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I'm flying international with a domestic leg (SEA > EWR > NAS) When they say arrive 3 hours early, are they referring to the first connection or the connection that goes international? Also where will I exit customs??
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lol internet. posted:I'm flying international with a domestic leg (SEA > EWR > NAS) They mean for the initial flight. In practice today, it makes zero difference whether your flight is domestic or international since the US does not have exit customs nor exit immigration (unlike most countries). Because there is no exit immigration, international flights out of the US are not really any different from domestic flights from a passenger's perspective except for a very few exceptions like flying to Israel. In many airports you'll have a flight to Tokyo right next to a flight to like, Sacramento. On the way back in, immigration can be a real shitshow in which case the most important timing is the connection where you land in the US and even with TSAPre√ I'd never take by choice a connection under 2 hours. Other times, immigration can take 3 seconds. Customs is trivial in the US; you hand a TSA agent a sheet of paper after you clear immigration, and that's it, there is no baggage scan or whatever. I've never been spot checked nor known anyone who has been spot checked, but probably it happens. Anyway it is irrelevant unless you were planning on smuggling back tons of cigarettes or alcohol. I'm not really sure how they keep track of foreigners leaving the US now; I guess it must all be connected to your passport and when you scan your ticket.
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Jun 8, 2021 11:07
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lol internet. posted:I'm flying international with a domestic leg (SEA > EWR > NAS) In addition to the good info that saladman has provided, when you come back to the US from NAS, you'll clear immigration and customs in NAS as it is one of the handful of locations around the world (Canada, Ireland, and a couple other locations) that is part of the US Preclearance system. This means your flight will arrive in the US as essentially a domestic arrival. And yes, travelers (both citizens and foreigners) are tracked via passport for ingress to and egress from the US.
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Beef Of Ages posted:In addition to the good info that saladman has provided, when you come back to the US from NAS, you'll clear immigration and customs in NAS as it is one of the handful of locations around the world (Canada, Ireland, and a couple other locations) that is part of the US Preclearance system. This means your flight will arrive in the US as essentially a domestic arrival. Huh, that is a weird grab-bag of countries. Canada (OK), Bahamas (I guess, only a little odd that none of the other Caribbean states are eligible but I guess it is way closer), Ireland (??), and UAE (???). The only list more odd than that is the list of nationalities that are eligible to do Global Entry ( U.S. citizens, U.S. residents, then Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Argentina, India, Colombia, Panama, Singapore, South Korea, and Mexico). Canada has some equivalent program which is why it's off that list, but it's weird that like, Australia is not on it. I'm sure there is some rhyme and reason to all of those lists. The other weird lists is the places where you can do your interviews for Global Entry: the US, Canada, and... Qatar?? Even though Qatari citizens – nor any GCC members – are not even eligible for Global Entry. It took me like a year to get all my wife's documents for Global Entry, and then COVID hit and bam, wasn't able to do a goddamn interview.
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Jun 9, 2021 11:51
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I have some family visiting Texas from Argentina, but their flight was canceled. I am trying to find an alternate route they can take, even if it involves flying to a different city. I want a search engine that tells me which cities are available. Does such a thing exist?
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Jul 31, 2021 23:08
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Bioshuffle posted:I have some family visiting Texas from Argentina, but their flight was canceled. I am trying to find an alternate route they can take, even if it involves flying to a different city. A search engine? No. The Wikipedia page for the airport that lists airlines and destinations served? You betcha. Example: EZE. That will enable you to identify gateway cities and carriers and then you can start to do normal flight searches on Google Flights, Kayak, or whatever. Also keep in mind that the pandemic is continually loving up flight schedules, especially out of Central and South America, so you may have a fairly tall task ahead if this is happening right now.
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Aug 1, 2021 17:00
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Should I carry my passport around everywhere in a foreign country? I was asked for a passport to exchange currency. I'm a little concerned I could lose it though which is why I don't want to carry it everywhere.
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no hay camino posted:Should I carry my passport around everywhere in a foreign country? I was asked for a passport to exchange currency. Carry a copy on a sheet of paper. IMHO also never put it in the hotel safe, you're 100x more likely to forget it in the safe than you are to have it stolen from your hotel room. Put it in a part of your luggage that cannot possibly be forgotten when going from place to place. The only time I can think of offhand, besides hotel check-in and travelling when you'd anyway have your luggage on hand, are a very few countries where it is needed for very specific things (e.g. Tunisia: changing currency; Egypt: buying hard alcohol). Also if you are driving a rental car I would keep the original passport handy in case you get stopped by police. Sometimes there are other random discounts if you have a certain type of passport on you, e.g. Petra is 98% discount if you have an Arab passport on you, the Louvre is 100% off if you're under 26 and have an EU passport on you, etc.
