Aug
28
2022
What’s your foreign currency routine? How do you buy it, and do you convert it back to your home currency when you leave a country?
How to Get Rid of Foreign Currency Before You Come Home From an International Trip
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The Most Frustrating Thing About Each Travel Brand
Mar
03
2019
Here’s what I think if the most challenging thing with each of the largest airlines and hotel chains, a simple statement influenced by my idiosyncratic preferences — but I think they stand up:
Power When You Travel: Adapters, Converters, and Transformers, Which Do You Need?
Jan
20
2019
If you just need to power your phone and laptop, all you need is an adapter to plug it into the wall. A razor or electric toothbrush may work that way as well, you just want to know if your device is dual voltage.
If you need to use hair devices that operate on high heat you’re going to need a converter. You just need to know how many watts the device needs, and get a converter that supports materially higher wattage than that.
But if you’re using electronics that aren’t dual voltage you need a transformer. For travel you want the smallest one possible based on the wattage of your device — because 7 pounds works much better in checked luggage than 30 pounds or more!
Air Travel in Real Life Comedy Sketch
Jan
10
2018
Tripp and Tyler have a new ‘in real life’ video, along the lines of email in real life (4.2 million views) and every meeting ever (1.2 million views).
The conceit is that passengers are all in an SUV driving but the experience is portrayed just like a flight.
Travel and weirdos
Jul
22
2005
Tyler Cowen wonders whether airplanes make weird people seem less weird. More broadly, travel brings different types of people together and that kind of mixing tears down frames of reference that allow people to judge others weird. If his hypothesis is correct, he then wonders Does this mean that weird men are more likely to have foreign wives?
NBC News Coverage of Travel Pricing Errors
Apr
27
2005
Matt Lauer did a piece on the Today Show this morning (video clip) on the recent spate of travel pricing errors. He mentions the USAirways $1.98 fare, the $55 Fiji trip, and the Lanesborough Hotel pricing error. He manages to hit key questions like whether airlines and hotels have to honor pricing, what role the internet plays in disseminating mistakes, and whether lists and websites promoting the errors are monitored by travel companies in order to correct errors more quickly.The piece actually seems to be driving a bit of traffic to this website today. Mentioned in the interview are Flyertalk, FareAlert, and the New York Airfare Blog. Lots of people looking for similar sites are happening onto this one.
