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Hey, fellow explorers, have you ever had the feeling

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that when you come back from a vacation,

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you come home, that you're so exhausted

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that you need to go on another vacation?

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Well, this video's for you,

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where I'm gonna share 37 tips

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to make your travel more relaxing,

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because frankly, this is a question I get all the time.

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I hear, Chris, I was just so stressed out on my trip.

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Please help me travel in a more relaxed way.

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And so the first, the first, number one, that should be number one.

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There we go.

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The first tip that I have for you, and I've broken this down into five different phases,

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starting with things you can do before as you're planning for your trip,

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to things you do on your trip, to helping you with packing,

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to what you do once you're there to make it more relaxing.

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So my first tip for you is when you are researching your trip,

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to conduct research beyond the obvious.

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I'll tell you more about this, but before I do that,

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I want to tell you a little bit more of my motivation for making this video today, this week.

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And it's because last week I was talking to some friends that came back from Japan

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and they basically told me that their trip was so awful to Japan.

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I should tell you, actually, they're like,

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Chris, how could your friend have an awful trip to Japan?

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Friend of a friend.

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I was talking to a friend who heard from their friend about how awful their trip was.

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it's two friends removed, so I don't know them all that well, so they probably don't know me all

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that well for me to have, like, given them the Japan travel prep, and so, like, everything they

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said they did, they had kids, and I feel like they just traveled, they just, they just did Japan

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wrong, frankly, because what they did was they just researched the obvious, they researched all

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the things about, well, the great thing in Japan is public transportation is amazing, take the

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shinkansen, do this, do that, except they've got two kids with two strollers, and they didn't

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research how to travel in Japan with kids, which if you research that would tell you,

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probably don't try to take two strollers on the trains because you're going to get separated.

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That's one of the things that happened to them.

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I know.

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So when you're planning your

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trip, don't just look for the things to do and things to eat, but look for the non-obvious

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things.

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Like if you've got kids, is it stroller friendly?

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Take a look at how do you get from the

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airport to your hotel?

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Not just maybe the main option, but what are some of the other options?

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If you're going to the Colosseum in Rome, where do you buy tickets?

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What's the best place to buy tickets?

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Do you need a reservation?

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Like, rather than just the top level of go to the Colosseum.

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Okay, so second tip is then as you're developing your plan, and I think this is number two,

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but I think this could be the most important tip in the whole video.

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So if you take nothing away, take this one.

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As you're developing a plan, one, make sure it's flexible.

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and two, that it considers your own and your traveling group's energy, sleep, and recharge patterns.

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I feel like this is where so many people fail when they're planning their trip at the start.

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They book a red-eye flight at midnight or six in the morning.

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They don't sleep the night before.

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They don't sleep while they're on it.

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They get to the destination at six in the morning there.

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They're exhausted.

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They can't check into the hotel for another nine hours and they're going to Disneyland already.

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And then they're just like they're the people that you see at Disneyland lying down asleep on a bench because they are absolutely wiped out.

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They thought when like they're they can't they could never do this kind of a day when they're at home.

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But somehow when they're on travel, they can be Superman.

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So I think we need to be we need to realize that we are, in fact, all human.

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that we need to rest.

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That traveling on airplanes is not the place

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where we get the most sleep

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or on a park bench at Disneyland.

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We need to rest.

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We need to recharge,

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especially when we change time zones.

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And so I like to think about

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if I'm going on like a long trip someplace,

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I've changed a lot of time zones,

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how I kind of like start and end the trip

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in kind of a relaxing setting,

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at least for the first day or two

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to get me into the place.

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so that I, if I've been like,

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in central Tokyo, and I've been just like running around, and it's noisy, and there's all these

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things, then I've got two days at the end of the trip to like just decompress again in some

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mountain resort onsen hot spring experience, where the only thing I have to do is sit in a hot bath,

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so that when I do take that flight home, I've had two days at the end to just rest and relax

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instead of go, go, go.

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If you're planning a long trip, then I also recommend that you plan some

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rest days in the middle too.

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Because if you're going for a long time, well, you need to rest

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What's a rest day?

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It's a day that you really just don't have anything planned.

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That's what a rest day is.

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So my third tip for you to have more relaxing travel is in addition to building a

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flexible plan that when you're booking your flights and your trip to have flexibility with

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your dates and with your airports because choosing the wrong date to travel, really busy travel days,

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just going to be a really awful experience.

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And also looking at different airports.

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I travel out of Southern California.

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I live in Orange County and we've got a lot of airports

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I can go out of LAX.

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I can go out of Ontario.

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I can go out of San Diego, Burbank.

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There's a ton of them.

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And not everybody has the luxury of lots of airports where they live, but

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maybe your destination, you might have the luxury of lots of airports.

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that might have shorter security lines, that might have less aggressive traffic, that might have

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calmer terminal environments.

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And you can think about this too when you're connecting someplace.

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I was another one talking to a friend of mine, and he was telling me he's going to

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Indonesia.

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And I asked him how he's getting to Indonesia.

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through Singapore airport, which I'm like, oh, I love Singapore.

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I love to connect through there.

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And he's like, no, we decided to go someplace different because we found a cheaper flight

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connecting somewhere else.

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I'm like, somewhere else?

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He didn't remember at that

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point in time.

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But I'm like, how could you skip Singapore?

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Singapore airport would be a highlight of my trip because I know that it's a nice airport where I

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can enjoy, I can relax.

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It's calm.

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And obviously, I don't know what his other one was.

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but you know, it could be, it could be much, much worse.

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That's what my concern is.

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DJT on

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the live stream says, if I've slept on the floor of an airport, I feel tired the next day, but

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there is adrenaline and different feelings like a runner's high.

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get adrenaline on travel, but it does run out eventually.

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Luis right here says, I avoid airports

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with lots of walking to connections.

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That's another great point too,

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where like if you've got a,

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if your trip is all hustle, hustle, run, run, run,

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you've got tight connections,

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that is another one to get you exhausted.

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Okay, so the fourth tip that I have for you

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to have a more relaxing trip

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is if you're going to another country

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to verify your visa and entry requirements

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immediately upon booking your trip

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because, or actually do that before you book your trip.

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So you know what you're getting into.

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If there's a lot of paperwork to go to,

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the worst thing you want is the worst thing you want,

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the worst thing that could happen.

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The thing that you don't wanna happen

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is for you not to pay any attention to this

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and find out that you get to the airport

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and they're like, oh, you can't check in

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or you get to online check-in.

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because you don't have these things.

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many countries required to be valid for six months before you go.

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It has to be valid for six months during the duration that you're going to be in the country.

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you might be running around paying expedited passport processing fees,

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trying to do it the day of, and that is not going to be a relaxing departure time.

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So figure out those well in advance.

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Kathy on the live stream says we got

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a electronic travel authorization for the UK

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but I'm sure we don't need anything

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for Paris yet

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I'm sure we don't need any

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you're sure you haven't looked or you're sure you don't need

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anything yet okay

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it's good your point is Kathy

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has already sorted that out for her

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trip uh okay

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and uh DJT had this issue

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said I got to the border of Malawi

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into Zambia and that sucks you probably like

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You're not only not relaxed, you're not doing your vacation.

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else because you couldn't get to where you were going and ending up hanging around standing in

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lines at embassies.

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Tip number five, book your flights and your hotels early.

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Um, well, it can range for everybody, but I will say that early is different than last minute.

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And I feel like there is some illusion about last minute travel deals and how they're amazing.

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So I'm just going to book it all last minute.

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And then you're going to end up finding that there may be no place for you to stay because all the hotels are booked out.

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And now you're at the cremiest place that's on the outskirts of the city.

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And even places like Las Vegas, this can end up happening to you.

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It has happened to me.

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I've gone to Las Vegas during a busy conference time where like the whole city was booked out.

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And that's how I ended up staying in the super fancy hotel right next to the Las Vegas airport in the runway.

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Not in the runway, but in the flight path that I feel like the planes were coming in for landing about 20 feet over my head.

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that when I checked in and I asked the hotel for a quiet room, the guy at the front desk goes,

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son, there ain't no quiet rooms here.

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I'm like, oh, I'm in for a choice hotel stay.

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Derek points out this, that I like to book refundable hotels far out and keep rebooking

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for the best price.

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That is a fantastic tip, Derek.

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And so I tend to do the same.

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book our trips at least three months out.

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That's kind of like a general rule of thumb for us if

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we're going far away.

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Like if we're going to another country or Hawaii or even the other

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coast of the USA, New York, we're booking at least three months out, maybe six months out.

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That's our general window for booking.

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We'll book the flights.

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It's usually pretty expensive to book

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refundable flights.

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So we're typically not booking those, but we are booking flights that are

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changeable in some way with a fee or something like that.

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We're not going to book the basic

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economy tickets that are non-changeable, non-refundable.

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we're paying close attention to the hotel rates that they are refundable and changeable without

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any cancellation penalties, even if that means the rate is more, because we found that over time,

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we actually do end up saving money like this, because you can keep looking at it,

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and the rate's lower, you find a different hotel that you want to stay at, but at least you have

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something booked.

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We have a trip coming up that we're just going to go for one night someplace

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nearby, kind of like staycation in Southern California.

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both Friday night and Saturday night.

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Okay, the sixth tip to make your travel more relaxing is to also look at local events and holidays in the destination.

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Because that's another one that if you get there and you thought it was going to be really quiet,

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and then you find out, oh my gosh, there's a gigantic, massive local holiday or an international convention

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Uh, so take a look at the holiday schedule as you're planning the dates in your, uh, destination.

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The seventh tip to make your travel more relaxing is when you're booking your flights to prioritize

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direct flights, or if you're not doing direct flights, then long layovers.

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to get there.

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I want to get there faster.

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I don't want a long layover.

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Do you want faster or do you

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want more relaxing because nothing is more stressful than missing your connection.

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short connections have a higher chance of misconnecting than longer connections do.

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So this is one that like, you know, people say, oh, cool, Chris, I take the connection because

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it's cheaper.

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You have to risk it.

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You have to know you're risking it and be OK with that.

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in our child-free years, we might have done, did more of that.

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six-year-old daughter, we're booking direct flights as much as possible because the issues

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that come around missing our flight and sleeping in an airport and things like that compound

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themselves much more when you're traveling with kids.

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airline, I just, I simply won't do it because I think it just sets me up for failure.

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Europe connecting in Philadelphia to Los Angeles, I had a three-hour layover.

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had a three-hour layover because my flight out of Athens, Greece, was delayed an hour,

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not for mechanical issues, just it took that long for air traffic control to release the flight.

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I had to reclaim my bags and check them in again because I'm

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clearing customs in the USA.

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That took another hour.

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reduced to one hour.

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West Coast Toys and Gaming says 45

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minute connections should be banned.

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I agree.

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Those connections are crazy talk.

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The Hypnotic

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Gamer says I had a connection at Frankfurt for two hours and didn't feel like enough because it's

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such a big airport.

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Depends on the lines.

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Depends how much walking it is.

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Grant says, I didn't know you went to Athens.

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Athens videos coming out.

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Yes.

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Will says,

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luckily, having Atlanta as the main airport, the connection thing is not as bad as usual.

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um okay and uh let's see we've got um normani normani

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it says i spend a six hour layover at narita in the a and a first class lounge no complaints here

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no complaints there absolutely narita haneda japanese airport some my favorite place to lay

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over japanese lounges some my favorite lounges around we're gonna talk about uh lounges when we

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get to the airport section.

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Tip number eight is when you're booking your flights, if you can

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choose the time you arrive in a destination, meaning there's just more than one, you know,

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some places you might be going to, there's only one flight a day.

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day, then you can be choosy about when you arrive, arrive in the day.

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The day is such a better time

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to arrive because, A, it's easier just to see everything and see where you're going.

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Two, a lot more options when you arrive in the day, a lot less options as you arrive

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at night.

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The later at the night you arrive and then the later delayed that your flight gets, the

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less options that you have.

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We had that issue coming back from Kauai one time where our flight was supposed to arrive

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in LAX at 10 at night and it was delayed and delayed.

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And then we arose in LAX at 3 in the morning.

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That was fantastic.

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And that is sarcastic.

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I mean, LAX is a 24-hour airport, but getting there at 3 in the morning is pretty lousy because the rental car shuttles don't run really frequently.

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The airport just doesn't seem to function.

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Baggage claim took forever.

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where if you're arriving at 10 a.m. and your flight's delayed by six hours,

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you're still there at like 4 p.m., which is still a pretty good time to get around,

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get places, get taxis, get those sort of things,

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not ending up at Tokyo Haneda Airport between midnight and 5 a.m.

