niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
I have not flown for about ten years: I was terrified by the idea of trying to entertain small children cooped up in a plane. Now that everyone's grown up a bit, I'm trying to book some flights to Europe.

Booking flights has changed a lot since I last did it: there are a lot more options available. And now I'm booking four seats instead of one, I really need to keep the prices down so I'm looking at budget flights.

I was very surprised to find that the cheapest British Airways tickets seem to allow no hold luggage at all - just two small cabin bags. So surprised that I couldn't quite believe it was true. But that does indeed seem to be the case.

So I went back to budget airlines and found a good price going out on EasyJet and back on BMI. I presumed these would have hold luggage in the price but, scanning the terms and conditions for these airlines, I'm now to so sure.

The question then is: do budget tickets now commonly exclude any hold luggage at all? And does anyone know if EasyJet and BMI standard economy class tickets specifically do exclude hold luggage?

Output: Do budget flights normally charge extra for checked luggage
I've asked a couple of times in restraunts but I guess I failed to explain what I actually want after all. So, my question is - can I ask to include tips to the bill in Israel or should I instead always carry some cash?

Output: Can I pay tips with credit card in Israel (just like in US)
Upon entering India with an e-Visa (formerly known as tourist visa), the immigration agent writes  the expiry date of the visa on the printed e-Visa (not the one on the passport, but the one we're supposed to print from the e-visa website). Does one have to keep the printed e-Visa on which the immigration agent wrote the visa expiry date?

The printed e-Visa looks like this:



Output: Does one have to keep the printed e-Visa on which the immigration agent wrote the visa expiry date?
Emma Morano, who recently passed away at the ripe old age of 117 after becoming the oldest woman in the world, apparently ate a daily lunch of pasta with raw minced meat:

The Economist | Emma Morano: Ancient as the hills 

Is this an actual Italian dish, and if so, what is it called and are there restaurants that serve it to the public?   Googling in English was unhelpful.

Output: Eating pasta with raw minced meat in Italy
I've heard that in some overnight trains, rooms don't lock (no door); instead its just a curtain. This means thieves can get in and out easily. Is this true? If so, how do my friends and I keep ourselves and our belongings safe? (Even if we secured it with some sort of lock and cable, if we were sleeping, I would imagine that thieves could just open everything up.)

Output: Overnight train luggage safety concerns in Europe
We're off to Borovets skiing in a month or so. We want to book ski/snowboard hire, passes, etc but finding the websites difficult to navigate. 

Does anyone have experience of getting ski hire on arrival? 

Is it easy, reasonably priced, etc.? 

Output: Is it easy to get snowboard/ski hire in Borovets without prior booking?
Do gas station in small towns or rural areas in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland accept credit cards and debit cards for payment?

Output: Credit cards in irish gas stations
I am a US citizen who will have worked for 89 days in a Schengen country while on a 90-day tourist visa.

What exactly is my best strategy at US border control? Should I admit to working while travelling, or lie and say I was on vacation?

I fully intend to declare the income earned on my taxes for this year, but I simply want to minimize trouble at the border.

Output: Returning to US after illegally working in the Schengen area
I'm an American citizen living in the UK. My 7 month old son was born with a collapsed lung and sustained an injury to his lung as a result. He's been given clearance to travel by boat but not to fly as flying could prove deadly. 

I'm on a visa currently. Moving back to the States in March but have been denied by cruise line for him to travel due to his age and lung issue. He is not cleared to fly by plane either. WHAT CAN I DO? It's not an option to extend my visa. I'm more than willing to wait until he's of age to travel by boat which is 12 months but as I said, they said they won't take him. 
Can I ask the US embassy to help me? 

Output: Too ill to fly, visa ending, Cruise line also refusing - what can I do?
I am going to visit Poland for some time, and I was wondering if there is ANY kind of morning-after pill available without medical prescription in Poland? 

I am in Germany right now and they made it available here without prescription but only the person who is going to use can buy it, maybe you know if there is any chance I can manage to buy it for someone else?  

The need for the pill is only in case of condom damage.

Output: Morning-after pill availability in Poland
I have booked tickets from Germany to Uruguay.

The major Airline for the trip is KLM.
There is a stop at Brazil's Sao Paolo GRU airport from where I have a flight to Montevideo. This particular flight is undertaken by GOL Transportes Aereos. The connection is shown below:



The flight number is KL9264 which falls under KLM but I am anxious to know if this is a single ticket or not.

Reason

I have an Indian Passport, and I cross checked with the Brazillian Embassy in India on whether I need a Transit Visa in Brazil. Their reply was the following:


  Travelers transiting through Brazilian airports to other countries, whenever the onward flight is booked under a separate ticket and/or different code need to have a transit visa.


Does the connection mentioned above constitute a Single ticket? As was the question previously asked On Expedia How Can I Tell if A Flight on Multiple Airlines is a single ticket or not, the accepted answer came only after the OP had traveled and not beforehand.

