Last-Minute Travel Secrets: 121 Ingenious Tips to Endure Cramped Planes, Car Trouble, Awful Hotels, and Other Trips from Hell - Softcover

Green, Joey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1613735049 ISBN 13: 9781613735046

Publisher: Chicago Review Press, 2016

Synopsis

Gone are the days of complimentary in-flight champagne and cushy sleeping-car coaches on the Orient Express. Say hello to $50 “legroom upgrades” and bedbug-infested hotels. What’s a weary, frustrated traveler to do? Hang tight—it’s Joey Green to the rescue! Last-Minute Travel Secrets contains more than a hundred unique travel tips that may sound goofy but really do work. You will discover how to correct uncomfortable accommodations using everyday household products.

· Uncork a wine bottle with a sneaker
· Protect your car from bug splatters with cooking spray
· Find your car in a parking lot using a water bottle
· Use a motel bathtub as a washing machine
· Muffle the sound of crying babies using tampon earplugs
· Purify and desalinate ocean water with a T-shirt
· And much, much more!

The book also includes interesting and strange travel sidebars and fascinating trivia to keep you entertained until your lost luggage arrives—from Topeka.

About this title

About the Author:

Joey Green is the author of more than 50 books, including Last-Minute Survival Secrets, Joey Green’s Fix-It Magic, and Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose. He has written for Rolling Stone, National Lampoon, Time, and more. 

Review:

"Pragmatic-minded Joey Green has written plenty of books -- more than 50 of them in fact -- and has traveled many a mile . . . . He's certainly a resourceful fellow, as this very useful book proves. . . Virtually every page is full of handy advice." --The Chicago Tribune 

"Last-Minute Travel Secrets falls squarely in the category of life hacks, those clever ideas that make aspects of daily living easier. Green's book is entertaining and informative, even if you aren't inclined to try one of his favorite ideas: making a sleep mask from maxi pads." --Columbus Dispatch

"Road warriors often boast about the well-honed, insider tools they use to make the best of long hours spent in airports, on airplanes, in hotels and out on the road. But even the most seasoned traveler might learn a few new hacks from Joey Green's new book, Last-Minute Travel Secrets." --USA Today

"Quirky tips that straddle the line between absurd and ingenious, all proven to work in a pinch." --Washington Post

"Even if you don't put many of the humorist's ideas to use (and why not?), your journey will be lightened by the guffaws you get from (lavishly illustrated) tips such as "How to fashion a Sleep Mask from Maxi Pads" or "How to Cook Hotdogs in a Coffeemaker." --Seattle Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1613735049
• ISBN 13: 9781613735046
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240