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Travel better with us. We're going to help you do some travel hacking. We’ve traveled far and wide. We’ve made a few mistakes and we’ve done things right along the way. We’re eager to share what we know and provide valuable information to help make your journey easier.
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Fab Five All Inclusive Family Resorts
Families that Play Together With busy schedules filled with work, school and extracurricular activities, it can be a challenge to spend time together as a family. Sometimes you just have to get away from all the busyness of life and a family vacation is a great opportunity to do just that. Some of the best family vacations we’ve had with our four children happened at all inclusive family resorts. When the food and activities are included, everyone in the family can enjoy the holiday. There are affiliate links in this post. If you make a qualifying purchase through one of these links, Wander Woman Travel Magazine may receive a small…
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Great All Inclusive Family Vacations
How to Book Fun All Inclusive Family Resorts Open up any travel brochure or search the internet and you will find hundreds of all inclusive family vacations to places like Mexico, Jamaica, Cuba or the Dominican Republic. If you look at the pictures, one resort looks just as good as the next and it is difficult to tell the difference. But those who have visited an all-inclusive resort can attest to the fact that there are good resorts and mediocre resorts and choosing the right resort makes all the difference to your vacation experience – especially when you’re traveling with your family. There are affiliate links in this post. If…
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Planning Affordable Beach Weddings
Marcel and Joan had a lovely wedding on the beach in Jamaica. Even though I wasn’t technically invited, I couldn’t help snapping a few pictures from the comfort of my beach chair. If I had known them, I might have even shed a tear or two. Their ceremony was the best of the four weddings we observed during our one-week stay at an all-inclusive resort in Montego Bay. When it comes to beach destination weddings, Marcel and Joan have a lot of company – and I’m not just referring to uninvited wedding guests. Many couples are choosing destination weddings because they are fun and affordable beach weddings. There are affiliate…
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Phone Photography – Tips to Take Better Smartphone Photos
When you Leave your Good Camera Behind Have you ever gone to the airport and left something important behind? As I stood at the counter checking in for a red-eye flight, I realized I was missing something. My son had dropped me off and I had left my camera equipment in the backseat of his car. Since his cell phone was dead, there was no way to contact him. I was visiting three tropical islands on one trip and the only camera I had was the one on my lousy smartphone. Nobody ever bought that particular model of smartphone for its camera capabilities. To be honest, it was an antique…
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Bomb to Brisbane
Venkata Lakshmi, a grandmother who speaks very little English, was excited and nervous at the same time. She was excited to travel to Brisbane to visit her daughter. They were planning a special celebration for her 65th birthday. But she was also nervous to take the long flight from Mumbai, India. With a connection in Singapore, she was particularly concerned that her bag might go missing. After giving it some thought, Lakshmi came up with a solution… She decided it would be a good idea to label the bag with both the departing and arriving airports. She began to spell out Bombay” (the old colonial name for Mumbai), but she…
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How Not to Get on an Airplane
There’s something that bothers me about my husband – his wallet. It’s literally bursting at the seams, because he carries around pretty much every card he has ever received. There’s a Club Sobeys card in there even though there is no longer a club. (Sobeys discontinued that program 4 years ago.) His expired Club Sobeys card has travelled the world. He took it to Iceland – even though there are no Sobeys stores there. It’s also been to Greenland, Mexico, Cuba and Belize. And that card didn’t get any special treatment. There are other useless cards in there too including a driver’s license from 1979 with a picture of him…
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Late Night Run
Oh the glamorous life of a travel writer who isn’t me… Here’s a little rant from a trip I took to the Florida Keys. It involved an unplanned late night run. Getting to the Hotel -Arrived at Miami airport at 10:30 pm last night after two flight delays. Can’t find driver anywhere. Call PR guy (Jerry). After brief delay, am on my way to Florida Keys resort – driver says it will take a little over 2 hours. -Get text from husband. Informs me I am leading the family March Madness Pool. Know nothing about US college basketball – Yay me! -Fall asleep in back of vehicle – snoring may…