Output: Are flights undertaken by GOL Transportes Aereos via KLM considered to be a single ticket / booking?
My old passport was damaged by a cup of coffee, so I have to renew it. It will take around 2 weeks for the new passport to come. But I'm in a hurry to apply for a Tier 4 UK visa.

The old passport was snipped by the authority and would no longer be valid. But all my personal information including the number can be recognized. And the number will be noted on my new passport.

Can I make an application or even an appointment with my old passport number, and get to the visa center with my new passport? 

It would be very nice of you if you can answer my question.

Output: Can I make a UK visa application with my OLD passport number and wait for my new passport?
I am travelling from Prague > London > Dubai > Sydney. 
The Prague to London is with BA and London to Dubai is with emirates. 

They are booked on separate tickets so I don't think my bags will be checked all the way through. Does this mean I will need to collect  my bags and pass through customs and immigration at Heathrow and check-in again for my next flight? Or will BA do it for me?

If I have to, how long does this take at Heathrow? My flight arrives at 12:30 PM and I am non-EU passport holder.

My connecting flight with emirates leaves at 2:15 PM so I only have 1hr 45min to do this assuming the first flight is on time.

Is this possible? Or should I try to make other plans?
Is there a way to fast track immigration or customs? I am a One World Sapphire member.

Output: Do I clear immigration and customs in heathrow T3 for stop over on seperate ticket
I'm an American traveling to Central America for the first time this summer. I'll be entering Costa Rica and Panama. 

My Spanish is pretty good, but not native, and I wouldn't mind using it, but as a general rule, should I try to address the border officer in their language when I can or should I stick to English?


How it went: I transited Costa Rica without being asked any questions at all, but I entered remote Bocas del Toro using only Spanish (and let me tell you, it was much smoother for me than for my English-only traveling companions) and exited Bocas in English (different officer).

All in all, I followed the advice here, and answered in the language I was addressed in.

Output: In what language should I address foreign customs and immigration?
I will arrive at Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport at 2:45 AM, I plan to book my next domestic flight to Leh with GoAir which will depart at 8:30 AM. Is 5 hours enough time to clear all the customs and go to the domestic airport?

Output: How long is the customs process in Indira Gandhi International Airport?
My friend and I arrive to the HK airport (by international flights) with a 40-minute difference. Where is the best place for us to meet? I've heard that all flights arrive to terminal 1. Is it a good idea to meet at some specific place in Terminal 1, before going through the immigration and customs? If so, where exactly? (The map says there are 8 levels, and I'm not sure which level and place is most optimal.)

Output: Where to meet a travel partner at the Hong Kong airport?
I've been reading up on how to get my cell phone into Europe and I'm still not entirely sure what to do. I'd prefer to use my iPhone so that I can carry fewer electronics, but my provider will not unlock my phone until my contract expires and it's going to cost a few hundred US dollars to buy out the contract (Bah!). Additionally, newer iPhones seem to only carry smaller SIM cards.


What are my options?
If I am able to get my phone unlocked, are nano SIM cards commonly sold in Europe?


Note 1: I would only consider buying another phone if it ended up being drastically cheaper than taking my iPhone (though I would still need to bring my iPhone for camera purposes). 

Note 2: I'll be in Europe for a several months (in and out of Schengen area) including Western Europe and the more western countries of Eastern Europe.

Output: What to do about my US iPhone while traveling around Europe?
If you look at GoSim's rates (or the rates of other international sim cards), you can see that it has both a US and a global number. What is a global number? Is it the number you dial internationally to call the US number? Then why are the fees higher for receiving a call?

If it is a separate prefix for these numbers, why can't I find any information about these numbers in Wikipedia's list of country codes?

Output: What is a global number?
Most izakaya I've been to have the bartender standing on the other side of the bar, or even consist solely of a bar.

However, I've been to two places that called themselves an izakaya where the bartender is not on the opposite side of the bar. In one of them, the bar faced a wall, while in the other, the bar formed an oblong shape.

One of them seemed to be part of a chain of izakayas, which made me think it was an inauthentic rip-off of an izakaya, a place that was more izakaya-themed than a genuine izakaya. The other was in a touristy area of the touristy town of Takayama, which also made me suspicious that it was an inauthentic rip-off targeting people who wouldn't know what a real izakaya is like.

Are such places regarded as real izakayas?

Output: Are izakaya where the bartender doesn't stand opposite the bar inauthentic?
Some Islamic countries in the middle east has got a long history of trying relationship with the west, and with terrorist attack of ISIS being a real threat to the world, would travelling to middle east put me in some kind of monitoring list of EU? Would that travel history bring me trouble if I need to get through EU immigration?

Output: Can the history of travelling to middle east (Iran) hinder you traveling to EU again in the future?
I am in Europe and my wife is in South America. I'd like to buy her a flight ticket to her to come here. I am not going to fly with her. The most affordable ticket is Condor's but, according to their "Live Chat" person, I can only buy that ticket with a Credit Card even though I could buy using Debit Card from their payment system. 

