Look for Companies That Match You with a Roommate Traveling with a companion is the surest way to save money when you’re on your own because you can split costs and pay no single supplement. The outfits that promote themselves as “singles” agencies or tour operators actually sell conventional PPDO tours and cruises. They simply combine single applicants into couples or groups for travel. Some give you a modest amount of selection (age, interests, and such), but you’re pretty much at the agency’s mercy as to the individual with whom you travel. Among those agencies are Singles Travel International and Women Traveling Together. … [Read more...] about Solo Travelers: Avoid the Single Supplement
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Travel: The ten most Instagram-worthy Scottish sights
Since the arrival of Tian Tian and Yang Guang, panda fever has hit at this already popular visitor attraction – and that’s before you even consider the famous penguin parade, cute koalas and comical chimps. Plenty of picture material here. … [Read more...] about Travel: The ten most Instagram-worthy Scottish sights
Travel calendar: where to go in November
ESCAPE THE CROWDSColorado (Aspen, Vail, Telluride et al) open up to winter sports fans, with wallet-friendly rooms. In Europe, aim for snow-sure glacier-fed resorts with longer seasons, such as Val Thoren in France – the highest resort on the continent. The Med has latter-day blue skies the further south you go: aim for Andalucia, the Balearics or Turkey to eke out glimmers of sunshine. … [Read more...] about Travel calendar: where to go in November
The Ultimate Holiday Travel Survival Guide
9 Things to Pack for Unpredictable Fall Weather: Because it can still be unseasonably warm (or cold) for Thanksgiving and Christmas. … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Holiday Travel Survival Guide
10 Ways that Travel Permanently Changed Me
1. I always try to kiss people. After spending a lot of time in kiss-heavy countries like France, Spain, Argentina and Chile, it feels really normal to kiss others when I greet them. In fact it actually feels cold not to. So when I’m at, let’s say, a dinner party in MICHIGAN, I instinctively rush to kiss people on the cheek- which needless to say, really freaks out most Americans. … [Read more...] about 10 Ways that Travel Permanently Changed Me
