Travel Tips Blog and Statistics
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How the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Can Improve Your Trip
As you who travel with The Women’s Travel Group already know, we usually supply a reading list. Our group going to Berlin April 29-May 5 will find a city with an intriguing history of spies and secrets. In researching the list, we came upon a new source for women who like history. The CIA has a website for declassified reports: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/home.
So what will you find in those reports on Berlin? Go type in Berlin or for that matter any city or situation.…
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New Airline Regulations for Women
There are new regulations and there are new headlines. Two girls were turned away from a United flight, wearing leggings. They were traveling on airline passes, as a relative worked for United. Airlines have strict dress codes for passengers on free tickets and leggings are definitely not allowed. This is a fake story. Read before you panic.
Another new regulation is that all electronics (except phones and medical devices) must be packed,if you are flying from 8 airports in the Middle East on airlines which fly direct to the US. …
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Deadlines for Saving $$$: Sicily and Christmas Cruise for Women
Sicily $2899 save $150 if booked by April 1 on www.thewomenstravelgroup.com Sicily trip.
Danube AMA Waterways Save as a single if booked by March 31. Join us for Christmas and NYear’s.
Phyllis@thewomenstravelgroup.com or 646 309 5607 to book or chat.
Why spend more than you have to? If you are hankering for
gorgeous hill top villages facing a blue blue sea,
fabulous food fresh from organic farms, wines to wash it down,
Greek and Roman ruins on spectacular mountain tops
Christmas markets full of candy and Italian goodies (it is Orange season, buy some crystalized orange slices- to die for)
all topped off with a medieval parade in Palermo with music, costumes, streets lit with candles and chanting…
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Who Should NOT go to a Spa-Fitness-Yoga Resort?
Who are these women who go to a spa-fitness-yoga resort with us? I used to think a spa was for spoiled brats or body beautiful spandex groupies. Nope, not true. Phyllis@thewomenstravelgroup.com learned it was for everyone.You do not have to be fit; classes at Ixtapan are for all levels. Pool classes cater to fit women and those starting to move again. Gym classes are challenging or minimal,as much one can manage. Can’t do 50 minutes, do 15. Haven’t stretched in years?…
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TSA and 5 Items Not to Wear or Carry
The Trump Administration is considering 11% cuts in the TSA Budget. If that means faster yet more intrusive searches, women need to rethink what we wear and what we carry. Especially if you are traveling alone on one of our trips, you don’t want to be delayed while your carry on sits away from sight.
Here are items that should be left home, substituted or packed in your suitcase. Here are some tips from The Women’s Travel Group:
The big one: underwired bras.…
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Why go to Russia now? Are we welcomed?
The Women’s Travel Group keeps up with on-the-ground situations. We have temporarily suspended our 2nd Iran trip; visas for Americans are on hold. We are going to Russia in July and expect the welcome to be as warm as ever. What veteran travelers know about the brand of ‘being American’, is everyone likes us.
In Cold War years, Americans going to Russia were stared at with envy. We were like movie stars, sporting the latest in jeans and sweatshirts. Today we are just another tour group, with no particular wardrobe.…
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Will you feel like Tiny Tim in your new super-cheap airline seat?
Airlines are beginning to offer new crazy cheap seats: example, American Airlines and British Airways yesterday: round trip New York to London: $485. The big guys are scared of the discounters and are taking action.
So what are we getting for that half priced fare?
The same routes and same schedules, most of the flights for mid March were empty-ish.
You will get your ff miles.Seats with extra leg room might cost you even if you have status on the airline.…
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What is this funny place: Ixtapan Spa we all love
So what is this funny named place The Women’s Travel Groupgoes to? Ixtapan Spa is a famous budget fitness/spa/yoga resort in colonial Mexico ( pick up inMexico City’s modern airport).
What do you do at a spa/fitness resort?
Do it all or do none! 7AM brisk walk in cool mountain air. 8AM healthy buffet breakfast or join a yoga class in the zen gazebo. 10AM, a full 50 minutes of aerobics in the heated pool.11AM pilates for all levels, noon: salsa in the pool.…
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5 Awkward Questions to Ask Your Guide
In the back of many women’s minds are questions we are afraid to ask a guide. Often we worried women stay home for fear of ‘ embarrassing situations’. So what are our major embarrassing hang ups?
Bathroom needs: Many women have urgent bathroom needs. Some of this is medical; some because we are worried about not having a bathroom at hand. I know personally, that as soon as I go to the theater in New York, I begin to think about the bathroom line and if there is time to get to the front!…
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Where in the World is Waldo Safe?
Every day when I wake up, the paper and tv tell me to hide in the deepest closet. There I might be safe, if I don’t eat sugar, fat, processed foods, or salt. So are we safe if we travel today? Who are all these pundits and are they for real?
There are the safety consultants, usually for profit companies, who want you to hire them for consultations or training in judo.
There are battalions of former– not all so young –military personnel now on the payroll of tv news programs. …
