News and notes from around the interweb:
- 20-minute cleaning routine [this woman] does in EVERY hotel that includes checking for bed bugs with a BLUE LIGHT too many hotel stays I find rooms that simply aren’t clean, and what’s left behind is gross.
@operation_niki You know ya girl has issues w/ strangers bodily fluids 🤢… can’t take no chances! I’m cleaning everytime! 😅 #clean #cleantok #hotelclean #hotelcleaning #cleanwithme #cleaningmotivation #cleaningtips #cleaninghacks #organization #organized #momtok ♬ vlog, chill out, calm daily life(1370843) - While we’re on the subject of travel conferences, The Travel Summit in Toronto is being held April 26-28, 2024. Air Canada Senior Vice President Mark Nasr came to speak to the group last year.
- Thanks to a tunnel closure, travelers to and from Boston Logan airport are being advised to give themselves two extra hours of drive time through August 31.
For the past year, the tunnel has already been closed down on most weekends as the repair work began, and residents say the shakeup to the traffic pattern has been noticeable. It will be compounded by the full closure that will run from July 5 through August 31.
There will be detours posted during the closures, and it’s expected that most cars will re-route to the Ted Williams Tunnel and the Tobin Bridge. Drivers should expect significant delays – around 39,000 cars travel through the tunnel daily, including traffic from Logan Airport.
The Massachusetts Port Authority is warning drivers who plan to come to Logan between July 5 and August 31 to give themselves an extra two hours of drive time with the expected increased congestion.
- Take a photo of your gas gauge and gas receipt before returning your rental car
- Why are European hotel beds to bad? (WaPo) I think it’s too easy to excuse it as cultural differences. Where do those differences come from? European expectations are lower because Europe is poor. Related topic is why such low quality toilet paper in Europe. It is not because of environmental sensitivity..
- Alternate take: mother decides boarding early is worth incurring physical injury, instead of waiting until later in the boarding process to board together as a family.
@SouthwestAir how awful are you that you wouldn’t let a grandmother board with her daughter and two kids to help her. Instead, me as the mom carried two strollers, two kids and bags and this happened. Unsupportive of moms. You are disgusting. pic.twitter.com/P4VOPGqODp
— Ashley (@Ashley61845787) June 23, 2023
Sounds like Ashley should be mad at her mother for not helping her, not Southwest. Also, don’t families with small children get early boarding on Southwest?
Conversely…I’ve spent hundreds of nights in hotels and none of the nasty stuff I have seen has killed me yet, so I’m kind of over it. The feeling of someone else’s nail clippings under my toes is the worst…but I am still here.
Similarly, I sort of get a kick out of the people who meticulously wipe down their airline seat from top to bottom during boarding. I get it conceptually, but it’s honestly just a drop in the bucket of the losing battle against germs when traveling…
Wonder who helps Karen, errr, Ashley, to get her 2 kids in and out of the car or at the market or Walmart.
Perpetual victim.
Yes the toilet paper in Europe is not the same as in US. Rough and stiff.
We took our own on the past trip.