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How to get the best deals on hotels and resorts

Published by Alex Jacob

You don’t need to spend hell lot of money for a hotel room.There are tricks and tips you can use to find the best deals on hotels and resorts for your trips. Everyone will look for the best deals on hotels and resorts while traveling. Bringing down the cost of stay would be the necessity of a budget traveler. There is no special magic for finding the best deal. I will tell you how to find the best deals on hotels and resorts. So let’s see the tips one by one and try which all will work for us. Signup for the alerts on price drops Rather than searching how to get the best hotel deals online, try to find the websites that will work for you.There are websites which will alert you by mail or message for the price drops or best deals. We can’t keep an eye on hotel deals all the time, so any price drops will be notified. Websites like Hotels.com and Kayak are best in this since they won’t flood your inbox. …

What is the best travel breakfast ?

Published by MovingShoe

A very simple question, but which can lead to a debate topic between readers. I am not going to address this question very specifically with some general suggestions. The mode of traveling will also have some role in our breakfast. If you are doing a road trip, things can vary from a luxury travel. Let’s consider we are backpacking and see how we can plan the best travel breakfast. You can carry the below mentioned food items which will be very handy. Rolled oats. Dry Fruits and Nuts. Rolled Omelet with 3 eggs.( depends on your hunger level ) Milk/Water in Bottle. Fruits like Apple/Banana. You don’t need to carry this for all your road trips. You can manage it from the nearest town/city through where you will be passing to reach your destination. Rolled oats, Image credits: prevention.com There can be chances to stay in a remote place and find it difficult to locate a hotel or restaurant. This portable food items will help you in those situations. Suppose you are already traveling with …

11 Things you need to pack for your Goa trip

Published by MovingShoe

If you’re planning a Goa vacation to enjoy the best of its beaches and parties during the Sunburn Festival, do read this post before packing your bags for the trip. Goa is a place, completely for outdoor fun activities and water sports. Here are some of my recommendations for your Goa trip. 1. Sunscreen You are not going to Goa for enjoying your complete time inside a Casino. Goa is popular for the outdoor activities and hence sunscreen is very much required. Get a good sunscreen that does not make you sweat, since you’re going to be quite hot and sweaty from all that partying. Always prefer branded sunscreens when it comes for your skin protection. 2. Sunglasses Needless to stay, but inevitable in Goa. It will protect your eyes from harsh sun rays as well as sand in the beaches. They are also make for great cover-ups for sleepy or hung-over eyes. People have the habit of staring others when it’s an open beach, so sunglasses will make you comfortable there also. Be a …

What can I do if I have lost my Indian Passport?

Published by MovingShoe

We all are humans and chances are there to loss our passport. It can be during your travel or can be a theft at a foreign country. Once you lost passport, there is no alternative for that. You may need to apply for a new passport. I am not going to cover the entire procedure for reapplying a lost passport like a tutorial. I just wanted to share some important steps which you need to follow after losing it. Contact your Indian embassy or consulate As traveler mostly you will be traveling to different foreign countries with your passport. So what you will do, if you have lost your passport during traveling? In this situation also you can come to India on the basis of an emergency certificate. For the issuance of emergency certificate, you need to contact the respective mission/post of that country. This is the very immediate step you need to take. Contact the nearest embassy for taking it further. If your passport has been stolen, file a police case Nowadays the thefts …

Do you know what is the power rank of a passport ?

Published by MovingShoe

How many of you know what is the power rank of an Indian passport ? Which country have the best passport power rank ? As a traveler, this information is important for a traveler who have international travel plans. What is a passport’s power? Simply the number of countries it allows you to travel to, without a visa. An American or a UK passport lets you enter more than 150 countries without a visa – at best, you’ll automatically get a Visa on Arrival. This is how the firm’s Passport Index website has ranked passports based on a ‘Visa Free Score’. This passport power will vary every year, hence the passport index website will publish the latest rank on every year. Passport power rank of India, Indian passport holders can only travel to 49 countries without visa/visa on arrival. What is Welcoming Rank ? Welcoming rank is nothing but, countries ranked by how many passports they accept visa-free, with visa on arrival or with eTA. You can see the most welcoming and least welcoming countries from …

How to pack lightly for a long trip

Published by MovingShoe

There is a misconception that long trips needs long luggage and huge trolleys with you. Do we really need all these junk items to travel with us? Are you a person who used to carry all the clothes and gadgets with you while traveling? If your answer is a big Yes, then this article will give you some insights on how you should pack your bags for the long trips. I know that long trips will take days, weeks may be months which need enough clothes, food items and all your gadgets. But, can’t we actually sort out some them into inevitable items and minimize our luggage? The way we pack our bags are also important for long trips. The backpackers are expert in that since they can’t carry hell lot of items with them like luxury travelers or Glampackers. So as promised, let’s see how we can pack a lighter bag for the longer trip. Make a packing list first. This step is actually really important which most of the travelers will skip. The …

Step by step guide to planning your ideal holiday

Published by MovingShoe

In your holidays, have you ever packed all stuffs in one night and set out to a destination which you never heard of? How great that experience was? Is this how you are doing in your holidays? Then this post is for those people, who never used to plan the holiday journeys properly. Unless and until you are traveling like a kite, you should know the actual steps you need to follow for executing a cost effective holiday trip whether it is backpacking or family trip Let’s go through this step by step guide. Decide Your Destination Deciding your destination is very important whether you are into backpacking, glampacking or traveling with your family. I have seen many people traveling without a destination in mind. Most of them are merely following a group or family without even knowing which all destinations they are going to visit. Sounds similar? Choosing a destination is very important while planning your holidays, as it will give you a definite goal. Deciding the destination should be your first milestone which …

How to distinguish Backpackers and Glampackers

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Now you can see backpackers are exploring every longitude and latitude on this earth. Definitely I can say backpackers have changed the way of traveling what it was in the beginning. Backpackers can be of all ages, background, financial status and cultures. Due to this factors, we can see so many subsets in backpackers. Before I introduce the Glampackers, let’s see how the backpackers came into existence. What is backpacking? In my words, backpacking is nothing but traveling to a destination where your mind is tempting you to travel without any plans. Backpacking is basically a form of low cost, independent travel. Backpackers are the people who will be following this form of traveling mostly prefers public transportation and inexpensive lodging such as youth hostels or couch surfing. See what Wikipedia is saying about backpackers. The definition of a backpacker has evolved as travelers from different cultures and regions participate. A 2007 paper said Whatever the case you should have a clear idea of what you are doing, Backpacking or Glampacking. The world of travel …