Travel Tips Blog and Statistics
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Take Advantage of Others' Travel Fears
Travel is as safe as ever. Newspapers are not as popular as ever. What connects the two subjects? To motivate you to buy a paper/read it on line/ or glance at a newsstand, head lines have to be horrifying and misleading.
Middle Eastern refugees will not attack you in Europe. Berbers will not throw a bomb at you in Morocco. No one is waiting in a niche at the Colosseum in Rome to rob you. But newspaper headlines will hint that all of this will happen, and will happen to YOU.…
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What is a Travel Trend?
The Women’s Travel Group offers some trending destinations: Mexico City, Puebla, Ethiopia, Palermo,and more. A trending place is one that we visit now, and the rest of the US visits in 5 years. A good place to find travel trends is in non-US papers, specifically British ones. Where the Brits go now is where you want to go. The Women’s Travel Group finds and visits these places first. Call us at 646 309 5607 or email us to discuss being trendy!…
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Keeping Fit on the Road
Our hotel in Merida Dec 2-7 Yucatan TripWe often write about how to travel if you have issues. This past week as a woman called us to say it sounded as if fit women did not join our groups. So here is the explanation: we like to encourage everyone to look at their personal issues and get over them. It is not that we all have bad knees or backs!
If you are super fit, there are some options for you to maintain your fitness during most trips.…
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How Smart Women Salvaged Weather Torn Vacations
Weather has always been an issue. Current weather patterns are even more disruptive to travel. Be prepared and smart. To save your vacation The Women’s Travel Group is sharing some tips if bad weather seems imminent. First travel insurance: we always offer it when you book a trip. Our insurer is Travelinsured, reliable, 24/7 emergency phone help, and wonderful to work with.
How smart women saved their vacations:
Member from Minnesota was told by her airline that a connection in Newark was cancelled due to snow. …
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Five reasons to grab last place: Yucatan/Merida
A simple list should be enough to convince one of our Facebook pals to takethe last room: Dec 2-7 or stay on.
Weather: sunny warm and fresh.
Budget: The Peso at an all time low!
Scenes: UNESCO Heritage sites amidst flowers and birds.
Food: corn,chocolate,chili, beef, yum
Friends: Travel with a Group of new friends from Texas? NY? CA? FL? IN?… -
Women’s vs Men’s Travel
Yes The Women’s Travel Group Bucket List is gender specific.I write this as a wife with two sons who were born overseas and traveled with me a bunch. Women are different.
Women thrill at exotic and unusual, but we must have a comfortable hotels and decent bathrooms during the tour.
We will experiment with food. But we must have a hearty breakfast, more vegetables, at least one recognizable main dish and dessert!
We like to learn. However walking tours cannot be too long; museum visits must end at absolute maximum 90 minutes.…
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7 Travel Tips that Will Save Women Money
Above is the link to our newest article in The Three Tomatoes where Phyllis Stoller is the Travel Guru and one of the Travel Correspondents. Enjoy and don’t be afraid to save money and be stingy!
More travels and tours are on www.thewomenstravelgroup.com or call Phyllis at 646 309 5607 for a chat or advice. Our blog can be shared with your friends and please do share it with local travel writers.…
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Why Mexico and Why Never a Cruise to Mexico?
We are the only women’s group with Tours to Mexico. We never cruise there….Why?
There are at least 10 reasons:
Cruise ports are Disney’d ways to enter Mexico. Built for 1,000’s of tourists, loaded on buses, they erase the beauty seeing a pyramidor glimpsing a green parrot in the jungle.
Mexico means value; the US Dollar is 35% higher and $20 will get you an amazing gift.
Fine dining is reasonable and memorable. The number of special restaurants in culinary capitals like Puebla is staggering.…
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Why You Need to Call Your Tour Operator
Please share with friends who have special needs they are reluctant to talk about.
Why should you also call your tour operator? Sometimes speaking with us at The Women’s Travel Group, brings up other questions you forgot or were nervous to ask.Example: A woman was hesitant. When we spoke with her, she told us she was on the heavy side and worried that she might not fit in.
Some questions are easier to answer verbally. Example: A woman asked if she, as an older lady, could do our trips?…
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How to Travel with "Bad Knees"
Every week, we at The Women’s Travel Group hear this: ‘I have some knee problems ‘….knees being a metaphor for limitations. We all have limitations, as our mechanics deteriorate, we just jog too much or we are nervous travelers going solo for the first time.
A few ideas to measure if you can travel with our group:
Do you walk every day for normal errands?
Can you put aside your nerves, lose sleep but learn to travel again in a group?…
