The mistakenness during traveling can occur in anyone, even to the most experience traveler. Fodors.com discussion forum participants share their experiences about what should and should not be done while in transit.
01. Carefully to read the date and time before making a flight booking. "I book a flight ticket to Peru, a journey that I dream in life. I can get a good price from the Delta, 808 U.S. dollars per person to go home from Washington. Three days after the pay, I new I was aware that I book tickets at the Sunday night and not at the Saturday night. The time midnight makes me dizzy. I call Delta, and ask that the time for can be changed. They tell us that changes that time will make us have to pay 500 dollars per person.
Tip: Sometimes, even though you have to check two to three times, you can still be wrong. Be adhere with the policy of the airline that has a cheap flights in changes the time and always be responsive to respond the changes in your flight.
02. Do not rage and check where you sit in the flight. "I have requested a place to sit on the side of the window on the flight from Saigon to Paris, and my ticket is issued with a boarding pass number 9C. Realizing" C "may be not the number on the side of the window, I go back and ask that the number changed. Late! I realize I have been in the previous upgrade to business class for a very long flight, and now I success to make the class down again. Women in the check in do not even say a few words, but I did not realize it wrong from the beginning.
03. Never delay a trip to a place that the values rate is down. "I think the biggest mistake ... is not visiting more often when the European exchange rate is good!"
04. Do not cancel your credit card associated with tickets booking. "I cancel my credit card because of sorts with its rate increases. Then I felt a new result. Hotel in Paris where we should live, cancel our reservation.
Tip: Make reservations for all flights, hotels, and cars with only one card only to reduce the number of cards used in your future travel plans. Print all booking beginning and make a note for card that you use to order.
05. Consider the weather / season when you visit a place. "I travel around the world after completing my studies. I very busy and not had time to do thorough research on my destination. The biggest surprise I met when I visited the Sidney, Australia, in August and realized it was their winter. I do not bring lots of stuff, only the clothes that fit in a sports bag. I had to use all my clothes to keep warm. I look like a store run when watching Evita in one of their beautiful theater that Broadway style.
07. Do not think that any hotel on the beach certainly good. "How many years ago I planned a holiday to the beach for my girlfriend and me, and book a hotel in the city center in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (without conducting previous). Oh my God! I lie in bed and cry. Fortunately, a good adjuvant there suggested that we move from it to Puerto Plata. He also helped us choose the right bus to get to the other island. "
Tip: Type the address of your hotel at the Google map to quickly check and see the relationship with your goals.
08. Always book a room for each night throughout your trip. "I must be very careful when ordering the hotel. More than once we do not have a place stay because I thought," Ok, we'll check out this hotel on the x and check in to the hotel is on the y "without aware that it is make us do not have a place on the night of the stay for the date x.
09. Do not ever think your hotel room rates will not change. "Years ago, in a trip to Bangalore, India, I stopped in Paris and lived in a comfortable room at the Tim hotel in Montparnasse. I have booked rooms at another hotel for my return but the location of the Tim hotel is very close to Airport, Moreover, they agree to store the extra bags that do not need in India so I decided to cancel my reservation at another hotel. A great mistake! I think they will give a same price to me (the price on the internet), and does not check again. In addition to get a bad room, they burden me nearly 100 euros for a large sports competition in Paris that night (I do not remember the event).
10. Always update your SIM. "I do not renew my driver's license at the time, and car rental places seem to only want to rent a car on the driver they have a permit! My new birth to 4 weeks ... and such a small detail that it is the last thing that I think ... until I declined!
11. Always carry a good map with you. "I'm so sure I'm heading to the bus ride in Honolulu. I ended in a narrow area of business in the other islands in the dark night. The driver says this is the end goal and laugh when I tickled him to deliver where indeed I go."
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How do you choose a hotel when you traveling? It is important to get cheap? Never underestimate your place of rest at the night, especially during a holiday or business trip. Here are some tips when choosing and stay at the hotel. Many people only need a few minutes to check a hotel room, the most often indication is only the most affordable price. Although price is a general consideration, remember that all the hotel rooms want to be seemed full and the manager will struggle to fill the rooms every night.
To get the best results, order room first through a travel agency and try flexible with the schedule. Hotel that target market of business usually have cheaper rates at the end of the weekend that they consider as the off season.
Contact travel agency, such as the bureau can understand your needs and expectations. They can choose the hotel based on the best service and comfort that is available, and proximity to the city center, airport, restaurants and various entertainment venues.
Reservation
While booking tickets online is an option, but recommended to book through a travel agency. If you choose to contact the hotel directly, but must also be ready with extra charges to pay for the phone. Many hotels have toll-free number which can be contacted. If no such number and you need to phone the hotel directly, you should phone the afternoon or at night because the morning is a busy time as the time the guests check out.
