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How to Mark Your Luggage
- Mark every piece of luggage inside and outside with your last name and first initial only, and no title (Mr. Mrs. Ms.) If your bag is separated from you and later found, it is useful to list a contact phone number of someone who will be easy to reach at your home city to whom they can send the bag. DO NOT put your home address or destination address on the luggage unless your destination is a hotel or resort.
8-Jun-2001 Mike Fox ID239
How to Survive a Hotel Fire
- Plan Ahead Plan your escape from a fire before you are caught in one.
- When checking into your room, be sure to know where the fire exit is so that you can find it in the dark. You may have to.
- Keep your hotel key where you can find it quickly. We suggest keeping your key on the nightstand. Should you decide to leave your room in an emergency, take your key with you in case you want to get back into the room.
- Be sure to close the door behind you. Carrying a small flashlight may prove to be invaluable.
- Never use an elevator as a fire exit. Elevator mechanisms can easily malfunction during a fire, causing persons to be trapped inside or to be transported to the exact location of the fire.
- Do not panic. You can avoid panic by being familiar with your surroundings and by having a specific plan of action to employ should you be involved in a fire. For this reason, we ask that you please read on.
If There is a Fire
- If there is any indication or even a suspicion of a fire, call the hotel operator immediately. Give your name, room number, and a brief description of the situation.
- Before attempting to leave your room, grab your key.
- If your family is with you, determine a meeting place outdoors so you will know everyone is safe.
- Feel the door with the palm of your hand. If the door or knob is warm, do not open it. If the door is not warm, drop to your knees and slowly open the door, but be ready to slam it should a cloud of smoke roll in.
- If the hallway is clear, head for the exit, not the elevator.
- Close your door behind you. Take your key with you.
- Do not stand upright, but crawl or keep low to the floor to avoid smoke and odorless carbon monoxide.
- Stay on the same side of the hall as your exit, counting the number of doors to the exit.
- When you reach the exit, walk quickly, but cautiously down the stairs, and hold on to the handrail as you go.
- Smoke will sometimes get into an exit stairwell. If you encounter smoke, do not try to run through it. Turn around and walk up. Proceed to a smoke free corridor and cross the building to an alternate exit.
- If you are unable to leave your room, make every effort to notify someone that you are in your room. If you cannot reach the hotel operator, call the local fire department and identify your exact location. Signal to them by hanging a bed sheet from your window. If there is smoke in your room, open the window. Do not break the glass unless it is absolutely necessary because heavier smoke may begin to enter from outside.
- Fill the bathtub with water. Wet towels and sheets and stuff them around the door and vent which is allowing smoke to enter the room.
- If the door and walls are hot, bail water on them with your ice bucket to keep them cool.
Place the mattress up against the door and hold it in place with the dresser. Keep it wet. Keep everything wet.
- A wet towel tied around your nose and mouth will help filter out smoke if you fold it into a triangle and put the corner in your mouth.
- If there is a fire outside of the window, pull down the drapes and move everything that is flammable away from the window.
- Do not jump from the room. A fall from this height can cause serious injury. Rather, continue to protect yourself from the fire and signal from your window for help.
Holbrook Travel Information, Worldwide Travel Planners
1-Jan-2000 Holbrook Travel Information, Worldwide Travel Planners ID908
Importance of Planning
- Before your trip, plan out just how far your destination is. For businesswomen, you may already have funds - but younger ladies are usually on a tight budget and don't need any surprises, like: it's a forty-minute drive from the airport, and a cab will be over $50 and you end up taking a bus with three bags of luggage. The price is good at $2 but they drop you off two blocks from your hotel and it could be 1 a.m. in the morning. Believe it, because it happened to me. So be confident. If it happens don't show your fear because dogs can smell it. Carry some mace with you. Get a cab quick. And don't let it happen again!
1-Jan-2000 Terre Holman ID894
Internet to the Rescue!
- Before travelling, scan your documents (passport, travellers, identity and vaccination card) and send them to your email adress. In case of problem you can print them everywhere in any cybercafe in the world.
14-Jul-2001 dara ID290
Keeping Everyone Happy on the Plane
- This tip only works if there are an equal number of children and adults travelling together, but ... I take LONG plane trips with my two daughters (now 6 and 4) and my mother every year or two. Instead of the four of us sitting side by side in a row, we 'divide and conquer'. We request two window seats and two middle seats, one set right behind the other. That way each child has a window to look out of, and if Mom gets too boring they can visit with Nana for a while. One more ... on our last trip I took crayons and stickers and when boredom threatened to overcome us, we made hand puppets out of the unused air sickness bags. We got a couple of strange looks, but it was good for another hour of peace ...
1-Jan-2000 Alison Wright ID923
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