so hey there GRRR travelers! Thanks for
joining me again. Welcome back! Today I
thought I'd go ahead and follow up with
my last video and continue on to show you
how I go ahead to go ahead , planning to
go ahead the plan my trip (mumbling)... how I go about
trip planning my layovers. I know I
mentioned that in my previous video and
I kind of like save this video to kind
of like flesh it out just a little bit.
Now I have roughly nine to ten days
on this trip with a 22 hour layover in
Shanghai. The 22 hour layover is the one
place where I'm not gonna have a lot of
wiggle room and I have to figure things
out how to do things very quickly and
get around quickly and efficiently so I
can make the most use of my time. I'm
going to have to book a hotel, i'm going
to need to understand airport
information and what's available to me
in resources as well as, figure out
things to do. So that's kind of like the
meat and bones i told you about, that's going
to be here. It''s going to be condensed
and tight, it's going to be quick... if i
didn't suffer it here i'm gonna suffer
it there. When i am trip planning for an
extra destination, my main concerns are
going to be hotel, transportation, airport.
These are the three things that I need
to know also, if I'm going to do a
layover that's anything longer than five
hours. Again the itinerary of things
to do, is going to be the last thing that
I... that I really research and the reason
why I always make it the last thing to
research is because I know that that's
kind of like the filler. If i have time i
will be able to research it and maybe
i'll do kind of like a quick list of
top highlights to visit or foods to eat.
But the thing is, if that
falls through and I don't have enough
time I can always ask tourism
information desks at the airport or
concierges and hotels.Locals. You know,
like... planning what to do, can be done
quickly and even with a guide book!
Because I always like to milk my
layovers and create an extra day trip
out of it if I can one of my favorite
sites to go to is sleeping in airports
net and I mentioned them before in my
layover
videos that I've done which are they um
if I've built in a layover into my trip
then one of my favorite sites to go to
my must sleeping in airports dotnet and
that's because they have a nice
breakdown of airports. Things that you
want to look at and are going to be
important to you if you feel like you're
going to stay in an airport anywhere
from three hours to more. This is the
Shanghai Pudong airport. Yes, I will want
to know what lounges... what lounges are
available. Airport Wi-Fi and internet
access, that's important to me. I want to
know if I get it. I want to know if I get
it free or if I have to pay for or if
it's just not available period. If I'm
gonna book a hotel, but I want to know
what's nearby, this is it's helpful
and did a quick break down. You're
going to want to hit up the information
desk to see what's available in terms of
sightseeing. Another big one that I like
to know is luggage storage and lockers. I
want to know if I can store my luggage
there because if I can then that means i
can hop around the city baggage-free!
Generally the hours are good to know. I'd
like to know if I can leave my luggage
overnight, if I have an overnight layover
i do, then that means i can sleep in the
airport. If they don't have an overnight
luggage... a luggage facility then that
means i'm carrying my luggage with me or
I'm getting a hotel. Mobile charging is
also good to know. Airport hours,
definitely important to know. Some
airports if they're smaller airports,
domestic airports...they may not be 24
hours. If they're not 24 hours that means
you need to find a hotel or
accommodations outside of that Airport.
And that's happened to me in Fukuoka
airport, where they weren't 24 hours,
which meant during the evening i had to
go out and find accommodations for
myself... and that ended up in a manga cafe
for around eleven dollars... and it was
just basically like an internet cafe. But
it was a very interesting one um t. Things
like that you want to know. You want to
know if you can sleep in the airport.
That's another thing.
And this this site actually helps ...helps
that because people leave reviews about
where was the best place sleep in an
airport or whether or not you know they
constantly got woken up and had to move
around to different places because it
got policed or what-not. I also want to
know what my transportation options are
getting from the airport to the city
this site is just very helpful in
breaking down a layover and what your
amenities are if you want to stay in the
airport or if you want to venture out . Oh!
