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Great Vacations on A Budget

Great Vacations on A Budget

  • The first thing you should consider when vacationing on a low budget is where you will stay. A hotel or rental property/resort? Most people vacationing on a low budget would say “cheap hotel” or motel, but this sort of attitude will ruin your comfort level for your entire vacation. No one wants to be in a room with limited space, especially if you have children. Choosing a hotel will start one uncomfortable vacation! Resorts are much relaxing, and tend to have its own recreation facilities on site. Though resorts are always more expensive than hotels, joining a vacation club, or resort club of some sort would help you save thousands. Most vacation clubs cost anywhere from $500-$2000. But keep reading and I’ll link you to one, with just the low budget solutions you want.

*Avoid Timeshares when vacationing, they were created for people who want to sell and profit from them. Typically not for vacationers. The timeshare process can cost you thousands a year*

  • The second thing is to set a budget for all the food you will bring or purchase for your entire vacation. Packing is key here, eating out is very costly and can leave a your wallet empty after the vacation if not before. That’s another reason why a resort would be beneficial , relaxing, and money saving. 9 out of 10 resorts has fully equipped kitchen and dinning room areas to prepare meals and enjoy meals! So no sitting on the bed or sharing that one lousy chair in the hotel room. Boy will you be happy with this club I’ll show you.
  • The third thing is amusement/theme park cost, if there are any amusement parks you plan on attending you should definitely include this in your budget. Google up specials, promotions, or even email website owners for big discounts. Try to pack snacks and lunches for the amusement park also, the park makes a third of its profits from gifts and food. “That’s why their food is so high”
  • Forth and Last is transportation costs, whether taking a bus, train, taxi, plane, boat, or car, make sure you get the cheapest way possible. Below is a Website that offers exclusive travel deals for its members including hotels, car rentals, air tickets, and cruises, Best of all resorts.

Travel Dream”

“allowing the Travel Dream”

The travel business is incredible. It is filled with multiple opportunities for investigation online. Look at the sites dedicated to travel on the web; in magazines; ads on television and radio. Advertisers bombard us with their “Best Price, Exotic Locations and the Hottest Deals”.

When you travel, what are your main concerns? Is it costs; or types of accommodations; or what can we do with the kids? Just to be in a financial position to actually get away for short trips just may be a perk. The internet allows us to DREAM of TRIPS to take!

Todays economy dictates so much of the details a person must consider when planning to travel. Businesses are re-thinking the associated costs of sending associates or sales teams out of the office vs. using new technology to conduct office web-conferences. I want to discuss personal vacations for this article. So my question then is, “Does the internet provide all of the necessary options that will allow us to dream of traveling?”

Searching the web, destinations are bountiful. Where in the United States can we go? Just a click of the mouse can send us skiing in Colorado or Utah; or golfing in Arizona or Florida; or the many parks or natural treasures throughout the states, granting our minds invigorating stimulation. Maybe you want site-see in South America or Australia; run on the Great Wall; tour the vinery’s of Portugal. Now that would be one fabulous trip to take. With technology today, one can ‘see’ any one of these areas in the internet. The mind is unlimited for these trips, your mind.

The volatility of oil prices this year and today due to the supply being greater than demand, provides cost effective options to allow some sort of trip. If you reside in the western portion of the United States, traveling to the Rocky Mountains for skiing is viable. The amount of snow at many resorts has been ahead of years past that powdered eyebrows and ice cycles dangling from one’s nose are truly in reach. Availability at most lodges can still be found even though it may take some researching. But that what makes the internet so impressive. Look on the web for your skiing trip?

Or maybe your idea of getting away would be a warmer climate. I know the older I get, the more warmth I can be surrounded by, the less snappy them ol’ bones become. Weather in the Phoenix/Scottsdale (not to mention the current excitement for their beloved football team) area is perfect for swinging those metal implements of frustration. Or Florida would be more practical due to your proximity. Can you imagine lounging on the beaches along the coast of Florida? With winter weather, imagining can be such a powerful mental exercise. Feeling the comfortable breezes crossing the tops of the ears, the grainy sands captivating your toes and umbrella drinks that color the tongue. Can you just feel it?

