As we head into the Labor Day holiday, here are some travel tidibts for you.
Free Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi on Labor Day
Here’s a nice Labor Day perk for anyone flying on a Gogo-equipped domestic flight:
On Monday, Sept 3, you can get 30 minutes of free Wi-Fi, courtesy of T-Mobile. The off is good even if you’re a Verizon or AT&T customer. (T-Mobile customers get a free hour, as always; a great perk!)
Get more details about the free Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi offer from T-Mobile for Labor Day.
Heathrow Airport seeking your vacation sounds
Pictures from vacations help us remember a great adventure, but so do sounds.
Studies show that the same part of the brain in charge of processing the senses is also responsible for storing emotional memories. That means sounds, noises and songs you might hear on your trips will be part of travel memories that will be able to transport you back in time.
Think: waves lapping on the beach; the “Mind the Gap” announcement on the London Tube; and that street busker you stopped to listen to in Paris.
Heathrow Airport has decided to capture the essence of great vacations by gathering audio from travelers and commissioning a composer to create a collection of travel mood music and vacation sounds.
Heathrow says submissions sent in by the public will be turned into a “captivating and immersive soundscape” by British Academy Award-winning composer and sound artist Nick Ryan.
“We all record holiday memories with pictures, yet listening to the sound of a voice or a place can trigger far more intense emotions than a photograph on a phone,” Ryan said in a statement.
Travelers are invited to submit their holiday sounds over the next four months as an mp4 clip at soundescapes@heathrow.com.
Ryan will collection the audio, do this thing with it and release the inaugural Sound Escapes audio installment in January 2019.
What vacation sounds will you send in?