[MiniCooperChick]

The US facility is usually pretty easy to find.

When we visited Tanzania, our driver immediately took us to the Embassy of his own accord. Of course, I felt more unsafe there but other than the WTC, the terrorists haven't seemed to hit the same target twice so I guess it was okay. We checked in and went on our way.

Obviously in Paris or London or Amsterdam I don't register. It just seems silly although I could be on the Tube when it's bombed or in the middle of a crazy car burning riot and find myself wishing I had registered, but I don't.

[Chgogal]

I have traveled all over (from the Arctic Circle to the Medinas of Morocco to the temples of Bali) admittedly without a driver, and I have never searched out an Embassy to register. I most likely will not do it when traveling to Europe, Thailand, Bali, Australia, Singapore or the Caribbean. I would think about it when traveling to the Mid East, Africa and Indonesia. Each to his/her own.

You do have to keep in mind when traveling in risky areas (risk defined by one's own parameters) that when things go south, they go south fast and hard.