Travel Tips
Follow these tips while traveling and you will remain out of any trouble hopefully.
- Keep your passport, tickets and money separately.
- Put a photocopy of your passport in each your luggage.
- Label your entire luggage with name and address.
- In place of cash Travellers' cheques or Visa Travel Card are best.
- Carry some empty plastic ziplock bags.
- For your plane ticket Confirm, reconfirm, confirm once again.
- Make a list of all your personal medicines that you are carrying with you and carry the list with you.
Travelling With Valuable Business Related Items
- Keep your laptop in a case that doesn't immediately identify it as a computer. The same advice holds true for cameras, VCRs, etc.
- Do not put your laptop on the conveyor belt to be x-rayed. Rather, ask the security guard to conduct a manual search of the computer and any other electronic equipment you may have with you.
- Once on the airplane, keep your laptop nearby.
- Keep your computer underneath the seat in front of you.
- Pack an extension cord so you can use the laptop from your preferred spot
Packing Tips for Airline Travel
- Some items that should never be put in the bag you plan to check into the cargo compartment of the aircraft:
- Small valuables: cash, credit cards, jewelry, cameras.
- Critical items: medicines, keys, Passport, tour vouchers, business papers.
- Fragile items: eyeglasses, glass containers, liquids.
- Remember that the only way to be sure your valuables are not damaged or lost is to keep them with you.
- If you are traveling on more than one airline, check with the airline for its limits on the size, weight, or number of carry-on pieces. (There is no single standard applicable.)
- If you plan to go shopping at your destination and bring your purchases aboard as carry-on, keep the limits in mind. Carry the receipts separately.
- Don't put anything into a carry-on bag that could be considered a weapon (e.g. scissors, penknife).
- Ask the airlines about the limit for every segment of your international trip before you leave home, especially if you have a stopover of a day or two or if you are changing carriers.
- The bags you check should be labeled - inside and out - with your name, address and phone number.
Luggage Lost
- For starters, don't panic. Most luggage is only delayed, not lost permanently.
- File a missing-luggage form even if the airline agent insists that your bags will turn up on the next flight. And take a copy of that with you.
- Ask about the airline's immediate reimbursement policy.
- Cash for major purchase immediately.
- Daily stipend
- The best way to lessen the chances your valuables will be lost is to carry them with you.
- Be sure to check in as early as possible to make sure both you and your luggage make the flight.
- Try to schedule a reasonable amount of time at least 45 minutes--between connecting flights.
Driving Abroad
- Obtain an International Drivers Permit (IDP).
- Have your Passport photographs ready.
- Carry both your IDP and your State Driver's License with you at all times.
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