This Hotel Tip Started a Massive Twitter Thread Full of Travel Tips If you’ve spent a lot of nights in hotel rooms, you’ve probably experienced the frustration of window curtains that won’t fully close. Well, last Thursday a Twitter user named Rick… Johnny Jet , October 7, 2019
This Website Is Helping Travelers Fight Back Against Resort Fees Do you hate resort fees like most people do? I know I do, and that’s why I was happy to learn about Kill Resort Fees. Basically, Kill Resort Fees is… Johnny Jet , August 6, 2019
Don’t Hang Clothes on a Hotel Room Sprinkler It should be common sense to not hang clothes on the hotel room sprinkler, but apparently it’s not. According to a recent Virginian-Pilot story (via View From The Wing), a… Johnny Jet , July 25, 2019
Keep Your Toothbrush Head Covered Each Friday, we feature a reader-submitted tip as our Travel Tip of the Day. This week’s tip comes from reader Bonnie, who added the following to last week’s toothbrush-related tip:… Johnny Jet , April 26, 2019
Instead of Room Service, Use a Food Delivery Service Instead of ordering room service that’s usually way overpriced, not that tasty and generic, consider using an app to get food delivered to your hotel (or even right to your… Johnny Jet , April 10, 2019
How to Check Your Hotel Room for Hidden Cameras With a Single Device Did you see the disturbing story out of South Korea about the lowlifes that were setting up hidden cameras in hotel rooms and then live-streaming people on the internet? Hundreds… Johnny Jet , March 26, 2019
How to Sleep Better in a Hotel Did you know that tomorrow—Friday, March 15—is World Sleep Day? If you often feel tired, you’re not alone, and in fact that’s the reason this day has been created. According… Natalie DiScala , March 14, 2019
Don’t Make This Common Mistake When Riding the Elevator You might not think you need a travel tip to remind you to get off the elevator at the right floor, but I know plenty of people who’d disagree…. Johnny Jet , February 25, 2019
What to Do If You Leave Your Charger at Home Today’s tip builds on one of our most popular reader tips ever. As the SF Chronicle writes, people forget chargers for their devices all the time when they travel,… Johnny Jet , February 4, 2019
Ask the Hotel for a Lightweight Blanket I was recently staying at the Delray Sands Resort in south Florida, which as I wrote here is a lovely hotel. But the comforters there, like the comforters at most… Johnny Jet , January 2, 2019
You Can Ask for a Microwave at Many Hotels Did you know that some hotels will provide a microwave free of charge? Of course, availability depends on how many microwaves the specific hotel has on hand, so you never… Johnny Jet , November 19, 2018
Confirm Your Hotel Booking With the Hotel Before You Leave Travel blogger Ric Garrido recently wrote an interesting post about a trip he took to Romania, which began as a nightmare. Essentially, Ric arrived at his hotel—booked through Booking.com—to find… Johnny Jet , October 29, 2018
Get to Know the Hotel Shower Before You Hop in Each Friday, we feature a reader-submitted tip as our Travel Tip of the Day. This week’s tip comes from reader Benita, who left the following comment on last week’s airplane… Johnny Jet , October 19, 2018
How I Handle a Loud A/C Unit in a Hotel Room If you’re a light sleeper like I am, you’ve probably been annoyed once or twice (or more) by a hotel air conditioning unit going on and off throughout the night…. Johnny Jet , October 16, 2018
Use Antibacterial Wipes on the Hotel’s Bathroom Counter and Faucets Today’s tip follows yesterday’s about germy hotel key cards, and it again concerns something I learned in this Reader’s Digest story about the dirtiest things in a hotel room. One of… Johnny Jet , October 2, 2018