Articles Index
Thanksgiving Travel Forecast 2009
Thanksgiving Travel Forecast 2009
Staying Connected Internationally
Keep in touch while you travel internationally using state of the art technology or simple e-mail. Find the solution for your student travel communication needs here: cell phones, sat phones, GSM phones, buying SIM cards in advance, and buying international calling cards.
Backpack Reviews for Travelers and Hikers
Hiking and travelling backpack reviews from real backpackers and professional reviews - Kelty, Northface, Arc Teryx - all the popular backpacks and a few lesser known backpacks - and puchasing advice and backpacker tips.
Rail Passes - Discount European Youth Rail Passes from Rail Europe and Railpass
Rail passes - under 26? You're eligible for European rail passes at a student discount - Eurail Global Youthpass, Eurail Select, Eurail Global Pass Youth Flexi and many single country European train tickets. Check out the best of what's on offer in rail passes from Rail Europe and Railpass
Spanish Schools in San Miguel de Allende
Get the rundown (literally) on San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and Spanish language schools in San Miguel de Allende. Hint: they may not be for you.
Spring Break in Florida
Everything student travelers could want to know about spring break in Florida - spring break in Daytona Beach, Panama City and the Florida Keys are thoroughly covered, with links to primers on spring break 101.
Volunteer for a Working College Break
Got your break planned yet? If you're thinking you'd like to make a difference with your time, think about taking a break with an i-to-i volunteer vacation. US college students are increasingly seeking out short-term meaningful experiences by lending a helping hand, according to i-to-i volunteer vaction reports.
Pepper Spray - Safe Self Defense
Pepper spray can be your best self defense weapon. Learn how to use pepper spray safely and find a wide variety of pepper sprays - purse sized, pepper spray on a key chain, spraying rings and other ingenious pepper spray dispensers.
Student Airfare Finders and Student Travel Agencies
Student airfare - looking for discount student airfare on the internet? Cheap student airfares websites are here. Some are true student travel agencies; others simply offer ways to find discount student airfare.
Avoiding Infectious Diseases Abroad
Avoid malaria, yellow fever, rabies and other infectious diseases abroad with immunizations where possible, and with care combined with common sense. Learn what the exotic travel diseases are, how you catch infectious disease abroad, and how to prevent getting sick when you travel.
Yahoo Mail Awards: Best Internet Cafes List
Find an internet cafe guaranteed to be good by checking out the Yahoo Mail Best Internet Cafe awards winners. Get internet access costs, internet cafe hours, addresses, websites and phone numbers for winning Yahoo Mail Best Internet Cafes.
Passport Rules and Current Passport News
Current passports rules for US citizens are a bit confusing right now -- get the passport rules and passport news, understand what's happening with passports, who needs passports, whether you need passports to cross US borders and more. Read up for the definitive answers on passport rules and passport news for Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean and the US, passports and air travel, passport legislation and more.
Travel Myth - Hostels Will Have Bed Bugs
Bed bugs are simply not a travel scourge for student travelers and backpackers. Bed bugs don't carry disease and hostels don't harbor bed bugs. Let's lay some bed bug myths to rest and learn about bed bug symptoms, what bed bug bites look like, how to kill bed bugs, and how to kill bed bugs.
Freighter Travel and Freighter Cruises Get You There Slooowly
Boat travel is a charming alternative to long haul flying. A little known and cheap boat travel option, freighter travel, is popular with student travelers and adventurers of all ilk. And with Easy Cruise ships bobbing up in world ports, "regular" cruises are now navigating the cheap boat travel fun lanes. So what's up with freighter travel, cruises and boat travel in general?
Polite Passenger Behavior on Airplanes Makes the World Go 'Round Much Better
Airplane Etiquette - Airplane Behavior - Being Polite Passenger on Planes is Airplane Etiquette 101
Study Abroad Blogs
Study abroad blogs are a great way to see what other students who are getting ready to study abroad are doing and thinking -- reading study abroad blogs from students who are on the ground overseas is an excellent opportunity to understand what study abroad is really like. And reading study abroad blogs from those who've been there, done it and come home is entirely, truly inspirational. We've rounded up some good resources for study abroad blogs -- check it out:
Busabout Europe - Hop On Hop Off European Bus
Busabout is way to do European bus travel tours -- economical and easy. Students can get deals - check out Busabout details and Europe bus passes.
Favorite US Cities for Student Travel
Student traveler looking for the best US cities? A recent poll shows students favor (in order) New York, Las Vegas, Orlando, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Miami, Boston and Austin.
Travel Journals as Gifts
With the proliferation and ease of use of online travel journals, keeping a paper journal sounds old fashioned, but "talking" to a journal connects a traveler with home while on a train or in a hostel bunk -- give one as a gift. The tools are a journal and a pen -- and within those parameters lies a lot of leeway. Read up to find the journals, pen ideas and some add-ons for personalizing and special-ifying a travel journal gift.
Budget UK Travel - Frugal Ideas for the United Kingdom
Budget UK Travel - Free Things and Pubs and Hostels in UK - Budget UK Travel Planning
Is Spring Break in Mexico Safe?
As spring break 2009 drew nigh, many U.S. students received campus-wide email warnings regarding the safety of travel to Mexico for spring break, and advising students against driving to Mexico for spring break because of heightened safety concerns due to battling between Mexican drug cartels and the US along the US/Mexico border. (We've reprinted a typical email, sent to students at one Colorado university.) Let's dissect those concerns on spring break safety in Mexico for 2009...
Mexican Car Insurance, Renting a Car in Mexico and Crossing the Mexico Border
Driving in Mexico - border crossings, Mexican car insurance, driving rules of the road in Mexico, bringing items into and out of Mexico, Mexico and US Customs and renting a car in Mexico and more on driving in Mexico. Driving in Mexico is a snap --don't be afraid of driving in Mexico!
In Which We Try Finding Cheap Mexico Airfare
With budget European airline champ Ryanair's announcement of (at last) firm plans to start offering its budget seats in Mexico in fall 2006, we wondered if inter-Mexico airfares would be taking a turn for the cheap: the Ireland airline was operating in Mexico as vivaAerobus and joining several operators offering Mexico budget airfares since Mexico privatized Mexicana. We set out to see if the budget Mexico airline hype was true and whether we could save money. What we found:
Calling Around Down Under - More on GSM Phones and SIM Cards
A friend of ours is out of here, here being the U.S., to New Zealand and Australia for six months and we just dropped off a gift for her upcoming travel: an unlocked GSM phone we bought in Australia with a practically full SIM card in it. We bought it after, while in Oz, misplacing our own precious, unlocked, U.S. GSM cell phone (which magically turned up the minute we purchased the new one, natch), and though we could charge the Aussie GSM cell phone, we couldn't get SIM cards (read more...)
Costa Rica Spanish
Putting fear of foolishness aside and attempting the basic words goes a long way in getting one around in Costa Rica, and knowing the local Costa Rican phrases is a major help. I just learned spme more Costa Rica Spanish from Costa Rica expert Kirsten Hubbard's "Talk Like a Tico," and you may find they'll come handy when you next head to that lovely land; check it out...