If you’re a determined senior negotiator, you can get lower prices in any travel venture. Not just at streetside stalls in Thailand, Timbuktu, Toronto, Trenton or Turkey, but whenever you apply your best bargaining skills.

Do it on hotel rates, restaurant bills, excursions, posh retail stores, food carts and everywhere you roam. Here are tricks many savvy and successful senior travelers use:

1. Wear modest clothing. If expensively-dressed and an obvious tourist, the merchant or clerk assumes you’re rich and can afford the first sky-high price quote. While in simple outfits, you may even opt to try some sad-faced Oliver Twistish pleading to help your haggling routine.

2. When in a foreign country, be mentally armed with some of the basic language and monetary system. It can result in more respect, as well as friendly and cooperative attitude in your bargaining.

We've had an opportunity to travel around the world and experience many airports. As older travelers, comfort-related amenities, good signage and short distances between facilities make our journeys easier and more comfortable. We vote the world's best airports for senior travelers:

Changi, Singapore: If there ever can be an airport where you'll be happy to miss a connecting flight, this is it. Changi offers a rooftop swimming pool, hot whirlpool, spa with free foot massages and sky-high sliding board. And if you tire of the sunshine, there's also a movie theater and game rooms, along with some of the best airport restaurants on the planet.

The sparkling airport interior is also a pleasure to experience, with shops, gardens and hiking trails surrounded by greenery and friendly critters. And if you're really lucky enough to have to wait several hours for your next flight, Changi offers free tours of beautiful downtown Singapore, just 20 minutes away. changiairport.com

When you drive your car or ride a taxi to and from busy JFK and Newark Airports, does the word forever apply? To go those 20 miles by road and tunnel, an hour in jammed, honking travel can seem like eternity.

Now, a Gotham Air chopper, partnered with Helicopter Flight Services, can make the trip in about six minutes. The experience also leaves you fresh to face the flight or day in New York.

As an introduction, the first flight is $99. Thereafter, fees range from $199 to $219, depending on the time of day. The service operates seven days a week, and in bad weather,  offer door to door car service. Taxi fare between airport and city, when tolls and tips are figured in, is about $60. For more info, go to prnewswire.com/news-releases/introducing-gotham-air

Dealing with crying, kicking and screaming kids while near them in passenger seats presents several scenarios. It depends on whether the kids are yours or not.

If you’re responsible for the little trouble-maker:
1. Respect the rights of other passengers. If your child becomes unruly and annoying, calm the situation with a bottle or snack. If disruption continues, including change of diapers, ask the attendant to find a place away from passenger seating to do it.

2. If the problem continues, and if the flight isn’t full, ask to find you another seat, where disturbance to other passengers is minimal.

3. Try to schedule red-eye flights when there are fewer passengers, with more empty seats available. They depart between 11 pm and 4 am. Late night hours are when kids are used to be sleeping. Feed your child a regular evening meal before take-off, and get settled comfortably into the seat by take off.