A Late Checkout Podcast

https://www.alatecheckout.com/tips/3-big-decisions

Planning: 3 Big Decisions If you’ve got your passport and the travel bug is biting, you may be tempted to start booking hotels. WAIT! If you don’t want to go back to the drawing board with each decision you make, you need to build your trip a solid foundation. The way to do that is by thinking through your 3 biggest deci...

https://www.alatecheckout.com/tips/2019/4/26/passport-first

Planning: Passport First 64% of Americans don’t have a passport and if I had to take a guess, it’s a big part of what holds them back from planning a dream trip. A lot of people never get a passport because they don’t have any immediate plans to leave the country. But when the idea of an amazing international trip pop...

https://www.alatecheckout.com/tips/packingwine

Traveling with Wine After a long flight from Geneva, Switzerland to Phoenix, Arizona, I stood at the baggage claim anxious to see how many thousands of dollars of damage I had done to everyone else’s luggage. We had picked up six bottles of local wine in Annecy, France and made the ridiculous gamble of wrapping it up...

https://www.alatecheckout.com/tips/2019/4/25/time-to-re-think-loyaly

Time to Re-Think Loyaly? I consider myself a reasonable, measured, points hunter. I do my best to store up points in loyalty programs that I feel are useful, but I avoid signing up for every new credit card out there and engaging in schemes that might appear to the FBI to be some type of money laundering.

https://www.alatecheckout.com/tips/usrail

Best U.S. Train Trips I fell in love with train travel in Europe. Riding the rails is one of the most enjoyable activities you can participate in that actually helps you make forward progress from one place to another. The simplicity, the comfort, the views, it’s a must have experience.