So, I am bit confused if the person who answered me was confused as well.

Does anyone here ever bought a ticket for someone else [in Condor]? 

Output: How to buy a flight ticket for someone else in Condor?
Until early October, the Azuon tool was worth the subscription fee to me.  But it has been non-functional since then.  Former use: put in an entire country for origin, box populates with all the airports in the country. Same for destination. Put in earliest date, latest date (any two). Click “search” and wait five minutes or more and see a table of five hundred flights with accurate fares. Pick one and book it. NOW, it says NOBODY flies from USA to Taiwan or Europe or Korea, and only Southwest flies within North America. Skyscanner, for comparison, makes you pick one origin and destination before estimating prices, and then a specific date to find the real price.

Anyone familiar with Azuon and aware of something similar?

Yes, Skyscanner is similar, but not close in value, primarily because it makes you select a single origin and destination before it shows prices, and those prices are always very inaccurate estimates.

azair.com is closer, but it doesn't know some airports exist, its user-interface is clumsy, and it often complains that some problem prevented it returning results.

Updates: Azuon has made some bug fixes and some of the problems have gone away.  But it still said "no fares found" for any Korean airport to any US airport for the entire month of March.  As for AzAir.com, yesterday it offered me a dozen flights USA to Spain for $1.99 !! (Of course, they all got error messages from the actual airline.) 

Well, I guess the answer is either go back to the old method of spending a hundred dollars worth of time to save a hundred fifty; or just hire someone like chimpando.  I may give the latter a test run.

Output: Are there any alternatives to Azuon?
How soon can I return to the US from the UK on an ESTA after abandoning the K1 visa

Background

My finacee and I were going to marry in the US as she was doing a PHD there (she is American). However whilst I was over there on my K1 visa, she decided to transfer her PHD to the UK. So we didn't go ahead with a wedding there.
I returned to the UK after spending the maximum 90 days there. Now I would like to return on an ESTA for a month or so. Ideally, I want to go back right away, I know much of the decision will be made at the border, but I can explain the situation well enough and i'm not concerned with the border officer not believing me as I have the expired K1 with me. I'm just wondering if I may have missed anything obvious? And if I get denied at the border, what impact it will have on future ESTA travel.

Output: How soon can I return to the US from the UK on an ESTA after abandoning the K1 visa?
Shops and restaurants, and many petrol stations, seem to close for lunch in Spain. Which is fine if you can plan for it, but having been stuck, with the family, in a car in 35°C temperatures for over an hour waiting for a petrol station to open (hoping it would open, as there was no sign showroom opening hours) I was wondering if there was any standard set of hours for siesta?

Output: What time does siesta start and finish in Spain?
Can one use CouchSurfing to prove accommodation for a Schengen visa to Iceland from India?

Output: Can I use CouchSurfing as as proof of accommodation for a Schengen visa?
When travelling between France and the UK via the Eurostar train, I have never actually been stopped by customs on either direction. I've seen some people being stopped, but it seems that it's on a somewhat random basis.

I'm considering traveling by coach this time, but I wonder if the customs are more strict, e.g. should I make sure to have receipts for all my electronic equipments (laptop, camera, etc.) and fresh fruit (to prove they were bought within the EU)?

Also, for coaches travelling during the night, is the procedure lenghty? The coach website displays the total travel duration, but not the amount of time one should be "awake" (e.g. waiting for customs or something else), so I wonder if I would be able to sleep during most of the time or if I'll spend, say, one hour waiting for customs clearance, or something like that.

Note: my question is more about the practical situation of a coach-based customs (which I have never actually been through) than the theoretical fact that one should always bring receipts for each valuable item in their luggage.

Output: Customs in coach travel between France and UK
Arrival cards, Immigration cards, Custom declaration cards at airports often have a field that asks for home address/country of residence, etc...

What if a backpacker no longer maintains a residence and therefore has no home address (and has no family that has a home address either)? How should a backpacker fill out that field? Should he leave it blank? Can he write a non-residential mailing address instead? Do immigration/custom officers even care about that field?

Output: How should a backpacker fill out home address field in immigration/custom cards
I'm soon flying from London to Cairo and wonder whether the entry procedure is similar to that at Hurghada airport (both are in Egypt)?

At Hurghada, I go to a National Bank of Egypt desk located before immigration and present my ID and a photo, whereby the photo and visa are affixed onto a yellow form. Then on to immigration, where I present the ID and visa form and get the latter stamped.

Are there any differences at Cairo airport - in particular, is it the National Bank of Egypt that sells the visa for the official price there as well?

Output: Is the entry procedure at Cairo airport the same as at Hurghada airport?
In the last four days I've driven my motorbike from Milano to Kalamata going through a few nations on the east side of Adriatic sea, and in a couple of occasions I found myself crossing two customs to enter or exit a country (in both cases it was night, and cold, and I was freezing, and after driving for hours and hours, so I did not take note of which border...but probably entering Montenegro and exiting Albania)

Why is that? I noticed that in all occasions one custom asked for both my passport and my bike documents and the other custom asked for just my passport, but still it doesn't make much sense.

