Travel Tips Blog and Statistics
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Who we are: The Women's Travel Group
Some of our Facebook friends have not been ‘properly’ introduced to The Women’s Travel Group. Well here goes: Phyllis Stoller founded the Women’s Travel Club in 1992 because she had 5 weeks vacation and her husband had 2. She had been a corporate banker with the time and $ to use the vacation but could not find friends to share it.The original Club took off amazingly fast, first with local women who felt the same way but had no way to meet each other.…
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The Best Nail Biting 1st Trip-Ireland
Your first nail biting trip without friends/family.Ireland
Your first trip by yourself should be chosen carefully. Here is why Ireland is the best first trip with The Women’s Travel Group.
Short direct to Dublin flight, less travel fatigue and less initial angst which effects all of us but more, if this is your first solo trip. A little over 6 hours from JFK makes Ireland our closest neighbor besides Portugal.
English speaking, with a lilt and a smile. Obviously this means instructions from airport staff, hotel concierges, wait staff, taxi drivers are in your language.…
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Happy Holidays from The Women's Travel Group
One of the best aspects of our group is its multi-cultural one. On The Women’s Travel Group trips, we get to meet women from different backgrounds, and different geographic areas. We have even had some women from further afield. You might enjoy hearing about some of the women I have had the privilege of traveling with recently:they are every background, every ethnic group, every age:
Names changed to protect the ‘innocent’.
xx from Florida turned 80+ in Delhi last year! What a gal.…
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Women Traveling in History
This is a fun article written by Phyllis Stoller of www.thewomenstravelgroup.com about women travelers of history and us today. Are we so different? I think not!
Happy Holidays to all our wonderful travelers. See you in Turkey? or Chile? or India?…
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Back from our Tuscany Cooking Week
Starving post trip, for the pounds were all worth it. Here we are with home made pasta that we kneaded, cooked and ate happily. Some notes on the trip and other small group trips with The Women’s Travel Group:
There will always be someone to pal with, oddly our group tends to be similar from trip to trip. We are women who love to travel and will not wait for friends. We are sometimes celebrating retirement from work or from other ‘lifetime’ stuff.…
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Use GGIIMMPP in your hotel room
Travel tips from The Women’s Travel Group:
Numero uno is the adapter you left in the bathroom wall. You took the phone but left the adaptor. Numero 2 is your washcloth. You packed it, because most non Americans do not use washclothes. Now it is left hanging in the shower.
Then your pajamas, not totally your fault but if you leave your night clothes on an unmade bed. they can disappear into the laundry.
You forgot the amenities for a ‘rainy day’, as you were waiting to see if you could cram more into your suitcase.…
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Ten New Trends for Women Travelers
An excellent article about us women travelers with a long interview with Phyllis Stoller, founder of The Women’s Travel Group…
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5 Airplane Don'ts for Women
We love lists, and here is one for those of you embarking this week on our two tours: Italy and France.
Five absolute NO’s.
Do NOT get on the plane before you put your passport back into its safe place.
Do NOT leave possessions unlocked, either in overhead bins, or on your person. Remember you might fall asleep with your money belt or purse exposed. Bring extra TSA locks; they are easy to lose.
Do NOT create a seat cushion out of a dark sweater or dark coat.…
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2 Worst Moments on a Trip
What do you think are the two worst moments on your trip? Here is our experience at The Women’s Travel Group:
First and Earliest: The luggage carrousel comes around for the last time and your stuff is not on it. 99.99% of all suitcases are delivered within 2 days. Even when BA’s computer crashed and all Heathrow bags were waylaid, our group in India had suitcases within 48 hours. A total loss is an extreme rarity. Today’s news is new suitcases with tracking devices embedded.… -
Italy in the Spring: NYTimes 36 Hours in Rome
This is the 2014 Tuscany Cooking Group, soon off again to Pisa for our week of fun. Stay tuned for next year’s date.
Many of The Women’s Travel Group trips are arranged so solo women can easily connect with the group if not flying with a friend or one of us. March 8 produced another terrific article about Rome where we start our Sweep Through Italy trip April 29-May 10 2015.
Yes, some women will arrive in Rome a day or two before the group, so here goes some of the newer Rome sights: MAXXI by Zaha Hadid, where the building even moves as you do, slanted floors and art made from lights/string/google users and more.…
