Made any travel mistakes lately?

[Brissy1]

A 10k limit today will buy a LOT less in 10 or more years time

Good advice, the original min $6k limit on my Maq black card now barely covers the house insurance. And preloading other cards to pay flights etc in order to activate travel insurance is a pain.

 

[Cossie]

One reason why I used to pay my amex by phone, you could put in extra if big expenses were coming. Online, you can only pay the amount owing and not even 'pending' payments. Pay by phone was automated, as of December you will transferred to an agent.

 

[n7of9]

One reason why I used to pay my amex by phone, you could put in extra if big expenses were coming. Online, you can only pay the amount owing and not even 'pending' payments. Pay by phone was automated, as of December you will transferred to an agent.

If you BPay from your bank account you are not limited by closing balance amounts

 

[SYD]

@ellen10 Vilnius is so worthwhile, any place that has a statue to Frank Zappa has to be worth visiting and of course the self declared republic of Užupis is definately a must.

Drove past the sign to the memorial coming in from the airport after returning a rental car. Literally walked past it today (hidden in a carpark)! Before the GPS got excited that I’d passed it!

 

[mel-world]

Made a big mistake of packing a rather expensive half bottle of Scotch, purchased Tax Free in Japan, into my hand luggage for the flight out of HND last week.

But then, 'Little things I like', was that security did not flag it so only remembered when I got to the Hotel in SYD that it was there. Not sure I should be happy that it got thru or worried that the usual Japanese efficiency failed. Maybe liquids as not quite as important as they used to be.

Obviously I had no issues on the VA flight to MEL the next day.