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when the trains aren't running and your only options are a $200 taxi or to sleep on the floor.

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Um, so my, uh, ninth tip is as you are, uh, creating your actual itinerary, we've talked

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about like managing your energy, but now this is like looking at the inner, looking at the

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actual itinerary, uh, creating it with a loose adaptable structure, meaning that things change.

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Sometimes you are more tired and I just don't want to do that today.

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Maybe today I want to go see Alcatraz.

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Tomorrow I want to see Chinatown.

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The weather's not very good.

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and your personal well-being are pretty helpful.

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This is why when it comes to like making reservations for lots of things, and I've talked about

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this on a previous video about things that annoy me, reservations for tourist attractions

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annoy me.

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Uh, because if you make all those things ahead of time, then your schedule is really not

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flexible because you end up locked into all these things on all these different days,

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whether you want to do them or not, whether there's a hurricane, whether there's not,

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where if you can book them later on, then, um, you don't get locked into these things.

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So I tend to look at things that require reservations and be like, do, do I really

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need to make them in advance?

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Is this something that sells out?

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If it does, I get my reservation.

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If it doesn't, I will wait until the day before to book it so that I'm not locked into that day or time.

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West Coast Toys Gaming says, is 1 a.m. considered a late or early flight?

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That is a super, super great question.

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Super great question.

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I don't know.

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I think it's going to be.

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I think it's both.

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It's early or late.

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I would consider it late.

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I wouldn't consider 1 a.m. to be early.

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uh miguel v in the chat says it gives me a thumbs up and a good job thank you so much miguel thank

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you for your support i appreciate it okay um yes mermaid says plan for any days right so that's

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another one when we talk about like planning a rest day the rest day maybe is the rainy day

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right you're like you're not like well the rest day is going to be wednesday but like i'm going

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to be there for seven days and there's going to be a rest day in there and i don't know what day

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it's going to be.

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I'm going to figure it out.

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And you know what day it's probably going to be?

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It's probably going to be the rainy day.

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That's right.

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Okay.

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The 10th tip to make your travel

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more relaxing is to print physical copies of your critical documents.

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These are going to be things

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like visas, electronic travel authorizations.

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Chris, they're electronic.

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Do I really need to

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print them.

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If they have a barcode or a QR code, print them out because your phone, look, I love

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my phone.

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I do like the digital boarding pass thing and all that stuff.

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And I have all these

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things handy on my phone, but I print them out too, because you never know when your phone

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isn't going to work.

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Your pin code, your fingerprint's going to lock you out for some

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reason.

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Your battery's going to be dead.

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And having that piece of paper to pull out is going

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to be really helpful.

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Also, if, if, um, like customs agents or airline staff need to see these

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things, it's much nicer to be able to hand them a piece of paper.

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They can look at it and they can

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hand it to other people.

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They can make copies of they need to.

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It's so much better than, uh,

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giving them their, giving anybody else your phone to kind of like have to look at like that.

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Uh,

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Luis also, thank you so much for your support, uh, on the live stream.

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Very kind of you.

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Okay.

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So I think you should also print out your hotel reservations, uh, because it,

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when you get to the hotel, you know, like sometimes it helps to like, you know, you could

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check in and they're like, well, we don't, we don't have any record of your reservation.

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Well,

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I have one.

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Here's my reservation number.

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Here's my confirmation number.

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Look, they might still

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not have it, or that might help them look it up.

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But having that piece of paper to be like,

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well, trust me, I did have one.

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And here was a rate.

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Can you help me reinstate it?

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This,

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in fact, did happen to me recently, where I got to a hotel, for whatever reason,

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they didn't have my reservation.

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And being able to print out like, well, this was what my

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confirmation said, you know, like squeeze them enough to be like, okay, well, I guess we need

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to figure out how we give you a room tonight.

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If you have any travel insurance, print that stuff

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out and your flight itinerary, you know, the different flights, the different times, the

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different places, particularly if you, like, you know, have to rebook things or, you know,

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who knows?

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Maybe there's an IT outage.

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Maybe you're flying Southwest Airlines and their computers melt down.

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You never know what's going to happen.

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Maybe the app doesn't work.

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So having those all printed out is going to be a great help.

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Boy, we have some very, very generous folks on the live stream today.

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West Coast Toys and Gaming says keep it up.

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Thank you so much for your support as well.

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All right.

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Number 11 is my last tip before you go.

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And that is that if you're going to another

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country and your internet data plan doesn't support that country, then you should get an

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eSIM before you go.

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My eSIM provider choice is SimLocal.

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I've got a link in the description below.

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It has a 10% off code, code yellow.

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Get yourself an eSIM, get that all set up before you get to

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their destination so you're not trying to figure out what you are uh how you're going to connect

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to the internet when you get there uh kathy says i will have to start printing my info soon yes

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get to printing your info kathy i'm sure kathy was going to do that anyway okay uh louise thank

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you for your support louise says please tell us why you love traveling oh boy the many the many

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ways.

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How much time do you have, Louise?

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I guess this is an hour live stream, but we've got 26 more

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to go.

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So I guess I don't have that much time to answer that question.

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But I love traveling because

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I love seeing the cultures.

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I love the food.

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I love learning about the world.

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It's just an amazing

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experience.

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So those are some of the reasons why I love traveling.

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And of course, I love sharing it

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with all of y'all so that y'all can have better travels too.

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Mermaid Mom says that you travel a

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lot when you were a child.

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No, no, not that much as a child, really.

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Not to say not at all.

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We would

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take a lot of trips to Las Vegas.

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My mom is from the Czech Republic, so we would go back to the

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Czech Republic every few years, but we were not world travelers growing up.

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My parents were

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independent business owners.

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They owned their own business, which meant that if they traveled,

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it took away from them answering the phones and running the business, and so we tended to stay a

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lot in Southern California.

486
00:23:50.666 --> 00:23:51.570
I grew up in San Diego.

487
00:23:51.851 --> 00:23:53.559
We would go up to Los Angeles a lot,

488
00:23:53.880 --> 00:23:56.749
to Disneyland and Universal Studios and places like that.

489
00:23:58.274 --> 00:24:00.120
And I've always, when I started getting

490
00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:05.360
to college, I would enjoy just going and exploring new places, pointing my car up to someplace like

491
00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:07.553
Santa Monica and be like, what am I going to see when I get there?

492
00:24:07.936 --> 00:24:08.640
I have no idea,

493
00:24:09.001 --> 00:24:10.206
but here's a point on a map.

494
00:24:10.507 --> 00:24:12.957
Let me just go there and spend the day up there.

495
00:24:13.559 --> 00:24:13.680
Okay.

496
00:24:14.783 --> 00:24:19.960
Blue Tornado says, I'll say it again, the AU eSIM was clutched when I was in Japan.

497
00:24:20.482 --> 00:24:22.480
Thank you for that report, Blue Tornado.

498
00:24:23.685 --> 00:24:26.240
Brandon purchased an eSIM from SimLocal.

499
00:24:26.460 --> 00:24:30.340
And actually, I still have the – I'll just put it up on the screen because I got it right here.

500
00:24:31.201 --> 00:24:34.160
If you didn't want to scan the – if you didn't want to click the link in the description,

501
00:24:34.361 --> 00:24:37.340
there's a QR code up there that you can scan to get the SimLocal eSIMs.

502
00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:38.935
That'll load the 10% off code.

503
00:24:39.882 --> 00:24:43.880
And if you're going to Japan, the AU plan, unlimited data plan, great way to get around.

504
00:24:43.940 --> 00:24:47.520
They've also got great plans to UK and lots of other destinations.

505
00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:48.280
Okay.

506
00:24:52.102 --> 00:24:53.500
That's not what I want anymore.

507
00:24:53.961 --> 00:24:56.500
I want this and I want this and I want this.

508
00:24:57.007 --> 00:24:57.199
Okay.

509
00:24:57.464 --> 00:24:57.718
Here we go.

510
00:24:58.040 --> 00:24:59.532
We are now in phase two.

511
00:25:00.800 --> 00:25:01.659
You've planned your trip.

512
00:25:02.508 --> 00:25:02.940
You're packing.

513
00:25:03.263 --> 00:25:03.820
What are you packing?

514
00:25:04.020 --> 00:25:05.240
But first, I'm thirsty.

515
00:25:05.420 --> 00:25:06.000
So what am I drinking?

516
00:25:06.260 --> 00:25:08.320
Today, I am drinking this.

517
00:25:09.253 --> 00:25:09.659
what is this?

518
00:25:10.262 --> 00:25:12.800
This is a green tea

519
00:25:13.427 --> 00:25:13.731
from Surf.

520
00:25:15.002 --> 00:25:16.180
Surf beverage right here.

521
00:25:16.947 --> 00:25:17.033
Hmm.

522
00:25:19.608 --> 00:25:20.160
Where did I get this?

523
00:25:20.280 --> 00:25:21.800
I got this from Tokyo Central,

524
00:25:22.181 --> 00:25:24.060
outpost of Don Quixote.

525
00:25:25.186 --> 00:25:25.800
Made in Japan.

526
00:25:27.080 --> 00:25:27.169
Hmm.

527
00:25:28.906 --> 00:25:29.580
Nice tea flavor.

528
00:25:30.260 --> 00:25:30.679
Unsweetened.

529
00:25:32.208 --> 00:25:32.780
I would do that again.

530
00:25:32.940 --> 00:25:33.256
Oh, and it's,

531
00:25:34.304 --> 00:25:35.618
I find these stores

532
00:25:35.982 --> 00:25:36.939
that put these stickers on

533
00:25:37.001 --> 00:25:37.620
that say you paid.

534
00:25:38.503 --> 00:25:39.239
They put upside down.

535
00:25:40.666 --> 00:25:40.980
Paid.

536
00:25:41.402 --> 00:25:42.580
I have paid for my drink.

537
00:25:42.940 --> 00:25:43.057
Okay.

538
00:25:44.775 --> 00:25:44.880
Okay.

539
00:25:45.324 --> 00:25:45.620
Phase two.

540
00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:54.700
Tip number 12 to make your travel more relaxing is to not take more luggage than you can easily carry yourself or however many people are with you.

541
00:25:54.880 --> 00:26:06.700
I see this all the time when I feel like the story I told you earlier about the parents who went to Japan with their kids and they had two kids and they had two strollers and they had luggage and they're trying to get on the train.

542
00:26:07.041 --> 00:26:09.348
like that just sounds really hard.

543
00:26:10.030 --> 00:26:13.360
I don't know how you can, how you can take two strollers

544
00:26:13.922 --> 00:26:15.750
and luggage and all those things.

545
00:26:15.850 --> 00:26:18.000
We're going to talk about maybe some more strategies to,

546
00:26:18.622 --> 00:26:19.604
um, help with that.

547
00:26:19.725 --> 00:26:24.940
But, um, you know, if you can't carry it easily, then you need to figure

548
00:26:25.040 --> 00:26:28.470
out ways that you get help to carry it.

549
00:26:28.690 --> 00:26:32.100
But, um, which could be more people traveling with you.

550
00:26:32.180 --> 00:26:36.180
You're like, I don't know, maybe I need to take my sister-in-law to travel with me because she's

551
00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:37.285
going to help us carry my bags.

552
00:26:37.547 --> 00:26:38.290
That's always the joke.

553
00:26:38.692 --> 00:26:40.300
A lot of people say to me, like when I,

554
00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:42.920
you know, meet them out and about in the streets, they're always like, well, Chris,

555
00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:46.796
if you ever need anybody to help you carry your bags, let me know on your trip.

556
00:26:47.419 --> 00:26:47.479
Um,

557
00:26:48.921 --> 00:26:49.162
okay.

558
00:26:49.283 --> 00:26:52.600
But yeah, if you can't carry all your bags around and you can't make it up an escalator,

559
00:26:52.901 --> 00:26:57.740
you can't make it places, your trip's just going to be really stressful leaving baggage claim

560
00:26:58.081 --> 00:26:58.702
right away.

561
00:26:59.444 --> 00:27:00.165
Uh, okay.

562
00:27:02.591 --> 00:27:06.259
Uh, G whiz says, um, I have to bring a two suitcase to Japan.

563
00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:06.660
I need all the

564
00:27:06.660 --> 00:27:07.645
snacks, tea, pottery.

565
00:27:07.785 --> 00:27:10.860
It's certainly, uh, I understand that, you know, things that I might

566
00:27:10.940 --> 00:27:15.060
also like to do if I need the two suitcases is like maybe on my way there to pack them like

567
00:27:15.120 --> 00:27:19.520
inside each other, you know, like one suitcase and another suitcase, the, uh, and the outside

568
00:27:19.621 --> 00:27:19.983
suitcase.

