The good news about planning a trip is that, without doubt, someone will have visited your chosen destination before you, and have written about it in books, magazine articles, or blogs. So there are endless resources available to you, in books, or on the internet, which can help when planning your own travel. In many ways we can all be our own Travel Agency now.
My favourite type of resource are travel blogs written by someone who has travelled to the destination I am visited – not so much the Top 10 things to do variety, but the story of their journey and what they found when they got there, which are the inspiration for my blogs.
Maximising airline and hotel reward schemes can be a great resource which we have embraced as a family to keep the costs of a trip down, so I have written about this as a potential resource you can access, but as a long term project.
Signing up to an airline reward scheme, or hotel points scheme, can be a great investment for benefits further down the line, as it takes time to build up points to hit the reward levels. The following blogs outline how to sign up and start saving for airline and hotel rewards.
Packing for a trip can be a pleasure for those who see it as part of the excitement and anticipation of the trip, whilst others find it stressful, particularly if they don’t have much time, but with a good checklist in place, you can take the thinking out of the process. Here’s how…
It’s great to read a book set in the destination you are visiting on a trip, or written by an author from that place. Being in the destination can really help give the book a real sense of place. Here are some ideas of what to read by location related to the trips on my blog.
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