It’s about three feet tall and rolls around through the busy Tokyo Haneda International Airport. It provides security duties, as well as give info and answers questions in English, Japanese and Chinese. It has some nearby relatives, Cyberdyne Cleaning Robots. They can be seen day and night, mopping and sweeping, keeping Haneda spotless.

So, if your senior travels take you to that popular destination, make sure you know the difference between the two robot services. One will politely give you directions to your boarding gate, while the other may just get mad and clean your clock.

Las Vegas is the easiest vacation spot anywhere to plan and implement a budget vacation. The reason, of course, is that the business of Sin City is gambling. Resorts there expect gamblers to come, and further, to lose. To entice gamblers, Vegas hotels offer bargains in rooms, food, entertainment and in many other ways.

Budget-minded visitors, especially those who are modest or non-gamblers, can take advantage of those benefits. For instance, while an upscale resort hotel in New York, Paris, London, San Francisco or Singapore may charge $500 a night for a basic room, the most luxurious Vegas resorts may offer a suite for $150, and throw in a free buffet meal or two.

The secret is compatibility. If that doesn't happen before the trip and maintained throughout, no one will enjoy the time together. And if it gets too contentious, that troubled journey may be the first and last for what will become former pals.

Before departure, sit down together to determine how decisions will be made and who's in charge. When a group sets out on a trip, forget about democracy. One person should be responsible for planning the entire enterprise, mapping out the general schedule and then call all the shots throughout the trip.

As a kid, your travel4seniors.com editor spent ten years in an orphanage founded by a French immigrant who got rich in 19th Century America. We frequently started musical sessions by singing La Marseillaise, the French national anthem. The lyrics were based on fighting in the Mediterranean port during the French Revolution of the 1790s.

Marseille is the oldest city in France and the country's second largest, after Paris. The port was first an ancient Greek and then Roman outpost, founded over 2,500 years ago.