What is the best tip/piece of info you learned on this site?
May 12th, 2007, 06:39 PM
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how to use the Swiss online timetables.
It made it very easy to plan our days from point to point during our upcoming two week trip. This included buses and gondolas. Making hard copies to take along each day was a plus.
It made it very easy to plan our days from point to point during our upcoming two week trip. This included buses and gondolas. Making hard copies to take along each day was a plus.
May 12th, 2007, 06:54 PM
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I am a fairly new Fodorite and I have learned that the best tip is to be very specific in how you word your "title". For example, don't just type "Itinerary help"- state for which city or area and what kind of advice you want. Example: "Does this driving itinerary between ____ and ____ seem doable?" versus "Driving in Germany"
Also, for the best advice, don't just ask if you should go somewhere or what to do there! Do your OWN research first, decide what your OWN preferences are, and only then post and see if another traveler can make suggestions between two hotels, for a specific restaurant in a specific city, etc.
Lastly, the breadth and depth of knowledge here is amazing- it seems someone will always know something about what you are asking!
Also, for the best advice, don't just ask if you should go somewhere or what to do there! Do your OWN research first, decide what your OWN preferences are, and only then post and see if another traveler can make suggestions between two hotels, for a specific restaurant in a specific city, etc.
Lastly, the breadth and depth of knowledge here is amazing- it seems someone will always know something about what you are asking!
May 12th, 2007, 07:32 PM
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I've learned so much from Fodor's that I couldn't even begin to say what was the best. If it hadn't been for this site, I wouldn't have known to watch for DCC in Ireland. I wouldn't know nearly as much as I do about rental cars or cell phones overseas. And then there are the specific recommendations I've gotten for hotels, B&Bs, restaurants, and on and on.
As I said on my latest trip report, the posters on Fodor's have made me a much more informed traveler. And that, in turn, leads to much more enjoyable trips.
As I said on my latest trip report, the posters on Fodor's have made me a much more informed traveler. And that, in turn, leads to much more enjoyable trips.
May 12th, 2007, 09:40 PM
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Too many to mention, quite honestly. I've planned many trips on this site.
However, one tip does stick out in my mind. Bob the Navigator told me how to get into Sunday Mass using the side entrance door at the Duomo in Florence.
However, one tip does stick out in my mind. Bob the Navigator told me how to get into Sunday Mass using the side entrance door at the Duomo in Florence.
May 12th, 2007, 11:02 PM
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It is no easy job to choose the best tips and ideas on this site but one of my favorites was to contact BETS ( Budget Europe Travel ) when I was having train reservation issues. I met LInda who was absolutely awesome. She taught me about the system and which trains to reserve and managed to get me set up for anything that I needed and she spent endless hours finding out info for me. That tip brought sanity back to my trip planning. We are leaving in 11 days and we will be gone for a month. For now my biggest worry is that trusty 21 inch suitcast which I have packed at least 5 times!.
May 13th, 2007, 12:57 AM
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After 5 years on Fodors, I have learned so many valuable and heloful things. One important thing is to double and triple check Ira's advice on certain things and certain areas, because I have found from experience that the advice given is not always based on personal experience/knowledge, but more on the need to reply to every single question regardless, and thus sometimes is less than accurate.
It's so important to do your own research to substantiate things.
It's so important to do your own research to substantiate things.
May 13th, 2007, 02:01 AM
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> because I have found from experience that the advice given is not always based on personal experience/knowledge, but more on the need to reply to every single question regardless, ....<
Good Lord, BS,
Give a guy a break.
Unless I had some deep-seated need to respond to every question, would I be wasting time responding to this remark?
Good Lord, BS,
Give a guy a break.
Unless I had some deep-seated need to respond to every question, would I be wasting time responding to this remark?
