Travel Tips Blog and Statistics
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Jet lag and benefits for The Women's Travel Group
Getting up at 4 each morning after our wonderful Sicily trip has its advantages. Between 4-11 you get every chore done with no interruptions. Better yet, you can converse with new travel friends on email as the rest of the group is probably up also!
Don’t fight it, it usually takes an hour a day to evaporate. Taking sleeping pills and/or Melatonin might seem to help but the real segue is lots of water, and just go to sleep at 8/9 get your mighty 8 hours and get up when you have to.…
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On Line Reviews: How to Tell if Fake?
The Women’s Travel Group takes on line review seriously. We encourage you to check all our hotels on sites like TripAdvisor.com However a tiny percentage are clearly faked.
Here are the ways to tell if an on line review is fake:
Review posted by someone who has no other reviews.
Fake reviews use more superlatives in descriptions.
The word ‘I’ is used more than ‘we’.
Fake hotel reviews do not describe the rooms or the spacial information about the hotel.Reviews about expensive hotels are longer than those about cheap hotels.…
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Airport Neurosis: Female Fears
We at The Women’s Travel Group are all familiar with pre-flight anxiety. Not everyone experiences it the same way. For men, the most pressing issue is whether the flight will depart on schedule. For women, the worry is getting to the airport on time—according to a new study. Women are also more nervous about airport security and seat selection.
I get the security thing with our bling and fashionable shoes setting off the sensors.…
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Losing your Luggage
Yes it finally happened to me and to two other women on our India trip when British Airways had a computer meltdown. The lost luggage stages go like this and with a happy ending:
+++++Adrenolin rush to get the lost luggage claim and papers filled out correctly while navigating 250 others in the same situation. Don’t forget to take a photo or your luggage tag and any paperwork with your phone.
+++++Exhaustion follow up: once out of the airport with nothing to your name but a carry on ( this was the one time I did not bring a change of clothes in carry on!!!).…
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The 3-1-1 Rule for Liquids you don't drink on planes
The photo above is The Ganges at Sunrise, on our India trip October 2014, don’t drink this water…
With the rules of airport travel changing frequently, it can sometimes get tricky knowing what is and isn’t allowed in your bags. The United States Transportation Security AdministrationTSA) implements air-travel regulations tofollow. To ensure safety, the TSA has placed strict rules on the volume and type of liquids allowed on an airplane.…
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Age versus Travel?
There is one word for this correlation: irrelevant.
Just back from our India trip with 22 women, all ages. So who did the best? Not the youngest and not the oldest, but the ones with adequate fitness, a sense of adventure and the right pace. Don’t let your friends say you are too old to enjoy travel!
A few mini rules:
Don’t overload your carry on weight or risk back pain.
Find the perfect walking shoes and wear them no matter how ugly.…
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The 'get rid of travel anxiety' pill
A professor of psychology in California studied stress levels of people who watched excessive news reports about the Boston Marathon bombers. She compared their anxieties against those of people who were at the Marathon. Those who overdosed on news were much more stressed than those who attended the Marathon. The article where this study appeared is about the nation’s hysterical reaction to 2 cases of ebola on our shores.
If you want to live a normal but adventure filled life, don’t watch the news on television.…
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What is the best first solo trip?
Let’s face it, many readers of our blog and Facebook page do not actually travel solo, but are dreaming of doing it. Here is what we think is the best first trip and some guidelines to adapt to your mind set.
A single stay trip might be less work than a multi city tour. Our March 21-29 Tuscany luxury farmhouse trip is an example of an easy adjustment: staying in a beautiful farmhouse,with wifi, free laundry, snacks and drinks in the kitchen etc.…
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Nervous Nellies Read Here
A personal note from Phyllis Stoller. “My father started life as a traveling salesman. He started a business and worked a 24/7 schedule, before that was the thing to do. Of course, that meant rarely going on vacation and never taking trips. Well, he did play golf all the time. My mother outlived him by 15 years in good health and with financial security, thanks to Dad’s constant work schedule.
Here is what she told me in her very short list of life’s regrets: I wish I had traveled.…
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Phyllis Stoller Featured in Select Traveler
Marketing Women’s Travel
This article is in part from Select Traveler Magazine
Women’s travel offers comfort and camaraderie.by Marsha Mack Goberish
Published September 16, 2014
Women’s travel is a market rarely promoted by bank, alumni and chamber group travel planners. And that’s unfortunate, according to Phyllis Stoller, founder and president of The Women’s Travel Group.“Traveling with women is a comfortable way to travel for those 35-year-old women who are financially able,” Stoller said. “Traveling with women is a comfortable way to travel for the 50-year-old woman who has always wanted to do it and is ready to take the plunge.…
