When checking in to a hotel, ask the front desk to disconnect the video games from the TV.
When someone plays the games, the front desk automatically charges your room. If you’re unaware that your children have been playing video games while you are in the shower, you may have a surprise on your bill.
Traveling through West Virginia? Why not check out the finest “redneck diner” you’ll ever encounter? Just don’t take the Homewrecker Challenge on a full stomach.
If your travels take you through West Virginia, and you happen to be in the vicinity of Huntington, check out Hillbilly Hotdogs. It’s a small diner decorated in what the owners affectionately call “redneck chic.”
The dining area consists of two school buses, homemade barstools, and a picnic area adorned with hundreds of license plates from across the US. Patrons are invited to sign the walls (or any available surface) to commemorate their trip, and the staff will put on a great show if you ring the bell above the cash register.
Here’s your best shot at getting that coveted empty seat.
Have fun spreading out!
Save packing space — and prevent wrinkling worries! — by laying trousers or jeans, unfolded, so one half lays inside the suitcase and the other half hangs over the outside. Repeat around all edges (skirts, blazers and dresses are also ideal).
Once you’ve surrounded the bag with these “overhanging” items, fill the inside of the suitcase with your tops and toiletries. When finished, fold over the hanging parts of the garments and neatly over the contents.
Keeping skirts and trousers UNfolded keeps them UNwrinkled, too.
Packing a dry erase board and markers and attaching to your cabin door accomplishes two things:
1.) it makes your cabin door stick out among the long hallway of cookie-cutter doors, and
2.) it’s an easy way for your family to communicate their whereabouts.
Before going on your vacation, attach heavy-duty magnets to the back of the board with a glue gun. Because cabin doors on cruise ships are metal, the board stays put. Instruct your family members to write where they’ll be on the ship (“Headed to the pool!” -Nicole) when they leave the room.