Eerie Travel Secrets

There is no doubt that everybody loves to go on holiday, but easily the worst part about the entire trip is the airport.

9/11 has done us no favours when it comes to the airport as now the delays are even longer and people are even more stressed than they were before. The worst thing about the airport has to be the security checks that must be endured. It is totally understandable that everybody must put their bags through the scanner as nobody wants something awful happening to the plane, but do they have to treat everybody like criminals and be so rude?

On top of this, they seem to really enjoy throwing your baggage around as much as they can? It seems that whenever you see your baggage at the airport it is either being thrown around by a machine or a person. There never appears to be any padding when the cases fly down the belt at your destination, meaning any valuables will surely be broken.

Passengers trying to get on board the plane first are such a big pain. Why would you bother? People like to try and get on first, even when their row number has not been announced. This obviously annoys the people who have genuinly been called, who are then stuck at the back of a long queue. Why do they always seem to do this? The plane will go when everybody is on board and not before and surely the less time you spend on the plane the better as by now you would have already read the paper/magazines and worked your way through your entire playlist on your Mp3 player.

If you want to get to your favourite destination, unfortunately this is something you have to deal with. If this all happens to you just remember that you are off on holiday whether that is on one of those USA tours or an Alaskan cruise you are sure to have a good time. That is of course if you have managed to get through the airport in the first place!

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Car Hire Considerations

Choosing which car hire company depends on a lot of factors and often the determining factor is location or opening hours. Your company might have special rates with a car rental company and wish you to use that company. The final factor is who has the most suitable cars. Finally the determining factor may be price.

Do not choose the cheapest headline price without looking at the extras. Work out the total cost to see which is the cheapest. Inclusive rates are likely to appear the most expensive but actually work out the cheapest when the rental is concluded. For example which is cheaper $25 a day all inclusive or $15 per day plus an amount per kilometre, plus CDW, plus insurance, plus theft protection, plus location surcharge, plus tax or VAT etc.. example, it is cheaper to have an inclusive rate at $25 a day than to pay $15 + 20c per km if you drive more than 32 kms!

Booking through a car hire broker is likely to be cheaper on rentals more than a couple of days but the rentals have to be prepaid. Here again there are differences which you may wish to consider for instance Holiday Autos charge 100% cancellation fee whereas cheap-car-rental charge a cancellation charge equal to just one days rental.

It is very important that you consider insurance. It maybe your own insurance will cover driving a hire car but it may only be a limited cover and the car rental company may well require a larger deposit. You should also check the cover provided and consider carefully the options given by the car rental company as an accident, particularly for car hire in USA and car hire in Canada could be very, very costly.

Before driving off make a close inspection of the car to see if it has any scratches or had an accident. The body (including underneath if you can see) and the paintwork should be checked but so should tyres, and the interior. You should draw the car rental company’s attention to any defects and you should ask them to note it both on your copy of the agreement and theirs. If you do not report any damage you are likely to be charged for the damage when you return the car. We don’t want that do we.

We hope you enjoy using your rental car!

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