Cruise Guide to the Mediterranean Sea - black/white edition: Tips

Are you planning a cruise in the Mediterranean Sea? This guide will give you plenty information about booking, check-in and life onboard. The most important content of the book, are hundreds of tips to save huge amounts of money with individually planned shore excursions in 28 ports of the western and eastern Mediterranean Sea. Information on public transportation and the location of stations are also included, as well as entrance fees and opening hours of many sights! Small maps show you the fastest and cheapest way to your shore destination. Enjoy the few hours ashore with maximum fun, experience, and WOWs, all for a low-price! Enjoy the brand new chapter “Fifty Facts” which is about educational, funny and curious facts about cruise ships all over the world! But if you have plenty of money to spend during your cruise and you only want to attend expensive original "ship excursions", please do not waste your money on this guidebook... This is the black/white edition, also available: eBook and colored edition!

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Cruise Guide to the Mediterranean Sea: Tips for excursions, entrance

Are you planning a cruise in the Mediterranean Sea? This guide will give you plenty information about booking, check-in and life onboard. The most important content of the book, are hundreds of tips to save huge amounts of money with individually planned shore excursions in 28 ports of the western and eastern Mediterranean Sea. Information on public transportation and the location of stations are also included, as well as entrance fees and opening hours of many sights! Small maps show you the fastest and cheapest way to your shore destination. Enjoy the few hours ashore with maximum fun, experience, and WOWs, all for a low-price! Enjoy the brand new chapter “Fifty Facts” which is about educational, funny and curious facts about cruise ships all over the world! But if you have plenty of money to spend during your cruise and you only want to attend expensive original "ship excursions", please do not waste your money on this guidebook... Also available: eBook and well-priced black/white edition

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Mostly Disapointing, Lacking Major Ports of Call
By Ronald Anderson
I made this last minute purchase becasue I had not adequatly prepped for my med cruise. One positive is that the Roo recommendations were quick and easy find. Unfortunatly, the book did not cover half of my ports of call including beautuiful Chania - on the island of Crete, Greece; Bodrum, Turkey - a huge tourism port; and Kusadasi, Turkey - the gateway to the ancient city of Ephesus. For Istanbul the guide did have good advice to stroll from Taksim Square to the Galata tower but lacked the tip to take the oldest subway in the world on the way back back to avoid the steep climb and just for the experience of it. (http://www.wittistanbul.com/magazine/how-to-avoid-the-steep-climb-to-taksim-or-cihangir/) The guide also lacked the tip that from the cruise port, all city destinations are up a steep grade so don't try it on foot. Think of San Francisco grades but steeper. In all you get what you pay for. Next time I will be less frugal and get a name brand guide.

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Travel Like A Pro: Road-Tested Tips for Digital Nomads and

A fun, info-packed read to turn your travel from “panicked” to “pro”

It’s an amazing privilege to be able to zip all over the planet. But the process of travel can be exhausting, panic-inducing and complicated – even when you do it all the time.

Perplexing flight options, overpriced accommodation and dragging a wobbly-wheeled suitcase through an awful airport are enough to take the gloss off even the funnest of trips.

It doesn’t have to be that way: Travel Like A Pro is an entertaining, practical guide to becoming effortlessly mobile. With road-tested tips on everything from packing and flights to visas and insurance – and countless links to extra recommendations and resources – it’s for anyone who wants to skip the stress and glide through their globetrotting life.

In the book you’ll learn:

• What you should always take with you, and what’s really not worth the extra weight
• How to protect yourself, and your stuff, with the right insurance
• A system for booking the cheapest flights – without being forced into indirect routes and layovers, or having the experience take over your life
• Handy hints for surviving the airport and hacking carry-on baggage allowances
• Where to find the very best travel gear
• Which handy websites will make your trips a triumph

This book isn’t about “seeing the world on $50 a day”. It’s for people who want to get there and get sorted – minus the aggravation and confusion that plague most people who just take a couple of trips a year.

