Time Management Tips for Thanksgiving Travel

Series Summary

Observed on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, Thanksgiving celebrates giving thanks for bountiful harvests, as well as celebrating family and friends. It is generally a very traditional family event. Sometimes called Turkey Day, Thanksgiving dinner almost always features turkey, but also stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.

Thanksgiving is one of the biggest travel days of year, as friends and family gather to celebrate the holiday. In this free video series, our expert will give you the tips and advice to make your holiday travel simple and fun. Learn how to make a schedule for Thanksgiving Day traveling, what days to avoid travel and how to travel light. Get tips on flying, making it through the airport and renting a car on Thanksgiving, as well as advice on traveling with your pets. Don't let this holiday season be a hectic mess, let our expert teach you the basics of traveling on Thanksgiving!

Video Transcript

"MATT CAIL: Hi, I'm Matt Cail. And on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to be providing you with tips to make your travel a lot easier this holiday season. So you want to travel on Thanksgiving. Well, hopefully, when you're actually asking yourself this question, like, okay, what exactly do I need to do to get ready? You have months ahead of time because Thanksgiving and planning for travelling on it takes time. Thanksgiving is one of the busiest, if not the busiest, travel day of the year. You're going to have jam-ups at airports. There's going to be all sorts of various logistical challenges which we're going to deal with today. But the important thing is to make sure that you start early, not to wait until November starts to creep around, to think it might be nice to go home and have Turkey Day with Mom and Dad. Thanksgiving falls usually towards the tail end of November, generally on the fourth Thursday of the month. This means you kind of ping-pong around the calendar. But that's not as important as just realizing, you're not going to be able to start planning for Thanksgiving right in November, no, no, no, no, no. You should really start thinking about your Thanksgiving planning back here in September timeframe. That's going to be a solid 2 to 2 1/2 months out. This is going to be imperative to make sure you can get some decent deals on lots of the travel methods we're going to be talking about, and it's making sure that you have a plan. Now, you may not be the most planning-minded person, if you want to travel on Thanksgiving and not give yourself premature gray hairs, definitely, plan often, plan early."