Our Best Hacks for Long Haul International Flights

Travelling is good but when it comes to long haul flights it is always stressful. In this topic we will discuss some hacks so you can take your long flights with comfort and spend your time during flight without getting bore or tired.

If you are travelling and looking for parking at airport then first thing is to search for private parking rather than official parking. I always use Meet and Greet Manchester Private parking with service of Manchester Airport Valet Parking so on return I can get clean and shine car to drive back home.

Below are few best hacks to have comfortable long flights

1: Airline Selection

                Chose reputed and quality service providing airline, check online reviews or ask your friends who have travelled before.

2: Snacks

                Pack snacks with you so you can eat during flight.

3: Books

                Keep your favorite book or novel with you which you can read during flight.

4: Neck Pillow

                As you know this is a long flight and you have to sit for long time at same seat, it is recommended to buy comfortable pillow for yourself, it helps a lot when you are sitting for long time on seat.

5: Extra Space seat

                Seats with emergency exit door have more leg rooms than other, try to book those seats so you can rest, sit comfortably.

6: Headphone

                Keep your headphone with you and prepare your playlist before taking flight. It is a long journey that you are about to have. list out your favorite songs and sort them.

7: Movie

Keep your favorite movie or serial in your laptop and you can enjoy watching that during flight.

8: Comfortable cloths

                This is no time for fashion, select comfortable cloths to wear during your flight.

9: TO-DO list

                If you have not yet prepared TO-DO list of your trip. You can utilize this time for making to-do list. In long flight you have enough time to think and plan your trip.

10: Talk to neighbor

                You are not the only one taking long flight every one traveling with you are in same condition, it is time to talk to your neighbor seat person make him your friend and if he is native to your destination country it will be very helpful, you can learn about the culture and few things from him.

11: Rest and Sleep

                The best way to spend long time quickly is sleeping, try to sleep in that time and you can use some sleeping aid too. Taking sleeping aid is not recommended, just use it only if you really need it.

12: Hand Sanitizer

                Always keep your hand sanitizer with you, as per the research, Seat tray have same number of germs as the germs are on washroom door lock. Using hand sanitizer will keep you safe from germs

13: Refillable water bottle

                Keep empty refillable water bottle with you, once you have passed through security check, you can fill water bottle from airport. As you are having long flight you must keep that bottle with you, fill it after passing security so you can drink water during flight.

Above mentioned points will help you a lot to make your long flight comfortable. Same happen on return after this long flight you are really tired and do not want to do extra efforts, I always select Meet and Greet Manchester parking on return I call them to return car 30 minutes before I leave the airport so they can deliver my car without delay as I always select Manchester Airport Valet parking they return my car after valet and it is very good to see your precious car to drive back home after long journey.

A complete guide to Comfy Air Travel

Are you planning for Air Travel? Either it is your first trip or if you are a seasonal traveler. You will always dream to have your travelling comfortable and stress free. In this topic today we will discuss few points by following them you can have a comfortable journey.

We will divide this topic in 4 categories.

1: Before Departure

2: During Departure

3: After Departure

4: Arrival/Return

                As you know with proper planning and preparation you can achieve anything. So, the most important part of this topic is Your Planning and preparation for your whole journey.  Let’s Start with it.

1: Before Departure

                This is the stage where we have to Prepare and plan our trip so we can avoid any inconvenience and have comfortable journey. I have mentioned few most important points below; keeping them in mind you can reduce your stress.

Ø  Passport

Check your Passport expiry date it should be minimum 3 months after your return date if you are travelling internationally.

Ø  Visa

Next Important thing is Visa, apply for your visa if your destination country is not offering on arrival visa and it is better to made hotel booking online before your flight

Ø  Tickets

Do some research on comparison site and you can find Airline tickets with much cheaper rate or with more benefits

Ø  Baggage

Pack your stuff carefully keeping the weight limit in mind and search for packing hacks too, so you can get details on how to pack smart.

Ø  TO-DO list

Make TO-DO list of your plans and things you want to do.

Ø  Documents

Always Keeps Duplicate flight documents with you specially in Hard copy.

Ø  Parking

If you planned to park at airport it is better to search for private parking provider, in this way you can save more money. I always use Private Manchester Airport Parking Meet and Greet and it is always cheaper than Official Meet and Greet Manchester Airport.

Ø  Money Exchange

Get your money exchange outside the airport because exchange rates are mostly higher on airport.

Ø  Credit Card

Make sure that your credit card company allows you to use your card internationally, otherwise call them and activate this service.

Ø  Check-in online

If your airline offers online check-in, then you must utilize this offer

2:  During Departure

                After the preparation of your journey and completion of first stage, now when you are in Airport for departure second sage starts.  Always make sure to come early so you can avoid worries. If you have already made online check in you can save time on airport. During the boarding or in waiting area, you can

Ø  Read your fav book

Ø  Make new friends who are from same flight

Ø  Take a walk and find new things about airport

Ø  Prepare your play list

3: After Departure

                After the departure procedure is complete and you are in flight during flight you can sleep or watch your favorite movie and after the flight is landed and you are out of the airport. It is time to enjoy your trip and keep few things in mind

Ø  Spend more time on less places rather than wasting money and spending less time

Ø  If you are on business trip and get spare time – do not miss to visit famous places of the area

Ø  Do not waste your money on useless things

Ø  Things can go out of plan but stay calm and made wise decisions

Ø  Meet new people and made new friends

4: Return/Arrival

                Once your trip is complete and days are over this is time to get back home. Reach airport on time during waiting you can saw your photos taken during trip, take your flight and return home. If you have selected private car parking call them to deliver your car at lest 20 to 30 minutes before you leave airport. I always call my Manchester Airport parking Meet and Greet 30 minutes before and they are always on time. Time to take rest! I really like their parking service and that is why I recommend Meet and Greet Manchester Airport Parking.