569
00:27:20.023 --> 00:27:21.330
Cause it's just a suitcase inside of it.

570
00:27:21.592 --> 00:27:22.939
That one's empty, you know, right?

571
00:27:22.959 --> 00:27:23.060
Like

572
00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:23.641
essentially.

573
00:27:23.982 --> 00:27:25.667
Um, so you have an empty suitcase later.

574
00:27:26.268 --> 00:27:26.509
Okay.

575
00:27:27.953 --> 00:27:29.196
Um, yes.

576
00:27:29.396 --> 00:27:30.780
West coast, uh, toys and

577
00:27:30.800 --> 00:27:32.550
gaming says maybe carry the baby in a baby care.

578
00:27:32.630 --> 00:27:33.072
Absolutely.

579
00:27:33.153 --> 00:27:33.354
Right.

580
00:27:33.414 --> 00:27:34.480
Baby on a front carrier,

581
00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:35.884
baby on a back carrier.

582
00:27:36.145 --> 00:27:39.518
Great way to free up your hands so you can pull the suitcases.

583
00:27:40.120 --> 00:27:40.180
Uh,

584
00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:44.040
Derek says for families, I can't recommend taking public transport from Everett to hotel.

585
00:27:44.360 --> 00:27:46.955
Taxis are much better, but we'll need to make sure to get the oversized van.

586
00:27:47.157 --> 00:27:47.700
Love the tips,

587
00:27:47.780 --> 00:27:48.121
Derek.

588
00:27:48.482 --> 00:27:52.673
We're going to talk more about that when we talk about taxis and ride share.

589
00:27:53.134 --> 00:27:53.355
Okay.

590
00:27:53.977 --> 00:27:54.839
My 13th

591
00:27:55.200 --> 00:28:03.896
tip is when you're packing to pack and have a comprehensive toiletry and medical kit.

592
00:28:05.540 --> 00:28:05.780
I feel

593
00:28:05.780 --> 00:28:09.995
like this is one of like the inexperienced or infrequent traveler.

594
00:28:10.516 --> 00:28:11.540
Every time they travel,

595
00:28:12.061 --> 00:28:16.778
they try to figure out all the toiletry and medical things that they need.

596
00:28:16.858 --> 00:28:17.320
They take them

597
00:28:17.401 --> 00:28:18.680
from various places in their house

598
00:28:19.045 --> 00:28:20.160
and they put them in something

599
00:28:20.644 --> 00:28:22.340
and inevitably they forgot something.

600
00:28:23.464 --> 00:28:24.520
And it takes them a lot of time

601
00:28:24.540 --> 00:28:25.580
because there's a lot of little items.

602
00:28:26.163 --> 00:28:26.980
And then they go on their trip

603
00:28:27.304 --> 00:28:28.480
and then they come back home

604
00:28:29.548 --> 00:28:31.240
and they put all that stuff where it goes in their house.

605
00:28:31.782 --> 00:28:33.520
Whereas if you're gonna travel again,

606
00:28:33.904 --> 00:28:34.800
and by that I mean like,

607
00:28:35.041 --> 00:28:36.340
if you're gonna travel again the next year,

608
00:28:36.622 --> 00:28:37.680
just keep all that stuff together.

609
00:28:37.921 --> 00:28:42.320
Just build a travel toiletry and medical kit.

610
00:28:42.661 --> 00:28:44.840
By the way, I guess you might not wanna have

611
00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:50.779
all your medicines in the travel kit if they expire, but you can keep a bottle of them.

612
00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:51.140
You

613
00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:55.720
can keep a pill case that's labeled to remind you of those things that need to go in there.

614
00:28:56.020 --> 00:29:04.600
But for me on the toiletry side, when it comes to toothpaste, toothbrush, hair, nail clippers,

615
00:29:04.800 --> 00:29:08.494
all that stuff, I have all of that just in a toiletry kit for travel.

616
00:29:09.378 --> 00:29:09.940
So if anything ever

617
00:29:09.980 --> 00:29:13.217
happens to those, like if I break my nail clipper, do you really break a nail?

618
00:29:13.257 --> 00:29:13.800
I've broken a nail

619
00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:14.201
clipper.

620
00:29:14.503 --> 00:29:18.720
If I'm on travel and I break my nail clipper, then when I'm on travel, I probably just

621
00:29:18.780 --> 00:29:19.945
buy a replacement nail clipper.

622
00:29:20.247 --> 00:29:21.211
Same thing with my comb.

623
00:29:21.251 --> 00:29:22.959
If something happens to my comb, new comb,

624
00:29:23.621 --> 00:29:27.029
I just get the new comb on travel and put it back in that travel kit.

625
00:29:27.650 --> 00:29:27.831
Okay.

626
00:29:28.192 --> 00:29:29.715
Tip 14 is to,

627
00:29:31.940 --> 00:29:33.084
this is going to be luggage now.

628
00:29:33.726 --> 00:29:37.700
So if you have a lot of luggage, instead of lugging all that heavy

629
00:29:37.780 --> 00:29:41.895
luggage around, if it's more than you can carry, consider luggage delivery.

630
00:29:42.015 --> 00:29:43.400
There's pretty good

631
00:29:43.821 --> 00:29:47.032
luggage delivery services in a lot of places in the world.

632
00:29:47.353 --> 00:29:49.300
Sometimes airlines will do it that like

633
00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:52.392
airlines can help you ship your luggage places.

634
00:29:52.452 --> 00:29:54.460
Maybe you don't need to ship all of it, but maybe

635
00:29:54.520 --> 00:29:55.604
you ship some of it.

636
00:29:55.664 --> 00:29:56.307
This is another one.

637
00:29:56.608 --> 00:29:59.880
When I, uh, in my Japan live stream last week, I really

638
00:30:00.020 --> 00:30:03.750
love the luggage shipping services in Japan.

639
00:30:03.770 --> 00:30:07.280
Um, because you can like get to the airport and say,

640
00:30:07.621 --> 00:30:10.995
ship this suitcase to this hotel seven days later.

641
00:30:11.015 --> 00:30:11.637
And it's phenomenal.

642
00:30:11.658 --> 00:30:12.260
Then you don't have to lug

643
00:30:12.260 --> 00:30:17.800
get around all the time, but you can pack a second set of clothes and all that stuff for your second

644
00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:21.092
week on the destination that then meets you later where you're going.

645
00:30:21.273 --> 00:30:23.200
And then we do that so that

646
00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:27.840
then like at our last hotel that we're at, you know, that's where we're going to get this other

647
00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:33.080
bag that otherwise would have been a burden to carry around that now from that hotel, we know

648
00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:36.354
that we're taking a taxi to the airport because it's close to the airport.

649
00:30:36.696 --> 00:30:37.600
The hotel staff can

650
00:30:37.700 --> 00:30:41.193
help us get it from the room down to the taxi.

651
00:30:41.494 --> 00:30:43.180
And when we get to the airport, there's luggage

652
00:30:43.300 --> 00:30:44.326
carts to help us get around.

653
00:30:44.406 --> 00:30:47.220
So it's not a big deal to have that one more suitcase that otherwise

654
00:30:47.421 --> 00:30:50.349
would be hard to lug around the train station.

655
00:30:51.512 --> 00:30:54.240
Uh, Louise, thank you for your support again,

656
00:30:54.481 --> 00:30:59.236
says, do you ever travel carry-on only often, uh, for short trips?

657
00:30:59.396 --> 00:31:00.660
I would say for me,

658
00:31:01.121 --> 00:31:06.317
the sweet spot of carry-on only is about three to four days.

659
00:31:06.357 --> 00:31:07.420
If it's three to four days,

660
00:31:07.560 --> 00:31:09.489
we generally can do carry-on only.

661
00:31:09.870 --> 00:31:12.080
If it's longer than that, it's generally where we're looking at

662
00:31:12.120 --> 00:31:12.642
checking in.

663
00:31:12.963 --> 00:31:15.413
If it's on a two-week trip, we're like definitely checking in.

664
00:31:15.594 --> 00:31:17.220
This has, I'd say

665
00:31:17.300 --> 00:31:23.700
the span of how long we can go on a carry-on only has shortened when we've added a daughter

666
00:31:23.981 --> 00:31:26.389
because we have to carry just more stuff.

667
00:31:26.811 --> 00:31:29.520
And when she was younger, even more, more stuff from

668
00:31:29.981 --> 00:31:31.607
diapers to baby formula.

669
00:31:31.668 --> 00:31:35.080
But you know, today it's the, maybe I need the stroller or maybe I need the

670
00:31:35.160 --> 00:31:36.726
booster seat or things like that.

671
00:31:36.786 --> 00:31:40.220
And those all just add more, more things I got to carry and

672
00:31:40.561 --> 00:31:41.384
it gets harder too.

673
00:31:42.046 --> 00:31:42.587
Um, okay.

674
00:31:42.969 --> 00:31:46.640
But the nice part about traveling carry on only is if you do

675
00:31:46.821 --> 00:31:52.240
misconnect or you have delays, you're a lot more flexible because you can just get on any flight in

676
00:31:52.260 --> 00:31:56.240
the airport because you got all your stuff with you and they don't need to move your stuff around.

677
00:31:57.061 --> 00:31:58.123
Okay.

678
00:32:00.748 --> 00:32:04.956
Shian says, in the future, I'm going to buffer better.

679
00:32:04.976 --> 00:32:07.340
The Andaz Toronomon Hills

680
00:32:07.661 --> 00:32:11.553
told me two days advance notice for luggage transport to Narita.

681
00:32:12.977 --> 00:32:13.980
Oh, that you need to tell

682
00:32:14.040 --> 00:32:16.911
them two days ahead of time that you're going to do it.

683
00:32:17.012 --> 00:32:17.293
Right.

684
00:32:17.774 --> 00:32:19.140
If you are trying to, like,

685
00:32:19.260 --> 00:32:23.940
if you're leaving and you need to ship it out, then yes, you probably need to let the hotel

686
00:32:24.060 --> 00:32:29.060
know ahead of time so that they can arrange for the company that picks it up to come and get it.

687
00:32:29.781 --> 00:32:30.403
That makes sense.

688
00:32:31.748 --> 00:32:35.500
George says, in Japan, we used a private transfer van to and from the airport,

689
00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:36.183
hotel, and back.

690
00:32:36.203 --> 00:32:39.116
We also brought two travel strollers with two large bags.

691
00:32:39.437 --> 00:32:40.020
It made our trip

692
00:32:40.261 --> 00:32:40.542
easy.

693
00:32:40.582 --> 00:32:42.007
We also have two small kids.

694
00:32:42.288 --> 00:32:43.552
Love it, George.

695
00:32:44.034 --> 00:32:44.616
Love those tips.

696
00:32:44.977 --> 00:32:45.700
Those are fantastic.

697
00:32:46.040 --> 00:32:48.532
And that is a great way to make your trip relaxing, right?

698
00:32:48.632 --> 00:32:50.260
In that case, you get a van.

699
00:32:50.742 --> 00:32:55.460
it's big enough it fits your stuff there's people to help you move your things around and you know

700
00:32:55.540 --> 00:33:01.720
this is one where people would say well but it could be cheaper to do it this other way could

701
00:33:01.800 --> 00:33:06.560
be cheaper but you're not going to enjoy your trip at all and so what's the point of spending

702
00:33:07.944 --> 00:33:13.140
five thousand dollars on your trip to get you japan and all the hotels and saving a hundred

703
00:33:13.260 --> 00:33:17.500
dollars on the transfer van that then makes it that you don't enjoy the next day more because

704
00:33:17.540 --> 00:33:21.733
you throw your back out because you're trying to drag all this luggage around.

705
00:33:22.375 --> 00:33:22.977
Uh, okay.

706
00:33:23.679 --> 00:33:23.840
Uh,

707
00:33:23.980 --> 00:33:29.440
Shio, uh, recommends this one, uh, to put laundry sheets in my luggage so my clothes get fresh.

708
00:33:29.700 --> 00:33:33.791
Shio, uh, thank you for the smelling fresh trip.

709
00:33:34.232 --> 00:33:36.920
Uh, Luis, uh, thinks less is more for sure.

710
00:33:36.940 --> 00:33:36.980
If

711
00:33:37.080 --> 00:33:38.928
you can travel with less, less is definitely more.

712
00:33:39.309 --> 00:33:41.378
Luis is planning for the Camino.

713
00:33:41.538 --> 00:33:41.839
All right.

