All our City Guides, for free, forever
From now on, all our City Guides will be free, forever. More than 30 City Guides for iPhone, Android & PDF are waiting for you!
What you should really love about these City Guides is:
- They help you with that city break you have been planning. Cool & Quirky places to get the most of each city.
- Use them on your own city. People who have trampled all over it, have found the coolest tips for you.
- They are free!!
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Practical advice for travelling with animals
This is a guest por by eDreams blog
It’s not just dogs that are a man’s best friend, pets in general are great companions, but they also come with a lot of responsibilities. And what do you do when you go away? If you want to take your pet with you on your holiday or weekend break, travel can be tricky. So here the eDreams blog offers some tips on travelling with pets.
1. Planning Ahead
Think about exactly how the animal will travel, find out about the procedures involved and whether travel to your particular destination will especially cause problems or inconveniences.
2. The Animal and its Age
Make sure you consider your type of pet and it’s age. For example, puppies are more delicate, plus they eat and do their business more frequently than adult animals. On the other hand, cats are highly territorial and strongly dislike change, so they generally experience more travel stress than other types of pets.
3. Medical Check-up and Vaccines
Before embarking on your trip, you should pay a visit to the vet to get your pet checked out. The vet will also recommend vaccines for the animal, depending on where you’re travelling to.
4. Luggage
While you’re packing your bikini and suntan lotion, don’t forget your pet’s essentials too. Make sure he / she has his / her cleaning products, collar and lead, usual food, and not to forget their favourite toys.
5. Passport
Since October 1st, 2004, dogs, cats and ferrets travelling within member countries of the European Union need a European Passport for Pets. You can get this document at the vet’s.
6. Microchip
Does your pet have a microchip, or at least an identification tag on its collar with your name and address? This is without doubt the easiest way to ensure you don’t lose your companion on your travels.
7. Where to Stay
Hotels, country cottages, campsites… more and more accommodation is allowing pets to stay. Just make sure you ask before and give plenty of notice.
8. Transport
Depending on the destination, some forms of transport are more convenient than others. For this reason, when bringing pets people often opt to travel by car, since it’s relatively easy and simple. This way you can stop, take the animal out, feed and water it whenever you decide to, without depending on anyone.
If you’re travelling by train, there are a series of conditions for pets:
- Only one animal per person is allowed and it has to be transported in a cage or carry case.
- The cage can be no bigger than 60x35x35.
- Depending on the company, the price should be about 50% of the cost of the ticket, corresponding to the class you are travelling in.
If, on the other hand, you are looking for cheap flights or cruises, whether or not pets are allowed and conditions for travel are dependent on each individual company.
Apart from this advice, the rest is common sense. Treat your animal as you would do a human as they can have as many needs and concerns as we do.
And lastly don’t forget that your pet can and should appear in your holiday photos… unless they haven’t enjoyed themselves as much as you have…
Christmas in the Caribbean
Tired of your white, cold Christmas? Have some fun and go on a cruise to your favorite destination!
Bahamas, anyone? Check out these great deals from Royal Caribbean. And just in case you need a little more convincing, check out the holiday inspiration below!
* This is a sponsored post by Royal Caribbean.
0,99€ Mobile Cities Guides – Our Christmas present to our Coolpackers!
It’s that time of the year when everyone is giving presents so it’s only right that we should give all our Coolpackers a gift too. From today until the 2nd of January all our Mobile Cities Guides are only 0,99€!!
What We & You should really love about these Mobile Guides is:
- It helps you to decide to go on that City break you have been putting off.
- Learn more about the city you are in from people who have trampled all over it and found the coolest tips for you.
- They are a 70% off!!
Check out the Mobile City Guides right here
Our Autumn Survey Results
As you all know we ran a survey this Autumn asking you guys a few different things about what you we’re up to this year & after corilating the results this is the data we’ve got from you:
I find iwannagothere specially useful…
Are you going o a trip on the next 6 months?
