Friday, May 11, 2012

Travel Tips That Will Make Your World Go Round

By Lawrence Apricot


A collection of tips on how to begin traveling smarter and safer makes the perfect starting point for a beginner to begin planning their own trips a bit easier. Below is just such a collection that will hopefully assist the eager novice into eventually becoming a pro when it comes to traveling.

Shop around for the best deal. Often, a shift in a day or two from your departure or return can amount to a significant savings of several hundred dollars in your transportation cost. Many websites can check this automatically for you. As a general rule, if you can avoid travelling on Fridays or Sundays, you will save a pile of money.

It might be a good idea to pack a small bag of goldfish or bring a little toy from a fast food restaurant on a flight with you. Even if you don't have children, there may be some desperate parent that will be so grateful to you for your gift.

For the most part, don't bother with the duty free shops. They can be great places to kill some time browsing some books or checking out the latest fragrances by celebrities, but the products are usually very expensive. Don't waste your money buying that box of high-end chocolates in the duty free shop because you will be able to find it elsewhere cheaper.

Before leaving on a trip, find out and write down the addresses of the American embassies in the countries you'll be visiting. While the embassy is not a traveler's aid office, they can help you if your passport is stolen or if you find yourself in some kind of unexpected legal trouble while overseas.

Keep a photo journal of a beloved stuffed animal When traveling with kids, make great memories and an awesome souvenir by taking pictures of your child and the stuffed animal doing fun things throughout the trip. At home, you can collect all the pictures and make them into a photo adventure book to remember your trip.

Bring your own snacks to eat during a flight. Sure the airline will offer you some snacks and refreshments but they will likely charge you and arm and a leg for them. If you bring your own you know you will like what you have and you will not get overcharged for it.

Well, hopefully this collection of tips were enough to give you a great start on what to do when it comes to taking and planing trips. This collection was carefully constructed to help you begin learning how to plan and take a trip, much smarter and safer that you did before.




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