Decisions, decisions.

Take a moment to dream of YOUR travel destination. Every site I clicked had many interesting destinations to wander about. One of the places I would love to get to is Portugal. Watching the European Golf Tour, which has a few events there, has tingled my desire to visit. This area of the world just intrigues me. I ‘went’ to Portugal online. What a trip! The scenes of traditional villages; narrow streets winding through vibrant cities; the expanse of vineyards scattered in the country; the views along the Atlantic with dramatic windswept cliffs and sun-drenched backdrops; it is one dream that I am aspiring for.

See how simple the mental imagery and the power of the internet can supplement your actually making a TRIP? No, it’s not like the real thing however; it does provide me the visionary motivation needed to plan my visit, say within two years.

Could a vision of a sunrise conjure serenity within by watching the unwrapping of those brilliant red rock vortexes that reach up from around Sedona, Arizona? The reflection of the reddish cliffs from the waters of Oak Creek at Red Rock Crossing can mysteriously energize the soul. And stimulate the brain. This area truly has mystical sources of energy that could only be found on the prairies after enjoying peyote around the campfire.

Just a few mental exercises like these can plant the seed to plan your vacation whether it is simple or outlandishly exotic. We are not getting any younger. Many places we want to visit and experience before you begin to fill out a ‘Bucket List’ can be within reach. The internet can provide a plan and the mental exercise can be formulated. Now could be a great time to begin that process by getting on-line to start researching ideas. This is the early stages of the planning process and provides us the best time to fantasize about the exotic locations before wandering back to the practical.

Look at a trip you possibly thought of. The web can provide this type of entertainment as we deluge the fantasy of being at that far away place. Maybe our own little “Lost” adventure, only with umbrella drinks, doting pool boys or bikini-clad maidens, clean beaches and those gentle ocean breezes with waves seducing us to sleep. Oh the dreamy thoughts one can conjure up now. Allow your mind to wander. Go to places, mentally, that you have always dreamed about visiting. By taking this first step, the mental vacation, the coming weeks may create a happier time. Because this is all about relaxing.

Now let us look at the coming year. Could there be a short trip in say, your near future. Or maybe a four day outing early in the summer. The ideas may be abundant. Treating ourselves from time to time is necessary when most of what we hear or read is negative. Now with the ‘hope’ that has been touted for nearly two years and put in place this past January 20th, why not hope a vacation is in your future. Some would say that if we all spend a little more money by pumping it in to our economy, things just could get going again. “Hope springs eternal”.

Most people believe they may not be able to participate. Possibly they are choosing to hold out for a period of time till things improve. I say that time may be on your side to plan a vacation. Time may be on your side to save and/or make the money needed to do so. If a second income could encourage a trip; a travel goal within reach; investigate this opportunity and achieve that goal. If your dream trip would be an ultimate goal, it could behoove you to research this opportunity, and you may reach that dream much sooner.

