I travel somewhat regularly. While I have watched the changes (especially those in air travel) make the experience less user friendly. However, my last trip gave me a much clearer insight. I flew with a friend who had not been on a plane in over a decade. It is one thing to deal with new rules, extra charges and other changes each time you fly. It is another thing to almost all the rules change since your last flight.
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I remember going on vacation when I was young and even in high school. You didn’t call your friends on the road. You might write them a letter or send a postcard, but that was it. When we went to France, I didn’t call home once. I went for 21 days without talking to anyone on the home front. It didn’t seem weird, it was just how things were. If you were on vacation, you were not in communication. That is no longer the case.
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At about 3:20 A.M. an e-mail came through on my Blackberry. I didn’t think much about it because the flight isn’t until September and flights change. Once I woke up and had a chance to look at the actual e-mail, I was a little more disturbed.
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Posted in travel on 12. Dec, 2008
Hello, my name is Jenni, and I’m an OCD vacation planner. On the actual vacation itself, I’m pretty flexible. I have an idea of what things I want to do, and then plan my days accordingly as I go. Unless I have specific tours scheduled or preset plans, I tend to wing it. Yes, a little planning goes into it (IE if I’m in San Francisco and I want to go to Mission Delores, I’m going to plan on visiting Borderlands Book Store and other places in that same area or along the bus route.), but if I get a late start the world isn’t going to end. I’m completely okay with just winging it.
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Posted in travel on 15. Oct, 2008
After 9/11, people stopped travelling. This caused the travel industry to buckle down and start making travel affordable again. They (especially the hotel industry) slashed prices, and made the world of budget travel a happy place. You could find amazing deals on Hotwire, Priceline, Expedia, and many other travel sites. Solo travel for the average twenty something was affordable, and the hunt for the perfect deal was all part of the fun.
After a few years, travel picked back up, and then the prices started to rise again. Hotels and airlines no longer needed to tempt customers with amazing deals. Now the average twenty something still had to hunt for a deal, but now it was much harder. The websites we depended on for deals suddenly have very limited discounts, or worse, the prices are actually higher than if you book through the hotel, rental agency or airline directly. It quickly became very frustrating, and in some cases just not economical to take trips. Even if you booked well in advance, the prices were just too high.
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