Questions tagged [travel]
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Does Ryanair use cookies to raise the price of their tickets after you have visited the site before?
According to this website, this and a few others, apparently, RyanAir uses cookies to detect whether you've been to the site before and increases the price, presumably because it believes if you're checking it again, you're going to be more…
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What is the use of the questions on the US Visa Waiver form?
Whenever I enter the US, I need to fill out a little green form. The front page asks all sorts of reasonable questions: Name, passport number, date of birth, address I plan to be in the US etc.
The backside, however, asks questions such as whether…
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Does Trump spend $10m/month travelling compared to Obama's $1m/month?
The following graphic has been making the rounds in Reddit and other locations:
The graphic cites The Washington Post as its source.
Essentially, it is a infographic based on two figures:
That Trump's estimated travel expenses during his first…
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Is 2FABE a secret code for sending postcards without a stamp?
Borrowing shamelessly from a travel Stack Exchange question https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/2825/2fabe-the-secret-international-travel-postcard-stamp-code:
I was told about this about three years ago, that if you were
desperate and…
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Do airlines increase price on repeat visits?
Where I live in the UK it is a common statement that looking around on comparison websites such as GoCompare or holiday websites such as BritishAirways will result in them using various methods to identify who is checking and raise the price when…
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Did two people get arrested for "manspreading"?
I've read in multiple places that two men have been arrested in New York for "manspreading", sitting on the subway with legs spreading.
It seems quite unbelievable. First of all, I don't think people are arrested for travelling without a ticket,…
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Did Malaysia ever stamp "SHIT" on passports ("suspected hippie in transit")?
BBC (2023):
In Malaysia anyone with sufficiently suspect attributes would have the letters SHIT - suspected hippie in transit - stamped in their passports before being deported.
Forbes (2014):
When Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler crossed over…
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Do Irish locals urinate on the Blarney Stone?
The Blarney Stone is a stone set into the wall of a castle in Ireland. There is a local tradition that kissing the stone will grant eloquence.
I was told by the tour guides in multiple locations in Ireland (Dublin, Cork, Galway) that locals urinate…
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Have 'a lot' of New Yorkers 'fled the city' to Florida?
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has thus far resisted calls for heavier restrictions in the state, and part of his argument for not going further appears to be that stay-at-home orders elsewhere have had unintended consequences (with perhaps an…
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Are fifth freedom flights more often discounted than regular flights?
I read on https://www.flypointyend.com/5th-freedom-flights/ (mirror):
The fifth freedom allows an airline to carry revenue traffic between foreign countries as a part of services connecting the airline's own country. Fifth Freedom flights are often…
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Do ice cubes with holes in them come from a purified water source?
Water in generally considered unsafe to drink in a number of South American countries, for example Ecuador. Even locals regularly buy bottled water. Ice also risks transmitting the contaminants.
While traveling there, I've also heard that it's safe…
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Is it possible to banish jet-lag with hi-tech sunglasses?
The Daily Telegraph (via yesterday’s Independent.ie) carried an article titled “Hi-tech 'sunglasses' could banish jet-lag,” which claimed:
Australian sleep researches have developed a set of hi-tech "sunglasses", described as the world's first…
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Did anyone ever do a round trip with a Concorde in a single day?
The Concorde was a supersonic passenger jet, with an average flight time around 3 hours and 30 minutes between London to New York. As can be seen here Complete List of Concorde Scheduled Flight between 1991-2000 British Airways operated the…
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Do Australian pedophiles travel to Southeast Asia to abuse children there?
Australia is considering a law that would ban international travel for registered pedophiles. The reasoning seems to be the assumption that they frequently travel to Asia or south pacific islands for the main purpose to abuse children.
Australian…
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Have more people been to space than visited every nation?
I read in Melburnian Rachel Davey becomes the first Australian woman to visit every nation in the world
(mirror):
In human history, more people have been to space than visited every nation.
Is that true?
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