Travel Advice - Tips for Avoiding Those Holiday and Vacation Blues, Destination Anywhere
Posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
by Julian Price
http://www.uk-freelance-content-writer.co.uk/
It seems the cabin crew at British Airways are going to go on strike just in time for the holiday season, potentially leaving hundreds of thousands of people having to make alternative travel plans and causing misery for many across the Christmas and New Year period.
Problems with airlines, including delayed and cancelled flights are just some of the various issues that can contribute to the undoing of a peaceful and relaxing vacation. Following are a number of true accounts of events and occasions that ideally you would love to avoid when you go on holiday!
- When travelling through airports, especially as a solo traveller, avoid wearing brightly coloured clothes if you wish to have smooth and uninterrupted passage through customs. Illuminous green is a great colour to avoid, as a man found out at a Canadian airport. He and his vibrant green shirt stuck out like a sore thumb. Travelling alone, every camera in the airport must have tracked him before customs finally guided him to a secure questioning area. An hour later he was safely and freely on his way into Canada whilst making a promise to himself to always wear dark colours for travelling in the future.
- Always study the layout of your packed suitcase before you close and seal it and remember that the x ray images of your contents and belongings look markedly different in two dimensions. An innocent pair of flip flop sandals caused a two hour delay for a man who could not identify the x ray image of the sandals sandwiched together in his case. The airport security staff deemed this serious enough to empty every single item from the case in a nice untidy pile before being satisfied that the unidentified objects were in fact plastic flip flops. Repacking a suitcase in front of the whole terminal is trickier than it sounds!
- When in a foreign country beware of the bathrooms/restrooms/toilets! On a trip to southern France a man was enjoying a glorious sunny day on the coast but needed a toilet visit. Spotting some of those public cubicles that require you to put a designated coin in the slot to allow you entrance, he hatched up a plan of getting in for free. So he waited for a friend to come out and slid his hand into the door to stop it closing and pleased with himself, entered without paying. However, to his horror, the lights went out and a loud whooshing noise surrounded him and water covered him from all angles, including above! Of course the automated toilet not registering a payment went into automatic flush mode. In the pitch blackness the man couldn't find the handle for the exit and endured the full flush cycle and emerged soaked and ridiculed!
Look for some more handy holiday hints coming soon.
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