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If you travel regularly in Europe and are a UK can locate it again. And if you’re thinking that This is a secure prepaid card for overseas travel
resident, then you can apply for the European British Airways will keep your luggage safe expenses and will allow you to withdraw local
Health Insurance Card at www.ehic.org.uk then in the 2007 survey BA lost almost as many currency from over one million ATM’s or pay over
The card will cover you for free or reduced bags as Air Portugal, and that’s even before the the counter at 18 million retailers worldwide. You
cost medical care in the European Union using new T5 fiasco. So even if you don’t locate your can also order your currency online with next
the state health care system of the particular luggage there, you could always bid for someone day delivery or get it from a Travelex location
country you are in. But if you still don’t want to else’s lost camcorder. within two hours and their website advertises
take any chances then head on over to Martin that they guarantee the best priced foreign
Lewis’s Money Saving site and get yourself some Carbon Offsetting currency, every time.
travel insurance www.moneysavingexpert.com/ If the company you work for is aiming to make
insurance/cheap-travel-insurance a good impression and show some corporate Rest/Sleep
responsibility towards meeting government If you are looking for a place to stay then
Surfing on the Road objectives by offsetting its carbon emissions www.travelintelligence.com states on its site
When you are travelling to a new city and don’t then Condé Nast have a carbon emission that it has the ‘finest collection of chic, boutique
want to be stuck in the hotel with just your calculator on their website at www.cntraveller. & luxury hotels on the net’. It offers great rates
wireless laptop for company but do want to get co.uk/CarbonCalculator. The calculator is in and it has a network of 130 professional travel
a feel for the city you are in and still be able to conjunction with Climate Care and the money writers who write articles and hotel reviews.
check your emails, then finding a café, bar or raised is used to fund a portfolio of global In contrast www.tripadvisor.co.uk has millions
public space with WiFi is key. If you are travelling projects that help reduce emissions. These of reviews and opinions of hotels on their site
in Britain then www.myhotspots.co.uk or http:// include rainforest restoration and a program which have been submitted by travellers and not
wifi.lycos.co.uk/hotspot/search will locate the to provide efficient stoves in Central America, just professional travel writers. The disadvantage
nearest WiFi hotspot and all you need to do is
enter the town, postcode or street. Myhotspots.
co.uk has over 6,500 hotspots listed whilst
wifi.lycos.co.uk has over 16,000 and they both
list free and commercial hotspots. If you are
travelling abroad then www.hotspot-locations.
com has over 32,000 worldwide hotspots listed.
While you are internet surfing you may as well
browse www.whatsonwhen.com to find out
which local events, festivals or concerts are
taking place whilst you are in town.
Your Luggage
If you have managed to get back home in one
piece but your luggage hasn’t made it, then the
Air Transport Users Council website at
www.caa.co.uk/auc gives general guidance
about an airline’s liability for your luggage and
the amount of compensation available. Just click
through to the Air Travel Advice and Baggage amongst others. It costs less than you think, a is the time taken to sift through the chaff.
Problems links. The Air Transport Users Council return flight to Paris is only eighty pence and a www.luxuryexplorer.com offers a choice of five
is the UK’s Consumer Watchdog for the Aviation long-haul return journey to Bangkok is under £21. star and luxury hotels whereas www.priceline.
Industry and they have a report to download At www.co2balance.uk.com there is a brochure co.uk promises more hotels and more deals
which shows which airlines have the best to download and lots of advice to help make your for all grades.
records on delayed and lost luggage. Turkish business carbon zero. This site also has projects
Airlines comes out very well with just over that are funded when you trade your emissions And if the budget for your business trip really is
4 bags lost or delayed per 1000 passengers on their website. tight then www.couchsurfing.com is a great
whilst TAP Air Portugal has a derisory record of site to use to stay almost anywhere for free.
over 20 bags lost or delayed per 1000. Cash The bonus being that you are staying with one
Visa (www.visa.com) and Mastercard (www. of the locals who can give much needed advice,
Reassuringly, most lost luggage turns up after mastercard.com) both have links on their sites not readily available from other sources. The
a few days but if you do find that you are one of to your nearest ATM, wherever you happen to only proviso, like online dating, is to do your
the unlucky ones, then you can always head off be. The sites also have the emergency contact research first on who you may be staying
down to R.F. Greasbys Ltd in Tooting numbers you will need if your card happens to with, before you decide to snooze on
(www.greasbys.co.uk), which auctions off the get lost or stolen. Travelex at www.travelex.com someone’s couch.
lost luggage from British Airways, to see if you will issue you with a Corporate Cash Passport.
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