With practical advice, plenty of jokes and over a hundred links to extra resources and material, Travel Like A Pro is the perfect travel companion for digital nomads, frequent travellers and anyone who wants to see the world but get the hell on with it.

Scroll to the top of the page and click “Look Inside” for a preview!

Mish Slade has spent three years as a “digital nomad” – running her businesses from over 20 different countries, and blogging about the experience on makingitanywhere.com. She travels with nothing but a backpack (and her husband), and has travel down to the finest of arts – yet still can’t quite be trusted not to make jokes while going through security.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Great guide for experienced nomads AND vacationers
By Julie Rogers
My husband and I are digital nomads and have spent a lot of time working from our computers and travelling through Europe, Asia, and North & Central America. I wasn't sure how much I would get out of the book that I hadn't discovered through trial and error on our own journey but BOY WAS I WRONG. And I'm not one to admit that often, lol. Reading through I was surprised at how many of the cool tools I was unaware of... and here I thought I was a professional at this whole traveling business!

After having read the book I keep finding myself going back to it to reference the well thought out guides and links to tools I've already started using to plan our next trip. We tend to travel for quite extended periods but I think most of the book is actually applicable to short vacation type travel as well and I've already gifted a copy to two friends who are vacation travelers.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Indispensable for the new or nervous traveler!
By Casey
Indispensable for the new or nervous traveler! This book is exactly what it claims to be, a down to earth practical guide for would-be long term travelers. The tips and advice are things you could learn the hard way, after years of travel, but save yourself the crappy luggage, expensive tickets, frustration and wasted effort by picking up some tricks from this book.

Now I didn't give it 5 stars because I felt it didn't offer much to me as someone who's already achieved the perpetual traveler gig. There are some great nuggets of advice in there about visas and health insurance, but only really applies to US and UK citizens. To be fair Mish makes nods to other EU citizens, so she's aware that not everyone comes from the USA, UK, or even the rich West in particular.

Almost all this information you could find online for free, but you'd have to sort and sift through thousands of pages of noise, parse out the dregs from the gold and make a correct judgement. But in this book Mish has collected an astounding amount of relevant practical advice, complete with links to resources. That brings up another point, I'm not sure how ever green this book will be. The internet landscape changes fast, as do product lines. If you're considering this book years from print date, and it hasn't been updated, well I'd read some more recent reviews to make sure it is still relevant.

If you're a new traveler or aspiring, you can't go wrong in purchasing this book at any price point.

If you're already a long-time traveler, familiar with the digital landscape, the e-book might be worth it to you as there's a few nuggets in here, though not enough to warrant purchase of the dead tree edition.

Disclaimer: I wrote this review after receiving a free copy of the book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Indispensable practical guide for those ready to make the nomadic leap
By Sarah V
So, my only complaint is that this book didn’t come out about three months earlier! Mish has put together an easy-to-read and highly informative compendium of tips and resources for just about all of the questions I was struggling to answer while I was getting ready to take off on my own digital nomad experience at the beginning of the year. I am a pretty seasoned traveler, but setting off on an indefinite journey requires a different type of thinking (although much of the information contained in the book would be helpful for travel of any length). Packing both light and right, booking flights, finding the perfect accommodation, making insurance decisions, getting visas, coping at the airport – all of the big logistical and planning issues are covered. I have had several “aha” moments while reading and am excited to implement some of Mish’s strategies as I start to plan my next move.

If you are looking for a soul-searching, is-extended-travel-for-me? book, you are best to look elsewhere. However, if you are looking for a practical guide to help save you time, aggravation, money, and a few grey hairs, don’t pass it up!

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Essential India Travel Guide: Travel Tips And Practical Information

Are you visiting India? Do you want to know more about India before you travel? Are you looking for travel tips and unbiased information on India? Are you looking for an India travel guide but don’t know which one to get? Then here’s a travel guide on India that covers everything you need from places to visit to dealing with beggars and how to protect yourself while in India. The “Essential India Travel Guide: Travel Tips And Practical Information” covers everything you need to know about India.

