Timely Travel Tips: General - Rule of Thumb
Here are some tips which might be helpful to you while you are packing your bags!
Travel light: This is the most important advice you can get about packing. Airlines have strict rules on the amount and size of both carry-on and checked baggage. Smaller and lighter bags are not only easier on your back, but are also easier to stow in the overhead compartments.
Use luggage with wheels: A suitcase with wheels, or a baggage caddy, will help make trips easier, especially if porters are not available.
Limit your luggage: Limit yourself to one suitcase and one carry-on bag. Baggage restrictions may vary from flight to flight, but a good rule of thumb is two bags per person.
Selecting clothes: Choose clothes that will coordinate around one or two colours, and packing will be made easier if you make a list ahead of time of things you plan to take with you on your trip.
Miniature toiletries: Prepare a kit of toiletries in small plastic bottles to save space and weight. Don't fill bottles to the top if you are flying because the pressure may cause the contents to expand.
Anticipate what you will buy at your destination: Include a collapsible nylon tote bag that will fit easily into your luggage to accommodate new purchases and other articles that always seem to expand on repacking!!
The trick to travelling is to become informed so that you may enjoy your journey to the fullest!
posted by Dixieland Cruisers at 9:28 PM
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Monday, January 28, 2008
Travel light: This is the most important advice you can get about packing. Airlines have strict rules on the amount and size of both carry-on and checked baggage. Smaller and lighter bags are not only easier on your back, but are also easier to stow in the overhead compartments.
Use luggage with wheels: A suitcase with wheels, or a baggage caddy, will help make trips easier, especially if porters are not available.
Limit your luggage: Limit yourself to one suitcase and one carry-on bag. Baggage restrictions may vary from flight to flight, but a good rule of thumb is two bags per person.
Selecting clothes: Choose clothes that will coordinate around one or two colours, and packing will be made easier if you make a list ahead of time of things you plan to take with you on your trip.
Miniature toiletries: Prepare a kit of toiletries in small plastic bottles to save space and weight. Don't fill bottles to the top if you are flying because the pressure may cause the contents to expand.
Anticipate what you will buy at your destination: Include a collapsible nylon tote bag that will fit easily into your luggage to accommodate new purchases and other articles that always seem to expand on repacking!!
The trick to travelling is to become informed so that you may enjoy your journey to the fullest!
Labels: pre-cruise
posted by Dixieland Cruisers at 9:28 PM
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Passports - GOT YOURS?
Doug and I went over the King/Lee holiday weekend and submitted info for our passports. Y'all will be surprised/intrigued to find our that we received them back in THREE (yes, that's the number 3) DAYS! So, Betty and John W., - we're both LEGAL now!!
On a serious note, we had taken at CVS the pictures necessary for the passport. Doug's were okay - mine were rejected. The Post Office on Wynton Blount Blvd retook my pictures at the same rate as CVS - and processed those new shots immediately!
This is the last year that birth certificates will be allowed as legal proof for cruises - so go get your passport....NOW!!
posted by Dixieland Cruisers at 10:26 AM
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
On a serious note, we had taken at CVS the pictures necessary for the passport. Doug's were okay - mine were rejected. The Post Office on Wynton Blount Blvd retook my pictures at the same rate as CVS - and processed those new shots immediately!
This is the last year that birth certificates will be allowed as legal proof for cruises - so go get your passport....NOW!!
Labels: pre-cruise
posted by Dixieland Cruisers at 10:26 AM
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City Guides to various attractions
In anticipation of our 2008 cruise and possible pre and/or post-cruise excursions Brenda has found the following links that will provide city guides.
New York City
St. Johns, New Brunswick
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Philadelphia
*Note the Philadelphia guide is totally online; the other three cities allow you to order a free paper guide sent to your home.
Enjoy
posted by Dixieland Cruisers at 9:03 AM
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New York City
St. Johns, New Brunswick
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Philadelphia
*Note the Philadelphia guide is totally online; the other three cities allow you to order a free paper guide sent to your home.
Enjoy
Labels: Excursion guides, post-cruise, pre-cruise
posted by Dixieland Cruisers at 9:03 AM
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