Tips to Travelers

Three tips for trav­el­ing from day 1 of my vacation.

1) Don’t set­tle. The staff at the hotel tried to put us in a room with two-doubles as opposed to a king. We had made a reser­va­tion for a king. I imme­di­ately called down to the front desk and they sent up a bell­man with new room keys. I sus­pect the major­ity of the time it hap­pens they are doing it because peo­ple won’t speak up or say anything.

2) Be gra­cious and polite to every­one. When we got on the plane after our two hour delay (though it felt much longer) K and I were still up beat and pos­i­tive. We sat down in the row and it wasn’t the exit row as expected. Appar­ently they had changed planes on us, but the stew­ard had a sharp eye and invited us to sit on the real exit row. The plane had plenty of empty seats so there weren’t any issues with doing so. But we were polite and upbeat. If we had come in snarling and grip­ing about the delay, he would have been less likely to offer us the bet­ter seats.

3) Get a Flip cam­era. I got one when it rolled up on Woot a few weeks back and it’s amaz­ingly fun to be able to whip it out and shoot video with ease. Then to take it back to the hotel room and plug into the lap­top to imme­di­ately upload.