Greetings!

If you get my daily travel tip newsletter, then you know my family and I just returned from two incredible weeks in Europe. We went to six countries in 12 days and the photo above is from our seven-hour layover in Munich.
Instead of passing the time in the airport or lounge, we got a hotel room at the Hilton MUC. We dropped our bags off and took the S8 into the city, grabbed lunch, some pretzels and then we all took showers in the hotel before our 8-hour and 15-minute flight to Toronto.
I have tons of trip reports to write and I just finished Part One ... an introduction to our trip and a detailed account, chock-full of tips about flying Air Canada's Premium Economy from Toronto to Barcelona.
It was such a busy trip that I missed sending two newsletters this week so please forgive me. If you're traveling like everyone else it seems, then you probably didn't even miss it. Did you see that the TSA broke the single day record for highest number of passengers screened on Friday?
I hope you didn't get caught up in the chaos, especially United Airlines' epic meltdown. I still can't believe their CEO took a private jet to escape NYC.
Unfortunately, there are still weather problems and United and Newark are leading the world so far today in terms of delays and cancelations. United has also extended their travel waivers for by another day for these airports: Baltimore, MD (BWI), New York/Newark, NJ (EWR), New York-Kennedy, NY (JFK), New York-LaGuardia, NY (LGA), Philadelphia, PA (PHL), Washington, DC - Dulles (IAD), Washington-National, DC (DCA), White Plains, NY (HPN). This allows travelers to change their ticket for free.

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In this issue:

✈️ Today's Travel Outlook

As of 11:50am EST, there have been 484 canceled flights to, from or within the United States and 2,061 delayed. Here's a link to the up-to-date stats and a live look at the FAA's National Airspace System Status. Here's what to do during weather delays and flight cancellations.

💇 Monday

13 Hair Products and Accessories I Never Travel Without
To get ready for the amazing European trip we are currently on, my wife and I wrote a number of articles in advance, full of travel tips. This tip is all about the hair products and accessories my wife never travels without. Listen, I barely have any hair to speak of so I’m the last person who can offer any advice but my wife has a knack for knowing just what to pack. And since everyone is always asking for her travel tips, hopefully you’ll find this helpful or know someone who will. Read the story: 13 Hair Products and Accessories My Wife Never Travels Without

🦟 Wednesday

Pack Tweezers and This Gadget to Naturally Take Care of Bug Bites
I'm in Italy and while walking on a dock this morning to take a dip in the warm Mediterranean Sea, I got a splinter. It hurt like heck, but I didn't have sharp tweezers (always pack them) in my toiletry bag. Fortunately, I had some other tools including The Bug Bite Thing ($9), which helped bring it to the surface, even though its main purpose is to relieve mosquito bites. Here's my post on it.

📸 Friday

The 30 Best Souvenirs We Brought Home From Our Trip to Europe - And They Took Up Absolutely No Room In Our Bags
We just returned home from an epic European adventure and I'll soon have plenty of articles, tips, hotel reviews, trip reports and flight reviews to share. But in the meantime, I wanted to share a tip about our favorite travel souvenirs. We love coming home with these travel memories and they don't take up any room or weight in our bags. Read the story here.

✈️ Saturday

9 Tips For Smoother Travels This Holiday Weekend and Beyond
Holidays are always a busy time to travel and this year is no exception. According to AAA, more than 50 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this weekend. Most folks will be driving (43.2 million) but 4.17 million will fly and more than 3.3 million are predicted to travel by bus, cruise or train. If you're one of them, these tips will help to ensure smoother travels. Read the story here.

📺 Travel Video of the Week

GOOD NEWS: The tourist who carved names Into the Colosseum’s walls in Rome has been identified. Watch the video here.

⚡ Travel Product of the Week

A Reader Suggested This Little-Known Cruise Essential I Never Knew Existed and She Was Spot-On
A reader left a comment on one of our articles recommending magnetic hooks for our cabin walls and it was something I’d never thought of before. They cost just $7 and hold up to 27 pounds each.

🌎 12 Things to Know in Travel Today

1 United gives 30,000 frequent flyer miles to travelers hit by flight delays
2 United may cut Newark flights as it seeks more gates to stem delays
3 Six commercial airline crew members sickened upon landing at LAX
4 Fresh flight disruptions threaten US Fourth of July holiday weekend travel
5 'Overwhelming': Hundreds of dolphins, sea lions ill, dying due to California's red tide
6 If you're traveling over July 4 weekend, be ready for flight delays
7 Bahamas government delays implementation of cruise tax hike
8 ‘Sight of a lifetime’: Yosemite's waterfalls flow hard from historic snowfall
9 Icon of the Seas: The world's biggest cruise ship is almost ready
10 A man checked into a 5-star hotel in India for one night. The hotel says he stayed for 603 days — and didn't pay his $70,000 bill.
11 British man, 53, dies after trying to drink all 21 cocktails on the menu on family...
12 Yesterday's TSA checkpoint numbers

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