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Rule #9: Chances are
that if you are traveling for pleasure, you took the time to get
a haircut before you left on the trip. But for TRAVELHOST readers
who are often away for business, the need to have a styling or
trim on the road may come up all too often. A bad haircut is something
you’ll have to live with for weeks or months! Here’s
my trick for finding a stylist I can have confidence in: Do not
go to an independent shop in a strange town unless you know their
work. I have been lead astray even by the concierge in a great
hotel who has sent me off into the neighborhood! I’ve had
my hair cut all over the world and the secret to success is to
either have your hair done in the salon of a great hotel or a
great department store, unless you are in a city where there are
name brand salons you can count on! The reason you can have confidence
in a great hotel or department store is that they have a lot at
risk if the salon clients emerge shrieking about how bad they
look. Hoteliers and top-notch department stores set high standards
of professionalism for their in-house salons. Another tip: when
you’re in a strange city, look for a local person with a
great haircut and find out where you can find that stylist! I’ve
had my hair cut all over the US and Europe, in Bangkok and Shanghai,
where the stylist only spoke Chinese, but we communicated perfectly
through gestures and drawings and I got the best haircut of my
life!
Rule #10: It may seem
like a simple trip that you can arrange for yourself but don’t
kid yourself! You need a travel agent! There are ins and outs
and ups and downs that you’ll have to negotiate yourself
if you’re not using a travel agent. When a weather front
moves in that you find out about when your plane lands and, suddenly,
everyone is scrambling for rooms to overnight, those with travel
agents will be pleasantly surprised that their agents knew about
the on-coming storm and have protected them with rooms or other
transportation to keep them moving to their destination. If you’re
not using a travel agent, you are missing out on a world of service.
We’ll visit that subject in the next issue!
Gotta Fly Now! Sm
Stephanie Abrams
Stephanie Abrams is the host of the nationally
syndicated radio show, Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams,(TWSA) heard
coast-to-coast on the Business TalkRadio Network and appears weekly
as the travel expert on Traveling Feet (TF). TWSA can be heard
in the Greater Boston area and throughout Massachusetts on Sundays
from 7pm to 9pm on WXBR am 1460, WBIX AM 1060, WBNW AM 1120, WPLM
AM 1390, and TF can be heard on Saturdays from 11am to 1pm on
WCRN AM 830 and on WBNW and WPLM listed above. Visit Abrams’
award-winning website at www.sabrams.com for travel information,
archived radio shows, audio travel tips and more!
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