Do's and Taboos of Preparing for Your Trip Abroad [Paperback]

Roger E. Axtell (Author), John P. Healy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 13, 1994

This comprehensive travel planner/guide makes it faster and easier than ever to plan your trip abroad. It anticipates every question you're likely to have and offers detailed, step-by-step guidance on absolutely everything you need to consider before stepping off your native soil, including:
* Planning your itinerary and making travel arrangements, obtaining passports and visas, and booking accommodations
* Tips, insights, and shortcuts for learning the culture
* Staying safe and healthy on the road
* Traveling with kids, senior citizens, or people with special physical needs
* Packing luggage, renting a car, and exchanging money
* Valuable resource names, addresses, and phone numbers (including ones for information)
This incomparable guide tells you everything you need to know to guarantee that your trip abroad is economical, safe, enjoyable, and productive.

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From the Publisher

Based on most often asked questions in a telephone hotline survey of 20,000 business travelers in New York, Chicago and Washington, this handy checklist anticipates questions that arise during foreign travel. Gives advice on trip arrangements, passports and visas, health and safety, car rentals and hotel accommodations, packing suitcases, dealing with emergencies, exchanging money, learning the culture and traveling with pets, children or handicapped persons.

From the Back Cover

This comprehensive travel planner/guide makes it faster and easier than ever to plan your trip abroad. It anticipates every question you’re likely to have and offers detailed, step-by-step guidance on absolutely everything you need to consider before stepping off your native soil, including:

• Planning your itinerary and making travel arrangements, obtaining passports and visas, and booking accommodations
• Tips, insights, and shortcuts for learning the culture
• Staying safe and healthy on the road
• Traveling with kids, senior citizens, or people with special physical needs
• Packing luggage, renting a car, and exchanging money
• Valuable resource names, addresses, and phone numbers (including ones for information)

This incomparable guide tells you everything you need to know to guarantee that your trip abroad is economical, safe, enjoyable, and productive.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 13, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471025674
• ISBN-13: 978-0471025672
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,262,998 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Travel Book To Keep You Out of TROUBLE!!!, March 5, 2004

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Erica Phillipson (Hawaii) "Erica Phillipson" (HI, USA North Shore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Do's and Taboos of Preparing for Your Trip Abroad (Paperback)

Five stars to Roger Axtell and John Healy. I highly recommend this book if you ever travel to Asia, Europe, Canada, Middle East, or Latin America.

I read this book from the front cover to the back cover in one evening. The author has also written "Traveling Cautions for Dictator Country", in addition to "Fun Fun Fun In Bangkok", also great books.

He provides great checklists that will help you keep out of trouble when authorities demand bribes or magazines that are illegal in their countries. One hint, also carry five recent copies of Pent house.

Of particular note is his advise on what to do if you lose your passport, credit cards, or phone card. He suggests locations where you can get exact duplicates in 'other names' so that you can have a very expensive vacation on someone else's account.

Details are given for Senior Citizens for saving space in luggage for packing Depends by using space saving bags that are sold in major warehouse type stores (Costco, Sam's Club).

I really enjoyed the section on how to insult different cultures. Most useful for getting off on the right foot.

Photos of different toilets around the world are chronicled including the sit and squat over a hole method in much of Asia. Some of the pictures were disgusting but humorous at the same time. Emile who is a clean freak would go nuts and not even enter some of these restrooms. Each countries rest rooms are rated.

Instructions for bypassing local telephone controls are included that will save on your travel and communicate dollars to make inexpensive (as in free) call around the world.

Hats off to this author!