Output: Why two customs/immigration controls?
My partner and I are planning a long (2+ months) trip to China. The return date is unknown in advance. We may also want to visit other countries on our trip and ideally would prefer not to commit to returning directly from China.

We're considering whether to buy a 1-way plane ticket to Beijing (and buying the other way when we know from where and when) or an open-ended or cancel-able round-trip ticket.

Of these options - or others we haven't considered - which would be most practical in terms of:


Cost? Flexible tickets tend to be more expensive.
Visa requirements? We may need to present evidence that we actually plan to leave China.
Flexibility to change our plans. Are open tickets fixed to the departure airport? What about an open-jaw, open-date return flight?


This related question has general advice but I'm interested specifically in the visa requirements of China: What is the best method of purchasing a ticket with an open return date?
If it matters, we're coming from Tel Aviv, Israel.

Output: Is an open-ended ticket more practical than a one-way ticket for touring China?
I'm flying to Peru with my girlfriend next week and I realized that her name is incorrect on the reservation.

Instead of Sally Marie Jones it's Jones Marie Sally.

We're flying into Houston, then Lima, and in Lima we switch airlines for our flight to Cajamarca.

I booked the ticket with Orbitz who made the reservation with United. United booked the flight with LAN air, the Peruvian airline.

Both companies say that they are unable to change the name because of TSA restrictions not allowing a name change. I asked if I could just cancel and re-book, but United said they could not do this because there are multiple airlines involved.

A note has been attached to the reservation explaining the issue, and the United rep said that they would be able to print her boarding pass with the correct name. However, he said there are no guarantees that she'll be able to fly because although the boarding pass will be correct, the ticket will still have the reversed name.

I was prepared to just take the chance that it will all work out, seeing how it's really obvious the name is just backwards, but with recent events I'm worried that US airport security is going to be extra strict for the next little while.

Is this something I need to worry about, or are chances good that this will work out fine?

The United rep said there's a chance we could cancel the United flights and get a new ticket with the correct name for no cost, but we'd have to pay for new tickets within Peru ($500 out of the total $1300 ticket cost). I'd rather not do this unless there's a reasonable chance we'll have trouble at the airport.

Output: Am I going to have trouble flying with a reversed name on the ticket?
I am specifically looking for the case in Indonesia. 

If a form is required, what sort of information is required on the form?

Or does this simply involve paying a fee and getting a stamp on my passport?

Output: Does one need to fill in a form for a Visa On Arrival?
Next Thursday near 9 AM, I might have to take a cab from La Défense metro station to go to a district which is outside the subway zone.

According to this PDF file (in French) about Paris La Défense (page 4) and this map, there is a taxi station at La Défense not far from the metro station.

Google Street View shows the station, and there are five taxi cabs waiting, but there are only one cab from another point of view. The other lane is empty. This is scary.

Are there cabs available all the time there, or do I have to book a taxi before arriving at La Défense? If I have to book it, is it better to do it a few minutes before arriving, or should I do it the day before my trip?



After being at La Défense for five consecutive times near 9 AM and 9:30 AM, I confirm that there were always a lot of cabs available (always at least five, often more). I believe that this was also the case near 4 PM. Of course, the situation may be different on weekends.

Output: Do I need to book a taxi before arriving at Paris La Défense?
If I understand correctly, if an airline cancels a flight due to reasons beyond their control (a strike for example), passengers do not receive compensation under EU rules.    

What are your rights if you have to reschedule your flight, due to reasons beyond your control (a strike for example, see below)? Can you, for example, reschedule free of charge?

Elaborated info:
The Greek seaman are currently on strike. This means there is no (public) transport from many of the smaller islands to the mainland. Due to this strike, some people I know were forced to reschedule their flight, as they couldn't get to the airport. Hopefully, the strike won't be extented another time, otherwise they would have to reschedule the flight again.

Output: What are your rights if you are forced to reschedule your flight?
Neither specific websites of Hertz, Budget, Alamo, Enterprise, Thirftly or FOX allow you to specify that you want to rent a manual car. Neither do Kayak, Hotwire and Priceline. 

Is there a way to book a manual car in the US?

Output: Renting a Manual Car in the US
I'm planning to have a trip around in Peru and I was wondering if I can just reserve the hostels on the day I arrive in a new city or if I should call them a few days before. I'm traveling in April.

I can also try more than one hostel, of course I need to arrive before evening in each new location. 

Output: Peru: Can I reserve the hostels on the same day I arrive in a new city?
Both my wife and I are British and we have valid passports, both my children (3 & 1 year old) have no passports yet because they only countersignatory I know lives in an other city and he is lazy.

I was thinking of a quick holiday. Other than Scotland, which parts of Europe would grant entry to my children based on their birth certificates (which have no photos by the way)?

