This Sunday, September 3rd, on The Travel Guys: In the Travel News, Southwest has announced significant service expansion for Sacramento, coming next spring, and the folks who run Logan Airport in Boston are thinking of charging to drop off passengers. Sounds a bit crazy, we have details. Clayton Whitehead is in for Tom and joins Mark in the Smarter Traveler segment at
3:20. "How to conduct yourself on a group tour" is the topic. Mark has a list of items and you can expect both hosts (tour directors themselves) to offer plenty of "input".
Ed Perkins is a frequent guest. Ed is a longtime travel journalist and travel writer, living in Ashland, OR. This week he helps you understand what an airline voucher is good, and not good, for. When the airline offers funny money, what do you need to know about it? Should you hold out for cash? How much cash? Gwen Duncan is on hand to talk about passports. Do you know the difference between a passport and a passport card? How many pages do you need to have in your passport? More importantly, how many of them need to be BLANK pages?
This Sunday, August 27th, on The Travel Guys: In the Travel News, Mark reminds those 62 and over Sunday is the last day to get a lifetime pass to our national parks for $10. Starting Monday, the price is $80.
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In the Smarter Traveler segment, Mark and Tom have tips to insure your complaint doesn't end up in someone's trash. Tips for helping your complaint get noticed.
Steve LaRosa is on hand with his latest edition of What's Going On, things to do close to home; and Gwen Duncan gets us a lesson on travel etiquette.
This Sunday, August 20th, on The Travel Guys... In the travel news, Hyatt Hotel joins the list of chains changing their standard cancellation policies. It was only a year ago cancellations were pushed from 4-6pm on the day of arrival to the day before. Now, with Marriott/Starwood leading the way, the last time you can cancel a room and get a full refund is now 48-72 hours prior to your arrival. For now, Hyatt appears to be joining the 48 hour group. Holiday Inn (IHG Hotels) has said they will remain at 24 hours, and at some properties in their system, you can still cancel the day of arrival without charge. Plus, you can now stay in Donald Trump's childhood home in Queens. In our Smarter Traveler segment, Mark shares a long list of ways to keep your suitcase from getting lost in transit. Some are pretty obvious (check in early, avoid tight connections), but some you may not have thought of (like putting a picture of your bag on your phone). We bet you'll find more than one tip here to keep you and your bag together. Road Reporter Jim Pelley has returned from South America, and visits to both Machu Picchu and the Galapagos Islands. Those two destinations appear on many Bucket Lists. Jim shares his adventures and tells us who can realistically go there and who cannot.
Updates from The Wreath Project and one of the eclipse sites in Oregon round out today's line up.
Posted Sunday, August 13th, 2017 This Sunday, August 13th, on The Travel Guys:
In the Travel News, residents of South Carolina are given specific instructions of what to do should they encounter the legendary Bigfoot on vacation, and a foreign airlines kicks off a racy marketing plan. You can see it here.
Nick Valenzuela is on hand with one of his Hash Tag Travel Reports. Directed to millennial travelers, but there's something there for everyone. Have you ever heard of Cabin.com? How about Joon? Nick will fill us in.
Gwen Duncan has an update on why you need to be careful when using wi-fi in airports and Mark walks us through price shopping on the 'net.