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Saladman posted:The other weird lists is the places where you can do your interviews for Global Entry: the US, Canada, and... Qatar?? Even though Qatari citizens – nor any GCC members – are not even eligible for Global Entry. Presumably this is because of the US military
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I am trying to put together a trip for like a dozen people to Costa Rica. We're all going to VRBO/AirBNB one or two large houses on the east coast somewhere. Would it make sense to find a travel agent to help with the logistics of airfare and travel insurance and possibly an airport shuttle or something? And, if so, what's the best way to find an agent? Just call local shops?
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Jan 31, 2022 22:11
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FreelanceSocialist posted:I am trying to put together a trip for like a dozen people to Costa Rica. We're all going to VRBO/AirBNB one or two large houses on the east coast somewhere. Would it make sense to find a travel agent to help with the logistics of airfare and travel insurance and possibly an airport shuttle or something? And, if so, what's the best way to find an agent? Just call local shops? I tend to think of travel agents as something for extremely boutique itineraries, and having 12 people going somewhere isn't really the same thing. You absolutely can use a travel agent, and use Yelp or whatever to help you find one, but finding airfare for 12 and arranging ground transport from SJO or LIR shouldn't be that difficult given the expat community down there. Your Airbnb host may have suggestions as well.
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If the 12 people are in six different cities, with six slightly different schedules, doing it yourself could be a real pain.
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Feb 5, 2022 17:45
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We ended up organizing it so that I handled the AirBNB, insurance, shuttle, and a few things like a day on a catamaran and just told everyone to find their own airfare for the dates. So far, so good. No one else seems to be brushing up on their spanish, though. Yo como manzanas, you stupid duolingo owl.
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Feb 10, 2022 00:00
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Any suggestions for things to see or do in Bergen, Norway? A friend is presenting in a conference in March and I will likely be going to provide moral support.
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Bioshuffle posted:I have some family visiting Texas from Argentina, but their flight was canceled. I am trying to find an alternate route they can take, even if it involves flying to a different city. Somehow I never went into this thread so it's way too late, but this kind of exists for anyone who might need it later.  https://www.kayak.ie/explore/BUE-253cy Google has a similar tool here: https://www.google.com/travel/flights
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Any recommendations for some aqua/beautiful beaches in North America/South America? Seems Cancun Mexico/Punta Canta Dominican seems to of entered their seaweed season. Not Hawaii, been there like three times already.
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Is there some way to assemble your own atlas of an area through online stuff? I wanted a back up atlas of the area within 2 hours of Portland, OR or so. I can't find an Oregon atlas with the level of detail I want. AAA didn't have anything either. I don't want to rely on my phone and tablet, and I want something I can draw some notes on. We're scoping out where we could move with some acreage and will be going along some of the more remote areas within that span. If there's some open web service with an API I can hit, I'm fine with that. I can do scripting just fine.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Is there some way to assemble your own atlas of an area through online stuff? I wanted a back up atlas of the area within 2 hours of Portland, OR or so. I can't find an Oregon atlas with the level of detail I want. AAA didn't have anything either. Is this what you want? https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6291838?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid. I've downloaded city-scale maps for areas with bad reception before and google maps usually does a good job of deadreckoning and putting me in that right spot. I've not tried it for a whole car trip before, but I've also gone on lots of 6-12 hour drives through areas without cell data service and not had a problem with google maps providing directions even in low/no service areas. If you want physical copies, you could probably print out a series of google maps (https://support.google.com/mymaps/answer/3109452?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop), but that'd be tedious. Unfortunately, I don't know any way to do that faster. LLSix fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Sep 26, 2022 |
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Sep 26, 2022 03:24
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Yeah I am trying to get hard copies. There is this German site using some open map standard that lets you generate a map, but "multipage" is a drop-down without any more context or control and the renders are strange. I can link it tomorrow when I can shovel the link out of my notes.
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I've done that and used a max screen resolution setting on a Mac with retina display (you have to download "Display Menu" to switch to such a max resolution), taken screenshots, and then used the panorama feature in Photoshop to stitch them together perfectly – but it takes a lot of effort by hand, and a license for photoshop and knowing how to use it. It's a pain in the rear end but it does work. Otherwise you can try to stitch them together by hand in GIMP or something but god help you if it's more than about 20 sheets, as it takes a minute or two to screenshot and stitch each one by hand and it's boring and repetitive - which is why I know Photoshop has a feature to do it automatically. Also I had a summer job once which was essentially doing that for old documents so I got pretty fast at doing it by hand before I realized Photoshop could do 80% of the work for me.