Output: Which parts of Europe I can take my children to without passports but only birth certificates?
I'm traveling to Nepal and I don't know if I need to bring power adapters and if so which power adapters to bring

Output: I'm from Israel, do I need power adapters for Nepal?
One of the guests at my hostel here in Georgia is a young guy from Nigeria and he asked me if he needs a visa to go to Turkey.

I did some searching on the Internet and found conflicting answers:

The article Visa regulations lifted with yet another nation on sabah.com.tr says:


Nigeria is the newest addition to the countries in which visa regulations will be lifted with Turkey.
  Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister Olugbenga Ashiru will be meeting at the Turkey-Africa Partnership Ministerial Review Conference and will sign a joint agreement to lift mutual visa regulations.


But the Turkish government page, Visa Information For Foreigners says:


Nigeria: Ordinary and official passport holders are required to have visa to enter Turkey.


Is the Turkish visa page current or out-of-date? If the agreement is not yet in effect can anybody tell me when these new rules will begin?

Output: Do Nigerian citizens still need a visa to visit Turkey?
5 months ago, I flew from Moscow to London with a connection in Amsterdam. My flight was late by nearly 3 hours and my connection was missed. I was put into a hotel overnight and flew the next day. At that time no compensation was offered from the airline. The journey was booked with lastminute.com It was with KLM and the delay was the airlines fault.

A few days ago I received a legitimately-looking email saying that passengers could be entitled to compensation. The email:


  From: "lastminute.com" 
  
  Hi [MY NAME],
  
  Get compensation for your flight delay!
  
  At lastminute.com, we want our customers to have the best travel experience possible, That's why we were sorry to see that your flight
  from Moscow to Amsterdam on 25 February, 2019 may have been delayed.
  
  Under EU Regulation (EC) No. 261/2004, introduced to protect European passengers against lengthy delays and other travel
  disruptions, you could be entitled to as much as €400 in compensation.
  
  You can either submit your claim directly to the airline, or get assistance from an external organization such as our partner AirHelp.
  AirHelp are the travel experts, making the process of gaining
  compensation for delayed, cancelled and overbooked flights simple and
  stress-free.
  
  AirHelp doesn't charge any service fees unless your claim is successful. Before using AirHelp's service, we advise that you check
  the company's terms, conditions and fees on their website
  www.airhelp.com.
  
  [LINK TO CLAIM]


Is it a bit suspicious I was contacthed 5 months after the flight and is there a point making a claim 5 months after the delay?

Output: Email about missed connecting flight compensation 5 months after flight, is there a point?
Starting from Paris, I want to make a one-day trip combining a visit the Bayeux tapestry museum and with a tour of some of the D-Day beaches. How can I travel between Paris, Bayeux and the beaches? Which beaches would I have time to visit?

Output: Bayeux tapestry and D-Day beaches
This week some our suitcases that were delayed arrived. When inquiring with the delivery people, they told us that some restricted items were found by customs (not security although sometimes people confuse the two in my experience). Upon inspection, indeed a few things were missing, when I called the delivery company they confirmed the items but were not able to give any more information.

What happens to items removed from luggage? Are they kept somewhere? Can they be recovered?

This time it probably not worth the hassle but since this never happened to me after decades of flying into over 50 countries, I felt confused a frustrated at the lack of transparency. Specifically, they took out all AA batteries from inside items (a pair of Lithium AAs in a flashlight and NiMh AAs that were in some children toys), a bag of sweets and a box of chocolates. Nothing that we had not taken with us before. Oddly, a 9V Lithium battery was not removed from the only item that had a screw holding the battery compartment door closed.

Output: What happens to items removed from luggage?
I'm from India and I applied for a Schengen visa to visit Sweden for a duration of 4 days and since I'm 18 years old, to prove my intent to return home after my visit, the Embassy wanted me to submit supporting documents such as the I-20 issued by my university in the USA. Since I didn't have the I-20 at the time and I didn't want to postpone my trip, I submitted a fake I-20. 

They granted me a visa but after a few days, called me back to tell me that my I-20 was deemed to have been forged and thus my visa had been annulled. The official reason on the rejection letter listed was "The information submitted regarding the justification for the purpose and conditions of the 
intended stay was not reliable". The consular official invited me to appeal the decision with genuine documents if I wished to but I've decided to simply cancel my trip for now.

I realize this was an insanely stupid thing to do and in hindsight, I wish I hadn't done it. I have since been issued a valid US F1 visa and also have my genuine I20. If I apply for a Schengen visa again, this time with genuine documents and the US visa stamped to my passport, will I get a visa or will my application be rejected right away?

Output: Can I ever get a Schengen visa again?
Every time you shop at airports the shop personnel ask to see your boarding pass even if there's no discount on the merchandise due to the lack of VAT. Given that the GDPR is now in force starting from 25.05.2018, can I refuse to show my boarding pass at EU airports, citing privacy concerns? Or can I at least demand an explanation from the shop keeper of how my personal data is stored?