714
00:33:41.860 --> 00:33:41.940
That

715
00:33:42.020 --> 00:33:42.461
Sounds good.

716
00:33:42.481 --> 00:33:47.736
That's the big hiking, walking path.

717
00:33:47.756 --> 00:33:49.260
I feel like there are companies on that,

718
00:33:49.560 --> 00:33:54.620
though, that can forward your luggage to the next place, but I guess that's not...

719
00:33:57.543 --> 00:33:58.826
It's cheating, maybe a little bit.

720
00:33:59.087 --> 00:33:59.447
Okay.

721
00:34:00.049 --> 00:34:01.974
Let's go into phase three.

722
00:34:02.134 --> 00:34:04.300
Phase three is now in the

723
00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:04.922
airport.

724
00:34:05.685 --> 00:34:09.057
So we'll talk about some tips in the airport and getting to the airport.

725
00:34:09.157 --> 00:34:09.940
So tip number

726
00:34:10.080 --> 00:34:16.779
15, getting to and from the airport, and frankly, we just heard it from George about Japan, is

727
00:34:17.501 --> 00:34:23.980
consider dedicated airport transfers, whether you've got a lot of stuff, whether you've got

728
00:34:24.060 --> 00:34:24.862
a lot of people.

729
00:34:25.404 --> 00:34:31.940
For me, when we do the dedicated airport transfers, tend to be not usually from our

730
00:34:31.940 --> 00:34:35.740
house to the airport, because usually in Southern California, it's pretty easy to get an Uber,

731
00:34:36.262 --> 00:34:38.029
pretty easy to drive and park at the airport.

732
00:34:38.351 --> 00:34:40.580
But when we're at our destinations, you know,

733
00:34:40.600 --> 00:34:46.580
when my mom and I were in Beijing, you know, we booked a dedicated car to go from the Beijing

734
00:34:46.680 --> 00:34:48.366
airport to the JW Marriott.

735
00:34:48.547 --> 00:34:49.571
It was like 50 bucks.

736
00:34:49.691 --> 00:34:52.080
It wasn't that much more than, you know, getting a

737
00:34:52.140 --> 00:34:53.344
taxi from the airport.

738
00:34:53.365 --> 00:34:56.918
Maybe it was a little bit more, but you know, a taxi is $15 and so 50 bucks

739
00:34:57.640 --> 00:35:03.040
for the dedicated car in the scheme of things, not that much more and made the trip so much

740
00:35:03.301 --> 00:35:03.722
smoother.

741
00:35:04.304 --> 00:35:08.700
The other time I tend to book it, well, I should back up and just say, because when you do

742
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:13.360
that, then when you get to the airport at your destination, you don't have to figure out trains

743
00:35:13.601 --> 00:35:15.952
or where the taxi rank is or those sorts of things.

744
00:35:16.173 --> 00:35:17.840
All you have to know is there's going to

745
00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:23.720
be like a person when I get into the arrivals lobby that's going to have like a sign with my

746
00:35:23.820 --> 00:35:24.423
name on it.

747
00:35:24.523 --> 00:35:25.588
I just need to look for them.

748
00:35:25.608 --> 00:35:28.260
And then from that point, they're going to help me get to

749
00:35:28.380 --> 00:35:29.023
everywhere you're going.

750
00:35:29.305 --> 00:35:32.500
So think about when you are paying for those airport transfers, you're

751
00:35:32.560 --> 00:35:39.240
paying for more than transport, you're also paying for this help and guide should you need it.

752
00:35:39.961 --> 00:35:47.000
The other time I tend to book dedicated cars or even make taxi reservations is when I have a

753
00:35:47.481 --> 00:35:48.585
early morning flight.

754
00:35:48.646 --> 00:35:52.359
When I was leaving Stockholm on my last trip there, I had a

755
00:35:53.102 --> 00:35:57.737
6 a.m. flight out of Stockholm airport and I needed to get to the airport at 4.

756
00:35:58.198 --> 00:35:58.680
And the airport

757
00:35:58.820 --> 00:36:00.225
train doesn't run that early.

758
00:36:00.425 --> 00:36:05.220
And so I needed to book a taxi and, you know, reserve a taxi.

759
00:36:05.340 --> 00:36:08.660
And there's like a, you know, they're like, okay, well, you know, you go to the hotel front desk

760
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:10.951
and the night before and they're like, we'll reserve a taxi.

761
00:36:11.292 --> 00:36:12.819
Here's the time the taxi will be

762
00:36:13.060 --> 00:36:16.231
down the lobby for you at 345 in the morning.

763
00:36:16.613 --> 00:36:18.439
And sure enough, there was a taxi down there at 345

764
00:36:18.961 --> 00:36:19.583
in the morning.

765
00:36:19.704 --> 00:36:23.520
But this is also another, like sometimes people will say like, well, Chris,

766
00:36:23.600 --> 00:36:26.126
why do you like hotels more than Airbnbs?

767
00:36:26.988 --> 00:36:28.612
Because reasons like this.

768
00:36:28.933 --> 00:36:31.860
For the hotel, I can ask them

769
00:36:32.361 --> 00:36:34.587
to arrange this for me.

770
00:36:34.647 --> 00:36:37.033
They work with a single taxi company.

771
00:36:37.374 --> 00:36:39.800
That single taxi company does this

772
00:36:40.121 --> 00:36:40.683
all the time.

773
00:36:40.864 --> 00:36:43.073
And the taxi drivers, they don't just wait out in front.

774
00:36:43.415 --> 00:36:44.660
They come in the hotel

775
00:36:44.921 --> 00:36:48.337
and they come to the front desk and they're like, I'm the taxi for Mr. Rainey.

776
00:36:48.377 --> 00:36:49.040
And then the front

777
00:36:49.060 --> 00:36:51.310
desk is like, Mr. Rainey, your taxi is here.

778
00:36:51.330 --> 00:36:53.480
And if the taxi's not there, then the hotel is going

779
00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:59.180
to be helping me try to figure out how i get a transport as opposed to me standing on some dark

780
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:05.320
street in stockholm at 3 45 in the morning trying to call some taxi company to be like you're not

781
00:37:05.420 --> 00:37:08.980
you're not here we're here we're just not where you're standing well i don't know where you're

782
00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:16.420
standing i don't know where you are so um that is another way to make it much uh much more relaxing

783
00:37:16.961 --> 00:37:26.000
okay um west coast toys and gaming uh is so over airbnbs yeah there's a lot of like and there's

784
00:37:26.020 --> 00:37:30.820
another one about like what goes in that hotel rate there's a lot of like help and service that

785
00:37:30.860 --> 00:37:36.119
comes in that hotel right that you don't get with an airbnb janelle also doesn't get the airbnb

786
00:37:36.761 --> 00:37:42.600
concepts uh kathy says we reserved the taxi we went to niagara falls as we had to get to buffalo

787
00:37:42.841 --> 00:37:44.570
airport, which was a fair way away.

788
00:37:44.590 --> 00:37:45.434
That's another great tip.

789
00:37:45.475 --> 00:37:46.500
Yes, if you need a taxi

790
00:37:46.942 --> 00:37:51.400
to go a long way, really helps to reserve that ahead of time, because if you're trying to get

791
00:37:51.460 --> 00:37:56.276
it the day of, there might not be any drivers that actually want to take you that far.

792
00:37:56.898 --> 00:37:57.500
Okay.

793
00:37:59.361 --> 00:38:05.840
West Coast Toys also says that having dedicated airport transport is also being considered

794
00:38:05.981 --> 00:38:08.835
locals during rush hours on public transit when it's super crowded.

795
00:38:08.915 --> 00:38:09.780
Yeah, I agree with you,

796
00:38:10.060 --> 00:38:18.660
Because most, the like subways, they're not, while they may run to the airport, they're not designed for you to bring 82 bags on board.

797
00:38:19.641 --> 00:38:23.900
They're designed for people going to work or things like that or people traveling with a carry-on.

798
00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:32.400
As soon as you have 18 bags and you take up half the train, it's when like, well, maybe it was better to take some actual airport transport.

799
00:38:33.160 --> 00:38:33.280
Okay.

800
00:38:37.082 --> 00:38:38.338
Cleaning fees killed Airbnb.

801
00:38:38.460 --> 00:38:40.705
because cleaning fees, they are rough.

802
00:38:41.146 --> 00:38:41.387
Yes.

803
00:38:42.009 --> 00:38:42.590
Uh, okay.

804
00:38:43.893 --> 00:38:46.740
The 16th thing, uh, to help your travel

805
00:38:46.860 --> 00:38:52.280
be more relaxing is if your airline does online check-in and most of them do at this point in

806
00:38:52.340 --> 00:38:57.080
time, uh, do that, like do that when you can check in online, because if you can,

807
00:38:58.121 --> 00:39:00.970
the more stuff you can offload from the airport, the better.

808
00:39:01.572 --> 00:39:04.080
And also if you find out that like

809
00:39:04.140 --> 00:39:08.980
you try to go through online check-in, then it gets to the end and it's like unable to check you

810
00:39:09.120 --> 00:39:09.301
in.

811
00:39:09.442 --> 00:39:13.859
Then you're like, uh-oh, there's either something wrong with my reservation or there's

812
00:39:14.020 --> 00:39:15.004
something wrong with me.

813
00:39:15.546 --> 00:39:19.420
So I need to plan to get to the airport extra early to resolve whatever

814
00:39:19.520 --> 00:39:23.109
this IT thing is that doesn't let me check in online.

815
00:39:25.455 --> 00:39:27.420
There's also a lot of airlines that will

816
00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:29.670
have just like a special like bag drop.

817
00:39:29.751 --> 00:39:31.800
If you've already checked online, just go to this bag drop.

818
00:39:31.901 --> 00:39:35.040
So sometimes you can get the shorter line if you've done that too.

819
00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:44.540
Also, if the airline has to weight limit the aircraft because of weather reasons, they generally start by check-in time.

820
00:39:44.660 --> 00:39:53.520
And the last people to check in are often the people that don't get to fly on the plane if they have to reduce the number of people that can fly that day.

821
00:39:54.521 --> 00:40:09.360
The 17th tip to make your travel more relaxing is to establish a conservative airport arrival time, which is, you know, we've talked about connection times.

822
00:40:09.780 --> 00:40:11.899
What's a conservative airport arrival time?

823
00:40:12.483 --> 00:40:13.679
It depends on your airport.

824
00:40:14.021 --> 00:40:21.040
But, you know, there's another one where you're like, well, I can get there one hour before and get through everything, except when the airport doesn't work.

825
00:40:21.581 --> 00:40:33.160
And so I travel out of Los Angeles International Airport quite a bit, and my rule of thumb is I always want to be at the airport at least two hours before my flight departure.

826
00:40:33.421 --> 00:40:34.260
That's my rule of thumb.

827
00:40:34.921 --> 00:40:40.396
And now from my house, the drive without traffic to LAX is 45 minutes.

828
00:40:42.542 --> 00:40:49.400
but with traffic it's two hours which means that I always need to leave my house four hours before

829
00:40:49.620 --> 00:40:56.320
my flight in order to make sure I get there two hours before the flight now um does that mean

830
00:40:56.380 --> 00:41:03.040
that sometimes I'm at the airport early yes it also means though that when things go really wrong

831
00:41:03.984 --> 00:41:08.040
I don't miss my flight I am very proud of the fact that I've flown millions of miles

832
00:41:08.722 --> 00:41:13.840
I've been to numerous countries, and I have yet to miss a flight.

833
00:41:14.866 --> 00:41:15.560
Knock on wood.

834
00:41:15.781 --> 00:41:17.699
Hopefully I haven't jinxed myself by saying that.

835
00:41:18.303 --> 00:41:18.420
Okay.

836
00:41:19.261 --> 00:41:23.980
Tip number 18 is to travel with an empty water bottle.

837
00:41:25.861 --> 00:41:31.400
Now, you might think, well, gee, I can get water when I get to the airport or into the terminal.

838
00:41:31.740 --> 00:41:34.020
This is another one that, like, if you had a water bottle.

839
00:41:34.060 --> 00:41:35.280
Let's say you have a reusable water bottle.

840
00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:36.380
Let's say you don't have a reusable water bottle.

841
00:41:36.521 --> 00:41:39.339
Let's say you were just drinking your tea like this.

842
00:41:41.521 --> 00:41:44.820
I'll save this bottle to take it empty the day of travel.

843
00:41:45.120 --> 00:41:49.400
And I may not refill it, but I'll have it to refill just in case.

844
00:41:49.740 --> 00:41:52.980
Because sometimes you just run out of time.

