Ever wanted to go on vacation, but didn’t want to spend hours and hours making the decision and planning all the details?
Well, now you don’t have to.
Magical Mystery Tours will provide you with your location, your flight, your transportation, and even your activities if you wish! All you do is fill out a survey, and they’ll handle the rest.
You’ll be completely in the dark until you arrive at the airport to board your flight.
Today one of the founders of Magical Mystery Tours, Denise Chaykun, joins me to talk about how she got into travel, how she started planning mystery tours for her friends, and what exactly one can expect when they book a surprise trip somewhere in the world.
What are your thoughts on showing up at the airport with no knowledge of your destination? Could you handle the suspense?
Flight prices vary dramatically, sometimes every hour. And it can leave you feeling like you if you just knew one extra thing or looked one other place, you might have been able to save yourself hundreds of dollars.
So what if you knew how to get the cheapest flights every single time?
What if you had a process that was simple yet thorough, making sure you looked everywhere but also didn’t take up a lot of time?
Now, you can!
In today’s episode, Jason and I break down our 10 general rules for getting cheap flights – from what days of the week are the cheapest to how to “trick the computer” – and then reveal our eight-step process we use to ensure that we get the best flights.
Learn this, use this, and never pay full price again.
Today, Jason joins me as we discuss the benefits of traveling during different times of the year. We outline what usually makes a shoulder season or off-peak season and discuss the pros (and cons) of traveling during each.
We also list some of our favorite off-season destinations along with the reasons why they’re so awesome (saving money, avoiding crowds, etc.). What are some of YOUR favorite off-season destinations?
When you travel as a couple things can get hectic.
Where do you want to go next? What are we doing for dinner? The number of decisions you have to make on a daily basis increases tenfold.
When you’re at home you can retreat, go hang out with your friends, just lose yourself in the aspects of daily life, but on the road that’s all stripped away.
Today Jason interviews Heather and I about how we handle taking our relationship on the road. How we deal with decision making, money, and fighting as we travel around the world.
The highs are really high, and the lows can be really low, but we wouldn’t trade it for anything!
What are some of your tips for traveling on the road as a couple?
Paris is THE most expensive city in the world to visit.
But knowing me, you know we had to find a way to do it cheaper.
Today, Heather joins me to chat about some of the ways that we saved money during our time in the city of love. From picnics in the park and bike rides around town to amazing fire shows in front of Notre Dame and scary climbs up the Eiffel tower, we had an amazing (and affordable) time in Paris!
We break down expenses in Paris down to the main categories, accommodation, food, drink, activities, and transportation.
Is Paris really that expensive? Find out in today’s episode!
What are your money-saving tips for this famous French city?
What is one of the most common New Year’s resolutions?
Travel.
To help any of you who may have “More Travel” written on that list of things you’d like to accomplish in 2015, we’ve decided to help you plan your trip.
Heather joins me as we chat about our planning process – the more fun, research-based side, for the more practical aspects of travel planning check out our Pre-Travel Checklist.
We discuss how we decide where to go, researching things to do at your destination, accommodations, tours, and how to conduct on the ground research.
