Entries Tagged as 'Travel'
Travel Insurance
My girlfriend and I were planning to fly to Frankfurt on a budget airline. We were offered travel insurance, which I didn’t think was worth the £4.95. Still, my girlfriend insisted on both of us taking the insurance. Assuming the chance of surviving a plane crash is negligible, you do not get to enjoy the benefits of the insurance should a disaster happen. Most likely your family will get paid for your death. So the worst-case scenario is that you’re £4.95 poorer and dead; or at best, alive, but still £4.95 poorer. What is the rationality of taking out the insurance?
Great answer, especially the final line of the answer.
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Learning a Language
Lifehacker points to a new web 2.0 site called Mango (although the url refers to trymango). It’s free and includes 11 languages so far.
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The Flow Festival
This looks like being the most interesting festival of the summer in Europe. It’s on the weekend of August 17th in Helsinki. It’s a pity that I can’t make it. Artists on the bill include The Five Corners Quintet, Bebel Gilberto and the Australian band, Architecture in Helsinki.
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The Flow Festival
This looks like being the most interesting festival of the summer in Europe. It’s a pity that I can’t make it.
Official Oktoberfest Lederhosen - 495 Euro
Picked up a discussion on Toytown Germany, an English-language forum about official Oktoberfest lederhosen
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Munich
Settling into Munich has been really easy. In fact, I can’t think of anywhere I’ve lived in which has been so straightforward to settle in. I visited a bank last week and I already have a Maestro card, a temporary apartment has been a breeze to set up, there is no problem speaking English (although that may be a problem for my learning German) and there is tons of stuff to do. I found the English language website Toytown Germany and there really does seem to be a great community here. I may just be too busy to blog much! 
KLM launches all-in fares
Another airline decides to pursue the supremely sane option of including all-in fares on it’s offers page. Well, it’s there for flights from the Netherlands but not included on their offers from Sweden yet. One thing that I didn’t know before is that this is a requirement for a new Code of Conduct for Travel Offers.
Update - It seems to be only applicable for the Netherlands for the moment. Let’s hope it extends as far as possible.
KLM is introducing this change in accordance with the new Code of Conduct for Travel Offers, which requires the travel industry to include taxes and surcharges in the prices quoted for all flights starting from 1 April 2007. The KLM fares themselves remain the same. In addition, all KLM fares will always refer to return flights. This will allow you to know at a glance how much your ticket will cost, every time.
The only expense that will still be charged separately is reservation costs. The Code of Conduct for Travel Offers specifies that all unavoidable costs must be included – in other words, costs over which the customer has no choice.
Reservation costs, on the other hand, are different depending on where you book your ticket - via Internet, travel agent or phone. Here you have a choice and can influence how much you pay. Booking online via klm.nl costs ten euro per ticket, for example.
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