845
00:41:53.220 --> 00:41:54.479
You can't find any place that sells it.

846
00:41:54.640 --> 00:41:55.259
You don't have any money.

847
00:41:55.540 --> 00:41:56.779
They don't take your credit card.

848
00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:01.800
And being able to just go to Water Fountain and fill it up, really helpful for you once you get on the plane.

849
00:42:02.282 --> 00:42:08.100
two, sometimes there are airports that have like the security check at the actual gate and then

850
00:42:08.140 --> 00:42:10.596
you can't even buy anything in the airport and take it with you there.

851
00:42:10.736 --> 00:42:11.300
And then you, they're

852
00:42:11.300 --> 00:42:12.365
like, what do I do?

853
00:42:12.385 --> 00:42:15.358
I now have to buy a bottle just to dump it out, just to fill it up.

854
00:42:15.539 --> 00:42:15.660
So

855
00:42:16.102 --> 00:42:20.760
carry your empty water bottle, um, just in case, even if you were planning to buy something and

856
00:42:20.860 --> 00:42:26.856
you couldn't, you still have some vessel to fill up to keep yourself hydrated.

857
00:42:27.437 --> 00:42:28.219
And tip number 19

858
00:42:28.901 --> 00:42:29.563
in the airport.

859
00:42:30.104 --> 00:42:35.759
We heard this earlier about lounges is to utilize the airport lounges for a

860
00:42:36.120 --> 00:42:39.728
more relaxing space to enjoy in the airport.

861
00:42:40.810 --> 00:42:44.338
And this is a subject all of its own.

862
00:42:44.819 --> 00:42:45.340
What kind of

863
00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:46.082
lounges?

864
00:42:46.323 --> 00:42:48.449
Are lounges actually more relaxing?

865
00:42:48.550 --> 00:42:51.138
But the nice lounges are more relaxing.

866
00:42:51.298 --> 00:42:51.880
We heard

867
00:42:52.802 --> 00:42:59.578
previous traveler say that they really liked the A&A first class lounge in Tokyo.

868
00:42:59.598 --> 00:43:00.460
I would

869
00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:09.280
definitely say some of the best lounges are going to be the premium class travel lounges

870
00:43:09.441 --> 00:43:11.188
associated with the airlines.

871
00:43:11.389 --> 00:43:14.100
So this is another one too where like if you have a long connection,

872
00:43:14.740 --> 00:43:20.860
you know, it might be worth it to upgrade to the higher class to get you into the more premium

873
00:43:21.041 --> 00:43:24.780
lounge if you know you're going to be stuck there for eight hours.

874
00:43:25.601 --> 00:43:28.075
Luis asked me if I have any vodka in that bottle.

875
00:43:28.357 --> 00:43:28.820
Not yet.

876
00:43:29.081 --> 00:43:30.817
Not yet, but the night is young.

877
00:43:34.121 --> 00:43:36.880
TR47 says I bought a self-filtering tumbler recently.

878
00:43:37.020 --> 00:43:38.491
Do you like it, TR47?

879
00:43:38.893 --> 00:43:39.800
Tell me more about your

880
00:43:39.860 --> 00:43:42.613
self-filtering tumbler.

881
00:43:42.754 --> 00:43:44.120
I'm someone who enjoys

882
00:43:44.522 --> 00:43:47.620
nice tasting water, and yes, a con of filling this up at the airport

883
00:43:47.983 --> 00:43:49.319
water bottle filling machines is

884
00:43:49.784 --> 00:43:51.380
they don't always taste all that good.

885
00:43:51.661 --> 00:43:53.740
So what I generally try to do is I try to fill it up in the

886
00:43:53.780 --> 00:43:55.620
airport lounges, because the airline

887
00:43:55.721 --> 00:43:57.640
lounges generally have much better filtered

888
00:43:57.761 --> 00:43:59.900
water than the airport filtering

889
00:44:00.163 --> 00:44:00.891
machines do.

890
00:44:01.377 --> 00:44:01.559
Will

891
00:44:01.781 --> 00:44:03.820
really likes the Delta One lounge at LAX.

892
00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:05.579
Derek says almost any

893
00:44:06.064 --> 00:44:07.600
Asia lounge is nice for

894
00:44:07.829 --> 00:44:08.100
sure.

895
00:44:10.421 --> 00:44:11.298
And Shio says

896
00:44:11.602 --> 00:44:13.740
if you're crossing time zones, set your arrival

897
00:44:13.942 --> 00:44:14.709
time early.

898
00:44:14.851 --> 00:44:15.820
Thank you for the tip.

899
00:44:16.405 --> 00:44:18.340
West Coast Toys Gaming since the lounges I've passed

900
00:44:18.643 --> 00:44:19.250
always seem busy.

901
00:44:19.513 --> 00:44:20.140
I would say if they're like

902
00:44:20.180 --> 00:44:22.220
credit card lounges or Priority Pass lounges

903
00:44:22.301 --> 00:44:24.080
they're always busy because I feel like the

904
00:44:24.241 --> 00:44:26.180
secret is out on Priority Pass and

905
00:44:26.200 --> 00:44:28.019
Centurion lounges and Sapphire lounges and

906
00:44:28.080 --> 00:44:29.379
Capital One lounges but the

907
00:44:30.127 --> 00:44:31.320
United Polaris lounge

908
00:44:32.448 --> 00:44:33.214
still not too busy.

909
00:44:33.395 --> 00:44:34.020
The American

910
00:44:34.405 --> 00:44:35.620
Airlines flagship lounge

911
00:44:36.084 --> 00:44:38.000
still not too busy because they're not letting people in

912
00:44:38.101 --> 00:44:39.434
based on credit card status.

913
00:44:39.454 --> 00:44:40.080
They're letting people

914
00:44:40.201 --> 00:44:42.040
in based on class of

915
00:44:42.287 --> 00:44:42.659
service.

916
00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:44.116
Okay.

917
00:44:46.382 --> 00:44:51.000
points traveler says get ice water from any starbucks it's free and filtered uh i guess the

918
00:44:51.361 --> 00:44:55.220
like the challenge points traveler maybe you know the hack on this one is like but the starbucks in

919
00:44:55.220 --> 00:45:00.200
the airport with the line of like 40 people i don't know do you have a hack for bypass can you

920
00:45:00.601 --> 00:45:09.540
order a water for free i don't know i've never tried it okay the 20th tip now we are in the

921
00:45:09.580 --> 00:45:15.160
section of hotels so i've got some hotel tips for you to have a more relaxing uh time on your trips

922
00:45:15.621 --> 00:45:16.203
at hotels.

923
00:45:16.604 --> 00:45:22.559
First tip number 20 is to select your hotels based on their micro location.

924
00:45:22.659 --> 00:45:22.860
What's a

925
00:45:22.900 --> 00:45:23.743
micro location?

926
00:45:23.803 --> 00:45:29.060
Well, I will often say something like stay in the city center because in the city

927
00:45:29.201 --> 00:45:32.574
center, you're just going to be closer to attractions.

928
00:45:32.674 --> 00:45:34.180
But if you come to someplace like

929
00:45:34.220 --> 00:45:38.900
Los Angeles, maybe that doesn't make sense because downtown LA might not have the things that you're

930
00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:39.342
going.

931
00:45:39.502 --> 00:45:44.660
And so fundamentally pick a hotel that's near the stuff that you want to do so that in

932
00:45:44.700 --> 00:45:49.340
the middle of the day, if you want to come back, you can, like you can, like if you bought stuff,

933
00:45:49.400 --> 00:45:50.084
you can leave it there.

934
00:45:50.124 --> 00:45:51.834
If you want to take a nap in the middle of the day, you can.

935
00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:52.860
If your

936
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:56.270
traveling partner or kids want to take a nap or whatever, they can.

937
00:45:57.834 --> 00:45:59.700
There's, I think it is worth

938
00:45:59.820 --> 00:46:04.099
it to spend the money to stay closer to your attraction so that you don't have to spend as

939
00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:07.793
much time and money transporting yourself to get around.

940
00:46:07.934 --> 00:46:09.500
Obviously there is some, there is some

941
00:46:09.560 --> 00:46:10.806
cost trade-off analysis here.

942
00:46:11.067 --> 00:46:13.800
When I say more money, I don't mean like thousands more dollars,

943
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:16.666
but, you know, all within reason.

944
00:46:18.229 --> 00:46:23.800
And also, if you can have a hotel that you can get to all your

945
00:46:23.820 --> 00:46:29.140
stuff by just walking and you don't have to take public transit, that is like the magical place

946
00:46:29.340 --> 00:46:29.701
to stay.

947
00:46:30.062 --> 00:46:31.085
Okay.

948
00:46:31.626 --> 00:46:36.860
Because not only is it cheaper, does it save time, but it also eliminates

949
00:46:37.222 --> 00:46:38.307
uncertainty, right?

950
00:46:38.347 --> 00:46:40.980
Like you can be pretty certain of how long it takes you to walk someplace

951
00:46:41.342 --> 00:46:44.440
because you're not dependent upon traffic strikes.

952
00:46:44.780 --> 00:46:45.760
When does the train come?

953
00:46:46.041 --> 00:46:47.239
Is it too full for you to get in?

954
00:46:47.481 --> 00:46:48.760
Is there a breakdown on the track?

955
00:46:49.100 --> 00:46:50.560
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

956
00:46:51.001 --> 00:46:52.100
Narrowed communication says,

957
00:46:52.200 --> 00:46:54.300
we shouldn't select the hotels based on free breakfast.

958
00:46:54.460 --> 00:46:56.740
Well, I mean, all things being equal,

959
00:46:56.961 --> 00:46:58.420
you know, in that good location,

960
00:46:59.522 --> 00:47:00.840
if you have a choice, then you're like,

961
00:47:01.002 --> 00:47:02.860
now how do you decide amongst these hotels

962
00:47:02.962 --> 00:47:03.960
that have the good location

963
00:47:04.123 --> 00:47:05.040
when they're next to each other?

964
00:47:05.541 --> 00:47:08.740
Then not the one that, the best free breakfast.

965
00:47:09.564 --> 00:47:10.740
There you go, there you go.

966
00:47:11.202 --> 00:47:12.860
the best free breakfast buffet.

967
00:47:13.321 --> 00:47:14.100
Yeah, I agree.

968
00:47:14.240 --> 00:47:14.620
Listen to that.

969
00:47:14.640 --> 00:47:15.718
It says free hotel breakfasts.

970
00:47:15.941 --> 00:47:17.238
I mean, I am a fan.

971
00:47:17.540 --> 00:47:20.340
I am a super big fan of the free breakfast buffets.

972
00:47:20.861 --> 00:47:22.800
Dustin, the fandom traveler, says proximity of hotels

973
00:47:23.102 --> 00:47:25.040
to destinations and sites is incredibly valuable.

974
00:47:25.302 --> 00:47:25.800
Super agree.

975
00:47:26.141 --> 00:47:27.860
Like if you're coming out to San Diego Comic-Con,

976
00:47:28.585 --> 00:47:29.939
where the fan and my traveler met,

977
00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:31.852
you know, being close,

978
00:47:32.762 --> 00:47:34.400
either A, within walking distance

979
00:47:34.501 --> 00:47:35.760
to the San Diego Convention Center,

980
00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:37.600
key, because there's like 100,000 people

981
00:47:37.662 --> 00:47:38.380
that come to this convention,

982
00:47:38.722 --> 00:47:40.080
or if you're not close to that,

983
00:47:40.363 --> 00:47:42.020
being on one of the shuttle lines

984
00:47:42.141 --> 00:47:44.060
that gets you into the convention center.

985
00:47:44.260 --> 00:47:45.312
Otherwise, 100,000 people here

986
00:47:46.283 --> 00:47:47.600
driving in, there's no parking,

987
00:47:48.001 --> 00:47:49.900
Ubers are all busy, they're going to have surge fees,

988
00:47:50.220 --> 00:47:51.220
and hmm.

989
00:47:52.264 --> 00:47:53.500
Okay, that's funny.

990
00:47:55.045 --> 00:47:56.020
A lot of discussion

991
00:47:56.385 --> 00:47:57.480
about breakfast with Faze.

992
00:47:58.041 --> 00:48:00.260
Laurel says free breakfast can be hit or miss.

993
00:48:02.162 --> 00:48:04.700
Luis says don't be a slave to the waffle maker.

994
00:48:05.240 --> 00:48:05.739
Hilarious.

995
00:48:06.221 --> 00:48:07.860
So sleep in, enjoy your vacation.

