Thursday, July 3, 2008

My Vacation Made Easy, Relax and Personal

I like tavel, I like to travel to overseas country annually to rewards myself. Since I started working, I try my very best to save money for my vacation trip. I try to make my vacation trip once a year, and I am happy for that. So far I have been to a few countries since I started working, those country are as follows,

1.) Philippines
2.) Singapore
3.) South Korea
4.) Australia
5.) Thailand
6.) Sri Langka
7.) Maldives

Through all these countries that I visited, I like to go on my own rather than joining a travel agency which they will organized in group travel. The reason why I like to travel on my own is that I like to spend more time on the place or travel spot that I like, unlike group travel, they are always in a rush from one travel spot to another, this will end up like chasing over time rather than relax and enjoy.

Due to this reason, I always plan for my own vacation, I get a return air ticket to the country I want and I book my own hotel accommodation. On top of that, I do my own research on the place of interest and plan my own itinerary. This will gives me full control of my own time and pace. I will enable me to enjoy fully on my vacation. This is truely MY VACATION.

The booking and research required for,

1.) Air Ticket
Yes, first of all, you need to take a flight to your destination country. If you travel in domestic city, you can take land transport. I always check from my national airlines or destination country national airlines. Depends on the season, for certain period of time, they do offer lower airfare. As for Asian country, there is a low cost carrier in my country that allows me to buy even more cheaper air ticket. This will same my money for other spending on my vacation or cut down my vacation budget. You must book a air ticket with the confirmed date and time in order for your to do the following items.

2.) Accommondation
This is the second thing that you should spend time on research and make sure you get the suitable one for yourself. Suitable means that good location to stay with lower cost. This is because when travel on your own, you have to stay at a place where you can easily get a transport and of course at a cheaper price. Since you are on travel, most of the time you will be out of the room and walking on the street. You just need a room to sleep and rest at night. Luxury hotel is not my target, but safety is always my first concern. Do your homework and find the best place to stay at any city that you plan to visit.

3.) Place of Interest
That's right, this is the most import part of your vacation. First of all, you need to know what are the place of attraction in the country that you targetted on. Next, you need to do indepth research on the place of attraction in terms of distance, time required, entrance fees and transport fees. And lastly, you have to group all your place of attraction and arrange it by day for your flow of visiting, so that you will not waste your time in travelling between places or going through and flo. Cut down the travelling time will rewards you with more time to spend at your place of attraction.

4.) Vacation Itinerary
Finally, once you have all the things in place, it is good to create an itinerary for yourself. This will put down all the information required through out your whole journey. Information including flight schedule and booking information, accommodation arrangement and booking information, your travel route in terms of day and location and background information of the place of attraction will be good to add in as well.

Bingo!!! You get all your things in place, what next? Waiting for your departure day and enjoy your relaxing vacation.

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