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Found a link to the site. The multipage atlas I had it run actually made one last night! https://print.get-map.org/maps/238719/AVlmiUyYGKjnRqxp#submitmapform I'm hoping that info persists for others to see. It is using metric though. I am seeing if that's something I can adjust.
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Any good resources for planning US road trips? It’s hard to tell which smaller towns are worth visiting and which are dull, and which roads are scenic and worth a longer trip over the fastest route. Google is worthless because these searches have been optimized for with junk content. Maybe books?
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smackfu posted:Any good resources for planning US road trips? It’s hard to tell which smaller towns are worth visiting and which are dull, and which roads are scenic and worth a longer trip over the fastest route. Guidebooks are perfect good for this kind of thing, unless you happen to find a blog by someone who has done it and was a good photographer and has similar tastes as your own. IMO go to an actual bookstore and look at their travel section and flip through the books they have on American roadtrips and get one or two that look like your style. I've found a lot of small towns, even ones that get some guidebook note, are not particularly interesting unless you're someone who's impressed by seeing the World's Largest Chair, or the World's Biggest Elephant Statue Made Out Of Cement, or whatever, so I'm a big fan of the ones that have lots of photographs, and not a big fan of the ones that are largely text and/or contain a bunch of worthless information about restaurants and hotels, like it's back in 2002 and I can't just google search and in two seconds find every hotel within a 50 mile radius. I'm looking at you, most Lonely Planet guidebooks. Lonely Planet does publish some good picture-heavy books now though, but I find their actual guidebooks to be archaic. Wikivoyage has some articles on the most famous routes like 66 and Highway 1 ( https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Route_66 ) although I see that particular article is also totally junk, as it's written for people time travelling from 1995 who apparently want turn-by-turn directions for a 2000 mile drive because they're still using roadmaps and don't speak English and also don't have phones. That article is actually hilarious in how much utterly useless detail it goes into and it's worth clicking for the laugh alone.
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I think Lonely Planet used to be going for the “a bus dropped me off in some random town, where can I stay or eat” thing pre internet. Might still be helpful in foreign country I guess. I’ll check out travel guides though, looking through them in a good bookstore seems fairly efficient vs buying online.
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Not really advice on travel, but does anyone have any recommendations for a carry on bag with rollers that has a slot for a laptop? I travel with two laptops and generally use a large laptop bag as my carry on item, but I've run into a few situations where I need to bring some extra stuff and end up using my roller bag and wrapping the second laptop up in a pair of sweatpants and using my small laptop bag for the other. Though I guess alternatively any recommendations for a backpack small enough to be considered a personal item but that can carry two laptops?
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Medullah posted:Not really advice on travel, but does anyone have any recommendations for a carry on bag with rollers that has a slot for a laptop? I travel with two laptops and generally use a large laptop bag as my carry on item, but I've run into a few situations where I need to bring some extra stuff and end up using my roller bag and wrapping the second laptop up in a pair of sweatpants and using my small laptop bag for the other. https://www.redoxx.com/cpa-laptop-briefcase-92096/p I use this one. I've had two laptops, chargers for them, a camera with a few small lenses, cell phone charger, noise cancelling headphones and a pair of batteries for charging my cell phone. And it will fit under the seat or in the overhead of even tiny poo poo like CRJ-200s.
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Are there any other digital nomads like myself here that are starting to travel once more? There are quite a few options for places to stay but am I missing anything major? - AirBnB; good but can be hit or miss. Fees have increased a lot. - TheBlueGrounds; excellent but not in all states/cities and can be expensive. Monthly minimum. - Landing; mediocre to terrible feedback but some decent options. Not in all cities/states. - Craigslist; a lot of spam/scams but still decent options. - Facebook; a lot of spam/scams but still decent options. - Sonder; good but not in all cities/states. Some terrible reviews. Can be expensive. Personally, this has replaced hotels for me entirely since you can do daily/weekly stays. And it's cheaper. - Mint House; expensive but some fantastic options. - X Guild; expensive but some fantastic options. - FurnishedFinder; terrible website but some fantastic and affordable options. - Kasa; good but not in all cities/states. Expensive. - Zeus Living; good but in all cities/states. Expensive. Gucci Loafers fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Nov 5, 2022 |
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Nov 5, 2022 20:28
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Crosby B. Alfred posted:Are there any other digital nomads like myself here that are starting to travel once more? There are quite a few options for places to stay but am I missing anything major? I haven't heard of about half of those... nice list! Especially furnishedfinder, I live in Canada and want to spend one of the colder months down in Florida. Way better option than airbnb by the looks of it.
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With all of the fees that AirBnB is adding... I don't know why anyone even bothers? It costs the same as a decent hotel now.
