Travel Tips Blog and Statistics
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Five dangerous things women leave in wallets
Traveling with a full wallet is pretty dumb.
Over and over we see women at The Women’s Travel Group open their wallet bursting with papers and pictures. Here are 5 dangerous items solo women travelers should remove from their wallets:
1- Medicare or other with a SS number on it and that includes your and your husband’s medical cards. If necessary photocopy it and cut off the last four digits.
2- Credit cards for stores that do not even exist were solo women are traveling.… -
How to Choose A Women's Trip in 10 Minutes
Tips to Choose a Trip in Ten Minutes. Designed for the impulsive buyer of travel Not recommended, but if you are going to blitz the info, do it with some structure from us. We are noticing more travelers are too busy to really do their homework so we created this “quick and dirty” list to help out.
1. Make sure the people in the materials look like you!
2. Small print averse? at least read cancellation penalties.
3. Hotel quality: google the hotel used in the capital city on the itinerary for a general flavor.… -
Morocco books and trips
This book merits a blog post. Besides the scenery from films like Lawrence of Arabia, filmed in Morocco There is one weird and wonderful book to read. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles.
Morocco sits on the doorstep of Europe, West Africa and the Atlantic route to the Americas. It’s position and natural scenery make it exotic yet close to North American shores. Morocco is the perfect first travel experience to a non-European area. We say this because while scenery and sites are exotic, language is French, roads modern, souks welcoming and bursting with bargains, and hotels/food to our standards.…
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Solo Women are majority of Christmas Travelers
Why do we travel over Christmas? Some of us have far away from families. Some women can only take school system holidays. Some do not celebrate Christmas at all.
Some are tired of doing all the cooking and work!
More and more solo Christmas travelers are women. So here are tips to choose the right trip to escape from it all.
Someplace different from your country avoiding the tacky reminder of red and green decorations.
Where you can go to services if you are religious or just won’t experience in a foreign country.… -
Women are still scared of hotel showers!
I still hesitate when pulling that hotel shower curtain across my face. Despite the fact that Psycho was filmed over 40 years ago,the knifing in the shower scene still terrifies me.
More than men, women need extra assurance to feel comfortable in a hotel room alone. Women more than men have difficulty sleeping away from home which is a factor. Here are a few small ways to settle into your room. Our company arranges shares for anyone who wants to avoid the single supplement.…
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Womens' travel statistics and review sites.
Statistically women do more research than men for choices on travel. But research is hard to find for more exotic travel. So after reading the brochures (If any), women will go behind the scenes to get the ‘skinny’.
Where do we go? We use review sites. Love them or hate them, statistically review sites are used by women more than men. We rely on Tripadvisor,Yelp, Chowhound, Trivago, Hotels.com and others.
Women know how to filter out whinny women- a necessary evil-, so we are experts in filtering out whinny reviews.…
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New Health Plans and Overseas Travel?
Medicare does not cover Americans overseas so I contacted the new government site for the Oct. 1 launch of federal health care. This is what I got from the Live Chat on the federal site? And I do believe in national health care options….With an answer like this, I’ll still buy Travelguard for myself and recommend it to you when you travel!
Upcoming India and Morocco tours have $Solo $Savings for solo travelers and travel insurance from Travelguard is still available.…
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A new travel phrase: Solo Savings $$
After deciding to offer guaranteed shares on our trips, we heard,hat too many women ask what that means. It means you get a room share if you ask for one. And, if there is no share available, you get a room as a single with no supplement to pay.
So rather than keep explaining our new money savings policy for solo women travelers. We are going to call it Solo Savings or $Solo $Savings. We specialize in offering exotic travel and many of us prefer to use the cash to shop in bargain places like India or Morocco.…
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Travel Smart: Be Prepared Health-Wise
Travel Smart: Be Prepared for Illnesses, Injuries and Variable Weather | HealthyWomen. Phyllis Stoller from The Women’s Travel Group is an expert on issues that effect women on the road. This is one in a series of articles for Healthywomen.org
Upcoming tours to India and Morocco have a roomshare guarantee for solo women travelers who wish to avoid paying the single supplement.…
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Kenya Crisis
For one who always has advice, this tradegy was hard to foresee. All of my normal hunts would have come up with nothing: local English speaking papers? overseas pundits from the UK, Australian, Canadian foreign ministries did not issue ‘do not go’ warnings. Not even the fact that an Israeli shop was in this mall means it would be targeted.
From what I have read this was an extension of Somali warfare and turf battles. It might be partially due to the fact that the Kenyan army is involved in trying to stabilize chaos and guerilla blackmail in Somalia?…
