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Sometimes All You Have To Do Is Ask for a Discount on In-Flight Wi-Fi
Life is simple like that sometimes. Sometimes, all you have to do is ask for what you want. Reader Karen recently was hanging out on an airplane when she contacted Gogo’s customer service looking for a...
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The Preferred Camera for Most Travelers Is…….
Special memories doesn’t warrant special gear, it may seem. Or, perhaps, technology has caught up so much most devices are finally good enough. In a poll of over 550 readers, Map Happy found 42% of...
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How To Easily Transfer WhatsApp iPhone Messages to an Android Phone
First of all, I think I’ve added a couple of brand new gray hairs trying to sort through all of the information available on the interwebs. WhatsApp is the most popular messaging solution out there,...
View ArticleGet the $10 U.S. National Park Senior Lifetime Pass Before Time’s Up
One Mile at a Time recently clued us into a huge discount: Senior citizens over the age of 62 are entitled to a $10 lifetime pass. (For online applications, there is an additional $10 processing fee....
View ArticleAlaska Airlines Introduces Free In-Flight Messaging (Texting Not Included)
So, while everyone was shuffling their feet back to work, Alaska buried the fact they’re now offering free in-flight messaging on all of their planes. In a rare move unprecedented in the industry,...
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Is Instagram Redefining the Concept of the Travel Guidebook?
Guidebooks are kinda passé, no? Arguably, there are better tools out there these days where guidebooks have long reigned king. Though there’s nothing like rows and rows of guidebooks to inspire joy,...
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Review: AwardWallet Lets You Track and Manage Frequent Flyer Points Like a Pro
Time to upgrade that Notepad document.1 Its easier to accumulate loyalty points than kingdom come, so it’s no surprise most people have trouble not only remembering their point balances, expirations...
View ArticleDownload Google’s OnTheFly App Before It Completely Disappears
Since I’ve started traveling in 2009, I’ve seen United devalue its program to kingdom come, the famous Canadian exception come to an end and Pluto get demoted from planet to dwarf planet. (Kidding....
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The Step-By-Step Guide to Itinerary and Budget Planning
The hardest part is booking the flight (now you’re committed), but the best part is yet to come. Practically, it’s time to figure out the details of the trip, figure out the route to take, and consider...
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TransferWise’s Facebook Messenger Bot Isn’t Great for Sending Money
Please support more than seven currencies versus the 38 supported on the website (does USD count?). And no, you cannot tweet at your friend like a retard. Everything you really need to know in three...
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Review: How Does TransferWise Stack Up for International Money Transfers?
There’s a couple of ways to move cash around the world. Some of it involves brokerage accounts, some of it involves carrying drug-dealer levels of money onto a plane. TransferWise is a London-based...
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How Google Voice’s Newest Update Compares Against WhatsApp
It’s about time Google Voice rolled out group messaging and MMS support. Hopefully it doesn’t take five more years for the next update, because for the time being it still might be the best...
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These Postal Services Will Check Your (Snail) Mail While You’re Gone
Become reeeeeally good friends with your roommate. Or work those blood-related connections (and change all those addresses to their home). But paying for a service is also an option. It turns out there...
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The First-Hand, Comprehensive Guide to the Electronics Ban
It’s almost been a full week since the electronics ban has been in place. Here is absolutely everything you would ever need to know, based on first-hand experience. On March 21, the Department of...
View ArticleAmazon Prime Members Can Borrow Almost Every Lonely Planet on Kindle
Load up that Kindle. Thanks to a cool Facebook tip, we recently found out Amazon Prime has been making an extremely large selection of Lonely Planet guidebooks available to its members for quite...
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There Are Good Reasons Not To Be an Early Adopter When It Comes to Traveling
It may be hypocritical for us to advocate against being an early adopter when it comes to travel tech, gear and even destinations, but there are often good reasons to wait. Precisely, because in the...
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Google Earth Adds Points of Interest, Postcards on Chrome and Android
In time for Earth Day, Google is launching its biggest update to Google Earth in two years. This update brings knowledge cards (know what about you’re seeing! and a story behind it), points of interest...
View ArticleStaying Entertained During the Electronics Ban
So how exactly do they expect you to stay entertained without an iPad or Kindle the entire time? The old-fashioned way is always worth a shot (pictured). Read the original post on Map Happy.
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Review: Should Flytographer Be Your Travel Photographer?
Sometimes selfie sticks are great. Sometimes its also great to pay a human to be a selfie stick. I can get a great photo of someone else. But they can’t take a great one of me. Or a great photo of us...
View ArticleMoovit Is Essentially Google Maps on Real-Time Steroids.
This sponsored post is brought to you by Moovit. Sorry, there is no more space for apps on my phone that no longer cut the mustard. There’s got to be more to an app than pretty face, or it has to pull...
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