I was all ready to hit publish on this video
and then I realized while I was running
one hugely important thing. Connecting
flights and transfers. Now if you have a
layer, obviously you have a connecting
flight. You're going from one destination
to another... and you're hanging out in
between... This is the tricky part of doing
layovers and connecting flights when
you're flying especially internationally
sometimes with certain cities and
countries there are two airports an
international airport as well as kind of
like a domestic budget carrier /
domestic international a terminal so you
might come across two terminals.
Unfortunately when you look at your
flight itinerary it might not show that
you're flying out of a different
terminal and a lot of them don't show
what gate numbers you know you're you're
coming into and flying out of you don't
find out what gate you're flying into
until the stewardess announces it over
the loudspeaker when you arrive . if you
are coming internationally to one
location one city and you're going to be
transferring or connecting your flight
to fly out to another city, that's in the
same country, that's going to be like a
domestic flight, right there. There's a
strong chance at the airport terminal
that you need to connect to might be a
domestic terminal that might be located
outside of the International one for me
I'm flying from Shanghai to Qinghai,
which is like still in mainland China.
I'm probably going to be flying out of a
domestic airport. Tjhat's the probability
that I'm forseeing right now. Sometimes
they're like connected together
sometimes they're further apart and used
to shuttle it or take a taxi or take a
you know like they're there..
Express rail or airport rail .it's
something ...it's a mind juggle. That means
that you will be exiting through
immigration. You'll be doing all that how
much I bugger... when you find get to this
Airport you'd be like checking your
luggage you know going up to immigration
and visa passport control all that stuff
until you find your your terminal there
that's a lot of time in between three
hours is a good good kind of guesstimate
of how long it might take. Off the top of
my head I know, what's like throwing me
off ...Chicago O'Hare (airport), Seoul, Bangkok, Shanghai...
so far these are my four biggies, but I'm
sure there are more airports out there.
The things to look out for our when you
look at your itinerary to see if your
Airlines carrier has... under
it operated by another airline say I
booked a flight and it's all through
united airlines if I look underneath in
the fine print it might say operated by
Singapore Airlines during one of my
other connections so from the state that
might be flying united but when I enter
when I transfer I'm gonna have to
transfer to singapore air that's like
operated by that means they they defer
to this this airlines and that's the
airlines the partner that's going to
take over that connecting flight could
be two different terminals could be two
different airports and it also depends
on whether or not I'm flying
domestically sir so that's one thing you
have to be aware of the different
airline carriers that you're going to be
flying through so what I like to do is I
always liked the pad at least it'll very
least three hours between connecting
flights and that's because I don't know
where the connection so I'm going to be
like wiping myself now because I'm still
sweating from that run and I just
showered... So that's something to be aware
of ...is that you might have to airport
terminals they they could be close
together they could be far apart. ...You
don't know, you could be running to that
lat that next location and that other
terminal could be like half hour away.
Sometimes i'm on my flight and
already you know with my my magazine the
their airline magazine and kind of like
flipping to the back of the gates so i
can check the
the airport layouts and figure out like
how expensive everything is and whether
or not I might potentially need to take
a shuttle or a taxi or whatever there
are I know there's like a gate app
they're kind of like forgot if it's like
gates no there's like a mobile app um
yeah it's it's not I know there's an app
out there. Hope this video was helpful
for you if it was can eat some supper
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you know of any airports which have
thrown you off which is tricked you out
in terms of offering another terminal
that you have to run to at last minute
or like gates far away or two different
airline term airport terminals and
please leave them down in the comments
section below so you can give us a heads
up on those places to be aware of where
you have two videos on layovers and
there are more about like surviving a
layover as well as how do you I gets
choose your layover too because that's
juicy stuff I didn't really include it
into this this this covers this video
covers some of that video that I did on
choosing your layover but yeah that
other one will kind of show you like the
features that you should be aware of
that you can work with to make your
layover a more enjoyable one and
interesting one .um Until then travel
safe smart and fun I will see you next
in China may the GRRR be with you!