10 Things to do while your Flight been delayed

Traveling is fun and sometime need of business, it might be for an adventure or for a business trip. Everything is good when it is according to your schedule but when something disturbs your schedule it is really annoying especially when you are traveling either domestically or internationally. 

This post is about to 10 things that you can do, in case if your flight is delayed. It is not normal but it happens and it is very stressful.  Below is the list of 10 things to do.

1: Stay Calm and Positive

                The first thing in this situation is that you have to stay calm and positive. Being angry on customer service staff will not solve your problem. But it can create some other problem so avoid being angry and get details on delayed flight.

2: Do’s and Don’ts

                While waiting for the flight you can prepare your plan of vacation or business meeting. Take note of the things you want to do and you do not want to do.

3: Reading Books or Novels

                Always Cary your favorite book or novel with you while traveling, in this situation of delayed flight, you can enjoy reading your favorite book or novel and time will pass easily.

4: Make sure of your made reservation

                In case if you return flight delayed and you have made a car park with some company like Meet and Greet Manchester Airport Parking they charge for extra delayed hours. Contact your parking company to get known about the charges and inform them about delay.

5: Social Media

                While waiting on Airport for you flight, you can easily spend time using your social media. Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube and many others. It really helps to spend spare time.

6: Check Connecting Flight Status immediately

                In Case if you are using connecting flights, as soon as you get known of delayed flight. You must check flight status of connected flight and plan accordingly otherwise you might suffer amount loss or waste of time more than expected.

7: Do not Fall Asleep

                For Sure you must not sleep in that time when your flight is delayed or if you are waiting for the flight announcement, otherwise you can miss your flight and you will find yourself guilty of this act of sleeping.

8: Claim Compensation

Remember “asking do not hurt”, If your flight is delayed and it caused you inconvenience, you can ask your airline for compensation discount. Mostly they refund partially or offer you some premium flight package. Believe me; you would not like to miss that chance. I remember that I parked with meet and greet Manchester parking and there was delay in collecting my car on drop off and I asked them for the compensation  they offered me premium package of Manchester Airport Valet Parking and on return my car was returned to me on time after premium valet. 

9: Know your right as a Passenger

                It is your right to know about your “Passenger Rights”, if you are not aware of them read your airline policy regarding this and also the legal rights of yours as passenger.

10: Have a short trip of Airport

                It will be exiting for you. If the flight is delayed and you are new at that airport, I will recommend you to take a walk around the airport, do some shopping and have a light food if you are food lover. 

Must Check List before Taking a Flight

Travelling for business or vacations both are very important. But it is always very stressful if you miss something important due to the happiness of vacation or may be because you have stress of your job/business work. That is why we have made a checklist which can help you to have un-stressful journey with peace of mind.  Like if you are in Manchester and you have to park your car before traveling meet and greet Manchester Airport services make your journey stress-free about your parked car.

1: Visa & Its requirement

First thing is visa, few countries allow on arrival visa but for other countries you will need a valid visa which should be applied few days ago depending on visa police of that country.

2: Parking

                If you park your car with private airport companies like Manchesterairport parking meet and greet, you must select a trust worthy company so you can have un-stressful comfortable trip.

3:  Insurance

Either way, you are traveling domestically or internationally, travel insurance is essential for some traveler. Make sure of your insurance covers before travelling. Also check insurance of your car parking provider if you have chosen meet and greet Manchester airport parking you must check for their insurance cover as well for your own peace of mind.

4: Cash and credit card use

                Make sure to exchange your cash for traveling country outside the airport, normally exchange rates are higher in airport Money Exchange branches.  Also let your bank known about your traveling country so they can remove any card international usage restriction if there is any. Also, in some countries you have to call your bank to activate international transactions.

5: Packing of essential Goods

                Before traveling make sure to complete necessary essential goods check list. It is the stuff which you have to carry with you and it is must to have a checklist of such items so you can be sure of all those to be included so that you won’t forget anything.  Some of these are below.

·         Jackets

·         Spare Cloth

·         Headphone

·         Soap

·         Combs

·         Hair Dryer

·         Books

·         Mobile Charger/Power Bank

·         Paper Soap

·         Cash in hand

·         Menthol

·         Essential medication

·         Prescription of Medicine

·         Small tiff-in of food

6: Luggage check

                You must check your carry on checked luggage and make sure that which things are banned in your travelling company. i.e. few countries do not allow alcohol. Also make sure to lock your luggage after it is checked on airport.

7: Phone Service

                Make sure to activate international roaming on your phone so you can have uninterrupted communication while traveling abroad. Or be aware of the purchase of new mobile connection on traveling country. You can do some search on internet for that.

8:  Copies of Travel Document

                You must have copy of your travelling document just to avoid any inconvenience, also some people like to have soft copy in their phone and do not get them print which is not good.

9:  Online Check-in

                Before visiting traveling country, make sure that if they need any proof of staying. Because in most of the countries at border they ask you to provide online check-in proof of your stay. Otherwise they might ask you to do it at the airport which can be stressful and will waste your time and money as well. Manchesterairport parking meet and greet also offers hotels check in service which you can select before traveling. 

10: Mark your Luggage

                It is very helpful if you will mark your luggage, just wrap a visible eye catchy color cloth on your luggage handle so you can easily find it in other luggage’s. This trick is also very helpful and save time.