Travelers don’t need an explanation of what a “hotel” is (or isn’t, depending on the hotel) but most of us tend to think of a hostel as a cheap, grungy, dormitory place to lay one’s head, usually found in bad neighborhoods and for backpackers only who don’t care where they sleep as long as it’s [...]
“Travel Tips & Advice on Sheila’s Tips for Travelers”
Hotels and Hostels. Is there a difference?
May 7th, 2012 
Sheila Simkin 
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Hot Travel Deals for Travelers
May 3rd, 2012 Sheila Simkin I just received an e-mail from Adventure Center who represents many different tour operators: Peregrine, Gecko and Intrepid to name a few. Steve and I have traveled with Adventure Center and their tour operators many times and I had to pass on these offers to you; a real moment of madness sale in my opinion. [...]
Posted in Featured, Sheila's Tips for Travelers Tags: accommodation, adventure, cambodia, culture, destination, events, Italy, Laos, log, nature, sightseeing, tours, travel No Comments »
Travels With Sheila Basic Packing List
May 3rd, 2012 Sheila Simkin ex-Marine (husband, Steve) and I really do have it down to a science when it comes to packing. It helps that neither of us object to looking like the travel version of “street people” and don’t mind that no one has ever said that we are “smartly put together” when on vacation. I do own [...]
Posted in Sheila's Tips for Travelers Tags: china, culture, destination, estonia, event, events, shanghai, tallinn, travel No Comments »
Ten Tips: How to Score Free Plane Tickets and Hotel Rooms
February 15th, 2012 Sheila Simkin I have almost earned my PhD in airline rules and hope you can benefit from what I’ve learned. Free Airline Travel? Tip #1: Airlines now allow you to book one-way tickets. This makes an “Open Jaw” ticket so much easier. “Open Jaw” is when a person flies into one city and flies back out from another. Tip #2: Once [...]
Don’t Forget to Buy Travel Insurance for Tours
June 10th, 2011 Sheila Simkin We know people, as I’m sure you do, who never buy travel insurance. If, and that’s a big if, ex-Marine and I are traveling through Europe on our own, paying as we go, we forego insurance. Credit cards will see us through almost any disaster. They may be expensive disasters but, what they heck, it’s [...]
Posted in General, Sheila's Tips for Travelers Tags: adventure, albania, culture, destination, event, events, log, nature, sightseeing, tours, travel, travel advice, travel insurance 1 Comment »
Use A Capital One Credit Card for Foreign Travel
June 21st, 2010 Sheila Simkin Travels With Sheila and the ex-Marine (husband, Steve) wouldn’t think of leaving the country without an ATM card and several credit cards. An ATM card is still worth the convenience of not carrying lots of cash even if your issuing bank does impose a charge-per-transaction. Check with your individual bank and ask. Every bank charges [...]
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PayPal Charges for Foreign Credit Card Transactions
June 20th, 2010 Sheila Simkin Travels With Sheila thought it was important to inform readers about her latest experience in using PayPal for a credit card charge to Albania. Yes, ex-Marine (husband, Steve) and I are definitely going to Albania in July with Outdoor Albania, a local tour operator. Outdoor Albania also happens to be the company that the majority [...]
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Why Take Out Travel Insurance?
June 12th, 2010 Sheila Simkin Travels With Sheila’s blood begins to boil when I see articles that say travel insurance is unnecessary. Just turn on the television to hear about the recent travel nightmares caused by Iceland’s volcanic eruption and flight disruptions. How about the riots in Bangkok? What if there’s another earthquake in Indonesia? (Indonesia is in the “ring [...]
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Sheila’s Seven More Mistakes Travelers Make
June 10th, 2010 Sheila Simkin - Pack valuables and computers in luggage. I have guilty family members who just look at me in disbelief when I give the “Mommy look” along with a few indelicate words…”Are you nuts?” Well… all you guilty passengers should have read the same newspaper article I did. In 2009 alone, Delta baggage handlers rifled through [...]
Posted in General, Sheila's Tips for Travelers Tags: adventure, culture, destination, event, events, food, landmarks, log, nature, sightseeing, travel 2 Comments »
Sheila’s Top Seven Tips for Beginning Hikers/Trekkers/Campers
March 8th, 2010 Sheila Simkin Fourteen year old, granddaughter, Sarah is about to embark on a “trip of a lifetime” with her camp group into the Canadian and American Rockies, and National Parks and now, ex-Marine (husband, Steve) and my advice doesn’t seem so lame to her. If there is a hiking, trekking or camping mistake to be made (with [...]
Posted in Sheila's Tips for Travelers Tags: adventure, camping, culture, destination, event, hike, hiking, hotel, log, sightseeing, transportation, travel, trek, trekking 1 Comment »