We will contact the 5 winners of the IWGT Tote Bags chosen at random by a clever computer.
(Since we just asked you for your email they can not be public 
Thanks to everyone for your participations!
Lucky Bag, a surprising Xmas from IWGT
Hot of the keyboards from the IWGT office is our brand new chrimbo christmassy contest.
Everyone Loves Luck Bags!!!
You know what a Lucky Bag is right? It’s a bag you get & you have absolutely no idea whats inside it, so you’re completely surprised & lucky too cos you never know what your gonna get!
All you have to do to enter is join our Travel Newsletter!! Full of relevant & current travel info, don’t worry we never spam anyone EVER, have a gander at our last newsletter.
Bags of fun, bags of suspense, bags of christmas with the IWGT Lucky Bag!
Participate till midnight the 19th December.
Grab your Lucky Bags right now!
IWGT launches Inspiration: a bolt of travel lightning!
Iwannagothere.com launches Inspiration: the ultimate tool to inspire travelers on their trips.
Pictures are usually the most wanted treasures we keep from our vacation, we tell stories to our friends or remember our special moments by looking at them, they are our memory and the best way to inspire others.On IWGT we are amazed everyday about the quality of the pictures our Coolpackers share and we decided we have to do something with them!
That’s why we have created IWGT Inspiration: to show them in a way that would be useful for others, to get inspiration about where to go or what part of the planet is going to be their next destination.On IWGT Inspiration you’ll find the best pics shared on IWGT organized by mood or by continent so you can explore the party places in Stockholm or the coolest places in Africa.
Stop reading… start getting inspired!
http://iwannagothere.com/inspiration
Pssss: have a look to it on your iPad, it’s the perfect tool to get inspired while you’re on your sofa
Thanksgiving Food Twisted Around The World
It’s thanksgiving Thursday in America and to us its all about thanks & food. Food glorious food and while most americans sit and ready themselves for the traditional turkey we have put together 5 different places world wide to get your grub in this thanksgiving !!
You’d be forgiven for thinking you were anywhere but a restaurant in the Bistrotheque, why ? Because like the man said its not just a restaurant, not just a bar, not just a venue, its all of the above with an eclectic mix of all things good ie food, wine, music and of London !!
So your in Hsin-chu and you want to celebrate thanksgiving, what do you do? The Lakehouse is your top bet because the french know a little bit about cuisine. Plus this Taiwan establishment have a twist on the old favourites
We love Iceland so much, they have the culture, landscapes and history for the best trips. Plus they like to eat, in Reykjavik at Tapas Barinn expect the Icelandic Feast with 5 courses, dessert, and of course the classic Icelandic shot or two
There is a tradition in China and we’re taking you to Shanghai to share it with you. Shengbiancaotou tells us that its all types of food that make the dish so be careful to try to include absolutely everything
The beach is calling in Bali, Melasti Kedonganan Cafe to be exact is the perfect location for seafood, its literally caught about 200 metres in front of you. Indonesia is the country of fish as its surrounded by water and islands. Sea, beach, heat & fresh fish, perfect.
If your in the states and thinking what could we do thats differrent this thanksgiving then check out our comprehensive Chicago, New York & New York for Kids trips. Or if your heading to the states we have the America For Less page. When all put together we think its gonna be a great thanksgiving
The Coolpacker Photo Contest Winner is ….
Yes, after many weeks, pages of contestants & thousands of photo’s we have finally got our Coolpacker Winner! The photo that YOU guys thought worthy of the spirit of Coolpacker is Flora-Fujii & here is the amazing winning image:
Well done to Flora-Fujii, the photograph won because you & the team here at iwannagothere can see the spirit of what a Coolpacker is, basically seeing the beauty around you, sharing it, no matter where you are!!
Huge congratulations to Flora-Fujii she will be receiving the very cool Lomography Diane F Deluxe Kit which is altogether a brilliant piece of gadgetery. This has been our biggest & most popular contest to date and we want to say a big thank you to everyone who made it so ….
