This is how to avoid crowds when you travel
If you want to avoid a crowd when you travel, take a number and get in line. There’s a crowd of people who want the same thing.
Christopher Elliott
Hotel fee warning: What “for your convenience” really means
If you’ve ever seen the words “for your convenience” on a hotel bill, you probably suspect it’s not really for your convenience. It’s for their convenience.
A backstage tour of Elliott Advocacy
They want to destroy us.
They want to terminate our work, shut this site down, and replace the void with corporate-friendly, affiliate-driven, bogus advocacy.
How to avoid these really stupid travel mistakes (and keep your dignity intact)
Pay attention.
If you do, you won’t end up like Allan Jordan, who showed up for a recent Virgin Atlantic Airways flight from New York to London, only to discover he’d overlooked a small but important detail.
CLEAR almost made us miss our flight. I want an apology!
When Russ Higgins and his family try to use CLEAR, a security screening service, to verify their identities at the airport, they find a long line and almost miss their flight. What does CLEAR owe them?
Budget says we drove through a hailstorm. Now it wants me to pay $2,133
When Candace Welch returns her rental to Budget in Sioux Falls, S.D., the company bills her $2,133 for hail damage. Just one problem — there was no hailstorm.
Don’t become a victim of delay rage this summer. Here’s how.
If the click of the public announcement system in the boarding area is all it takes to make your heart skip a beat, maybe you’re susceptible to this summer’s travel epidemic: delay rage.
Amazon sent me the wrong graphics card. How do I get this fixed?
Ryan Maietta orders an Arc A770 graphics card from Amazon. Instead, he gets a different card, an A750. How does he get this fixed?
I’ve been banned by Airbnb, but no one will tell me why
Why did Airbnb ban Solange Reyner? The company won’t tell her. But will it tell this consumer advocate?
Do overweight passengers deserve a bigger seat on a plane?
On a recent flight from Phoenix to London, Gerri Hether found herself seated next to an overweight passenger — so overweight that he couldn’t fit into his seat.