Q&A / Travel FAQ

What to leave in restaurants, hotels, taxis and hammams, priced in PLN, and what Turkey's 2026 ban on service charges means for your bill.

A plain guide to the codes in a room description, with advice on what to book as a couple, a family or a solo traveller, and when an upgrade is worth the money.

Cabin pressure matches an altitude of 1,800–2,400 metres, humidity drops to 10–20 per cent and the engines run at 80–85 decibels. Here is how to pick the flight and the seat, what belongs in your hand luggage, and how the relaxation technique taught to naval pilots actually works.

The in-flight smoking ban is not just an airline house rule - it grew out of real cabin fires, and in 2026it covers vapes and heated tobacco too. Here is what actually happens if you light up, from Warsaw to the United States.

Most family packing disasters happen before the plane even leaves Warsaw - a missing consent letter or a sunscreen bottle over 100 ml, not a forgotten swimsuit. Here is the full checklist, organised the way it actually gets used: documents first, beach gear last.

Kraków and Poznań airports have already scrapped the 100ml limit, Warsaw Chopin has only just started and only for two lanes, and your return airport might not match your outbound one at all. Here is exactly what you can carry, where, and what still gets confiscated in 2026.

Two in the morning, a foreign country, closed pharmacies and a sudden stomach upset - that's exactly the moment you appreciate a well-packed medicine kit. We break down what belongs in the basic travel set, what to add for a specific destination (beach, mountains, tropics), what a children's kit looks like, and the rules for carrying medicines across the Polish and EU border.