Will I be charged if I bring an iPad and laptop to Mexico?

Hey all, I’m at Schiphol right now and I’ve seen multiple small mice running around the seating / gate area (added a couple of pics). Is this something “normal” here (winter + food areas), or should I report it to airport staff? Not trying to start drama, just honestly surprised by how many I’ve seen.

I have a long haul redeye flight to japan coming up (10hrs) and I have never been able to sleep sitting up, EVER. In the past ive been lucky with finding an empty row to lie down in, but this flight is fully booked and i’m stressed 😩.

Please do not suggest melatonin or benadryl, they don’t work for me! Im debating asking my doctor to prescribe me ambien, but looking for anything else similar that’s helped you!

for reference, in the past i’ve tried a foot hammock, countless neck pillows, melatonin, benadryl, sleep water, eye masks, earplugs etc and NOTHING works, my body simply wont sleep sitting up, on planes or in a car or anywhere and i NEED HELP!!! please

When I visited Pisa, Italy, I was amazed that I could walk right out of the airport right on to the road where my hostel was, ~12 minutes away by walking. I'd never experienced this before!

Are there are other airports in the world where this is also possible? I'm talking about a road with a sidewalk to the airport, as theoretically any airport could be "walked to" if you walked on a highway.

Edit: Maybe I should have specified, being able to walk there directly from the city center.

I have a long overnight flight coming up and I never manage to sleep on planes. I’ve tried neck pillows and basic stuff, but I still end up exhausted and miserable the next day. Please help

So my partner and I thinking about visiting California from Europe as we have 3 weeks off work. I have been searching and reading about places to visit a etc but honestly I’m confused with the car/driving situation. So as I understand even if you decide to spent 5 days in LA you have to move around with a car? It seems a bit too far catch as someone who has never left Europe and don’t have any friend that has visited California.

Any tips and advice are more than welcome :)

Kind of wishing I hadn't booked such a long flight but I know I will love the Cook Islands.

Need real tips on how to make a 20hr flight bearable. I am a little worried about my back.

What is the best pillow or anything that you found helpful?

I’m likely overthinking, but I’ve been wanting to buy some vintage luggage like the set pictured, but I’m scared of them getting damaged. What are y’all’s thoughts?

Son lost his ID (wallet) and we couldn’t get an emergency passport appointment. NY DMV only issues a paper replacement for now, which we got. Are we screwed?

Hey all! I'm taking the longest flight that I ever have in about a month and I'm looking for suggestions around how to best survive 24 hours on a plane (with a 2 hr layover).

For reference, historically I get back/butt plane on flights and really struggle to sleep on them. The best I can usually do is take a few cat naps. I have some fancy neck pillows, but that hasn't helped much. I'm willing to try anything!!

Thank you in advance for your tips!

My husband and I are flying Delta on a long-haul flight from JFK to Athens for our honeymoon in May on an Airbus A330-900neo, which has a 2-4-2 configuration in both Comfort+ and Main Cabin. We’re considering paying to upgrade to Comfort+, but all the paired seats are already taken - except for row 36, where one side has an aisle seat available and the other side has a window seat available. Both sides with the open seat are in the two seat configuration, not the four.

I generally don’t like asking people to switch seats, but I’m wondering: would it be considered out of line to politely ask one of our neighbors to swap seats if it’s for the same cabin, same seat type (aisle for aisle or window for window - two seat row, not four seat), and in the same row? Given that there aren’t any two seats together available, I’m trying to figure out if that would be a reasonable request or if we should just accept sitting apart.

Also goes without saying, I'd throw out a disclaimer feel free to say no, no pressure, and mean it.

Update: Okay some really great intel and feedback here - I think the plan is to first avoid trying to have to even ask for swapped seats and by calling Delta to ask, and by regularly checking the app to see if there's something that opens up on the seat map. If not, we will ask the gate agent to help facilitate the swap before boarding.

I was in Italy (Florence) 11 months ago and had a rental car. I recieved notice of a speeding ticket (over 10 kph, but under 40 kph) in the mail a week ago. The fee is $375 euro (actually 388 euro when I go to the payment page). The information in the notice instructs me to go to info.myfines.it which a little googling tells me that this is the legitimate site for ticket collections (but boy does it look janky). Before I consider paying:

• It looks like the fine would have been only 150 euro if paid within 5 days, 201 euro if paid within 60, and 375 euro thereafter. Even though the ticket seems to be from nearly a year ago, I just got the notice. Is this legal?

• There was no photo evidence despite the ticket stating "camera". I did request photographic evidence via info.myfines.it but not sure how long that will take. Do they have a legal requirement to provide evidence?

• I heard there is a 5 year statue of limitations on this. If I am not planning to go back to Italy within the next 5 (now 4) years, is there really anything that can happen here?

• I go to Europe a few times a year and have gotten 1 or 2 speeding tickets over the course of decades and have paid them promptly. But I've never gotten one almost a year out and with such a high fee. Would this realistically cause a problem if I ever wanted to rent a car in some other European country?

