Has a hotel ever returned to you an item that you’d forgotten in your room?

And – perhaps more importantly, given how hard the economy’s hit hotels –  will hotels be as willing to do guests the favor since they’ve been cutting staff and spending over the past year?

Well, seasoned business traveler Mike Hillwig of Salem, Mass., sheds a little light on the subject.

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Thinking of throwing a tantrum the next time things don’t go your way when you travel? Consider what happened to Gary Zeune before you do.

“Dammit,” he overheard the passenger in front of him scream at a Southwest Airlines ticket agent in Columbus, Ohio, “I have to get to Chicago.”

The agent politely asked him to calm down, assured him that profanity wouldn’t get him on the flight he wanted, and offered to add him to a standby list. All of which only appeared to make him angrier, unleashing yet another torrent of salty language.

If you prefer to use a credit card when traveling abroad due to safety and better exchange rates, bad news. Other countries have adopted smartchip technology in their bank cards, and soon we Americans may be forced to use cash when traveling.

Smartchip technology is sort of a banking equivalent of the metric system—it’s superior to magnetic stripe cards, every other country is using it, and the American banking system simply isn’t interested.

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