<p>antibiotics to be taken when you get a bad case and after you tried the Imodium-Metamucil. </p>
<p>also diapers. :)</p>
<p>I believe there is a lot of travel between South Africa and India. So you might find much greater frequency and lower prices. Same works between India, China and Russia.</p>
<p>Sounds like your client is big on BRIC countries.</p>
<p>Can one person just do them all? I’d try pricing it as an around the world ticket, you’d potentially save quite a lot.</p>
<p>I’d also pay no attention to current visas as they cost so little.</p>
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It isn’t the cost - it’s the hassle of getting the visas. Some countries (don’t know if any on PG’s list are in this category) require that one send their passport to the country for approval and it can take weeks or more to get it back (if it isn’t lost). Some people just skip this step and try to do it on a sometimes easier to get tourist visa rather than a business visa but that’s technically a no-no and opens one up to having to essentially use payola to get themselves out of the particular country.</p>
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<p>The bolded is the important part. Talk to your doctor about this, but my understanding is that Abx are really only good to use for bloody diarrhea, otherwise stick with the loperamide.</p>
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<p>Yes, that’s exactly it, esp as I am traveling to Dubai in early January so my passport needs to be with me during that time - it can’t be “shopped out” for a visa. I don’t give a darn about the cost; that’s my client’s problem.</p>
<p>My son is a big fan of Emirates - and a big anti-fan of American airlines. He loves the way the foreign airlines treat the passengers. You can get passports for India overnight if you go to the New York office directly. (And maybe even if you don’t and presumably other places they have consulates.)</p>
<p>FYI,
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<p>keep luggage in bathroom not in the sleeping room.</p>
<p>Do Chinese bedbugs and Indian Bedbugs intermingle? Keep your reps localized by regions, as much as possible :)</p>
<p>Germany-India flights are frequent.
India-SouthAfrica are OK.
China-Dubia/Italy/Brazil
Russia-Brazil. May have more incommon than we would normally think. But the commute is a killer except there would be layover in USA. </p>
<p>I’d keep India and China disconnected.
Have the cultural differences far apart. Any fauxpas can be discounted to the manager who thought of the stupid travel arrangements.</p>
<p>We are going to be staying at “upscale” American hotel chains the whole way - Hiltons, Hyatts, places of that nature. We aren’t slumming it. We all know how to travel internationally and have done so before – none of us are novices and we’re not going to drink the water or walk around with money hanging out of our pockets. And longprime, the cultural differences are irrelevant, as I mentioned upthread - it’s of *no importance *that any of our city-pairs be culturally similar. This is a *pure logistics *question I am concerned with!</p>
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<p>LP, you might want to revise your views about Brazil. To travel from Moscow to Brazil, there is hardly any need to consider a layover in the USA. Brazilian airports have direct connections with many major airports in Europe. Madrid, Paris, London, Frankfurt will all offer easy and ample connections to the Southern Hemisphere.</p>
<p>Locate the city of Recife on a map and it will become clearer.</p>
<p>I’d go straight from Chicago to Brazil - there are non-stops. That’s a no-brainer; I’ve done that one before several times.</p>
<p>Do you make all your travel arrangements for work yourself, PG? I find it really time-consuming and I often get frustrated whenever I’m trying to book flights and hotels online and using Kayak or other sites where one can get discounts. Too many options or nothing that works! I guess I don’t enjoy that part of trip planning and I’d be happy to hand it off to someone else! I don’t travel for work–so I don’t have to do travel arrangements that often. My H’s AA does travel arrangements for almost everyone in his group (12 people) and she doesn’t do much else. Not a job I’d want.</p>
<p>You can fly to Jo-burg non-stop from Atlanta, DC/Dulles & NYC/JFK. South African is a good airline and is part of StarAlliance. If you can swing business class, they have comfortable lie-flat seats. (Delta goes from Atlanta). </p>
<p>TAM is a good brazilian airline that I would recommend. </p>
<p>Realize that Brazil juts very far east - currently there’s a 3 hour time difference w NYC. Santiago Chile & NYC are in the same approximate longitude. </p>
<p>Send the person you like least to China! The pollution & traffic are horrific and no one speaks English. I had an 8 hour layover in hte Bejing airport in June and I vowed never to return.</p>
<p>S1 is home, so I asked him about his trip to China (specifically, the visa portion). Their team coordinator took each person’s actual passport to the Chinese Embassy in Chicago. Got the visas on the spot and did not have to pay for rush processing, though that is not always the way it goes. He had a Category F visa, which sounds like it would work for your staff, too.</p>
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<p>I have visas from many countries in my passport and it’s never left the US. Expeditors do this quickly for little money. I still say an around the world ticket would save time and money.</p>
<p>Maybe this will help:
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<p>Just kidding. You need shots to avoid food illness.</p>
<p>I use CIBT for the visas. Whether or not the passport actually leaves the US isn’t the issue so much as the fact that it is out of my hands thus preventing travel in the meantime.</p>
<p>We have a whole travel department to help us out with planning, but I would still plan my own trip because I don’t trust them. </p>
<p>Pizzagirl - this sounds like quite a trip. Personally, I would let other people go to Russia, China, India, and go to Italy myself.</p>
<p>Sao Paulo is not much of a city, but rather urban sprawl as far as the eye can see. In January it will be warm & rainy and there’s also visible air pollution. The redeeming aspect of the city is that the food is excellent. The trip from the Paulista area (where most law firms, banks & consulting firms are located) to the international airport can take 45 minutes or 3+ hours, as the traffic can be horrific. Petty crime is rampant in Brazil, so you should arrange car services to/from the airport. Send me a PM if you want the contact info for the company I have used.</p>
<p>PS - visa to Brazil are now good for 10 years, so pick the person that is most likely to return! You don’t need a visa for South Africa or Italy. Definitely do for China & I’ve never been to Russia or India.</p>