How To Have The Perfect Flight: Part 2

Only A Bag - The Guide To Italian Travel

Picking up where we left off, this episode gets into the meat of the matter—the flight itself. Boiled down, it can be summed up as: moisturize, bring noise-cancelling headphones, moisturize, bring a change of clothes, and make sure your skin stays hydrated and moisturized.

We also talk about finding the perfect seat on any airplane. To do this, we use SeatGuru. It's often easier to simply search on Google the carrier and plane type, such as "Air France Boeing 777 SeatGuru" and it will direct you to the search result page you need.

For noise-cancelling headphones, the world is your oyster. We've found that a pair of $50 headphones works just fine, but you might want to try out something a little more powerful if you fly frequently.

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When looking for hotels, we usually cross-reference ⁠Booking*⁠, ⁠Expedia*⁠, ⁠Priceline⁠, and ⁠Agoda*.⁠ We typically book with ⁠Booking.com*⁠ because we like their “Genius” deals and it seems like they often have the best or comparable prices.

While Booking, Expedia, and Priceline do offer flight booking we usually use ⁠Google Flights⁠ or ⁠ITA Flight Matrix⁠ (also by Google) and then book the flight directly through the carrier or our credit card portal.

Lastly, if you're traveling with prescriptions, you will need to fill out this form (.pdf) or go to the Salute.it website and download it there. If you prefer to write your own note instead, it must include the name of the prescription (drug and brand name), dosage, dosage amount (how many ml or liquid or number of pills, etc.), condition it's being used for, and your doctor's information (mostly their name and medical license number), as well as your information (DoB, name, address, etc.).

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