996
00:48:09.068 --> 00:48:10.880
BDAL says the breast free breakfast

997
00:48:11.042 --> 00:48:12.199
is at Embassy Suites

998
00:48:12.684 --> 00:48:14.419
she also says don't go to one star hotels

999
00:48:15.931 --> 00:48:17.060
and Jason

1000
00:48:17.545 --> 00:48:18.900
giving an AI tip right here

1001
00:48:18.961 --> 00:48:20.279
says I booked a hotel in Vegas

1002
00:48:21.066 --> 00:48:22.739
for June I have chat GPT

1003
00:48:22.941 --> 00:48:24.700
checking three times a day to see if the price goes down

1004
00:48:24.741 --> 00:48:26.200
I'm getting updates I'll let you know if it works

1005
00:48:26.301 --> 00:48:29.020
let us know Jason I would love to hear

1006
00:48:29.223 --> 00:48:30.278
a report on that

1007
00:48:31.005 --> 00:48:32.659
alright and

1008
00:48:33.143 --> 00:48:35.100
Janelle says if you're enjoying this video

1009
00:48:35.201 --> 00:48:36.820
and you've not hit the thumbs up button

1010
00:48:36.860 --> 00:48:39.180
And please do so because it really helps the channel when you do.

1011
00:48:39.541 --> 00:48:40.488
We've got 150 views on and 74 likes.

1012
00:48:42.100 --> 00:48:49.140
But if we get that up to 100 likes, that would be phenomenal to let YouTube know that this video is cool and they should send to more people.

1013
00:48:49.541 --> 00:48:52.860
So we get more people here to enjoy this live stream with us.

1014
00:48:53.153 --> 00:48:53.280
Okay.

1015
00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:56.740
If you're watching the archive, to let people enjoy the archive too.

1016
00:48:57.020 --> 00:48:57.240
All right.

1017
00:48:58.040 --> 00:49:04.800
Tip number 21 for a more relaxing stay is to build a hub and spoke itinerary of hotels.

1018
00:49:05.161 --> 00:49:14.180
If you're traveling distances and you need to stay in multiple hotels, it's not that relaxing to change hotels every single night.

1019
00:49:14.401 --> 00:49:19.020
It gets really tiring to pack and unpack and pack and repack.

1020
00:49:19.421 --> 00:49:23.680
And it's nice to be able to be in a hotel for a few days.

1021
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:35.820
And while you can't always do that, we tend on our trips to at least try to find a couple of hotels that we can have for a few days to act as more of a base and like a hub and a spoke.

1022
00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:47.880
So we look at things to be like, well, you know, can we go here and go to these three destinations and stay here at this one hotel so that we've at least, you know, where maybe I'm at arrival.

1023
00:49:47.940 --> 00:49:49.427
so this is another one for us, arrival.

1024
00:49:49.608 --> 00:49:52.360
We generally like to be in our arrival hotel for

1025
00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:53.845
at least two nights.

1026
00:49:54.768 --> 00:49:55.912
And then we'll move off.

1027
00:49:55.932 --> 00:49:57.838
We might go one night, one night.

1028
00:49:57.918 --> 00:49:58.420
Then we're like,

1029
00:49:58.560 --> 00:50:03.275
okay, three nights, one night, one night, two nights at the end.

1030
00:50:03.535 --> 00:50:04.940
So we tend to kind of look at

1031
00:50:06.242 --> 00:50:07.404
something like that.

1032
00:50:09.328 --> 00:50:09.468
Okay.

1033
00:50:09.488 --> 00:50:15.840
Tip 22 is to confirm your check-in and check-out times of the hotels,

1034
00:50:16.081 --> 00:50:18.680
because if you do want an early check-in,

1035
00:50:18.720 --> 00:50:20.280
like if you do get there at six in the morning

1036
00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:21.140
and you want one,

1037
00:50:21.542 --> 00:50:22.780
many hotels will offer them,

1038
00:50:22.940 --> 00:50:24.320
but you just, you need to pay more.

1039
00:50:24.764 --> 00:50:25.680
Or if you're an elite member,

1040
00:50:25.780 --> 00:50:27.239
like you're a Marriott Bonvoy Elite,

1041
00:50:27.761 --> 00:50:29.160
maybe emailing them before.

1042
00:50:29.402 --> 00:50:30.199
I do this a ton.

1043
00:50:30.481 --> 00:50:32.460
I'm a Marriott Titanium member,

1044
00:50:33.404 --> 00:50:34.460
Lifetime Titanium,

1045
00:50:34.600 --> 00:50:35.119
which I don't know,

1046
00:50:35.200 --> 00:50:36.680
I've stayed at Marriott's like a thousand nights

1047
00:50:36.763 --> 00:50:37.180
or something.

1048
00:50:37.701 --> 00:50:39.660
And so if I'm getting someplace early,

1049
00:50:40.223 --> 00:50:41.820
I will send the hotel an email.

1050
00:50:42.060 --> 00:50:43.360
I will call them and I will say,

1051
00:50:43.762 --> 00:50:47.580
hey, I'm going to be arriving at your hotel at 6 a.m. on this day.

1052
00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:52.040
I know you can't guarantee it, but if there's any way that I could get an early check-in, I would love it.

1053
00:50:52.560 --> 00:50:55.380
And let me tell you, when I do that, as a married elite member,

1054
00:50:55.841 --> 00:50:59.100
they take my name and they put it to the top of their early check-in list.

1055
00:50:59.220 --> 00:51:04.580
And like 95% of the time, that works for me to be able to get an early room.

1056
00:51:04.801 --> 00:51:05.380
It doesn't always.

1057
00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:08.700
And so then some places, if I'm staying someplace and I don't have elite status,

1058
00:51:09.182 --> 00:51:10.420
then it might be worthwhile to pay.

1059
00:51:10.521 --> 00:51:12.320
Like you go to Vegas, 50 bucks.

1060
00:51:12.742 --> 00:51:14.291
you might be able to get in your room earlier.

1061
00:51:14.553 --> 00:51:15.740
And if you're there at six in the morning,

1062
00:51:16.061 --> 00:51:17.504
that might mean a lot.

1063
00:51:18.727 --> 00:51:18.928
Okay.

1064
00:51:18.968 --> 00:51:23.560
Tip 23 is if you do have a preference about your room to tell them.

1065
00:51:24.361 --> 00:51:30.280
For me, I really like a geographically quiet room, someplace that's not next to the elevator,

1066
00:51:30.640 --> 00:51:34.160
someplace that's not next to the ice machine, and someplace that's not next to a busy road

1067
00:51:34.561 --> 00:51:35.584
or a busy airport.

1068
00:51:35.685 --> 00:51:38.614
And so many times I will call the hotel.

1069
00:51:39.156 --> 00:51:40.400
If it's like a hotel that like

1070
00:51:40.901 --> 00:51:46.060
I've read online has two sides, like it has a side that borders the road, the busy road,

1071
00:51:46.180 --> 00:51:47.123
and a side that doesn't.

1072
00:51:47.966 --> 00:51:49.732
So I know half the rooms are noisy.

1073
00:51:50.153 --> 00:51:52.180
I will call them before or email them

1074
00:51:52.220 --> 00:51:54.049
before and state this preference as well.

1075
00:51:54.149 --> 00:51:56.540
I would say, hey, if it's at all possible, I would love

1076
00:51:56.640 --> 00:51:59.794
to request a quiet room on the side that faces the lake.

1077
00:51:59.934 --> 00:52:01.280
And usually they'll respond something

1078
00:52:01.420 --> 00:52:04.690
like with, great, Mr. Rainey, we've notated your preference.

1079
00:52:05.131 --> 00:52:06.034
Does it always work?

1080
00:52:06.516 --> 00:52:06.736
No.

1081
00:52:07.097 --> 00:52:07.499
But then I

1082
00:52:08.040 --> 00:52:10.589
will reconfirm that when I check into the hotel.

1083
00:52:10.931 --> 00:52:12.035
So I get to the front desk.

1084
00:52:12.396 --> 00:52:13.339
Hi, I'm checking in

1085
00:52:13.721 --> 00:52:14.744
this net is my name.

1086
00:52:15.246 --> 00:52:17.895
I let them go on the computer for a little bit.

1087
00:52:18.216 --> 00:52:19.200
And then I'm like, Hey, if

1088
00:52:19.240 --> 00:52:21.472
there's any way possible, I'm a super light sleeper.

1089
00:52:21.834 --> 00:52:23.040
So if there's any way to put me in like

1090
00:52:23.080 --> 00:52:25.851
a room in a quiet part of the hotel, I would, I would love that.

1091
00:52:26.373 --> 00:52:28.260
And, uh, then I would say my,

1092
00:52:28.560 --> 00:52:31.190
my hit rate on that's 97%.

1093
00:52:31.451 --> 00:52:33.137
Sometimes they still put me in a weird place.

1094
00:52:33.418 --> 00:52:34.120
And in that place,

1095
00:52:34.281 --> 00:52:38.720
I would say don't assume that the first room a hotel gives you is the final room.

1096
00:52:39.240 --> 00:52:42.940
If I get up to that room and I don't like that room, I just march right back downstairs.

1097
00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:46.560
And I say, hey, I'm so sorry, but I asked for a quiet room.

1098
00:52:47.363 --> 00:52:49.100
And the room's like right across from the elevator.

1099
00:52:49.641 --> 00:52:54.680
Or I asked for a quiet room and there's like a bulldozer outside my window.

1100
00:52:54.840 --> 00:52:56.899
So is there anything else you could put me in?

1101
00:52:57.401 --> 00:53:00.160
And usually those connect because I've asked.

1102
00:53:00.785 --> 00:53:01.680
And it wasn't that.

1103
00:53:02.042 --> 00:53:03.080
Like, oh, I'm so sorry.

1104
00:53:03.461 --> 00:53:05.289
let me find you something else.

1105
00:53:05.750 --> 00:53:06.011
Okay.

1106
00:53:06.092 --> 00:53:08.240
But whatever you're picky on, if you were like,

1107
00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:11.640
I want this many beds and there weren't that many beds, or I want an accessible tub,

1108
00:53:11.800 --> 00:53:12.926
want an accessible shower.

1109
00:53:13.027 --> 00:53:15.600
And there wasn't one like just march right back down there and say,

1110
00:53:15.700 --> 00:53:18.449
Hey, you didn't give me the room that I asked for.

1111
00:53:18.469 --> 00:53:21.780
Uh, Louie says, yes, be very brave and ask

1112
00:53:21.940 --> 00:53:22.943
for a better room.

1113
00:53:23.104 --> 00:53:26.133
Sometimes I have, uh, four rooms.

1114
00:53:26.153 --> 00:53:28.680
I like my fourth room at a hotel before

1115
00:53:28.720 --> 00:53:29.282
I get a good one.

1116
00:53:29.664 --> 00:53:33.900
Another one is like, um, yeah, the fan travelers, his hotel staff really do want

1117
00:53:33.900 --> 00:53:35.309
to accommodate reasonable requests when they can.

1118
00:53:35.591 --> 00:53:36.516
Don't be afraid to ask.

1119
00:53:36.536 --> 00:53:36.697
Yeah.

1120
00:53:36.718 --> 00:53:37.060
Another one,

1121
00:53:37.380 --> 00:53:40.592
you know, hotel rooms, dirty rooms, really dirty.

1122
00:53:40.793 --> 00:53:41.214
I don't know.

1123
00:53:41.515 --> 00:53:42.760
It didn't seem like housekeeping even

1124
00:53:42.860 --> 00:53:43.704
clean to this room.

1125
00:53:43.985 --> 00:53:45.793
Do you have any rooms that are actually clean?

1126
00:53:46.055 --> 00:53:46.316
Right.

1127
00:53:46.597 --> 00:53:47.300
Um, and obviously you

1128
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:51.840
don't, you don't do if your room's not dirty, you don't say that, but like you say things that are

1129
00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:58.540
genuinely like, I was at the Virgin hotel in Las Vegas and I, you know, I, I had this, I was like,

1130
00:53:58.802 --> 00:54:01.420
One, the room's really flipping loud that you put me in.

1131
00:54:01.761 --> 00:54:03.080
And two, it's filthy.

1132
00:54:03.301 --> 00:54:04.580
It seems like they didn't clean it.

1133
00:54:04.660 --> 00:54:05.940
And they're like, oh, I'm so sorry.

1134
00:54:06.160 --> 00:54:08.580
Well, you know, you booked this room class in this tower,

1135
00:54:08.700 --> 00:54:10.320
but we have rooms that are available in this tower

1136
00:54:10.421 --> 00:54:12.520
that were like four times the price of the rooms

1137
00:54:12.581 --> 00:54:13.840
they booked me in, that I booked.

