One for the money

It is an unmistakable theory that guesswork does not prevail, whether in life or finding a place of your dreams. That is why checking your facts with what is available is really necessary.

Let’s say you have to decide on your 12 day vacation. Your family would love to come, but they are busy too and then besides your better half how else would you bring along. Your daughter or son perhaps, or even your maid if you consider her part of your entourage.

But they would need to fine tune the dates, depending on their college and tution schedules. Then after getting through with feedback from them, you would probably have to make adjustments to the travel date, which is also based on suggestions from your travel consultant.

If you need to cut down on expenses taking a good look at your travel booking dates prior to confirmation. If any person from the group needs to give his yes nod, cancellation would not be a problem. Also planning ahead would make you eligible for early bird prices and discounts.

Next proximity to the airport is another factor that could reduce your costs since most airlines don’t differ much in the same country, thus carefully choosing your destination port could cut down on taxi or train costs.

An earlier run down with your tour operator would be a wise thing to do to avoid touring the same area and incurring unwanted ancillary expenses such as car rentals.

Another point of discussion with your travel operator would be travel auxiliary charges at the hotel, would be wi-fi and bar counter expenses which some operators can bundle into one combined package.

You are now well into launching a strain free holiday vacation and also accumulating those travel reward points that can be redeemed against your travel costs. So happy vacationing folks.