Output: Does the GDPR entitle me to refuse to show my boarding pass at EU airport shops?
I'm an American citizen traveling with Air France from Athens to JFK in New York via Paris. Do I need a transit visa to leave the airport and spend the night in Paris? Can I check a bag through or must I retrieve my luggage and go through immigration and customs?

Thank you.

Output: 20-hour layover in Paris CDG, 5:15 pm to 1:50 pm
I'm working remotely for a Dutch-based company in Holland.  I'm their full-time employee, working 9 to 5.  They want me to visit their office this summer.  After looking into at the Schengen visa application form, I'm getting confused about the types of visa.

People are suggesting that I should have a tourism visa, but it doesn't make sense to me to have this visa because I'm travelling for an office visit, and will be having some meetings with them.

Some people are saying I should have a visit visa, but I haven't seen visit visa information in in the application form.

Some are saying I should have friend visit visa.  Again, this doesn't make sense, because they are my employer, not friends.

What type of visa should I apply for?

Output: Visiting my employer in the Netherlands (I work remotely from my home country)
Both of the guidebooks I've looked at suggest starting in Milan and traveling through Verona and Dolomites to get to Venice, then swing down to Florence. I won't be seeing Florence or Tuscany, so I was wondering if there were any particular reasons why I shouldn't go from Venice to Milan.

My total trip length for Northern Italy is about 10-15 days (haven't solidified my schedule yet) and I plan to begin the trip in mid-October. I thought if I started in Venice, I would have a better chance of avoiding acqua alta (floods) as I have read they happen most often in November and December -- as opposed to having it start at the end of the trip, which would be into November or late October. However, I don't know if the reason why the guidebooks suggest doing so is because it is cheaper to fly into Milan instead. 

My next destination from Italy is the Czech Republic.

Output: Northern Italy: east to west or west to east?
What do I need to know to charge my American phone / razor / laptop in Europe?
Do I need a simple converter, or do I need to take voltage in account?

Output: What do I need to know to charge my phone / razor in Europe?
I had my ESTA approved last year when I didn't have a job hence put NO under DO YOU HAVE A CURRENT OR PREVIOUS EMPLOYER?. Since then I have both received and ended employment so if I were to apply for an ESTA now I should answer YES to DO YOU HAVE A CURRENT OR PREVIOUS EMPLOYER?

I plan to go to America and stay with some friends for around 2 months before returning home and looking for another job.  

When I tried to update the ESTA information I discovered that you may only make changes to information related to your Travel Information.  

Will I need to apply for a new ESTA that contains the correct information or will I be able to get by with this one and will the fact that I recently left my job or that I plan to be there for 2 months be an issue? 

Output: Must I reapply for an ESTA following a change in employment status?
I have a flight with one leg operated by Air France and the other one by JAL. Apparently, I cannot choose my seat from the Air France website and cannot check-in online on the JAL website. Is there any way for me to choose my seat?

Also, I will Premium Economy on JAL, are all seat of equivalent quality like in Business or is there bigger differences between seats like in Economy?

Output: How to choose seat with JAL when online check-in is not available?
When paying by card flight attendants usually ask to see your ID, to verify that the card in fact belongs to you. However it seems weird to me that pretty much no other merchants ever ask to see your ID, even when conducting purchases for thousands of euros (e.g. at IKEA).

So why do airlines insist on verifying your ID when paying by card? I understand that there's (usually) no Internet to verify the card balance on the plane (as suggested by TonyK), but how would one's ID help them out in case the card is empty?

Output: Why do flight attendants ask to see your ID when paying by card on the airplane?
Searching for flights from Aruba to Ottawa, Canada using Expedia.com I run into this gem:

 

Is this doable? 

Also, I read somewhere you could do US Immigration in Aruba, is this correct? (This would definitely simplify the process in Newark if it were so)

The flight would be the 20th if November, does this date coincide with high season or something in the US?

Output: 47 minute layover at Newark, is this doable?
On Friday I booked a flight with AirBerlin and paid with PayPal. The ticket was issued correctly (I received the booking and ticket numbers and an invoice) but they payment has been stuck in Pending state in PayPal since then (I paid with a prepaid card from my bank linked to my PayPal account).

Today I called the airline to make sure everything was okay and they told me they received the money, to not worry and to wait for PayPal to refresh the status of the payment.

So I called PayPal and they told me the amount had only been authorized but the payment had never been completed.

Called again the airline with the info from PayPal but they said the same thing as the first time.

Also PayPal told me it could take up to a month before the authorized amount is unblocked from my card.

I'm worried that if nothing changes when the authorization expires and the money is unfrozen the booking will be cancelled and at that point a ticket might cost a lot more.

Has anyone been in this situation before? What do you suggest? 

Output: Flight booked but card not charged
I'm planning to take an elderly couple from Shanghai to Nantong. I'm looking for a more comfortable alternative than the intercity buses.  