1138
00:54:14.220 --> 00:54:15.340
And they're like, we'll put you in this one

1139
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:16.880
because it'll be quiet because they're available.

1140
00:54:18.287 --> 00:54:20.420
So, because they'd actually provide,

1141
00:54:20.500 --> 00:54:21.938
don't come back down again to bug them.

1142
00:54:22.160 --> 00:54:23.600
They're like, if I get you what you want,

1143
00:54:23.961 --> 00:54:26.240
you'll go away and you don't bug me anymore.

1144
00:54:28.861 --> 00:54:29.101
Okay.

1145
00:54:30.745 --> 00:54:32.730
Shio says, stay in good hotel.

1146
00:54:32.930 --> 00:54:36.920
I definitely, definitely, the more stars a hotel is, the

1147
00:54:38.523 --> 00:54:38.744
better.

1148
00:54:39.204 --> 00:54:40.387
Okay.

1149
00:54:42.271 --> 00:54:44.375
To a, what, seven star hotel in Dubai?

1150
00:54:44.615 --> 00:54:45.076
Yeah, there we go.

1151
00:54:45.157 --> 00:54:46.239
Okay, tip number 24

1152
00:54:47.121 --> 00:54:51.140
is when you get to your room, first thing you should do, make sure everything works.

1153
00:54:51.741 --> 00:54:56.157
So if it's hot in your destination, make sure the air conditioning works.

1154
00:54:56.217 --> 00:54:56.880
If it's cold in your

1155
00:54:56.900 --> 00:55:00.550
destination, make sure the heater works.

1156
00:55:01.693 --> 00:55:02.876
Take a look at your bed.

1157
00:55:02.896 --> 00:55:04.100
Does it look reasonably comfy?

1158
00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:06.248
Are the pillows not too lumpy?

1159
00:55:06.529 --> 00:55:08.859
If the window's supposed to open, does the window open?

1160
00:55:08.899 --> 00:55:09.120
Does the

1161
00:55:09.220 --> 00:55:09.883
toilet flush?

1162
00:55:09.903 --> 00:55:10.747
Does the sink work?

1163
00:55:10.767 --> 00:55:11.591
Does the shower work?

1164
00:55:11.611 --> 00:55:12.475
Do you get hot water?

1165
00:55:12.756 --> 00:55:13.620
Does the bathtub not

1166
00:55:13.700 --> 00:55:14.242
back up?

1167
00:55:14.463 --> 00:55:18.497
That is my general, that's my general room check coming into room.

1168
00:55:18.778 --> 00:55:19.340
If I've got issues

1169
00:55:19.380 --> 00:55:22.974
with any of those things, I report them or ask for another room right away.

1170
00:55:22.994 --> 00:55:24.420
I don't wait until

1171
00:55:24.520 --> 00:55:29.080
10 o'clock at night when I'm tired and all the maintenance people have gone because then there's

1172
00:55:29.100 --> 00:55:34.256
nothing they can do except be like, well, maintenance has gone home.

1173
00:55:34.658 --> 00:55:35.259
We're full.

1174
00:55:35.300 --> 00:55:35.440
There's

1175
00:55:35.460 --> 00:55:36.204
no more rooms.

1176
00:55:36.344 --> 00:55:39.700
We'll have to wait till tomorrow till people check out to switch you or see if we

1177
00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:40.842
can fix it.

1178
00:55:41.423 --> 00:55:51.040
Um, the 25th tip for more relaxing trip is to neutralize the in-room alarm clock.

1179
00:55:51.182 --> 00:55:52.800
if you're in a room that still has a clock.

1180
00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:54.080
I know many of them don't anymore,

1181
00:55:54.240 --> 00:55:56.279
but if it does, make sure it's off

1182
00:55:56.642 --> 00:55:58.740
because, boy, the worst thing is to be woken up

1183
00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:00.560
at four in the morning by that alarm clock

1184
00:56:01.989 --> 00:56:03.820
because somebody else had an early morning flight.

1185
00:56:05.542 --> 00:56:09.760
Tip number 26 is to unpack immediately

1186
00:56:10.165 --> 00:56:11.459
after you've done your room check

1187
00:56:11.925 --> 00:56:13.140
to make sure you have everything

1188
00:56:14.006 --> 00:56:15.880
because stores close too.

1189
00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:17.940
And if you're missing something critical,

1190
00:56:18.444 --> 00:56:19.600
like you're missing your toothbrush,

1191
00:56:19.620 --> 00:56:22.060
or you're missing your belt or you're missing your shoes,

1192
00:56:22.863 --> 00:56:25.300
you'll have more time to go get that critical thing

1193
00:56:25.663 --> 00:56:27.200
than if it was at 10 o'clock at night

1194
00:56:27.280 --> 00:56:29.979
or six in the morning the next day when you realized it.

1195
00:56:31.622 --> 00:56:32.672
Tip number 27 is to deploy

1196
00:56:33.721 --> 00:56:36.480
the do not disturb sign strategically.

1197
00:56:37.122 --> 00:56:39.100
I usually put it on when I check into the room first thing

1198
00:56:39.181 --> 00:56:40.240
so they don't bug me that day,

1199
00:56:40.320 --> 00:56:41.380
they don't bug me in the morning,

1200
00:56:41.722 --> 00:56:43.660
but you have to be kind of careful of it in the morning

1201
00:56:43.761 --> 00:56:45.460
for the next day because some hotels

1202
00:56:45.984 --> 00:56:47.839
will take the do not disturb sign

1203
00:56:48.323 --> 00:56:51.180
as that means you don't want your room cleaned at all anymore.

1204
00:56:51.760 --> 00:56:54.360
And so, like, I just don't want them to bug me in the morning.

1205
00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:57.220
I don't want them, you know, like if I'm sleeping in at 10 a.m. to be like,

1206
00:56:57.260 --> 00:56:58.360
housekeeping, housekeeping.

1207
00:56:59.681 --> 00:57:02.900
So if I have the Do Not Disturb sign on in the morning,

1208
00:57:03.501 --> 00:57:06.300
I will generally, when I'm then leaving the room,

1209
00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:08.240
let's say I'm leaving at noon to go out for the day,

1210
00:57:08.641 --> 00:57:10.220
I'll call the front desk and I'll be like,

1211
00:57:10.420 --> 00:57:14.200
hey, just so you know, I had my Do Not Disturb sign on in the morning,

1212
00:57:15.041 --> 00:57:16.460
but I'm leaving the room now.

1213
00:57:16.761 --> 00:57:21.020
it'd be great if somebody could come by and clean it this afternoon if I want it cleaned.

1214
00:57:22.263 --> 00:57:24.800
I don't need it cleaned every day, but the days I want it cleaned,

1215
00:57:25.141 --> 00:57:28.460
I will generally do that to make sure they didn't just write it off some list.

1216
00:57:29.803 --> 00:57:31.180
So the Hypnotic Gamer says,

1217
00:57:31.340 --> 00:57:36.120
I always leave the Do Not Stirb sign out unless I'm at a park, and then I'll leave it off.

1218
00:57:37.602 --> 00:57:37.840
Okay.

1219
00:57:39.141 --> 00:57:45.500
Tip number 28 is going to bring us to, at the destination, a few tips.

1220
00:57:45.761 --> 00:57:49.240
And the first one is to, we talked about physical copies of things.

1221
00:57:49.720 --> 00:57:55.580
We talked about a physical copy of the hotel reservation, but a physical copy of the hotel address.

1222
00:57:56.021 --> 00:57:59.700
If you ever get lost and you ever need people to help you with where you're going,

1223
00:58:00.040 --> 00:58:06.680
having a printout of the hotel address or a map that has the hotel on it in the local language, super key.

1224
00:58:07.222 --> 00:58:09.060
That'll get you out of a lot of trouble.

1225
00:58:11.166 --> 00:58:16.380
and like many hotels in Japan will have like take me to cards that you can ask the hotel like do

1226
00:58:16.420 --> 00:58:20.520
you have a card that I could show people like a taxi this that says like take me to this hotel

1227
00:58:22.945 --> 00:58:29.660
tip number 29 is to learn the local public transportation before you go like what do you

1228
00:58:29.680 --> 00:58:35.300
need to do do you need to buy a card do you need to use money can you tap your credit card in

1229
00:58:36.122 --> 00:58:41.360
so that you're not in the train station or subway station trying to figure that out.

1230
00:58:41.480 --> 00:58:44.800
Because if you are, particularly in Europe, that's when people pickpocket you.

1231
00:58:45.182 --> 00:58:46.760
Because that's what the pickpockets look for.

1232
00:58:47.081 --> 00:58:49.320
They look for the person in the subway station who looks super lost,

1233
00:58:49.500 --> 00:58:52.940
doesn't look like where they're going, being inside the subway station lobby,

1234
00:58:53.581 --> 00:58:57.680
not the place you want to try to figure out how to get around the city.

1235
00:58:59.061 --> 00:59:04.300
Tip 30 is to use taxi and rideshare when it makes sense.

1236
00:59:04.982 --> 00:59:12.620
And I don't mean you got to use taxi and ride share all the time because sometimes using trains is absolutely a better way to get around than taxis or ride shares.

1237
00:59:13.080 --> 00:59:28.260
But as we've talked about earlier in this live stream, you know, if you've got kids, they've got a stroller, this and that, sometimes using a taxi or dedicated car transfer is absolutely the way you want to get around because it's just, this is again about being relaxing.

1238
00:59:28.542 --> 00:59:31.540
It does cost you more money, but it will be more relaxing.

1239
00:59:32.022 --> 00:59:35.440
you will have more energy to do the thing you want to do at your destination.

1240
00:59:36.401 --> 00:59:42.760
You will have spent a little more money, but you'll be in a state to actually enjoy the thing you want.

1241
00:59:43.381 --> 00:59:44.519
You came there to do.

1242
00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:49.560
You didn't come there to battle Tokyo Station with all your luggage.

1243
00:59:50.040 --> 00:59:55.660
You came there to go to Tokyo Disney, and the taxi might just get you to Tokyo Disney with a lot more energy.

1244
00:59:58.422 --> 00:59:59.660
Derek, great point.

1245
00:59:59.801 --> 01:00:04.300
I find that in a city, if the metro or subway requires transfer, then taxis can be faster.

1246
01:00:04.420 --> 01:00:05.320
That's a great point, too.

1247
01:00:05.441 --> 01:00:05.919
So there's another one.

1248
01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:06.720
You can look at your phone.

1249
01:00:06.820 --> 01:00:09.540
You can be like, how long is the subway ride?

1250
01:00:09.887 --> 01:00:10.360
An hour?

1251
01:00:11.528 --> 01:00:11.919
Or a taxi?

1252
01:00:12.082 --> 01:00:13.119
It's like 15 minutes.

1253
01:00:13.664 --> 01:00:14.159
Man, taxi.

1254
01:00:14.668 --> 01:00:14.959
That's it.

1255
01:00:15.340 --> 01:00:21.640
And because you'll have 45 more minutes to go to the Singapore Zoo or whatever you want to go to.

1256
01:00:22.261 --> 01:00:23.820
Luis, thanks again for your support.

1257
01:00:24.240 --> 01:00:25.760
Luis says, what's your favorite city?

1258
01:00:26.142 --> 01:00:27.560
I have a lot of favorite destinations.

1259
01:00:27.904 --> 01:00:29.360
If I had to pick one, it's Tokyo.

1260
01:00:30.483 --> 01:00:32.560
If I had to pick two, it's Singapore.

1261
01:00:33.020 --> 01:00:36.660
So not just because I mentioned those two, but maybe that's why I mentioned them a lot.

1262
01:00:38.101 --> 01:00:41.980
My 31st tip to have a more relaxing trip is to embrace walking.

1263
01:00:42.561 --> 01:00:47.600
We talked about this before, but I would say embrace walking at a relaxing pace.

1264
01:00:47.780 --> 01:00:53.780
I don't mean like, you know, you gotta like, but like embrace walking to see the city and

1265
01:00:53.860 --> 01:00:57.180
embrace times on your schedule to be like, what am I going to do with the destination?