Travel Article – January 2009

Wagaami

Wagaami

Travel is a major part of my life, I’m a traveling salesman for a large firm in Houston, Texas.  Well I’m proud to say I’m very good at it, as I alone was responsible for $560,000 in sales this past year, no easy feat in this economic times. Well anyway I want to share one of my most memorable travel experiences. You must be getting ready for a sexy escapade type of story but no it actually has to do with a short time I had free in Los Angeles, CA. Once there I made some sales, but that’s not noteworthy, what I was really impressed with was the time I had with a wagaami. Yes a wagaami, well before I get started I must tell you what a wagaami is if you don’t already know. A wagaami is a non sexual escort.
What!? Yes you read right, a non sexual escort, companion, whatever you want to call it.
The Truth is, is that they are really not for sex or any kinky activity. Anyway I had a free day in LA after my sales run where over. So I said to myself, do I do the usual and go out and explore on my own? or hire a professional from LA that can really show me around. I browsed the web for something like that and wagaami.com came up. I was pleasantly surprised as on the website I could pick the wagaami I wanted to show me around LA. Whats great is that you don’t have to pay a silly membership fee to see the Wagaami on the site, you could just browse and select from there. I had time and money so I couldn’t think of a better way to spend my free time as I’m not one to get with hookers, that’s not how I was raised (thank you Mom)
I finally make my choice and booked my wagaami. Let me tell you she was beautiful to the max, and here’s the kicker she was actually smart!. Wagaami.com set it all up I paid up front, met her on Hollywood Blvd by the Kodak Theater. I was a little nervous at first cause lets face it she was hot and sexy, but this is not what this was about. I wanted to see places I would definitely not know of cause jeez I don’t live there.
I was right, we went to some great spots! yes we saw the regular tourist things but then she said, let me show you were the real Hollywood peeps hangout. I was like heck yeah, lets go!. I had an amazing time there and boy I’m I glad that Wagaami exist in LA, oh and their also in NYC and Miami. I would get into details but I’m tired of writing as this is not what I do for a living, I just wanted to share a wonderful experience and one that everyone should try. Go to wagaami.com and check for yourself. Nuff said
Peter Goldberg

Hassle-Proofing Your Family Vacation

Hassle-Proofing Your Family Vacation

Traveling with kids can be a virtual nightmare or it can actually be a fun experience that creates lifetime memories. Great family vacations don’t just happen; they take forethought and planning.

1) Try to travel by air or even car/bus during non-peak times and get to the bus station or airport early. It’s tough trying to sprint through an airport with little kids. Also, if traveling in the evening, you may get the kids to sleep off part of the trip.

2) Make sure your kids go to the bathroom before leaving on a trip. When traveling long distances on a bus or other vehicle that will not stop on demand, have the kids wear diapers even through age five or so, and if kids older than that have had problems controlling their bladder, have them wear Goodnites. They may gripe but it could save a bigger humiliation for them.

3) Bring hand sanitizer for the many times there is no water available, and baby wipes/handi-wipes also prove invaluable.

4) Go to the Dollar Store before your trip and buy a bunch of little things that will excite each child and place them in separate bags. Allow the child to pull out a new toy or game once every hour or so.

5) You may not be able to fit serving trays on a plane, but they work great in a car or bus. Kids can use them to play with puzzles, board games, and play dough.

6) Bubbles, Game Boys, and MagnaDoodles are all helpful things to occupy kids while waiting in lines or sitting in vehicles. Also, visit the Hidden Mickeys website and print off some Hidden Mickey pages for the kids to have fun with.

7) Especially during the heat of the summer, kids do better with getting to a theme or amusement park first thing in the morning until lunch time. Then give them a rest time in the hotel room and/or pool during the hottest part of the afternoon and return sometime after 4:00 p.m. for several more hours of fun.

8) If you’re trying to keep track of several young kids at once, put all your stuff in a waistpack or backpack. That way, you’ll have your hands free to keep the kids in tow. In the pack, keep chilled juice, camera, rain ponchos, Monsters candy dispenser, etc. Another thing that proves helpful when walking all day is a stroller for the younger kids—even five- or six-year-olds.

9) Place a card in your kids’ pockets on which you place name, address, and cell number for officials to call if your child gets separated from you. It is usually safer to tell your child to show the card to an obvious official or a woman. That might be safer than just handing it to a male passer-by.

10) To offset the constant whining and badgering of kids to buy things, give each child a set amount to carry for anything they want to buy on the trip. Make it clear that when that money is spent, there will be no more money available.

These pointers are tried and true advice given by actual parents who learned this stuff by trial and error. I hope they’ll contribute to a happier and safer family vacation for you.