Have you ever checked a round trip airfare to a small remote destination on one of the major airlines? We’ve often seen the price of a flight double by simply adding a small hop which could easily be done with a local flight for a great price with lots of availability.
While visiting New York City in January may seem like a strange idea of fun, we booked an extended weekend to be here for the popular New York Travel & Adventure Show. It was also a great excuse to come to this wonderful city to enjoy some great food and take in a Broadway show. […]
We often use Google Flights to check for availability and cost of airfares. And recently we were surprised to see that some of the options presented were actually connecting to a train using Lufthansa Rail&Fly. Upon further reading, it looks like some US airlines are also incorporating bus routes combined with air travel
This travel tip is a reminder to stay grateful and to make lemonade when dealt a few lemons on our travels. On a recent trip to Rhode Island, we were dealt a few lemons to say the least. First, while we had opted for an early afternoon arrival to make our leisurely 2-hour drive from […]
Thankfully this is no longer required to visit Canada. After a long 20-month hiatus, we finally had the chance to go to Canada and see our families! This was our first international trip since the start of the pandemic and to get there we had to jump through a few hoops. But being able to […]
With most of us on extended travel hiatuses, we are probably quite excited and enthusiastic about an eventual return to travel. It’s hard to imagine that almost 18 months has already gone by, and it seems we may have to cope with pandemic related rules for a long time to come. This month’s travel tip […]
Thankfully this is no longer required to visit the USVI. We just got back from a fabulous scuba diving vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was wonderful and well worth jumping through hoops to get there. When we booked, it sounded simple enough. All we needed to do was to take a covid test […]
While we wish everything would go smoothly, it is inevitable that if we travel a lot, we will have some issues at one point in time. Best to be prepared with the appropriate insurance which minimizes the impact to your holiday and takes the sting out of any personal liability or unexpected surprise costs. Foreign […]
Even if this isn’t the best time to travel it’s important to keep your dreams alive! I look forward to taking my next trip and most importantly I need to have something to look forward to. This is why I’m actively looking at travel destinations and planning post-pandemic trips. It helps keep me sane and […]
Let’s face it, an airport terminal or a gate look pretty similar in London, Paris, or your local airport. Why just hang out when you have a longer layover? In most cases with a little research you can put together a short interesting itinerary that can be infinitely more fun than counting passengers at a […]