Has anyone used STA Travel gift certificates?
STA is a pretty big traveling company (geared primarily for students) that offers cheap deals and specialized/package trips. I know for a fact that several colleges have an STA office on their campuses, which makes it legitimate enough for me. I actually studied abroad during my junior year and bought a ticket with STA and there was absolutely no problems. I also used one of their coupons when buying the ticket. Then again, I did it directly with the office which makes everything 10x easier.
Too late if you wait that long.If your major is not a career training degree, you should have been doing summer internship!
STA Travel? Anyone used them?
Wow - are they still going? Yes, I used them for a round the world trip in 1991/2. They were absolutely fine back then and I was able to change tickets with no trouble at all - but it's the airlines that deal with that of course, not the travel agency. So long as they're ABTA/ATOL protected you'll be fine.
Sta Travel?
You mean the ISIC card? Yes I did.. took about a week or less.
STA travel? Are they any good?
Hello all, I am going to be travelling around the world next year and I currently doing research for me trip using STA travel. Their prices seem reasonable and the routes they offer are the closest to the ones I want to use. However, I have recently read a lot of bad reviews about the company, including sections of flight plans not being booked and customers having to buy additional tickets to continue their trip or even come home. Have any of you used STA travel for flights around the world? If so, what was your experience? Thanks for your replies in advance!
Sta travel or travelbag?
I booked through www.travelnation.co.uk If you need to make any changes they do it for £10 (or it was when I went away last year) as its a smaller company they allocate you your own rep to deal with your trip from start to finish. Im not sure what discounts you get regarding being a student as Im a little older, but I found their service spot on, no complaints.
Yes, we attempted to stage a mini Quora meet up!I have read about a lot of “big” meet-ups but today was the first time I met anyone from Quora in real life!It was arranged on short notice by first and second year MBBS students in RGK Medical College.Since I was in the City for a couple of days, I texted Souryadipta and Sankhya and asked if we could hang out.Sankhya is the only dude I knew from before because we had run into each other once 2 years back in an elevator when I was an intern and he was a fresher.Souryadipta found me on quora a few months back and interrogates me now and then! After making several jokes about “mobilizing my fan base”, we decided that we'd sneak in a 30–40 minutes chat.It was short because everyone had other things to do immediately after or before the “meeting”! I had a plane to catch, they had Physio Labs, lectures and SAMSA programmes!Still, we did manage to hang out for sometime. The location was our library - the new swanky air conditioned library that replaced the old one that I spent most of my undergraduate life in.I met Manisha, Tanisha , Muskan , Riya and Vaishnavi here for the first time.Sankhya had to leave before the photo was taken because he's a responsible SAMSA representative!It made me happy and nostalgic to see them - new first years and stressed out second years - partly because I miss my old institute and partly because it's the first time first and second years expressed so much interest in what I had to say!We introduced ourselves and talked mostly about MBBS experience and Post grad options. That’s what happens when you throw in a bunch of medical students!They had a few questions that I tried to answer.I was struck by the fact that despite a difference of 7 years that saw hundreds of changes, so much remains the same! Similar doubts (about research projects), similar problems (Pharma is so boring!) and similar issues with awareness about PLAB and USMLE.However, I did have one thought in retrospect:My prolixity got the better of me and I kept yapping so much that all of my juniors didn't get an opportunity to express themselves. They probably didn't want to interrupt me out of respect!This is something we will change when we meet again in November!
My quick answer is yes, and use my referral link to register to get $20 off of your next flight: Cheap Student Flights, Hotels & Travel DealsLong answer: I have not had experience canceling a ticket or other issues, so if you’re only talking about whether they would give you the ticket and not just rob your money, then in my experience yes. I’d get a ticket confirmation from both them and the airline soon after my booking (unlike Skyscanner, which sold me too good of a deal, a price the airline did not want to sell it at and therefore canceled my order. But that was my only time using Skyscanner, so I can’t say it definitively).If you’re a student, chances are you would get some super good deals on SU (they have different prices for students, youth, faculty, and adults. You use your school email to verify your status). One time I checked a flight, it was $1000+ on Expedia, but only $300+ on SU!!! People say it’s always the cheapest on the airline’s website, but if you use SU’s promo codes, which they always have, a lot of them, you might get a better deal on SU.P.S. Their spring break promo code was released three whole weeks before spring break.
Traveling with gifts?
It is always recommended that gifts NOT be wrapped before the security check point, because TSA will unwrap them if they think they need to. That said - I have no idea if they would simply insist that they be unwrapped, or would only want them unwrapped if they wondered about the contents after looking at the x-ray image. If the box is inside your carry-on bag, and goes through the x-ray machine like that, then I don't suppose they would know if the box was wrapped or not. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.