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TRAVEL DESTINATIONS – HOW YOU TOO CAN GET THE MOST FROM YOUR TRAVEL DESTINATIONS – PART 1

Executive Summary about Travel Destinations — How You Too Can Get The Most From Your Travel Destination - Part 1 & 2 by: Sami Fab

You know almost nothing about your travel destination.

What’s your plan? When it’s time to travel, are you just going to jump on the airplane? There are times when traveling ‘blindly’ may have it’s attractions and yes nice surprises too. But often times the key to your nice break from work is to know a little about your travel destination.

Look, you needn’t spend a huge amount of time finding out everything about a place but some basic information before you travel saves you a lot of time when you are at your destination.

Why not visit the travel section in your local library but do this online to save time. Also if traveling with children or youngsters you’ll need to cater for their needs to.

-What is the spoken local language?

Just hello, thank you, please, good bye, where is, what time etc make a huge difference.

We’re talking about a tiny phrase book that you can even point to while at your travel destination and the locals will read your phrase in their own language. In most countries, your destination hotel is probably one of the most expensive places to exchange currency.
- What, if any, is the time difference?

If the difference is more than 2 hours, do try to alter your timing for sleep, wake up time, eating etc just slightly, before you go on your vacation.

When you get there, adjusting to local time is going to be much easier. You will spend less of your precious holiday time recovering from the journey.

Then you agree that the weather absolutely *rules* your vacation at your travel destination.

- What places do the travel writers recommend visiting?

Many travel writers have got their work down to a fine art.

Just do a search in the online search engines for something like “London review” or “London holiday review” and you will find plenty of references. Advanced consideration of these valuable questions will make all the difference to your enjoyment of your travel destination.

TRAVEL DESTINATIONS – HOW YOU TOO CAN GET THE MOST FROM YOUR TRAVEL DESTINATIONS – PART 2

Here are tips which apply to pretty much all travel destinations:

How is the place rated by other writers?

Scan through a few reviews and you’ll get an accurate picture of your holiday destination.

Buy one a universal electrical adapter kit and read the fine print to make sure it covers your travel destination. There are many exotic places that are really far from the airport.

Imagine after a long journey of several hours in the air, you then spend another 2 or 3 hours on a coach to your hotel. Children will particularly suffer. When checking distance, also check the traffic too and find out the journey “time” and not just the travel distance. A great place in itself and I stayed in a 5 start hotel that was only 20 - 25 minutes from the airport in spite of heavy traffic. Be prepared.

Far too many travel locations have poor public transport and at the same time very expensive and difficult private transport, be it taxis or hired cars. I needed a day to recover from my very long journey. It works very well. Big, big point: Think of the effect on variety, cost, etc, if you only have a limited choice within one hotel or one complex. If your stay is not all inclusive, then expect to pay a huge price or suffer low quality or even both. The local outlets of course know if you are a “captive” customer and their prices will be adjusted “up” accordingly.

Back in 2001 I enjoyed a Latin dance holiday to Cuba. The point is that I spent a portion of my time in an all inclusive resort outside Havana. It is a fact of life that we or a traveling companion will need medical attention at one time or other in our travels.

My best friend and business partner traveled to a newly built Greek resort. The hotel knew this but my friend and other hotel guests didn’t until the accident.

Happy traveling, where ever your travel destination.

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