hard copy and which should be in color. When you are traveling, and in a rush, sometimes you cannot find the exact document you need on the spot.…
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Women’s Top Tips for London & Paris.
The Women’s Travel Group in London Top Tips for Paris and London Tours 2022.People in London and Paris are living their life again. Most vaccinated. All masked. Distanced and Polite. Here are our Top Tips for London and Paris in 2022.
Who doesn’t want a snack or two while walking.
Paris ice cream Berthillon brand will challenge you. Try the bitter chocolate sorbet if you are lactose intolerant, and vanilla if not. The main Paris store is on medieval Ile St.…
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Women: don’t drink wine in your hotel room
A prior group to London and Countryside with The Women’s Travel Group Women who visit London with us in May: don’t drink wine in your hotel room. Our company is an expert in London. There are plenty of un-daunting places for a solo woman to end a travel day with a glass of wine. On our London/ Countryside trip, we’ll talk during dinner at my home on May 15, and recommend some historic pubs. In Britain, pubs are friendly and welcoming.…
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Personal Parisian Surprises for 2022
http://Photo from en.parisinfo.com My 10 personal Parisian Surprises for 2022. I am just back from Europe, finalizing our May Paris and London trips. They will both be fantastic. Paris because I know it so well and London because it was my home for years. Here are a few fun tips for when you join us to Paris May 6. The next post will be about London whre
Museums are oases: free wifi, clean bathrooms, lounge areas, shops and often budget eating. …
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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.
