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Passenger Rights
No matter how much time you spend planning and researching a trip, things still occasionally go wrong -- and air travel is no exception. From and in our story on Disabled Travel. The Airlines Rights An airline is not necessarily liable if your flight is delayed or canceled. T
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Make Your Travel Complaint Count
While traveling, theres always a risk that you will encounter problems beyond your control -- tour operators go out of business, hotel rooms fail to measure up to their star ratings and airlines leave passengers stranded on the tarmac. But what can you do if one of these disas
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The 10 Worst Hotel Horror Stories
If youre lucky, the worst problem youll have at a hotel will be relatively minor: not enough pillows, weak water pressure in the shower, a less-than-impressive parking lot view out the window.Unfortunately, it doesnt always work that way. We asked our readers to write about t
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What Not to Do in a New City
Any visit to a new city is defined -- and driven -- by a long list of dos. Most likely, you will want to do the museums, do a few tours, do dinner and drinks, basically do everything you possibly can before the vacation clock runs out. To paraphrase a popular saying: You can d
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Five Worst Trip Planning Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
Throughout history, millions of vacations have gone askew for variety of reasons. Remember the Griswold familys cross-country drive to Walley World? (Fiction, yes, but no doubt representative of many real family road trips.) Naturally, attacks from crazy relatives cannot be st
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Foul Weather Travel
Imagine that your bags are packed for the getaway of your dreams. Youve rearranged your schedule, canceled meetings and lost hours of sleep planning every detail of it. You arrive at the airport two hours early, proceed through security, almost unable to contain your vacation
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Four Common Travel Disasters and How to Prevent Them
You have your guidebooks, your spare underwear and even your inflatable neck pillow, but do you have a way to deal with untimely disasters that could ruin your well-planned trip? Putting travel disasters out of mind will not prevent them from happening. But if your passport ge
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10 Things Not to Do When Checking a Bag
Think you wont lose valuables if you check them in your bag? Think again. The value of property reported missing from checked bags between 2010 and 2014 is a whopping $2.5 million, according to a recent report by CNN. And thats not the only thing that can go wrong when you che
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10 Things to Do When You Get Home from a Trip
Traveling often seems like a series of to-do lists, from the pre-trip planning process (book flight and hotel, call credit card company, stop the mail, pack) to selecting the activities you want to experience once you arrive in your destination. But what about after you get ho
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The Six Qualities of Highly Effective Travelers
Close your eyes and picture the perfect traveler. Would she be toting the finest-quality luggage, speak a dozen foreign languages fluently and have a magical knack for never getting lost?If you dont resemble this paragon of travel perfection, dont fret. Id argue that the quali
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5 Simple Ways to Make the Most of Your Vacation
Theres a smartphone app that generates a map of the nearest public bathrooms when youre desperate for a place to squat. There are countless travel review sites offering first-hand critiques of anything with a front desk and a bed. Theres even a Web site dedicated to globetrotti
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How to Find a Clean Hotel Room
Your hotel room is your home away from home, with a few exceptions -- hundreds of strangers from every corner of the world have slept there, and the hotel staff may not have the same standards of cleanliness that you do at home. Its nice to have someone fold up your towels and
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Keep Your Home Safe on Vacation: 9 Essential Tips
Murphys Law for travelers: If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong while youre on vacation -- which is arguably the worst time a household calamity can strike. Coming home from your honeymoon, African safari or Mediterranean cruise can be gloomy. But returning from a memora
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How to Create the Perfect Itinerary
Ever noticed how some folks make the toughest trips seem like a leisurely walk in the park? Well wager that nine out of 10 times, those travelers created a near-perfect itinerary before they even started packing. Modern itinerary-making tools, from websites to mobile apps, al
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Five Ways to Beat Pre-Trip Panic
Countdown to departure: three days. Before you board your flight, you have to finish packing, call your credit card company, do laundry, print boarding passes, clean out the fridge, confirm your reservations ... so many details, so little time!If handling all those 11th-hour o
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Nine Ways to Make Travel Less Stressful
For many travelers, anticipating a trip is almost as thrilling as actually taking it. Oh, the wonderful places youll see, the amazing memories youll create. In your mind, its all ahead of you; nothing will go wrong.Then why is it we almost always end up with that familiar pit
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Bumping and Overbooking
You arrive at the airport, pass through security and head to your gate, only to find that your plane is overbooked. Someone -- or several someones -- wont make it onto your flight. Could that someone be you?An overbooked plane can be a mixed blessing. If youre the type of trav
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Fear of Flying
We all love traveling and seeing new places, but theres one part of travel that many of us dont love: flying. For some, flying is simply a hassle, thanks to high fares, airport delays and lost luggage. But for other travelers, flying is more than inconvenient; its terrifying.F
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Jet Lag
Jet lag is a physical reaction to a rapid change in time zones. It affects most travelers, including seasoned fliers like flight attendants and pilots. Common symptoms include disorientation, irritability, insomnia, fatigue, dry eyes, headaches, irregular bowels and general ma
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Lost Luggage
Youre standing at a baggage carousel for what seems like forever when the steady flow of bags onto the conveyor belt slows to a trickle, then stops. Your bags are nowhere in sight. Or your bags do show up, but look like an angry gorilla has been throwing them around his cage f
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