All-inclusive resorts have pros and cons that need to be carefully considered before you make a reservation. Depending on the resort, and what you want from your vacation, the pros can be cons and vice versa . Was that helpful? No? OK we'll go into some specifics The Pros of all-inclusive resorts Budget: The primary positive aspect of all-inclusive resorts for most … [Read more...]
Planning travel to other hemispheres
Planning travel to other hemispheres When you're planning to travel to another hemisphere a good starting place is to answer the question: What other hemisphere are we talking about? The world has two circles around it (not literally). One divides it in half horizontally and uses the equator to separate the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The other one is vertical and … [Read more...]
Rick Steves is right (but not all the time, according to us)
Rick Steves' presentation for PBS in Naples, Florida According to his own website "guidebook author and travel TV host Rick Steves is America's most respected authority on European travel". It should come as a huge relief to Rick that we agree. When we learned he was coming to speak at a fundraiser for the local PBS station we got tickets for the event. We showed up early … [Read more...]
How to prioritize and accomplish your bucket list
The American movie The Bucklet List came out in 2007 and featured Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two terminally ill men (who seemed to be in shockingly good health) doing all the things they wanted to do before they died, or "kicked the bucket." The term was around long before then but it really took off in popularity after the movie's release. We don't actually use … [Read more...]
How to use TripAdvisor®
We are power-users (if there is such a thing) of TripAdvisor® and we are both rated as "Top Contributors". We meet people who claim all of the reviews are fake, who just look to see which hotel is #1 or who read the reviews and react negatively or positively to things that don't really have anything to do with them. But you read us, so you're superior to those people! Here … [Read more...]