Are there any companies who offer intercity taxi or minivan for a decent price?

Output: China intercity travel by taxi or minivan
I am storing a suitcase full of stuff at my college. At the storage site, I saw how luggage was stacked one on top of another. As some of the suitcases are probably very heavy, and as my suitcase will be stored there for a few months, I am wondering about the correct way to store the luggage to minimize the damage for the suitcases at the bottom of the pile. Should the cases be stacked sideways (as depicted in this image) or should they be stacked with the largest face pointing up (as depicted in this image)? Or would the two storage methods be equivalent? Finally how sturdy should a typical relatively new soft-case suitcase be?

Output: How should I be stacking luggage?
I had frequent flyer miles for Jet Airways and using those miles I booked an award flight with Lufthansa, which is a partner airline with Jet.

But I am not able to manage my flight on Lufthansa's website: when I provide my last name and PNR number, it cannot locate my flight.

I am wondering if there are any restriction on managing award flights.

Output: Not able to manage award flight via Manage bookings
I am trying to use Google Maps in China. I know that Google is blocked, which is why I downloaded the map of Beijing offline. However, when I open the app my phone attempts to find GPS satellites but finds none. I know location works because my location works fine when I am on WiFi. Is this a China blocking GPS thing or something else?

I am using a Verizon HTC One (M8) with Android 5.0.1 and HTC Sense.

Note: This question has also been cross-posted to Android.SE.

Update 1:

All my testing for this question was done on the 7th floor of a downtown office building. Yesterday after waiting a while, I was able to recieve GPS signal (using both Google Maps and GPS Status) while on the 17th floor of a suburban apartment building. I was then also able to recieve signal in another part of downtown that lacked many tall buildings. When I get back to the office tomorrow I will be able to judge if it was just taking a mega-long time to get the satellite data as @Vince suggested, or if it is the urban canyon as @Loren suggested. Thank you all for the help and explanations!

Update 2:

After some testing, it seems that this does simply come down to an urban canyon problem. The GPS does not find any satellites at my desk in the office, however, if I bring it next to a window it finds 2 satellites (not enough for a location, but enough to answer this question). When I take the phone outside the building I am able to get location in some areas. Thank you all again for the help and the wealth of new knowledge. 

Note: all testing was done with data and WiFi services turned off.

Based on a comment, I have asked a question in GIS.SE asking about the urban canyon and how it compares to Beijing versus NYC.

Output: Why does my phone's GPS not work in China?
Most questions related to port of entry that I've seen around here are asked in the context of visiting the country and not visiting the issuing country. Mine is different.

This is the first time I'm travelling to Europe. I'm travelling to Italy and Greece (7 nights in Italy, 8 nights in Greece) via Air France flights. I'll first land in Paris CDG airport from Bangalore, India and then I catch a connecting flight Air France flight to Rome, Italy (4 hours gap between flights). I've been issued a Schengen Visa from Greece (as I'll spend the longest duration in Greece) and I'll NOT be deviating from the itinerary presented to Greece Embassy.

Where should I clear my immigration to get the Schengen entry stamp on my passport? Someone told me that I should clear immigration in CDG Paris, but was not sure about this. Could someone clarify this for me? Assuming the above is the case, I also have a follow up question. What if both my flights arrive and depart from the same terminal in CDG Paris?

Output: First port of entry a Schengen Visa (connecting flights)
When we put a hold on an airline seat for a couple of days, it expires after a couple of days. Now, after couple of days, nobody has booked the seat since I was the one holding it and I did not book it.
So why does the agent say that hold has expired? Because by above logic, the seat is still not booked.

Output: Putting a hold on an airline seat
Take for example this flight:



in 45 minutes you have to go through immigration, security checks, and probably you need to go to a different terminal: it's basically guaranteed that you can't catch the connecting flight

If I lose this connecting flight, are airlines required to find a replacement flight to me? (possibly without charge)

Output: If security checks during a layover take too long time and I lose the flight, would the airline find me a solution for free?
I want to go to Costa Rica and I am considering going to Panama and Nicaragua as well. I wonder though, what will I be able to find in Panama and Nicaragua that I will not be able to find in Costa Rica? It get the impression that the landscape, the wildlife and things to do (surfing, ziplining, snorkling) are all very similar in these countries. 

I would really love to see the wildlife as well as surf a little bit. I am not too interested in the culture, it is mostly nature that I am interested in. Wildlife, scubadiving, all these things interest me. Are these things significantly different in all these countries or is it mostly a price difference that occurs? 

I find it preferable to have access to wifi, as I am a traveling developer. I don't mind staying in hostels but I prefer not to stay in party hostels. Would love to meet people but I prefer to rest as well. 

Output: Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua
I'll be going to France for 4 months to conduct research towards my PhD. I believe I will be issued with a long stay visa for research to cover my trip. I have the required "Convention d'Accueil" from the organisation I'll be spending time at. I currently hold an Australian passport.