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Crosby B. Alfred posted:With all of the fees that AirBnB is adding... I don't know why anyone even bothers? It costs the same as a decent hotel now. AirBnB is great for multi-day stays, and it's great if you want your own kitchen. For one or two day stays, AirBnB sucks, even for room in a shared apartment. But yeah the cheapest AirBnBs are usually on par with 2* or 3* hotels. I don't remember the last time I booked a hotel for > 3 days. Probably almost a decade?
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Is there a NYC thread? Looking for Midtown hotel advice.
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Lincoln posted:Is there a NYC thread? Looking for Midtown hotel advice. I don't think there's a thread here but there's one in LAN, maybe the locals could help you out: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3032497&pagenumber=4410#lastpost
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Lincoln posted:Is there a NYC thread? Looking for Midtown hotel advice. There's not a current NYC thread, maybe an ancient one somewhere. For real recommendations you'd need to include budget max, and key preferences like if you like having space to do your own thing, or do you prefer service. I really like having my own kitchen (even if minimal) and dislike breakfasts at hotels, except at resort hotels, for instance. Last time I looked for NYC (March 2020), I went with one of the Sonder locations in downtown: they're often even cheaper than AirBnB for sub-week stays, now that AirBnB and AirBnB hosts have made their service and cleaning charges ridiculous, respectively. E: Looks like Sonder The William is the only midtown location with kitchenettes. Sonder Chambers (unsurprisingly) is just rooms as are apparently Sonder Henri and Sonder Flatiron.
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I did post my question in a NY-adjacent thread, so thanks to others for the link. Regarding kitchenettes in hotel rooms, I don’t want one. My wife & I differ GREATLY on hotel needs, but one thing we agree on is that we do not want to cook. We go to Disney World every couple of years, and we always get a traditional on-site hotel room. People say, “Oh you should get one of the DVC rooms, they have a kitchen and a washer & dryer.” Yeah gently caress that, I’m not in my 20s and I don’t have kids. Hungry? Room service. Dirty clothes? Should have packed more. Sounds lovely, but at this point in my life I want to solve any travel issues by picking up the phone. I’m old. I’m an old man. I made my money and I’m tired of stressing about vacation. So now I stay in radically-overpriced hotels and I tip loving everyone I see.
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No one wants to cook while on vacation.
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I do. I actually like cooking, especially for breakfast where I’d rather have it chill in my apartment rather than have to go down to some breakfast area. I can’t remember the last > 3 day stay in a place where we didn’t cook. Probably many years. It’s also a large reason for why I rarely look for hotels.
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Saladman posted:I do. I actually like cooking, especially for breakfast where I’d rather have it chill in my apartment rather than have to go down to some breakfast area. I can’t remember the last > 3 day stay in a place where we didn’t cook. Probably many years. It’s also a large reason for why I rarely look for hotels. Same. And when we travel with friends, many of them have dietary restrictions and allergies that make it a lot easier on them if I cook something they know they can eat rather than taking a risk and having a problem while we're out and about later in the day or whatever.
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Looking to book my girlfriend my daughter (17) and myself our first domestic trip! We are looking at all inclusive just for the peace of mind of not having to worry about anything. Trip would be leaving anytime the week of March 19th to the week of March 26th. It's looking like punta cana is the most affordable location? Would that be the best pick, or is there other places we should look as well? Looking for more beach stuff than pools/waterparks
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Harminoff posted:Looking to book my girlfriend my daughter (17) and myself our first domestic trip! We are looking at all inclusive just for the peace of mind of not having to worry about anything. You mean first international trip? You'll need passports for Punta Cana, which means you should apply for them like... yesterday if you haven't already. I would not book an international trip for March 19th if I didn't already have valid passports for everyone. You can pay extra to expedite them and get them within 6 weeks, but I'd still make sure the trip was refundable. For most affordable: depends on your flights and package tours, which means it depends where you are physically located. If you're in LA, probably cheaper to go to somewhere in Mexico. If you're in Atlanta, maybe Punta Cana. To be honest if you want to stay in an AI then you may very well be better off going to a travel agent and seeing what they offer rather than trying to DIY. Since you don't care where you go, just whatever is cheapest and AI, then this is exactly what real, physical travel agents are ideal for. Vvvv I also did a double take with the “my 17 year old girlfriend-daughter" statement. A more horrific version of “a panda eats, shoots, and leaves" example. Saladman fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Jan 12, 2023 |
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Harminoff posted:Looking to book my girlfriend my daughter (17) and myself our first domestic trip! We are looking at all inclusive just for the peace of mind of not having to worry about anything. It's too early in the morning for me because I read this very, very wrong at first without commas.
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