Once the room is available, documentation of all information about hotels and travel plans to be abandoned to a friend or neighbor in case of emergency situations.
If you reserve a hotel room through a travel agency, make a copy of the confirmation of the reservation that they give to you, which states clearly the information about the hotel and arrival date and the date you quit. Bring information about or print out the confirmation of the reservation e-mail when you check in to. Hotel can not deliberately enter the wrong information or reservation is not correct, it is very wise if you take all the files on the reservation to the guard.
Delays
Nothing is worse than driving all day and arrived at the hotel reservation only to discover you have used up or does not have a room available. Key that such experienced things like this is never happen is to know how long the tolerance for delay. Most of the hotel network will hold the reservation until the normal six-hour evening. For those who arrived more night reservation guarantee will be required to provide a credit card number. With the guarantee you will be safe, even for those who arrived after midnight, still warm bed awaits. The hotel reserves the right to cancel reservations that have not been guaranteed. If you are late, the phone to the hotel and ask them to hold your reservation until you arrive.
There is no room
Although do not get a room because of over-booking or a mistake in the reservation, no panic and lose the spirit. Many hotels will participate to help overcome the problem by giving a bid to stay in hotels that are still in a network with adjacent located. If your reservation is guaranteed that char, make sure that the quality of the rooms in the new hotel's are same or better, and you do not accrue additional charges. Hotels must also bear the transportation cost for you to get there. If these things are not, ask to speak to the manager or contact the bureau to ask for help.
Customer service: full of smile
As a valued customer, your satisfaction is very important. The hotel staff has been trained to work from time to time to meet your needs. However, problems may appear, such as a neighboring room which not cooperative. Thus, search the customer service at the hotel to get a quick solution. Phone to the travel agency is always a good for first step, so that they can talk with the hotel and know the way out of every problem. Although a defense and suggestions, travel agency can usually mitigate many difficult situations that can satisfy you and the hotel.
At the hotel, front desk staff trained to deal with problems without involving the manager. Then, submit your issue clearly and let them handle them. From toothbrushes to relocate the rusted room, font desk staff will offer a fast and direct. If your complaint outside of their coverage, request to meet with the manager politely. Managers more understand with the importance of customer loyalty and have the authority to offer discounts to guests at the time or for the future. If you do not have to do with the manager, contact the customer service department. Therefore, make sure you write the correct name of the person with whom you speak, dates of, and price issues faced.
Check in
The only problem when check in should happen only in the front counter at the time. With orders already made, the hotel want you to occupy the room as soon as possible. If all information has been confirmed, make sure that the price given is price indeed. Check the check in time and ask the usual questions about the specifics area and the services provided. Ask the hotel for a business card when you lose guard.
The things that you may need
Things that are needed depend on your needs, ask whether the hotel offers or provides the following:
Service laundry or board and iron in the room
Hair dryer
Voltage converters
Espresso machine, refrigerator or kitchen utensil in the room
Morning newspaper
Breakfast
Access to a fax machine, printer or photocopy, internet
Mini bar
Storage box in the room (in-room safe)
Cable television, movies or video games
Recreational facilities
Telephone access to outside
Adequate parking
Facility to pinch between the airport or to other places
Cot or mattress roll
Check out
Once completed stay, check out is the proper experience along no surprises, such as items left behind or extra charges. Check the room thoroughly before the exit, including drawers, toilet, bathroom, and especially behind the shower curtains and doors behind bathroom.
Many hotels have vary specify in giving time check out between 11:00 to 14:00. If you need to ask for additional time ask at the beginning or you will be charged one additional night. Check the bill to ensure all costs accurately, and you receive a reasonable discount. Ask for a receipt whiles you having transaction.
Tip
Each city or region or country has a different culture or customs for giving the tip, as well as much of the tip. In the United States, for example, tip the doorman for a taxi reach 1-2 dollars, a number so large if the doorman a taxi stops in bad weather. Okay just mentioned who need to be given tip. In addition to the doorman is a needed to be given tip are housekeeping staff, room service, porter or bellhop, valet, and the place of care (concierge).
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Bring clothes with one or two basic colors. This will reduce the number of shoes and accessories that you need to take. Take a few clothes as possible. Plan time to wash. Some suggest bringing enough clothes for a week. Better if less is more unless the clothing is silk that can be washed. Use it and take a silk dress that can be washed whenever possible. This material as warm and as cool as cotton, can be dried overnight, and cut a 10-15 place that can meet accommodate two of jeans. There are also other materials that are suitable for traveling, but it costs a little more expensive. Raincoat plastic can be used as a bathing suit or body protector from the cold wind.
