Travel Tips
Here are some helpful travel tips and links to make traveling a better experience.
If you know of any great sites we should include, please send us a link.
Have a question about airline luggage rules, fees, or seating options?
- Carry-On Size Rules – from Travel Made Simple
- Worldwide Baggage Fee Chart – from FareCompare
- Airline Seat Maps & Reviews – from SeatGuru
Sites for getting deals on flights, hotels, and more!
- Farecompare.com
- Skyscanner.com
- Kayak.com
- Priceline.com
- Orbitz.com
- Hipmunk.com
- Skiplagged.com
- Upside.com delivers a better business trip with 24/7 live support, gift card rewards with every trip, and great package savings on flights, hotel, and more. Get $100 in gift cards when you book your first trip of $600+ through this link.
- NeoTripper – Trip planner for any kind of trip
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Tips for saving money on airfare, hotels, and other travel expenses.
- The Points Guy – Maximize Your Travel Points
- Money-Saving Travel Tips from the Travel Channel
- Travel & Leisure Magazine: 9 Money Saving Travel Tips
- 26 Secrets to Save on Travel from Kiplinger
- Travel Bloggers Share Their Money Saving Tips
- 8 Travel Credit Card Tips to Maximize Reward
NerdWallet – Best Travel Credit Cards - 9 Best Insider Tricks to Help You Travel Super Cheap – CNBC
These sites have TONS of useful travel advice on almost anything you can think of:
- The Travel Detective with Peter Greenberg
- Travel Tips From Rick Steves
- Forbes 10 Expert Tips for Business & Leisure Travel
- Smarter Travel
- Lonely Planet
- TripBuzz
- Fodor’s Travel
- Budget Travel
- USA Today Travel
- Huffington Post Travel
- TravelSkills
- Johnny Jet Travel Tips
- Jet Lag Advisor from British Airways
- Smart Women Travelers
- Insuremytrip – Travel Warnings & Alerts
- Clothing advice for long flights – AirHelp
- The Ultimate Packing List
- TravelBinger
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Sites with links to more sites and travel apps:
- Budget Travel: 10 Most Useful Travel Websites
- CNN: Best New Apps for Travelers
- Skyscanner: 20 Best Travel Apps
- The Points Guy: Top 17 Travel Apps
- PC Magazine Rates The Best Travel Sites
- Tons of “How to Pack” Advice From Huffington Post
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Customer reviews of hotels, destinations, restaurants, etc….
- Trip Advisor
- Oyster: Expert Hotel Reviews and Undoctored Photos
- YELP
- Travel Camera reviews from ShotKit
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Having trouble with an airline, hotel, or other service provider?
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