Why You Should Always Bring Two Phones With You When Traveling
At Bloomberg Pursuits, we love to travel. And we always want to make sure we're doing it right. So we're talking to road warriors to learn about their high-end hacks, tips, and off-the-wall experiences. These are the Distinguished Travel Hackers. Kyle Hotchkiss Carone is a rising force in New York's hospitality scene, and his Grand Tour Hospitality is behind several noteworthy restaurants including American Bar and Saint Theo's. The 35-year-old, who learned the trade via stints with Soho House Group and Chateau Marmont wizard André Balazs, is now planning to expand beyond the tri-state area, with upcoming projects in Abu Dhabi, London and Palm Beach, Florida.
“It just sort of happened that I became a Delta person,” Carone says of his default airline, which offers the best connections to the places he visits most frequently, including London and Paris. “It's just the one that works for my life. I've become so used to it that the idea of flying another airline actually scares me.”
“If I do that, I don't know how to get through security, or how to do anything.” Carone's annual mileage tally is enough to score him Diamond status with Delta every year, which requires at least 125,000 miles. “It might involve a mad dash at year's end to take a trip to Rio on December 31st, but I do it.”
He lives in the West Village of New York City.
Keep your old iPhones as a travel backup.
One time in Paris, I lost my phone and I had to spend $2,000 for a new iPhone. I've also had a phone stolen on the beach in Rio—a whole team of kids that came and stole my phone right out of my hand—and one that submerged into the Aegean. And one was flung off the back of a horse on the beach in Careyes. We had to turn the horse around and tried to go find it
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