Archive for Category: "Know Before You Go"
Know Before You Go: 5 Money-Saving Secrets for Summer Travel
We’re headed into the peak summer travel season, but you don’t have to pay a high-season premium. The secret to saving money on the road is to Know Before You Go. As we put the finishing touches on our new summer travel video, we’re offering one more 360 guide to summer travel savings with the [...]
Know Before You Go: The Top 5 Airport Travel Secrets
We’re headed into the peak summer travel season, but you can beat the crowds. The secret is to Know Before You Go. This week, we’re trying something a bit different. We’re offering a 360 guide to surviving the summer airport crowds with the top five airport tips from Alyssa Caverley’s Know Before You travel series. [...]
Know Before You Go: How to Plan a Road Trip
Road-trip season is almost here, but proper preparation is the key part of any driving vacation. It might be fun to jump in the car and hit the open road, but that fun will come to a screeching halt a few hours later when you’re hungry, sleepy and bleary-eyed. Setting up an itinerary that mixes [...]
Know Before You Go: How to Speed through Airport Security
This summer, one of the effects of the sequester may be long delays at airport security. If you’re not one of those lucky travelers who has priority status or TSA PreCheck (click here for all the airport offering PreCheck) and breeze through security lines, you have to slum it like the rest of us. Getting [...]
Know Before You Go: How to Dress in the Middle East
Does traveling to the Middle East as a woman mean wearing a burqa (or an abaya)? Not necessarily. In the Middle East, following dressing etiquette can be essential to your travel experience. But the customs and rules vary from country to country. For example, Saudi Arabia employs very strict dress code standards for both tourists [...]
Know Before You Go: How to Behave When You Fly
When it comes to air travel, we’re all in it together. And one bad traveler can ruin a flight for everyone. Bad travel etiquette can be as noticeable as loud conversations and smelly food. Or it can be more subtle behaviors like armrest hogging or untimely bathroom visits. Gandhi said, “be the change you want [...]
Know Before You Go: How to Choose the Right Hotel
A hotel might look great online, but in real life it’s another story. Beyond the obvious problems like outdated features or poor location, there are also a few safety concerns that smart travelers should keep in mind. Away from home, hotel theft and other dangers do exist. Travel Correspondent Alyssa Caverley highlights the right questions [...]
Know Before You Go: How to Cruise Safely
There’s no question the cruise industry is having a rough couple months, especially Carnival Cruises. But it’s not worth abandoning cruising based on a few isolated incidents. Let’s talk about the facts and not about fear. Cruising remains an incredibly safe operation. In 2011, 20 million global passengers took a cruise. Outside the Costa Concordia in [...]