India is a great country for holiday but it can be rough at times. Sadly, many incidences and crimes do happen and many of them are directed at foreign travelers. Many foreigners end up being ripped off their hard earned money. Most people in India working in the tourism industry do not realize that even in the West, one has to work hard for their money and do not have surplus to squander around. This India travel guide shows you how to be careful with your money, how to bargain like the locals and how to deal with beggars and have a safe and pleasurable trip to India.

Here’s a complete list of things you will learn about your travels in India:

1. Introduction to India
2. Best time to visit India
3. Geography of India
4. Places to visit in Eastern India
5. Places to visit in Northern India
6. Places to visit in Southern India
7. Places to visit in Western India
8. Culture of India
9. Things you should bring to India
10. Vaccinations for India
11. How to deal with the heat?
12. Guide to drinking water
13. Avoiding water borne diseases
14. How to keep off mosquitoes?
15. Foods to avoid
16. Is meat and fish safe in India?
17. Guide to Indian street food
18. Travelling in India during the monsoons
19. Types of transport in India
20. How to book train tickets in India?
21. How to hire a taxi and auto-rickshaw?
22. Guide to prepaid taxis
23. Safety on Indian trains
24. Dealing with beggars
25. How to deal with touts?
26. How to be safe at the hotel?
27. How to be safe in Indian crowds?
28. How to keep your money and passport safe?
29. Safety tips for women
30. Travelling with kids in India
31. Types of places to shop
32. How to bargain?
33. What should women wear?
34. What should men wear?
35. Say no to bhang and other drugs
36. Common Hindi words and phrases
37. Message from the author

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Loved India.. Good guide!
By CrazysaidWhat
I have been to India and loved it. One of the most interesting places I have ever been to. I had the best time of my life. Food was excellent although hot as ever compared to what we have at home, people were awesome and the culture was fascinating. But there are some issues with India like poverty, safety, begging, touts and so on. Sometimes you don’t know what to do. I know people will scare you if you are travelling to India so some kind of guide was necessary. Without this book, I would have been lost in many aspects of the tour to India. It also has some Hindi phrases which was extremely useful and helped a lot. The guide to drinking water was a good one too. I would recommend this book to anyone visiting India.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Well Done. Excellent Resource
By Sb Wharton
I have always wanted to travel to India. It has always intrigued me with its diverse populations and rich cultural heritages. This book has helped keep that desire burning. This is an excellent practical guide that deals with the most common problems facing tourist traveling in India and how to help yourself and have an enjoyable time. I love the section on places to go in India. The images and pictures throughout the book are magnificent. Some of the thing I love about this book is how the author provides a comprehensive list of things a tourist should bring to India. A list of female urination devices that I never knew existed. This guide also provides practical tips on how to deal with the heat and skin protection. I am a vegetarian so this was a valuable resource for food recommendations. The author provides excellent resource of travel within the country, how to avoid tourist traps, hotel safety and my favorite--where to shop. They say knowledge is power and with this book I feel very safe and empowered to travel to India.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent Guide, Highly Recommended
By Jorge Alberto Orduna SR.
Traveling is one of the most invigorating things, and when traveling anywhere, you should pick up a guide, just so you don't miss out on something rand. I checked out Shalu Sharma's guide and loved it. It not only has a conversational tone, it has an authoritative reach as far as what to see and where to go. As a tourist, this was a great read for my Kindle, and have even recommended it to my friends.

I have a friend doing tech work in India, and he even confirmed that this was an insider's guide to traveling through the area. I especially love the tips and practical information. If you're from the U.S. like I am, you'll find that those insider tips and tricks will give you a bit of help on blending in and not looking too much like an ignorant traveler.

Overall, this is a good, quick guide that will share with you some incredible details. I love it, and recommend it.

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