My question is, is this research visa considered a "Type D", like the other French long stay visas and does it allow entry into other Schengen areas? Does the research visa carry any specific conditions (besides the fact that you need a "Convention d'Accueil" to apply)? 

I will have a month off during my 4 month stay, during which I'd like to travel around to other countries, hopefully I can do this with the one visa.

Output: Does a French long stay research visa differ from a regular "Type-D" visa and are there implications for travelling in Schengen areas?
I have a flight with three segments, the first is from Bangkok to Cochin (India) with Thai AirAsia, the second from Cochin to Doha with Qatar Airways and the third from Doha to Frankfurt also with Qatar Airways. 
Only the flight from Bangkok to Cochin has online check-in.

My question is, whether I can get my boarding pass for the flights with Qatar Airways already in Bangkok at the Qatar Airways booth. Because I don't have a visa for India, so I can't leave the transit area to collect my boarding pass at the regular check-in counters.

I didn't find my option in the answer of this post Where to obtain boarding passes when travelling with distinct airlines?

Also I didn't understand where the hotel agent in this answer came from or whether I can make use of this option: Can I get a boarding pass for a different airline in the transit area of Delhi Airport without going through immigration?

Output: When taking a multi-segment flight, is it guaranteed that you would get all boarding passes at the first airport?
I am a British citizen and I'm planning to travel from the UK to Cuba, stay for a couple of days and then fly directly to Orlando from there. I will then fly back to the UK from Orlando. (Note: this is not a trip operated by a third party, I will be booking flights and accommodation myself).

There have been many threads about this on TripAdvisor in the past, with some people suggesting that American citizens have to declare the reason for their visit and that the same applies to a British citizen travelling from the USA to Cuba.

However, I am struggling to find information for travel in the reverse direction (Cuba to USA) for British citizens. A lot of the information online seems to have been given prior to Trump's amendments to the policy regarding travel to Cuba.

I'd like a more concrete idea of the procedure and if there are any other documents (besides ESTA for the USA and Cuban tourist card) that I might need.

Output: What restrictions can be expected travelling UK -> Cuba -> USA?
My wife and I are going to Las Vegas on a business trip for 5 days. While we're there, we want to be able to keep in touch with mobile phones, and I'd like to spend about $10-20 per phone (including prepaid credit).

This is possible in the UK, where one can buy a Pay As You Go phone for less than £5 and a SIM Card with £10 credit on it. Sometimes you can get them bundled together for £10. That's the kind of price range I'm looking at.

A while ago when I went to Wyoming, a friend advised me to buy a prepaid Tracfone, but that worked out to cost more than $50.

What's the trick to getting cheap temporary phones in the USA?

Output: How can I buy a pair of cheap phones in the USA
I am travelling from Prague to Atlanta with a connection in Frankfurt.  The PRG-FRA segment is on Czech Airlines, while the FRA-ATL segment is on United.  At what point(s) will I need to go through security, customs, and baggage claim?  

Long story short: how much time is required to make this connection?

Output: International connecting flight in Frankfurt, operated by different airline
Is there any publicly accessible and drivable road between the California State Route 120 and the Sherman Pass Road (Forest Route 22S0) that crosses Yosemite/Sierra/Sequoia National Park/Forest?

There is over 200 km between California State Route 120 and Sherman Pass Road (Forest Route 22S0) as shown on the three maps below: 

California State Route 120:


Sherman Pass Road (Forest Route 22S0):



Distance between California State Route 120 and Sherman Pass Road (Forest Route 22S0):  



Output: Is there any road between the CA State Route 120 and Sherman Pass Road (Forest Route 22S0) that crosses Yosemite/Serria/Sequoia National Park/Forest?
I have made Sihanoukville, Cambodia, my travel-around-Asia operations-base for some time now. Now I need to travel to Europe and back... To save some cash on tickets, I will be going to the Thai border by bus, get a visa and fly with Finnair, then return back to Bangkok, catching a bus back to Sihanoukville.

It suddenly hit me that when returning I will be landing in Bangkok and it's my final destination. And I might be asked by Finnair when boarding for proof of onward travel even if I started my journey with them in Thailand. And usually bus tickets do not 'cut it'.

I have Lithuanian passport. 

Do I need to get proof of onward travel for my return flight to Thailand, even though I am using the same company (Finnair) to do the round trip to my original destination?

Output: Going from Cambodia to Europe via Thailand and back. Do I need proof of onward travel for the return flight?
A few weeks ago, I booked a flight with Transavia going back from Prague to Paris on the Wednesday 10th June 2015.
Yesterday, I received an email saying "your reservation has been updated, click on the following link to see the new time for your flight" and on the linked web page, the flight appears to be on the 12th June.
I have not acknowledged the change yet.

Changing the "time" of the flight by 48 hours seems a bit extreme to me.

Is that legal at all? Is there any procedure to ask for compensations for the additional time off work I'll need to take or for the extra hotel nights ?

Output: Flight rescheduled, what are my options?