Women’s Travel Tips

Our monthly roundup of the best travel tips from July from JourneyWoman readers to help you prepare for your next solo journey.

From hostels to boutique bed and breakfasts, a selection of safe places for women to stay in Oaxaca, Mexico, to fit any budget and style.

With longer stays dominating the vacation rental market, these 10 expert tips will help women find safe, cost-effective homestays.

Eight women travellers share the most unique accommodations they’ve ever booked in far-flung destinations around the world.

Finding a husband can be easier than finding a roommate. Diana Eden shares her top 5 tips to help mature solo women find the perfect travel roommate.

These women-recommended stays will help you live like a local in Hawaii, Morocco, Canada, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Amsterdam.  

Contributing Writer Diana Eden gives women some hot tips for choosing vacation rentals by looking beyond marketing buzzwords.

Thirteen of our most unique Airbnb stays in Ontario, including an Airstream RV, glamping, camping, tiny house, cabin, farm and a hayloft.

When Carolyn and I hatched our plan to explore Ontario towns both familiar and foreign this summer – staying in unique accommodations and creating a post-COVID scorecard to rate experiences on new safety criteria – I knew Muskoka needed to be on my list. And it needed to be a trip I took with my two daughters, ages 21 and 16.

Travel writer Kathy Condon shares her tips for enjoying Palm Springs like a local.

Travel will resume in time, and with a few tweaks to our modes and mindset, authentic experiences can be accessible on a budget.

My daughter and I recently took a trip to Paris and we stayed in the best boutique hotel – La Maison Favart.

Female travellers should have a check list for keeping themselves out of harm’s way, even at your hotel. Here are our 12 JourneyWoman tips to get you started.

Wellness expert Shawna Robins and Women over 80 columnist Diana Eden share their tips for travel during and after menopause in a recent webinar.

Women share their tips to manage menopause and travel, including advice on nutrition, sleep, packing and exercise.

From Bali to Thailand, we’ve curated some of our most recommended wellness retreats and experiences for solo women. (Updated August 2022)

If your TravelReady goals for 2022 include improving your health and fitness, this article—and the get travel-fit tips developed by yours truly and 56-year-old ultra-runner Beth Whitman—will help you put your best foot forward.

As travellers, self-care is one of the most important relationships we have. These products are perfect for boosting your health—before, during and after your next trip.

Master life coach Debbie Phillips shares her expert tips for women to manage travel fear and anxiety in a post-pandemic world.

Our Travel Over 80 expert and former dancer Diana Eden shares some tips and stretches she uses to survive the pain of long-haul flights with back and hip issues.

TravelReady Travel Essentials, Tips from the Experts: This is an edited transcript of our webinar on January 7, 2021.

Working from home and restricting movement poses risks to our health, regardless of whether we’ve experienced injuries before or not. We turned to health and wellness expert and JourneyWoman Women’s Travel Advisory Council member Dr. Nekessa Remy for some insights and tips to get us ready for the day we can pack our bags and get travelling again.

What will the new way to travel look like for mature, independent women? We think these five criteria will help us, as women, lead the way.

Want to feel more powerful, happier and energized? It all starts with better sleep. Join best-selling author Shawna M. Robins as she shares her expert tips for women who travel.

Air travel isn’t what it used to be. Neither are we as travellers. Read on for a summary of experiences and some confidence-boosting recommendations from seasoned women travellers for airports and airlines.

There’s no better time than now to improve our sleep quality for better travel experiences. Learn how from sleep expert Shawna Robins.

Think about the most colourful and meaningful conversations you’ve had on your travels. They likely started with a question based in curiosity versus polite small talk.

With COVIID-19, we are in uncharted territory. To provide JourneyWomen with the insight scoop, we reached out to top travel journalists and industry experts to understand how the pandemic will change how and where we travel.

Hello, friends! How are we all feeling today? How many of you are in self-isolation, working from home or experiencing life in lockdown?

March 4: Today I attended a special webinar on COVID-19 hosted by the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), of which I am a member.

Santa Fe is a small, intimate city that offers way more than you probably expect from a city this size. Nicknamed The City Different, it offers world-class music and art and a sophisticated dining scene.

For travellers to far flung places, some things never change. Baggage gets lost, bugs bite, and ‘poop’ happens!

Tips for altitudes from my 5100m climb at Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador

Are you an older adult travelling south this winter? Here are some easy tips to make your experience as healthy, informed and comfortable as possible.

Women travellers are likely to be subject to particular stresses whilst travelling, certainly until they’ve reached a certain plateau of self-confidence and familiarity with cultural “rules”.

It’s JourneyWoman’s job to help you travel the world with the least bit of discomfort. Here, then, are tips to keep your body running like a well-oiled machine.

Evelyn shares her top 12 tips for when you’re sick on the road.

Flight attendant Ruth Wilson knows a thing or two about aircraft bathrooms, and spent some time answering our potty questions

Perhaps travel for pregnant females was frowned upon in our grandmothers’ time. But today, with proper awareness and attitude, women can generally travel right up to their 35th week of pregnancy.

Canadian JourneyWoman Amit Janco shares the top 25 tips she’s learned while living and healing in Ubud, Bali.

American JourneyWoman Kerry knows a thing or two about travelling with a backpack & shares 36 things she’s found indispensable on her globe-trotting trips.

First time or fiftieth, solo travellers can face loneliness. Evelyn Hannon and the JW community share stories on coping with loneliness on the road.