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Welcome to the Online Community for Comfortable Travel
Salutations and Felicitations to you all, and welcome to the inaugural post for The Built For Comfort Traveler. I’ve created this community to share tips and resources that I hope will help us have a...
View ArticleA delightful safety video from Air New Zealand
Airline safety videos are more important than many air travelers treat them - after all, you'll only have 1 chance to get it right, so you might as well practice and envision success. Here's a video...
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One Way to Ensure Your Hotel Expectations Match Reality
Oyster.com is an online hotel booking site that promises unbiased reviews of hotels by their special investigators. Their tag line is “We investigate in person, like your mother-in-law”. Nice features...
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Making Air Travel More Comfortable - Part 1: Pick the flights that suit your...
Travel via airlines is a necessary part of many trips, as it compresses the trip to a destination into a schedule that is manageable for both businesspersons and vacationers. It's not always...
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Happy New Year to all, from the Built for Comfort Traveler!
¡Feliz Año Nuevo!新年快乐！Godt Nyttår!해피 뉴 이어!С Новым Годом!नया साल मुबारक हो!新年あけましておめでとうございます！Wishing you a happy, healthy, prosperous New Year full of comfortable travels!The Built for Comfort...
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Making Air Travel More Comfortable - Part 2: Get packing!
Packing your bag is one of the key components of traveling comfortably, no matter what your mode of travel. Technically, all you really need is your tickets/passes, your id, your credit card, and the...
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Good travel ideas from a pair of frequent business travelers
Traveling for business, regardless of frequency, can be very disruptive to your schedule, your health, and your peace of mind. Here are 2 recent articles that offer some good ideas to help minimize the...
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Making Air Travel More Comfortable - Part 3: 5 tips to make air travel easier
In this installment, I want to tell you about 5 things that I do to make my air travel a little easier. Many of these tips are also used by my even-more-well-traveled colleagues, so I'm not alone in...
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It's a Dining Adventure Out There
One of my favorite things to do while I am traveling is try a new food or an interesting restaurant. You can have some wonderfully surprising experiences while eating, and it starts with what's on the...
View ArticleNeed some more advice on how to pack for your trip?
In an earlier post, I described how I plan and pack my bag to make my airline travel more comfortable. I'm a list-oriented person, and I naturally tend to plan ahead, but I know this tendency does not...
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Jet Lag Blues
There must be at least as many ways to handle jet lag as there are business travelers. I expect that many experienced travelers know when and where they are likely to be most affected, but not everyone...
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Jet Lag 2 - The Sequel
Immediately following my post last week, I spotted this article on Jet Lag in the New York Times. In the article Harriet Edleson, independent business travel writer and frequent contributor to the New...
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The Quest for Tasty Food
It is my opinion that one of the best parts of traveling is the opportunity to enjoy regional food specialties. Healthy eating is an important part of my strategy for comfortable travel, and I find...
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Your Mobile App - an essential travel tool - Part 1: WorldMate
My post of January 22 included the suggestion to use a mobile app to help you keep track of flights and gates while in transit. The available apps can do much more than notifying the traveler of...
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Your Mobile App - an essential travel tool - Part 2: FlightStats
My post of January 22 included the suggestion to use a mobile app to help you keep track of flights and gates while in transit. The available apps can do much more than notifying the traveler of...
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Your Flight Attendant is Your Best Friend
The recent emergency with Flight 214 has reminded me of an important fact, one that deserves repeating:Your Flight Attendant is Your Best Friend!We often forget (or don't even know) that becoming a...
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Your Mobile App - an essential travel tool - Part 3: TripIt
My post of January 22 included the suggestion to use a mobile app to help you keep track of flights and gates while in transit. The available apps can do much more than notifying the traveler of...
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Your Mobile App - an essential travel tool - Part 4: FlightTrack
My post of January 22 included the suggestion to use a mobile app to help you keep track of flights and gates while in transit. The available apps can do much more than notifying the traveler of...
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It’s Five O’clock Somewhere
Onboard mixology for the Comfortable Traveler I’ll confess, I like an occasional adult beverage. While ‘experts’ advise abstaining from alcohol while flying, I find that sometimes a carefully selected...
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The friendlier United Airlines
I frequently read articles in the travel news feeds bemoaning how the air travel experience has deteriorated from the halcyon days of the past, said "days of the past" noted as a decade or two ago. I...
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