A Sweet Way to Get Great Service

Travel tip: Pack this, and airline and hotel personnel will bend over backwards for you. In honor of Valentine’s Day, here’s a secret weapon that will woo customer service agents faster than Cupid’s arrow: chocolate. Mimi Almeida, a frequent traveler in her role as...

Fire!

Travel tip: Request the seventh floor or lower in a hotel for fire safety. Unless you’re obsessed with a view (and plan to spend enough time in your hotel room to enjoy it), ask for a room on a lower floor of your hotel. Fire truck ladders generally reach 100...

Hotel Solution: One Way to Get a Better Night’s Sleep

Travel tip: There’s a simple tool in your hotel room that will close up that irritating gap between the drapes. Have you ever noticed that hotel room drapes seem universally unwilling to close fully, so that there almost always is a gap between each side....

Phone Charger Panic

Tip: When you forget your charger, borrow one from the hotel lost and found. Two weeks ago, I had the privilege of interviewing Anthony Melchiorre, whose Travel Channel TV show Hotel Impossible kicks off its fourth season in January. He mentioned that one of his...