Picture the business traveler eating breakfast alone not in one of the chain hotels but in a quirkier hotel filled with retired couples on vacation. She is the youngest person there by 20 years. She wants to retire as well. Hotels, flights and packing all become easier with time but the displacement and loneliness of business travel only becomes harder.
Five tips for surviving business travel
1)The more you travel, the more you bring. If you've ever been sick on business travel you will forevermore carry a small arsenal of medicine.
2)A scented candle to ward off the smell of secondhand smoke, cheap cleaning products and stale air.
3)In a strange city where you might not feel comfortable going out to eat alone at night, eat a big lunch at a good restaurant and then a light room service dinner.
4)If your door does not have a deadbolt leave the hotel or push a desk/table against the door. Hotel staff or other guests’ keys may open your door. Nothing like waking up in the middle of the night as someone opens your room door.
5) Try to see one museum, movie or sight whilst on a trip to break the monotony of meetings and hotel rooms.
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