Travel Betty

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It goes without saying that when you fly, you should reserve seats ahead of time, least you end up in the dreaded middle. But it’s also important that when you’re flying on consecutive flights, especially long ones, that you [...]

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I’d heard a lot about Singapore Airlines having the best food of any airline. But, if you set one of their default meals down in front of me along with any other airlines’, I wouldn’t be able to tell which was which.
On the way over to Bali, my meal was fine, but not notable in [...]

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A man in Hong Kong is caressing me and yet we’ve barely even exchanged hellos. I’m at the airport, in a delicious place called Oriental Healing Art next to gate 41 and I’m indulging in something I always seem to talk myself out of when traveling. A foot massage.
After a 15 hour flight, my legs [...]

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Upgrades are rare. Even if you’re willing to dole out miles for the pleasure. If you’re willing to dole out money, more power to you, Richie Rich.
Here’s a recent lesson I lived and learned so you don’t have to make the same mistake.
My grand plan back when I first conceived of the Bali trip was [...]

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You know when sometimes you just don’t spend time to think things through? You just take it all at face value? I mean, am I the only one who just automatically accepted that Alaska Airlines had painted Bob Marley on the tails of their planes?

Seriously, one day I finally stopped for a moment and [...]

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So Travel Boyfriend, as sweet as he is, decided to take me to New Orleans for my birthday. He had a business trip scheduled there during my birthday week (Yes, I celebrate the whole week. I’m a Leo after all.) and I decided that instead of going for just a long weekend or whatnot, that [...]

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We’ve all seen and maybe even used moving sidewalks at the airport. It’s a simple system. If you’re going to stand, do it on the right. If you’re going to walk, do it on your left. If you’ve got an unmanageable brood of children or can’t keep tabs over the many pieces of your luggage [...]

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Shitting my pants in a confined space filled mostly with strangers was not a decision I ever thought I’d make. At least not sober or until I was on the far-side of 90. But there I was staring at eight unsuspecting victims, only one of whom had made any sort of commitment to me (and [...]

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So last week, Travel Boyfriend flew from San Francisco to Veracruz, Mexico having placed his portable DVD player in his checked luggage. Not surprisingly, when he arrived the DVD player was gone. His letter to the airline was responded to with a message that states:
“For your information Travel Boyfriend (yes, that’s his real name), the [...]

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If the word ‘fuselage’ is any indication, planes aren’t built by people with an appreciation for comfort. Ever since I made the decision to wean myself off of Xanax, it has become clear to me that if I want to enjoy flying, I need to take matters into my own hands.
For my Egypt trip I decided [...]

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