All Entries in the "travel" Category
Beating Delays With Orbitz
If you go online to Orbitz, you can check the Traveler Update site for live updates on the security line wait and other useful information from travelers at your departing airport. In addition, if you schedule and book your travel online with Orbitz, you have the option to sign up for text messages that will [...]
Get The Stats On Your Flight
Are you afraid your flight might be late? Many flights, airlines and even airports are late regularly, and you can find out the stats. Visit FlightStats and type in your travel information, and you can find out what your chances are of leaving on time. They also have a pretty cool interactive airport delays map. [...]
Livermore Airport – Top Ten Things You Never Knew
In case you thought you knew everything about Livermore Airport (I imagine there’s not many of you who’d make this claim), there’s actually a Top Ten Things You Never Knew About Livermore Airport. For example: Liverpool Airport was rebranded in 2002 as Liverpool John Lennon Airport, with Yoko Ono unveiling a 7ft statue of her [...]
Check Your Security Wait Time In Advance
TSA is providing U.S. travelers security checkpoint wait time information to help them plan for their flights. It’s also great information for knowing how long to plan for layovers, as well as how much time you have to potentially sleep at a hotel, or see some sights. If you click here on the TSA website, [...]
World’s Best Airport Bars
Nothing beats a layover like a stiff drink (or two… or well, ahem, maybe three…). Travel + Leisure picks their favorite airport bars: Copenhagen: Nørrebro Bryghus, Copenhagen Airport Denmark has experienced an artisanal beer resurgence in the last few years with the opening of 25 new microbreweries. Ushering in a new era is the Nørrebro [...]
Yoga During An Airport Layover
Susanne Gannon, a yoga instructor in the Charleston area, wrote a fantastic article for Charleston.net, suggesting some simple (and inconspicuous) yoga stretches that a traveler can do at the airport: –Subtle Airport Yoga (the Not-Making-A-Fool-of-Yourself Version): Calming Breath (for those of us who don’t like flying much): Either close your eyes or fix them on [...]
Day Passes To Airline Lounges
The annual fee to join an Airline Lounge is often times not worth the price, for most travelers. Unless you’re a frequent flyer, day passes are a great alternative to the hundreds of dollars for an annual pass. Airport lounges are a great way to pass time on a layover, and most lounges offer free [...]
Pods: The Future Of Layovers?
Picking up on the airport trend that is succeeding for companies such as YOTEL (covered by layoverguide here), the Norwegian company, Nemorelax, will soon open their airport based pods for travelers to rest and sleep during layovers. They are the same company that markets Stressless recliners, which is what Nemorelax is based on. Whereas YOTEL’s [...]
LA Times Readers Rate The Most Overrated Destinations
Readers of the Los Angeles Times ranked their most overrated destinations, and the results amazed us. While Layover Guide agreed with a few of the choices (ahem, Hollywood Walk of Fame) we were shockingly appalled at others (seriously, who could really have been disappointed with the Grand Canyon?!?!?) While most of us travel for the [...]
New York Layover
If you’re on a long layover in The Big Apple, you can really only get a small taste of the things available to see and do. Here’s some of our favorite things, especially for someone new to the city. Remember, especially with International flights, to leave plenty of time to get back to the airport [...]
How You Can ‘Expect Delays’
To help you have a better idea of whether you’re flight is on time, you can of course always call your particular airline to check. Another resource is the website www.expectdelays.com which offers an interactive map that is color-coded to let you know of airports that are are on time, running in late intervasls of 16-30, 31-45, and [...]
Paris Layover
There are worse things in the world then being stuck on a long layover in Paris. If you’ve got quite a few hours (I generally suggest a minimum of 5 hours for International layovers), it would be a shame to pass up a small taste of Paris, while you’re there. Picking what to do in [...]
