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Comparing India visa costs
In the letter “Obtaining an India e-Visa” (March ’20, pg.
Recommended in Switzerland
My husband and I visited our friend Hilde in Turbenthal, Switzerland, Sept. 15-22, 2019.
On Oceania’s ground transfers
I read the account of the traveler Michael Burge and his wife (March ’20, pg. 52), who took an around-Australia cruise with Oceania Cruises and felt that $109 per person, each way, was too much to pay for the cruise line’s airport/port transfers. They found alternative transportation.
Pleasant surprise
In January 2019, my wife and I booked a flight from Minneapolis to Portland, Oregon, on Delta Air Lines, the first leg of a June 2019 trip to South Korea, but we got our signals crossed and double-booked — a goofy first for us — so we had to cancel two of the tickets.
Winging it in Japan
On a trip to Japan, my daughter Stacy and I stayed in a virtual ghost town when we lodged at Ryokan Sakaya - Nozawa Onsen (9329 Toyosato, Nozawa onsen, Nagano 389-2502, Japan; ryokan-sakaya.com), April 17-19, 2019.
Fighting credit card fraud
In the letter “Watch Credit Card Statements” (March ’20, pg. 24), a subscriber wrote that he handed over his credit card to a waiter in a taverna in Greece for a few minutes and later discovered that a fraudulent charge had been made during that time.
Hotel Antumalal, Chile
While visiting Chile’s Lake District in November 2019, my wife, Arnette, and I stayed at a nice hotel beside a beautiful lake within a mile of the center of the delightful town of Pucón, which is also on the lake.
Italy with Oceania Cruises
I took the cruise “Inspiring Italy” with Oceania Cruises (855/335-2416, oceaniacruises.com), Aug 6-16, 2019.
Fine dining in the Azores
My wife, Nancy, and I spent a week in the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago approximately 930 miles west of Lisbon, in August 2018.
Found Odysseys Unlimited’s air policies restrictive
My wife and I were about to take our first trip with Odysseys Unlimited (Newton, MA; 888/370-6765, odysseys-unlimited.com), and on Dec. 26, 2019, we made a deposit on the tour “Norwegian Splendor,” starting on May 17, 2020, to visit Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Carry local currency
On a cruise my husband and I took aboard the Norwegian Star (leaving Venice, Italy, Sept. 8, and returning Sept. 15, 2019), my husband and I traveled to Montenegro, Greece, Croatia and back to Venice.