the kits you can self-test over zoom are handy to throw in your luggage if something happens with local testing used those in iceland
The test 72 hours before is the biggest sham. Especially in Canada where they only accept the expensive and time consuming PCR tests. Why must asymptomatic, vaccinated travelers have to get tested before flying, yet you can go about your regular life upon arrival without ever having to get tested? The 72 hours also leaves three days for catching covid so it’s not like this is some perfect covid detection mechanism. One funny example is that you can get tested Thursday night in Canada, fly from Canada to the US Friday, party all weekend, fly back to Canada Sunday morning and use the same test you took in Canada to get back into Canada with no further testing required. Makes perfect sense. Either allow travel or don’t. This in-the-middle seems to make little sense for anyone and just creates barriers and risks to traveling abroad. Team EU where fully vaccinated travelers don’t need to get tested to enter.
What test did you take to get into Iceland? Only think I can find is from Icelandic Air that says PCR or Rapid Antigen are accepted.
Heading to Maui on Saturday. Is a luau worth the $400 to experience or is it more of a typical touristy thing that’s a little boring but something you’d want to see?
If you plan on getting after it with the drinks it's worth it IMO. It was a good time, although the food wasn't amazing. It was worth doing to say I did it.
I did my luau on Thanksgiving, so we had the traditional luau food and Thanksgiving food. It was glorious and probably the most amount of food I've ever eaten in one sitting.
It could be COVID but mine was at a fancy-ass hotel so that probably was why mine was nice. Just follow good reviews and he'll be fine
We went in August. We ate in Lahaina every night. Let me know if you need restaurant recs, but you probably/should already have reservations.
Thanks. A lot of the restaurants filled their reservations a few weeks in advance which I wasn’t expecting so we don’t have all our dinner spots planned, looking like we can just do take out as a fall back option at some of the places already recommended in here if no reservations open up
One suggestion is to put your name in at Monkeypod and see if they have tables open up or space at the bar. Also, earlier the better because a lot of people wait to eat dinner later in the evening and sometimes you can sneak in early.
Last night's Ayahuasca trip was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Cannot even be put into words. This morning, was going for a walk thru the 20-acre property and came across a bee hive, got stung at least 5 times, including right on my bottom lip. Pulled multiple stingers out of me. Feel like it was the universe checking me a bit.
My passport expires soon Sent in my original renewal stuff/picture back in I think January Months later, I get a letter saying that my picture was digitally altered or some shit Fine, I take it. Get another picture taken. Did both at a UPS store. Spend a hour on hold twice during this lull to see how long it takes. Both times get pretty much no answer. I get a letter today saying my chin to head is below 1 inch or above 1.25 or some shit. Fucking
Food in Costa Rica has been better than I expected. Really enjoying it. Just saw a red eyed tree frog. Wow
I ate a gas station empanada today and feel like shit. Fortuna and Monteverde are awesome.When it rains, it fucking downpours. Digital nomad life is pretty awesome. I'm working a little bit more than I'd like, but saving a shitload of money.
Can anyone explain to me how Southwest Early Bird works? I'm going to Vegas tomorrow with a friend. I bought my ticket two weeks before him, early bird upgrade a month before him and then checked in 45 minutes before him. I got B23. He got B9. That makes no sense.
Trying to plan ahead for next year and Euro flights are expensive and not really that many. I guess carriers still have really restricted routes? I'm trying to do Portugal in August and I the only direct flights to Europe are London/Paris. Nothing to Madrid from Atlanta. I swore there were usually ATL->Madrid flights in the past.
I was supposed to do Portugal in April 2020 and my flight out of Detroit was going through Madrid. We rescheduled the trip for next month and I’m flying through Paris on the way there, and through Amsterdam on the way home.
Use Scotts Cheap Flights if you don’t already. I’ve seen tons of Spain/Portugal flights over the last few months, tho I haven’t paid a ton of attention to which are direct. Looking back at emails on 10/27 they ~500 ish to Porto or Lisbon from NC and DC, with a $392 direct from Newark.
Routes are definitely still down but I'm curious what you're actually aiming for at this point. Origin of ATL, or origin of DTW? Dest LIS? prepares to nerd out Edit - Delta's ATL MAD route is on the calendar for 2022 imo Basically if it were me I'd be asking whether I want to reposition in the US for direct flights to OPO or LIS (primarily NE spots like NYC or IAD but I think also MIA) or get to MAD (maybe BCN?) and connect
Yep. What I read is it depends when you actually purchase the early bird not check in time but I bought my early bird way before him.
Origin is ATL. I plan to fly into/out of Lisbon/Porto. So early stage checking of do I fly to Europe then destination or do I fly to JFK or somewhere else then try to direct to those cities. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see ATL->MAD
Looks like ATL MAD is very infrequent until the last week of March at which point it returns full force. For LIS you can fly within *A (UA/TAP) direct from MIA, IAD, EWR, JFK or BOS, AA out of PHL, or DL out of BOS as well. OPO is only direct w/ UA/TAP out of EWR.
Could have sworn direct to Madrid was featured in my delta email this week. Maybe it was a JFK layover.
Yeah, either of those might by my stops. Do like delta b/c status and their premium economy is only marginally more expensive than economy and you get essentially near lie flat seats.
Scotts is great but next august is probably a little far out for them- usually 4-5 month range or sooner. Raleigh to Madrid for $499, January-March ‘22 literally just popped into my email so flights are out there.
Ive got the premium service on some deal they ran a while back since I was looking for a trip to take post COVID, but I’ll likely keep it. It pays for itself pretty easily if you take even a trip or 2 per year.