Bring clothes that are old enough which can be thrown in the street. This is suitable for children in infancy. In many places, local people will be happy to get this dress. However, not only for children, many rovers, which only bring clothing, old clothes, making it possible for them to bring home more souvenirs.
Jeans should not be taken because of need time to dry. If the time and cost of washing is an important issue, take more lightweight trousers. In addition, jeans generally absorb about temperature, while cold in the evening or on the mountain so you can be cold and blazing shine sun time you may be suffering.
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Tanjung Benoa in fact has a unique charm. In the middle of the sea in this coastal area, have been blessings. Tanjung Benoa is located in the end of southeast the Bali Island and be neighbors with the Nusa Dua area. It can be reached in 35 minutes from Kuta, 40 minutes from Sanur and 20 minutes from Ngurah Rai Airport. Tanjung Benoa is a very suitable place for water sport activities. The calm of beach make this area very different from Kuta, Sanur or Uluwatu so this beach is the only place for the game. Water sports can be enjoyed here such as jetski, parasailing, banana boating, scuba diving, snorkeling, glass bottom plus visits to the Turtle Island and flying fish. Activity usually begins in the morning until about 8 hours with a 12-hour, because after that the water will subside and you can not enjoy the games again because the boat can not be used. The experienced instructors will provide assurance of safety and comfort while you enjoy the game here.
JET SKI
JET SKI is a game which use vehicle on beaches, such as a motorcycle. If you want to drive jet ski here, you must be accompanied by instructors. So, you can not drive jetski alone, as in the Tanjung Benoa beach there are lots of boats and other Water sport activities, so the collision can be avoided. Do not worry, the instructor, only drive from the edge toward the beach to the sea, after that, it is you turn to drive, the instructor lift. Game time is 15 minutes. If you want to excite in driving, try a lunge waves you have .then you will feel the sensation how exciting driving this jet ski.
PARASAILING
Parasailing is a game where you will be wearing a parachute and sky diving by speed boat around Tanjung Benoa beach resort. So just like true sky diving. It will take a time about 4 minutes round in the air. Strap altitude which connecting between the parachute and speed boat is approximately 80 meters. This make sure that the game is very challenging and full of fun.
BANANA BOAT
Banana Boat is using a sole rubber boat. You will be attracted by speed boat around the coast within 15 minutes. Banana boat cargo capacity is maximal 4 people plus 1 person as assistant instructors. You can ask to get into water during the boat run, or if you do not want get wet. Ask a normal run. But it will be less exciting in banana boat without getting wet.
SCUBA DIVING
Scuba diving is the dive tourism. You will be given complete diving equipment, ranging from clothes, oxygen tanks, etc. Diving should not be swimming, It will be better if you can not swim, because it will more easily. One tourist will accompany by an instructor under the water, so do not worry. Previously, you will be brief preview how does that sound correct. The depth ranges for beginners between 3 meters - 7 meters in the water for 40 minutes. While bringing bread for food fish, you will see the beautiful scenery under the sea, decorative by a beautiful coral reefs and colorful of fish there.
GLASS BOTTOM BOAT AND TURTLE ISLAND
Glass bottom boat and turtle island tourism is the most suitable if you do bring your small children. With a boat that has a clear glass underneath, you'll be sailing down to see beautiful scenery in the Tanjung Benoa beach. While the bread cast from the boat, the amount of hundreds and colorful fish will rise and chase the food. Similarly scenic Coral Sea does well. After satisfied to see the scenery, the boat will cruise to the turtle island to see the location of turtle raising, once of rare animals in the world. Here you will see turtle’s eggs, small turtle; adolescent’s turtle up until to the adult turtle is ready to become a parent. Type of turtle is not only one, but there are several types. In addition, at this location there are also other animals such as birds, bats, snakes, etc. They very tame, so you can hold for taking picture. This activity takes about 1 jam.
FLYING FISH
Flying fish is a new game in Bali. 3 fruit banana boat made with a rubber boat to cross in front of it and have such a wing on the right and left side. Flying Fish is played by 3 people max that is 2 people passengers on the left and right, and 1 person instructor in the middle. The position, you can stand as drive a motorcycle or supine sleeping. Flying Fish will be attracted by speed boat with a high-speed line against the wind. Thus, the flying fish will fly over the water about 2 meters or more depending on wind speeds. Exactly as kites. For the playful challenge, do not try to skip for this game. Certainly exciting!
