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China Southern Airlines notified flight changed to next day, am I entitled to anything?

8/23/2017 7:47:42 AM You are entitled to alternative transportation or a refund, nothing more. As noted in the comments, the alternative you have been offered is physically impossible unless you have a time machine, so they will definitely need to come up with a better option. If you’re not having any luck with the phone, […]

Can I bring Cuban cigarillos to the USA?

7/24/2016 10:57:24 PM Apparently, you can only import them if you purchased them in Cuba, and carry them with you. From the CBP web site: Can I import or bring Cuban cigars into the U.S. for personal use? Persons authorized to travel to Cuba may purchase alcohol and tobacco products while in Cuba for personal […]

UK citizen married to an Irish citizen. How much time can I spend in the EU after Brexit?

10/22/2020 2:24:42 PM Because your wife is an Irish citizen, you are the spouse of an EU citizen. You will therefore continue to have rights under the free movement directive even after most citizens of the UK cease having those rights. In particular, as long as you travel with your wife (or to join her), […]

Male alternatives to dressing up as a geisha in Kyoto

Male alternatives to dressing up as a geisha in Kyoto

9/8/2016 3:16:03 PM If you go to Toho Uzumasa Eigamura in Kyoto, you can dress like a ninja along with other samurai, royalty, and townsperson variations. There are even European royalty (as imagined by shojo manga) variations. http://www.toei-eigamura.com/event/detail/53 After you get dressed up, they take your photo in the shop and then you can walk […]

Flying to Wien, Austria from Denmark, legal with only temporary passport?

8/22/2017 11:52:56 AM According to Schiphol, you need a passport or European identity card to get through security even on flights between Schengen countries. While they don’t generally check them, spot checks can happen (and of course you are legally required to carry one with you at all times anyway, especially when abroad). They also […]

Do blank passport pages have to be consecutive?

9/14/2020 11:09:00 AM A page is blank if it has nothing on it. Stamps on subsequent pages are irrelevant, a blank page is a blank page. Some countries may have rules about needing (for example) two consecutive, facing, blank pages (so a full-page visa can go on one page and the entry/exit stamp on the […]

Following in the footsteps of Jason Bourne

7/24/2016 12:42:35 PM @Dorothy gave a great link which I’d never noticed on imdb before. It appears that imdb users add locations that they recognise into imdb’s database of filming locations, such as the one for the Bourne Supremacy. I thought I would take some of those locations and stick them into a google search […]

Is there any country in the world where you can enter by scanning your fingerprints/iris, without showing any forms of ID?

11/21/2022 4:29:47 PM If you sign up for CLEAR, you are allowed to fly domestically within the US without showing any form of ID to TSA agents. Instead, the CLEAR machine does an iris scan (which takes around 5 seconds) to confirm your identity. In theory you’re still supposed to carry a form of ID […]

Does the full quarantine period have to be observed for short trips of less than 14 days to England?

8/15/2020 6:15:48 PM Quote from an .gov.uk site: Coronavirus (COVID-19): how to self-isolate when you travel to the UK When you arrive in the UK, you will not be allowed to leave the place where you’re staying for the first 14 days you’re in the UK (known as ‘self-isolating’) unless you’re arriving from an exempt […]

How does Expedia manage to sell a room significantly cheaper than the hotel itself?

1/4/2019 4:53:34 PM Expedia buys hotel rooms in bulk from many chains and many individual hotels. They get a good price from the hotel – a really good price – because the hotel gets guaranteed income for that room – and they can pass all or some of that price difference to you – but […]

Printed my SNCF ticket and lost it?

7/23/2016 9:53:53 PM If it is a “e-billet” (e-ticket), what you’ve printed in the station is just a reminder and you can reprint it the same way with your “reference client” (the 6-letter code) and the payment card you used (to identify you). If it is a “classic” ticket (“IATA” in SNCF language), you have […]

Hotel reserved through booking.com asked for more money on arrival

4/14/2018 6:09:45 AM A hotel e-commerce staff answering here. From my point of view, paid hotel reservation is nothing more and nothing less than purchasing a tangible goods. Once it is sold, it is sold. I was once in the situation like this – at the different peer of course. When I mistaken the rate, […]

Can I go to UK holding an accompanied visa, unaccompanied

6/1/2018 3:38:46 AM The advice above is incorrect. If it says you must be accompanied by someone then it means just that. You will either be denied boarding or entry to the uk. V 14.3 a) is clear and confirms what it says on the visa i.e. must be accompanied. If neither applies… a) applies. […]

How prevalent is Swedish in the Swedish speaking parts of Finland

8/7/2017 12:45:03 AM Swedish is an official language along with Finnish at the national level, and in most coastal areas on the municipal level. Turku is an officially bilingual municipality, with a majority of native Finnish speakers. Although everyone in Finland (even in officially monolingual areas) learns the other language in school, proficiency in Swedish […]

How can I make sure I never board an airplane made by a particular manufacturer?

7/24/2020 3:25:12 PM On a ticket, the flight number can be searched in Google Search and some aviation sites like flightstats.com, give the aircraft equipment model which lets you know the vendor. How are border closures enforced in the Schengen area given the large number of crossing points? 7/22/2020 9:22:12 AM Apart from Eurowings, when […]

What is the easiest place to cross the US Rocky Mountains, going to Oregon, in a large truck?

3/18/2018 11:25:35 AM A view from the UK. Here we use ‘stick shifting’ as the norm (only a few have automatic gearboxes), so down shifting is well understood in terms of ‘clutch control’ (we even have a separate pedal for clutch control!). However many still are not good at down shifting to control speed as […]

How are border closures enforced in the Schengen area given the large number of crossing points?

How are border closures enforced in the Schengen area given the large number of crossing points?

4/11/2020 6:36:13 PM Where borders have been closed, as far as I have seen on the news, they simply put up a barrier and a “no entry” sign as for, say, roadworks or public events. I have heard of police presence, but this does not seem to happen at all border crossings and not all […]

Irish Visa or UK Visa or both?

8/10/2016 10:56:24 PM DUBLIN #1: You don’t need a transit visa (see). EDINBURGH: You say you have or will obtain a visa. I presume this will be endorsed BIVS and will be valid for longer than 12 days (even though your time in UK is planned to be shorter than that). DUBLIN #2: Your BIVS […]

Is it safe to travel by bike between cities in Spain?

11/30/2017 4:01:10 PM Statistics are collected on cycling deaths by the European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/sites/roadsafety/files/pdf/statistics/dacota/bfs20xx_dacota-swov-cyclists.pdf From this we see many, many things including that Spain has a fairly low rate per million population but its deaths seem to be concentrated less in urban areas than the EU norm. Of course what these figures do not adjust […]

How are you supposed to pack your bicycle when taking it as luggage on an airplane?

7/17/2017 4:41:32 AM It completely depends on the airline as to what they will accept. They are all different, there is no one universal answer. You also won’t necessarily get a clear answer from them either, and what they say on their website may differ from the reality of what they actually accept at checkin. […]

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