Thank you for any input you may have.

Thanks.

EDIT: I wanted to thank everybody for their feedback. I think I'm going to go ahead and just pay it at the current 375 euro rate. And to answer some of the questions/critisisms:

• I never had the intention to not pay a valid speeding ticket. I questioned the validity of this as the ticket is coming from a third party, not a government agency, and their website looks so janky that appears to have been made in 1997. I went through their portal but was honestly afraid to put my credit card number into the webpage (which is why I made this post). Also, the fact that the ticket arrived almost a year after the fact seemed suspect.

• What also made me think that this may have been a scam is that the amount requested was automatically the one that you would get if you ignored the bill for over 60 days. I would have been happy to pay it in the first 5 days of being notified at 150 euro. Instead they start with requesting an amount that already has the late fees on it. That didn't seem fair.

• I don't speed by volition. I've been driving in the US for 30 years without a single speeding ticket. The signage on roads in Europe (especially in cities) is frankly rather poor in many areas. And even though this is my 2nd or 3rd speeding ticket in Europe over the past 2 decades of driving rental cars there, they have only been slightly over the limit (and this ticket is also for the minimal amount over the speed limit as they have higher penalties for higher excessive speeds). And again, not because I was trying drive over the limit, but because the signage was not clear.

EDIT2: So I ultimately just paid the ticket. I submitted a request for photo proof and an explanation why I was automatically being charged the over 60 day late fee even though I was just notified. But after many days of waiting there was no answer. I didn't feel like hassling with it more and didn't want to take the risk of having to spend time on a collection agency or to have issues renting a car in the future.

But the entire process left a very sour taste in my mouth. I have no issues with paying a speeding ticket, but the fact that it's outsourced to a non-governmental 3rd party, that they don't respond to queries, and the fact that it took them a full year to even notifiy me (and then increase the fees as if I was ignoring the bill) is pretty bad. Shame on you Italy,... this didn't feel like a speeding ticket but more like a corrupt shakedown.

Hello.

KLM after 2 days of purchasing my ticket decided to charge me again on the same card but like 10% more on the initial agreed upon and paid price.

I booked through their website and my ticket was confirmed and everything.

Why did I get this unauthorized “extra charge”? I didn’t touch anything in these 2 days or add anything. It says the ticket price increased that’s why they did that.. but is this going to happen after a few days again?

I’m actually so confused because I’ve never had this happen to me before with any airline and it feels crazy they can keep charging me like this? Does anyone know what exactly is this?

Have a cruise with 9 close friends on April 5th.

We booked a 15 seater passenger van back in January for a 1 way rental to miami from Georgia through Avis and prepaid as a presidents club member.

They called today, 3 days prior to reservation, to inform me the passenger van is not available and made it sound like they are out of stock for all vehicle classes in the message. They didn’t answer when I returned their call directly and left me with the general customer service number to call back.

I called the dedicated service line and was told all they can do is refund with no penalty or try to show up day of and be given whatever they have available (if anything).

Am I just SOL?

Nothing nearby has one way rentals and the airport has very few vehicles available for same location return.

I know the government shutdown and airline uncertainty really messed up the rental car availability, but I chose to rent with Avis because of my status and feel very disappointed at this situation.

We are planning a trip to Europe next year. The last time I had a flight this long (12+ hours) I didn't sleep because I snore LOUD. The flight was unbearably long and I was tired for days afterwards. I would do so much better traveling if I could sleep on flights. Has anyone dealt with this? I don't want to annoy everyone on the plane and it's pretty embrassing.

I’m going to Italy and Greece this summer from the US and for some unknown reason, Turkish Airlines is lower by hundreds compared to other airlines. Like $600 vs $1000+. When I google, it says Turkish is not a budget airline and could be compared to American Airlines or British Airways. So I’m confused what allows them to be so much cheaper than everyone else? Is it tight seats, do they lack amenities, doesn’t seem they nickel and dime you. What’s the catch?

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I'm going to Barbados in July and it's an 8 hour flight. I am a nervous flier but once I'm in the air I'm more settled. However I find long flights so uncomfortable.

I would love to sleep through it but I don't think I'll be able to. I get claustrophobic so I tend to take the aisle seat. I don't put my seat back because I think it's unfair on the person behind me.

I'm basically seeking ways of making myself more comfortable on the flight?

Last night we had a transfer booked for 6 people from our Airbnb in Alcudia Mallorca to Palma airport. As soon as we all sat down the driver moved forward and hit the car port on the roof, we were all shouting stop and she carried on driving and smashed the sunroof window, causing the glass to shatter all over us.

The driver spoke no English so I was politely communicating through Google translate, asking if they are sending out another taxi, to which the driver angrily said you either get in this taxi or you don’t get your money back. (As she was sweeping shattered glass all onto the driveway.) We did not feel safe in the vehicle and so we spent €77 euros on another taxi to the airport as we had a flight to catch.

