Top 5 Tips for Stress-Free Holiday Travel
Now’s featured article comes from Carol Margolis, founder of smartwomentravelers.com . The holidays are stressful enough lacking adding travel stress to the mix. Including these simple to implement strategies, you will be boarding your flight including your bags of stress left behind! Craft holiday gifts ahead of time. Avoid purchasing fragile gift items. Pack your gifts among a few sweaters, and take them to UPS, Fedex or the Post Office for early shipping to your holiday destination. Including the airlines charging fees for all piece of luggage, the shipping charge is often less than the luggage fee. All of your shopping gets done early and safely shipped, so you can focus on just your packing. Hire a car service to and from the airport. When you figure out the costs of pouring yourself to the airport (petrol, tolls, parking charges), it is often not much more to hire a car service. It feels extremely luxurious to have a driver pick you up, load up your luggage, and give you a nice, smooth ride to the airport. It is even more special to have a driver ready and waiting for you when you return home, rather than schlepping your luggage back to the parking garage when you are suspicion a bit tired and cranky after a lingering journey. A tip for finding a car service: Call an upscale hotel virtually your home and question who they recommend for a tumble from the airport to their hotel. Delight in time at the airport. Yes, it is possible to really delight in your time spent at the airport. Get there a few hours previous to your scheduled flight time. Delight in a nice leisurely meal at a satiated-service restaurant including your family. This is much nicer than arriving in the nick of time, grabbing cellophane-wrapped sandwiches at a food stand, and falling into your airplane seats all stressed out. Pack your suitcase, then remove half the clothes. It is common for travelers, especially women, to overpack and bring clothes or shoes that end up never being worn. Most hotels have washers and dryers, and if you are staying including family, they usually do also. Family and friends want to see you, not you in uncommon clothes every single day. Chances are, you may be receiving new clothes for the holidays or shopping the after-Christmas sales, and you will need space in your luggage for the new items. Stick an unfilled fold-up bag into your suitcase for transporting gift items back home, a bag that is straightforwardly carried onboard including you on your flight home. Check your bag including satiated details included. Include your name and telephone digit on your luggage tag. Place a copy of your schedule (flight tidings, hotel name and address or family member’s telephone digit) inside your luggage in the event that your luggage tag gets lost. Use TSA-standard luggage mane or excellent ancient twist-ties to protect your luggage zippers together. Attach brightly-colored streamers to your luggage to identify your bag among the many bags appearance off the luggage carousel. Including these simple strategies, your travel will become a pleasant adventure instead of a stressful tumble. May the moral fiber of the holidays be including you! Carol Margolis is a water supply-traveled businesswoman, wife and mom who has collected countless pearls of travel wisdom over many years. She shares these pearls of wisdom by donation free tools, resources and strategies to travelers at SmartWomenTravelers.com and at her blog PearlsofTravelWisdom.com . She talked travel on the television show Fantastic Day Houston , is a well loved radio show guest and has contributed to USAToday.com , LATimes.com and numerous travel sites.
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