Okay just decided to go to St. Augustine for a few days in 2 weeks. For me, that is spontaneous!!!!!
Good for you! You’re breaking out of the planning mode already. [emoji4]
Okay just decided to go to St. Augustine for a few days in 2 weeks. For me, that is spontaneous!!!!!
I was reading a Clark Howard post on saving money on travel. https://clarkdeals.com/travel/ways-to-save-on-your-next-vacation/
He says find a great deal first (as in, regularly check KAYAK for cheap flights from your chosen airport) and then figure out why you want to go there. That is his #1 travel tip.
I'm wondering if any of you have subscribed to that philosophy? Or how do you figure out where to travel?
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Okay just decided to go to St. Augustine for a few days in 2 weeks. For me, that is spontaneous!!!!!
Absolutely. Going on July 18th.Another place I want to visit. Report back, please.
These are the old Celebrity Cruise line ships-Mercury and Century. We have been on them in years gone by.
I love the deck 11 on the rear of the boat outside the buffet area that overlooks the propeller wash stream. That's been the saying between my wife and I all these years. Find a nice quiet place with a great view and we say "this is our deck 11".
Hey, move over...that's OUR spot!!
Has anyone ever tried haggling with the airlines? Could you spontaneously decide to go to Hawaii tomorrow (or in the next week). You check an airline and see that xxx flight has open seats. So the day of that flight you confirm still open seats and show up at the ticket counter a couple hours before the flight. What do you think the chances of the airline working with you to fill the seat? Or would they leave it empty?
I like your style and we travel that way too. More flexible. My husband and I are nomads ourselves, often travel with just one small suitcase per person. That’s our version of a young person’s backpack.We tend to be spontaneous travelers. We do bookend with flights though. Booked one last week. DW wamted to visit family in Eastern Canada for our Thanksgiving. I could not go that early....had to wash my hair. I will join her next week.
The return trip will be via Cancun for a few weeks. Hotel for one week is booked. No plans yet for the remaining time yes. We will decide when we get there.
Booked us to Thailand in January, and then on to Australia to join friends. We have air booked. Well, home as far as Hawaii and in between to Thailand to Oz. Watching fares now for the rest of the way. In between? We know where we are flying in and out. Will book some accommodation around that. We know where we are going. We will probably book three or four days out at a time once we arrive. We typically do extended trips. This gives us the choice of staying somewhere that we especially like or changing the itinerary on the fly as it were. We only take carry on. Some of our friends think that we are mad hatters. Couple of senior citizen nomads. But why stay at home when the weather is not to our liking? And who wants to drag along everything thing they own on vacation?
There's no negotiating with airlines according to this stackexchange post that's got a goodly number of up votes. The idea is great, though, but they make the point that it would be an absolute CF trying to control who had authority to do what.
I have also noticed planes being full. There always seem to be plenty of standby passengers too!They also seem to do a pretty good job of keeping the planes full; I don't see that many empty seats when I fly anymore, so maybe they don't need a process for last-minute sales to fill the seats. Years ago I used to subscribe to e-mails from Continental with last-minute bargains but either they quit sending them or I unsubscribed. The real bargains were trips between a couple of not-so-popular cities (think Des Moines to Cleveland, for example) in the middle of the winter. I never saw any bargain offerings to Hawaii!
We are scheduled to arrive in Copenhagen by ship mid May 2019.....we want to do the Baltics from there....seems the cheapest flight from Copenhagen is to Riga...so that's where we figure to start.
Had it been Vilnius, or Helsinki, or or.....
We have an (unwritten) list of places we'd like to see.....if we're thinking about going to 'A' but see a great deal on a flight/ship to 'B'...then 'B' it is.
We'd rather spend the cash at ground level than at 30,000 ft.
I was in the Baltics last June and was doing a fly to Frankfurt, fly to Vilnius, bus to Riga, bus to Talinn, fly to Stockholm, fly to Frankfurt itinerary.
I have also noticed planes being full. There always seem to be plenty of standby passengers too!
I hate going unplanned, but I do like to be flexible.We love to be unplanned. My DW taught me that after years of tours, etc. We spent a week in Switzerland where we just went with the flow. It was kind of sad to see people on tours go up to the top of the mountain when we knew it would be socked in.
We have been doing that lately on our US travels too.