What is your travel personality?
Fun · October 4, 2008
Take a 5 minute break with some funny personality quizzes. The Personality Test at 35,000 Feet What’s Your Travel Personality? What’s Your Travel Horoscope? How Worldly Are You? How Well Traveled Are You? Read More →
Tags: Fun
Hasn’t your bag made it to destination? A good complaint letter.
Your Stories · September 15, 2008
Below a real letter written by my former colleague Chris to American Airlines. It’s a very good example how to claim a reimbursement for a delayed or lost bag: keep all receipts of items you had to buy; take note of all calls made to the airline; write down all the facts; be firm and polite (no...
Tags: complains, lost bag, poor service
Moleskine City and Info Notebooks
Books-Guides, Travel Items · September 13, 2008
If you’re tired to record notes on the go in your mobile phone or PC (and then you do not remember anymore where is the note with the address of THAT restaurant in Dublin you’ve enjoyed a lot), you could reconsider a pen and paper to organize your own travel notes on the go. The trick here...
Tags: cities guides, Fun, moleskine, notebook
Holiday Inn Express paper towel :-(((
Hotels, Travel Resources · September 12, 2008
Yes, it’s true and my picture is a proof: UK Holiday Inn Express hotel provides face towel made by paper. The paper is not soft at all (like the Kleenex one), but the touch feeling is similar to the paper used in some hotels amenities kits to clean the shoes! You can get the feeling of the stiffness...
Tags: holiday inn, poor service
How to book a short-haul economy flight online
Guides and Tips, Trip Planning · September 10, 2008
There are thousands of online booking sites, but most use a very small number of the same global distribution systems (GDS = an international computer reservation system that accesses many databases of suppliers, airlines, etc in different countries, such as Amadeus, Sabre, Galileo). That is why you...
Tags: booking, Guides and Tips, search flight
When a travel agent gives you value
Guides and Tips, Trip Planning · September 9, 2008
Nowdays if you need to book a domestic flight or one across Europe flight without doing via your corporate travel agent, do-yourself-online is your choice. We share our best tips here. But there are kind of travels when the middle-man, old travel agent, will do much better than yourself: exactly the...
Tags: booking, Guides and Tips, IATA
Stop the reclining seat in front of you!
In flight Goodies, Travel Items · August 25, 2008
Protect your knees from being hit by reclining seat in front of you thanks to the Knee Defender! I’m very curious to know how many people check behind them before reclining their seat or, at least, provide some advance notice before reclining. According to the popularity of this device, very...
Tags: inflight goodies, shopping, travel goodies
Do you fancy to take a shower for 7000 euros?
Airlines, Industry news-data, Travel Resources · August 20, 2008
Emirates new A380 first class is amazing: fly from Dubai to NY and you’ll enjoy private suite, a lounge bar and, for the first time in aviation history, a shower. So next time you need to fly to NY, why don’t you consider a stop over in Dubai and board A380 first class - ticket is about 7000...
Tags: airline, emirates, first class
Air sickness bags
Fun · July 20, 2008
Barf bags, Airsickness bags, Waste bags, Vomit bags, Disposable bags, Happy bags (as named by planes’ crews) have their own estimators and collectors. “One can tell a lot about an airline’s image from their Air Sickness Bags. Some barf bags are no more than a baggie with a twist tie,...
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LHR T5 song
Fun · July 13, 2008
“It’s the bigger terminal we have never seen, it’s a big disaster you know what I mean” funny video with original song to celebrate T5. Enjoy! Read More →