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Do you often go to the various regions and stay at hotel? You may feel bored quickly if lived in the hotel's standard, even though many of features available. Yes many good hotel out there, but may not will as unique as the hotels that have below. Here we recommend for you to try this hotel if you have a time to travel to one of this city:
1. Jumbo Hotel (Stockholm)
Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet is almost destroyed before the end is saved into the hotel with the capacity 25 rooms, and was founded in Arlanda, Stockholm airport,. Each room can reach more than 12 meters square wide, complete with a level bedroom, hanging cupboard, and flat TV screen.
In ‘this jumbo jet’s, there is a cafe and a reception area with toilet and bath (which means you have to share a bathroom or small room). Level deck contains two conference rooms, while the aircraft cockpit is changed into the room. Indeed, the room is not as comfort as a 5-star hotel room, but at least the experience will be so amazing!
2. Everland (Paris)
This hotel only has one room, complete with bathroom, large bed and sitting room. The difference is this hotel as well as installation art, and the hotel is moving. Everland has' parking at extremes places, such as on the top of deck in Museum of Contemporary Art in Leipzig, Germany, or on the roof of Palais de Tokyo, Paris (with Eiffel tower. Room rates also 'not' even, 333 Euro (about 700 thousand rupiah) for the night on weekdays, and 444 Euro (about 900 thousand rupiah) at the end of the week!
3. Hotel de Glace (Canada)
This one floor unique Hotel is always re-built every year since the year 2000. 9season this Ice Hotel started on 4 January 2009 until 29 March 2009. The hotel is very popular in winter and unbeatable. To build the hotel, it required 500 tons of ice, 150,000 tons of snow. Ceiling height of the hotel is reached 6 meters with each span wall decorated by goods of art and the furniture made from blocks of Ice.
4. Waterworld Hotel (China)
Atkin's Architecture Group won first prize for international design competition on this brilliant idea. This place is designed in the stone quarry in Songjiang, China. Hotel with 400 rooms is created with this very unique, with additional rooms and some public places such as under water cafe, restaurants and sports facilities which make this place more unique!
5. Silvergruva Sala (Sweden)
Imagine you are in the room, in the depth of 155 meters! Under the Land! This place is used to show the largest and one of mine that is still natural and untouched. During at the gold period, this mine can produce 3 tons of silver per year, and total it have contributed to 400 tons of silver plus another 40,000 tons of cargo loaded only with the hands!
So if you suddenly have to the bathroom in the middle of the night, make sure you memorize and remember the way you through, if not, you can lose, and suddenly out on the wrong road.
6. Capsule Hotel (Netherlands)
Your personal capsule savior! This savior capsule is parked in The Hague, and to be your room. This capsule is actually the savior capsule in the tower of oil drilling, built in 1972. Diameter of this room is 4.25 meters and the changes is only added a padlock and additional 'emergency' toilet in the capsule. It is not luxurious, but at least you will be protected from the weather in this capsule.
First operated as an art project in 2004, Denis Oudendijk, owner of the hotel has a type 8 capsule is ready for use and is in the process of adding a location in a few cities such as Amsterdam and Nantes, France
7. The De Vrouwe van Stavoren Hotel (Netherlands)
The hotel is made from wine barrel from Switzerland, which is then converted into hotel rooms. This barrel was filled with 14,500 liters of Beaujolais wines, which can now be made to accommodate two people with standard equipment, plus a bathroom and sitting area.
If you are not a wine drinker, the smell of wine may have will interrupt, but if you are a wine drinker, perhaps this hotel is the hotel you want!
8. Giraffe Manor (Kenya)
Small and exclusive hotel, with 140 are natural forest, is located exactly on the outside of Nairobi, and the hotel is famous because of their domestic groups of giraffe. This hotel is the only place where you can enjoy exercise and feed the giraffe photographs from near, from your dining table! Even sometimes you will be greeted by giraffe to your room! Not only giraffe, the hotel is also filled with various birds, and even some types of deer!
9. Das Park Hotel (Austria)
The price of the Hotel room is the cheapest, just imagine, this hotel is built from concrete pipe! Section 9.5 ton pipe as weight as the standard pipe used as a urban channel waste. With the improvements here and there, eventually becoming a room with a mattress that is comfortable, even the mini bar room service until 1 pm. Reception is available 24 hours a day and you will be ready to enjoy a comfortable night with an easy price!
10. Hotel Im Wasserturm (Germany)
High-rise buildings in the city of Cologne is the first water tower in 19th century Europe. At 1990, Andree Putman, a French home designer, change the water tower into a hotel with 78 elegant rooms.
The hotel is regarded as a monument hotel, and for his extraordinary efforts, with the view without changing the existing water tower, the hotel received the award.
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