Share Your Own Tips!
With all the great feedback we’ve received on our Travel Tips of the Day, we’ve seen a lot of really great tips submitted by you—our readers. All great travel wisdom deserves to be shared (that’s why I started this site in the first place), so starting a week from today, we’ll be featuring a reader-submitted tip as our Travel Tip of the Day every Friday!
To share your own tip, send it in an email to whitney@johnnyjet.com. Simple as that!
To kick things off, here’s a little piece of wisdom from reader M. Miller, who noted that when checking a bag, you should “ALWAYS” check your luggage claim tag to make sure that there isn’t a mistake—and your bag isn’t tagged to the wrong final destination!
With so many places to go these days, and so many different ways to travel, it’s more important than ever to pay your travel wisdom forward (travel is all about learning, in the end). So please, share away, and help make travel just a little bit easier for someone else!
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How do you choose your people to write a column about their travels? Some are interesting — others – not so much. I’d like to contribute\
They are usually folks in the travel industry who travel a lot. How much do you fly a year or how many countries have you been to?
Remember that bus or rental car shuttle driver that put your luggage in/out and gave you a speech on the sights along the route with multiple stops to the hotel/airport? Plus he got you there during local rush hour safely. Although you are in a rush to check-in, thank him with a couple of dollars so he feels appreciated.
I came to this page because of your link requesting using the tip of checking luggage tags before leaving the ticket counter. There is no specific place to comment on your guest tip of the week.
I discovered this tip years ago and continued to practice after my baggage tags neglected to include the second portion of my flight that day. So it stayed in the intermediate city until the airline went looking for it. This is a modern corollary to the 16th century proverb ‘A stitch in time saves 9’.
This area works. Thanks for the feedback
Make yourself known to the hotel prior to your arrival. A hotel can welcome several arrivals on one day, that’s plenty of rooms to assign on a daily basis! How do you differentiate yourself from the rest, and get what you truly deserve and want ?
Our Tip – Make yourself known, send the hotel an email and introduce yourself.
Content Tips :
– Your arrival time, will help getting your room ready.
– If you have been their guest before, mention it.
– If reading trip advisor comments helped in your decision of choosing the hotel, mention it.
– If you are celebrating an occasion, go ahead and let them know.
– Items that you would like to have in your room
– Ask about their internet service
And the list can go on and on
By all means, this does not necessary mean you will get a free upgrade, but you definitely stand a better chance on getting the best room for the day ( especially if a hotel is looking at high occupancies on the day)
Stand out from the crowd and get what you want.
Here are some of my tips:
– Being loyal has it’s advantages! You can get spa discounts or free WiFi
– Dont book from large reservation portals as they may up-charge you. Try booking trough http://www.reservationcounter.com/
-Try out the free app Hotel Quickly!
– Collect Points! You can get a 700$ room for around 100$ so it is worth it!
I hope this helps :)
About your lost driver’s license, so sorry for what you had to go through and the expense! That happened to my boss while traveling and it delayed her return trip home. She remembered using it to check in for her flight out and sticking it in her jacket pocket. It fell out somewhere and trying to check in for the return flight was when she discovered it was missing.
Thankfully, it has never happened to me, but the lesson I learned from her experience was to use your passport at the airport to check-in, even if you are traveling domestically. The passport is bigger and heavier, easier to find in your bag, and you have a better chance of hearing/feeling it hit the floor than you would if you dropped your DL. If you put your passport in a pocket you are more likely to feel it and find it easier. So far, so good!
Thanks for the tip!
Pain in the ears while flying is caused by lower pressure at higher altitude. The equalization of pressure on the eardrum is via the eustachion tubes which drains the space behind the eardrum into the throat. A cold or allergies causes mucous to clog the eustachion tubes. Using the 3 methods mentioned can force mucous farther toward the eardrum and cause more problems (and inner ear infections). I have found that doing the opposite by sucking while holding the nose will draw the mucous out of the tubes and better equalizing the pressure which needs to be lowered not increased.
Pain in the ears while flying is caused by lower pressure at higher altitude. The equalization of pressure on the eardrum is via the eustachion tubes which drains the space behind the eardrum into the throat. A cold or allergies causes mucous to clog the eustachion tubes. Using the 3 methods mentioned can force mucous farther toward the eardrum and cause more problems (and inner ear infections). I have found that doing the opposite by sucking while holding the nose will draw the mucous out of the tubes and better equalizing the pressure which needs to be lowered not increased. Chewing gum (an old tried and true method) exercises the muscles that help cause drainage as well.
Jet recommends AAA for travel discounts, but when we booked with AAA, the price turned out to be 30% more than if we had made our own hotel reservations. Since we followed his recommendations, we would like to get a $300 refund from him. The hotel was Miyako Hotel in Los Angeles on 1st Street for September 19 to 22.
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Your readers should try to avoid Avis Rental Car’s roadside assistance service if at all possible. I recently had a month-long rental and needed a jump start one morning. I could have asked a neighbor or used my own car insurance roadside assistance, but I saw on the Avis folder that “all rentals include roadside assistance,” or words to that effect, WITHOUT noting that the renter would be responsible for any charges. I ended up being charged $218 for the jump start, and numerous emails to Avis complaining did absolutely no good.