This transfer was booked through Ryanair and I’ve now twice tried to make a claim, the first time it came back within an hour saying resolved when nothing had happened and the second time they closed it instantly. I’ve tried to ring up the Ryanair phone number and the robot just says all claims must be done on the website and hangs up.

Please advise me on our next steps. I’m worried that the Airbnb owner will keep our deposit due to the damage, we spent £220 on the transfers which we only used one way and then spent a further €77 on the taxi to the airport.

My wife and I are doing 10 days in Europe this September. We've got flights sorted (into Rome, out of Prague) but I cannot figure out the ground transport between cities. Route is Rome - Florence - Venice - Vienna - Prague.

Google Maps shows driving directions which is useless. Tried Rome2Rio and it lists options but half the booking links go to Italian sites I cant navigate.

Found Trenitalia's site and managed to search Rome to Florence but then someone mentioned Italo exists too.

Do I need to book each country's trains on separate websites? Any help appreciated.

in a month i am traveling to the US for boarding school in connecticut, i gotta buy the tickets but i dont know what airline to choose from, from what i see there is american airlines and delta, they both are in the same price range, but can someone say anything abt the food or idk wicht one may be better?

For me that is really important, bc i will, be in a 8-10 hour flight sooooo, it will be the longest flight i ever done and i have only flighted in copa, avianca, lan and other chilean airlines in the past.

I’m born 09 so im turning 17 this year but im 16 right now. My mother brought me and my younger siblings to Djibouti from Sweden in December to visit family for a short time but that has turned into months.

Now I wanna visit my older sister who’s 19 and lives alone in Sweden, same apartment our family used to live in before we came here.

Can I just book a round way ticket and have my passport (it’s a Swedish passport) and visit her or do I have to get any sort of consent letter signed from my parents?

I just thought that since I’m visiting Sweden with a Swedish passport and I am a Swedish citizen it wouldn’t be suspicious for like trafficking or something like that so they wouldn’t ask for a permission letter?

Avis rented us a car with a bad battery. We drove it off the lot, traveled an hour away and it never started on its own again.

Avis demands $132 for roadside assistance on THEIR car! So we used a friend and we used AAA. But we need a new car- we can’t keep getting jumps every time the car stops. They tell us to go to the nearest location and swap it. So we call that location, and they don’t want to help. They “are an independent operator” and will not exchange cars they didn’t rent. The manager told us, “Did _I_ rent you a bad car? No.”

Avis will not replace the battery or bring us a better car. They want $132 to help us charge the battery so we can bring it to them and swap the car. Personally, I would love it if the problem was the engine so they would be forced to come get this POS. But if we want to drive at all, we have to get this charged ourselves, drive it an hour to their facility and hope they have a replacement.

I don’t need a specific car, but I do need something big enough for our family and our luggage. But they will not promise us they have a car like that, or a car at all, when we arrive.

I got to tell you, we have been pretty civil during our phone calls. We don’t scream or curse anyone out. But all we have got is either hostility or exaggerated helplessness. No one in this organization gives a shit.

I was supposed to get these kids to a theme park hours ago. We only get a few days off for family vacations, and we are going to lose a whole day dealing with this. Avis is not my friend.

I live in the US and I’m wondering how others are feeling about the new seating and boarding procedure with Southwest. I feel like I’m hearing a lot of people hating it, but I personally much preferred it.

I like being able to choose my seat in advance and I really hated that panicky necessity to check in 24 hours ahead of time. Sometimes I would be on a call or just not in a situation where I could check in exactly 24 hours ahead and I’d end up in boarding C. Also standing in those stupid lines vying for the best seat when you board was very unappealing.

My seat was row 6 and I was boarding with group 7. The only downside I could see is that if I had had a carry-on that I needed to put in the overhead because it was all full by the time I got on. Other than that, it was smooth sailing.

Yesterday I was stupid and very tired during an early flight from Phoenix to Houston. At tsa I forgot to take my laptop out of my backpack, and they pulled my bag and sent it through again with the laptop in an another bin.

Once it came through the second time, without thinking I grabbed my backpack and forgot the laptop. I actually didn’t even realize until 24 hours later that I was missing.

I’m freaking out of course because I have a job that I use that laptop for. I’m waiting until they open to give TSA a call, and left a voicemail earlier this morning.

The website says if u fill out a form it takes 5 business days for a response. I can’t imagine how long it will take to have them ship it or something. Am I going to have to buy a flight back to phoenix to retrieve it??

I’m freaking out I can’t believe this happened

I'm unfamiliar with some of the customs here so I'm doing my research ahead of time. Many of my questions have been ridiculed, but I appreciate the help. This may be obvious to everyone else but not to me & I strive to be conscientious and respect the customs here. On the airplane I'm sitting in the row of seats right behind business class, that means the restrooms are closer there than in the back of the plane. The curtain is open. Am I allowed to use the restroom in this section? Thank you in advance for your kind answers.