Articles tagged with "Travel Tips"
A long sector is harder with age mostly because of immobility, dry air and disrupted sleep, not the hours. All three respond to decisions made at booking.
A sightseeing day that reads as pleasant can involve six miles on stone and two hours of standing. Pacing it is about deciding in advance where the sitting happens.
"Accessible" is not a standard. It is a word a hotel applies to itself, and abroad there is frequently no code behind it. Ask for measurements and photographs instead.
A wheelchair is not luggage, and the regulation says so: ordinary baggage liability limits do not apply, and damage is presumed to be the carrier's fault.
A wheelchair to the gate is one service among several. The useful questions are who is obliged to provide it, where a U.S. rule stops applying, and what the terminal can physically do.
Airport wheelchair assistance on a covered flight is a required service, not a courtesy, and the regulation is specific about what it includes and how long you may be left waiting.
Most advice for older travelers is really advice about stamina, medication and insurance. Age itself is not the variable; how far you can walk and what your policy covers are.
Moving twenty people is not moving one person twenty times. Everything is decided by the slowest member and the largest constraint, and it is mostly solved before departure.
Ferries barely appear in travel writing and appear constantly in real itineraries. The State Department publishes maritime information for two thirds of the destinations it covers.
A domestic flight inside another country is not a smaller version of the international one you arrived on: tighter baggage, different identification, sometimes a different airport.