{"id":313,"date":"2009-01-28T13:44:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T18:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2015-06-16T14:08:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T18:08:35","slug":"travel-tip-of-the-week-bring-an-alarm-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/travel-tip-of-the-week-bring-an-alarm-clock","title":{"rendered":"Travel Tip of the Week: Bring an Alarm Clock!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week, Explorations<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>will offer all you inveterate travelers a travel tip from one of our expert Program Consultants.<\/p>\n

This week’s travel tip is from Senior Program Consultant Alyssa Geiger<\/strong>, and it’s a good one for the Circadian Rhythmically-challenged…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My travel tip is to pack your own alarm clock<\/strong>. This might seem a bit silly to some people-the hotel will have them, right?<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t count on it.<\/p>\n

Even if the hotel does have an alarm clock, there\u2019s no guarantee that you know how to work it. Some alarm clocks — especially in foreign countries –can be quite tricky<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And if it doesn\u2019t go off-or if the sound it makes isn\u2019t loud enough for you to hear it? It\u2019s just not worth the risk.<\/p>\n

And on that note-it\u2019s not a good idea to rely on wake up calls from the hotel either-sometimes their system can get mixed up.<\/p>\n

I was on an Explorica tour in Spain<\/a> and requested a wake up call around 7 a.m. Needless to say…it was a call that never came<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The group left without me for the guided sightseeing that day, and I felt really embarrassed because the group must have thought that I had overslept! After all, they all received their wake up calls either from the hotel or from their teachers.<\/p>\n

Long story short–turns out the hotel called the wrong room<\/strong>.\u00a0 These kinds of things can happen at a large hotel.<\/p>\n

So I say don’t leave it to chance — bring your own alarm clock<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every week, Explorations will offer all you inveterate travelers a travel tip from one of our expert Program Consultants. This week’s travel tip is from Senior Program Consultant Alyssa Geiger, and it’s a good one for the Circadian Rhythmically-challenged… My travel tip is to pack your own alarm clock. This might seem a bit silly Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,63,172],"tags":[34,12],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-parents","category-students","category-teachers","tag-alarm-clock","tag-travel-tips","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5781,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/5781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}