1266
01:00:57.180 --> 01:00:59.680
I don't know I'm just gonna walk around

1267
01:01:00.588 --> 01:01:01.900
I'm gonna embrace

1268
01:01:02.465 --> 01:01:03.940
if I see a strawberry cake

1269
01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:05.700
that I like I'm gonna sit down and have my

1270
01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:07.140
strawberry cake if you like coffee

1271
01:01:07.463 --> 01:01:09.420
if I see a coffee shop that I like I'm just gonna

1272
01:01:09.965 --> 01:01:11.759
sit down and enjoy a coffee

1273
01:01:12.204 --> 01:01:13.720
but you find that by

1274
01:01:13.881 --> 01:01:15.860
walking around and then seeing

1275
01:01:15.941 --> 01:01:17.319
the things you want to do based upon

1276
01:01:17.829 --> 01:01:18.338
walking around

1277
01:01:23.378 --> 01:01:23.960
blue tornado

1278
01:01:24.041 --> 01:01:25.860
says funny enough I'm wearing my Disneyland

1279
01:01:26.308 --> 01:01:27.020
Tokyo jacket

1280
01:01:27.505 --> 01:01:28.860
Brandon just came back from Japan.

1281
01:01:29.662 --> 01:01:34.880
So well done to represent Disneyland Tokyo.

1282
01:01:35.300 --> 01:01:41.700
Okay, tip number 32 is to identify a local grocery store ahead of time

1283
01:01:42.367 --> 01:01:43.480
before you get to your destination.

1284
01:01:43.922 --> 01:01:46.720
Even though you might not know exactly what they are, all those things,

1285
01:01:46.820 --> 01:01:52.060
if you're like near my hotel, these are the places that I could get bottled water,

1286
01:01:52.640 --> 01:01:55.780
snacks, things like that, really useful in a pinch.

1287
01:01:55.901 --> 01:02:00.480
If you can't figure that out ahead of time, then ask in the hotel staff at the front desk.

1288
01:02:01.209 --> 01:02:01.380
Same.

1289
01:02:01.680 --> 01:02:04.480
Even if you have figured it out ahead of time, it is worthwhile to double check with them.

1290
01:02:04.580 --> 01:02:09.320
Be like, hey, where's the nearest supermarket, food shop that I can go to get snacks?

1291
01:02:09.581 --> 01:02:12.400
You might be in Waikiki, and it might be in the lobby of the hotel.

1292
01:02:12.520 --> 01:02:15.560
There might be a great ABC store, but otherwise it might be six blocks away.

1293
01:02:15.700 --> 01:02:16.760
That's how you don't go to this one.

1294
01:02:16.861 --> 01:02:17.520
Go to this one.

1295
01:02:17.620 --> 01:02:18.780
This one's not open today.

1296
01:02:20.685 --> 01:02:25.220
So figure out where you think you'd go ahead of time, but double check it with the hotel staff.

1297
01:02:25.800 --> 01:02:33.120
Tip number 33, we talked about this one a little bit with why we want a central hotel.

1298
01:02:33.361 --> 01:02:40.160
But if you have a central hotel, then integrate some midday pauses to relax and decompress.

1299
01:02:40.441 --> 01:02:45.000
Whether this is at your hotel, if you have a central one, or someplace where you're just

1300
01:02:45.040 --> 01:02:51.900
getting that midday tea or midday coffee, or midday sit on a bench in a park because

1301
01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:57.800
your feet are sore and they're hot and you feel like you're getting blisters, go sit on that bench,

1302
01:02:58.360 --> 01:03:01.334
take off your shoes, take off your socks because you're in a park.

1303
01:03:01.816 --> 01:03:02.700
I don't mean to do that at the

1304
01:03:02.740 --> 01:03:03.402
cafe, right?

1305
01:03:03.623 --> 01:03:05.729
Like if you're out in nature, you know what?

1306
01:03:07.395 --> 01:03:08.659
Rest your feet, rest your feet.

1307
01:03:08.919 --> 01:03:09.080
Maybe

1308
01:03:09.120 --> 01:03:11.434
there's a nice stream that a lot of people are resting their feet in.

1309
01:03:11.475 --> 01:03:12.280
Maybe there's an onsen

1310
01:03:12.861 --> 01:03:13.423
in Japan.

1311
01:03:13.664 --> 01:03:19.280
Like that, that hour or that half hour, don't think about that as a waste of time on your

1312
01:03:19.320 --> 01:03:24.760
trip, think about that as actually giving you capacity to enjoy the rest of the day and enjoy

1313
01:03:25.081 --> 01:03:25.945
the follow-on days.

1314
01:03:25.985 --> 01:03:28.938
Because otherwise, if you didn't, like if you do it, you can rest and

1315
01:03:29.440 --> 01:03:31.891
recharge now and you've got four more hours to go today.

1316
01:03:32.272 --> 01:03:34.040
Otherwise, you keep going and like an hour,

1317
01:03:34.140 --> 01:03:37.809
you'll just be like, my feet hurt so much that I can't go on.

1318
01:03:38.190 --> 01:03:39.474
Okay.

1319
01:03:40.917 --> 01:03:42.000
West Coast Toys and Gaming

1320
01:03:42.884 --> 01:03:44.993
says, grocery stores are definitely a money saver.

1321
01:03:45.054 --> 01:03:46.319
My tip would also be ask for a mini fridge.

1322
01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:46.480
All

1323
01:03:46.666 --> 01:03:47.039
Great tip.

1324
01:03:47.140 --> 01:03:48.799
Yeah, rooms with fridges are nice.

1325
01:03:49.420 --> 01:03:53.420
And the Hypnotic Gamer says to integrate a midday break is especially key if you're a theme park.

1326
01:03:53.540 --> 01:04:00.120
Theme parks are often the places that you can keep going and going and going because there's so many more rides and so many more shows.

1327
01:04:00.643 --> 01:04:01.680
You just got to rest.

1328
01:04:01.881 --> 01:04:08.120
That's one of the reasons why I like shows at theme park because they give you like a built-in time and place to rest.

1329
01:04:09.082 --> 01:04:17.999
Tip 34 is if you are a traveler that sets a budget for your trip, I would say increase it about 50%.

1330
01:04:18.964 --> 01:04:20.560
Chris, that sounds so cavalier.

1331
01:04:20.942 --> 01:04:21.580
Let me tell you why.

1332
01:04:21.881 --> 01:04:26.900
I've talked to so many people that have given themselves such a restricted budget on their trip.

1333
01:04:27.304 --> 01:04:28.860
I was just talking to a friend of mine recently.

1334
01:04:29.801 --> 01:04:36.200
She was on a cruise, and she said basically she, like a week-long cruise,

1335
01:04:36.582 --> 01:04:40.060
and after about three days, she wasn't able to do any excursions anymore because she

1336
01:04:40.722 --> 01:04:41.705
ran out of money, right?

1337
01:04:41.745 --> 01:04:46.980
She like had a set plan and there's all these extra fees that you just

1338
01:04:47.000 --> 01:04:47.703
don't think about.

1339
01:04:47.723 --> 01:04:51.919
You're like on the cruise and you've got the Wi-Fi fee and you've got the

1340
01:04:52.281 --> 01:04:55.355
excursions you want to do and then you want to buy a souvenir to get there.

1341
01:04:55.697 --> 01:04:56.380
I'm not telling you to

1342
01:04:56.460 --> 01:05:02.560
not have a budget, but I am telling you that traveling, there are often a lot of hidden fees

1343
01:05:02.741 --> 01:05:06.040
that you don't account for or don't see when you plan.

1344
01:05:06.320 --> 01:05:09.237
So make a plan and then increase it about 50%

1345
01:05:10.103 --> 01:05:11.900
so that you don't end up in that situation

1346
01:05:12.343 --> 01:05:14.440
where you're not enjoying the rest of your trip

1347
01:05:14.763 --> 01:05:16.560
because you've run out of money.

1348
01:05:16.700 --> 01:05:18.280
Point Traveler says,

1349
01:05:18.661 --> 01:05:20.895
my wife tells me to increase it by 100%.

1350
01:05:21.661 --> 01:05:22.190
There we go.

1351
01:05:23.641 --> 01:05:25.020
Yes, and Kathy says,

1352
01:05:25.180 --> 01:05:27.518
why restrict yourself if you spend $1,000 to get somewhere

1353
01:05:28.043 --> 01:05:29.860
just to pay the $20 entrance fee to the museum?

1354
01:05:30.143 --> 01:05:30.759
Absolutely, Kathy.

1355
01:05:30.981 --> 01:05:34.080
That is definitely one of Rick Steve's main travel philosophies.

1356
01:05:34.220 --> 01:05:38.200
And I subscribe to that too, to be like, you know, and obviously there's like, I'm not

1357
01:05:38.301 --> 01:05:39.940
trying to tell people to go into debt, right?

1358
01:05:40.021 --> 01:05:42.680
Like if you don't have the money, you don't have the money.

1359
01:05:42.841 --> 01:05:46.098
Like don't spend, don't spend money that you're going to be paying off at like a 20% interest

1360
01:05:46.564 --> 01:05:47.119
rate later.

1361
01:05:48.181 --> 01:05:52.537
Do, do save up enough money so that when you do get there, you can afford the $20 so that

1362
01:05:53.281 --> 01:05:55.877
you can go in the museum because otherwise you spend $5,000 to get there.

1363
01:05:56.521 --> 01:05:59.660
And then you're cheating yourself by not going into the museum or not going to the church.

1364
01:05:59.841 --> 01:06:04.160
it seems a little, yes, ridiculous.

1365
01:06:04.580 --> 01:06:04.680
Okay.

1366
01:06:07.821 --> 01:06:11.760
And Louise says, I supposed you with money tonight because you've shared lots of my comments

1367
01:06:11.760 --> 01:06:12.060
in the past.

1368
01:06:12.140 --> 01:06:12.780
Thank you for hearing me.

1369
01:06:12.860 --> 01:06:13.620
Louise, thank you.

1370
01:06:13.742 --> 01:06:14.459
I appreciate it.

1371
01:06:14.600 --> 01:06:17.520
And Scotty Girl has just joined as a channel member.

1372
01:06:17.900 --> 01:06:21.160
Thank you so much, Scotty Girl, for supporting the channel that way.

1373
01:06:22.103 --> 01:06:24.200
And thank you to all my other channel members.

1374
01:06:24.200 --> 01:06:28.880
They're the people in the live stream and the chat that have the little panda, the little

1375
01:06:28.965 --> 01:06:29.240
panda.

1376
01:06:29.720 --> 01:06:30.381
next to their chat.

1377
01:06:30.902 --> 01:06:31.163
All right.

1378
01:06:33.006 --> 01:06:36.893
Uh, tip number 35 is to maintain, maintain grace in the face of

1379
01:06:41.541 --> 01:06:42.784
unexpected events.

1380
01:06:43.306 --> 01:06:46.935
Uh, it doesn't matter how much preparation you do.

1381
01:06:47.637 --> 01:06:48.940
Not everything is going to go

1382
01:06:49.161 --> 01:06:50.365
according to plan.

1383
01:06:51.007 --> 01:06:52.513
Um, you're going to miss a train.

1384
01:06:52.814 --> 01:06:54.480
There's going to be a sudden downpour.

1385
01:06:54.883 --> 01:06:56.720
there's going to be a museum that's closed

1386
01:06:57.870 --> 01:06:58.980
and just

1387
01:06:59.444 --> 01:07:01.080
brewing in that is going to make

1388
01:07:01.161 --> 01:07:02.619
you feel even worse

1389
01:07:02.821 --> 01:07:03.973
so pivot

1390
01:07:05.186 --> 01:07:06.280
to your secondary plan

1391
01:07:06.583 --> 01:07:07.959
if you didn't have one, make one up

1392
01:07:08.383 --> 01:07:10.499
well, I guess we're not doing that today

1393
01:07:11.206 --> 01:07:12.800
so we're doing something else today

1394
01:07:13.851 --> 01:07:14.560
it is what it is

1395
01:07:14.661 --> 01:07:16.819
we made the best plan and then we got here

1396
01:07:17.327 --> 01:07:18.079
and we found out

1397
01:07:19.107 --> 01:07:20.880
the gyoza restaurant we wanted to go to is closed

1398
01:07:21.021 --> 01:07:23.080
so I guess we're not eating there

1399
01:07:23.185 --> 01:07:23.398
well

1400
01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:25.567
where else should we eat?

1401
01:07:25.788 --> 01:07:26.551
You know, and that's it.

1402
01:07:26.691 --> 01:07:29.280
As you could ruminate there for 30 minutes about

1403
01:07:29.380 --> 01:07:34.180
why, why didn't you check or these sorts of things to just be like, well, that is not happening.

1404
01:07:34.841 --> 01:07:38.930
So now plan B, let's go ahead and focus our energy on that.

1405
01:07:39.912 --> 01:07:40.393
Uh, okay.

1406
01:07:41.636 --> 01:07:42.277
Tip number 36 is to

1407
01:07:44.141 --> 01:07:49.370
prioritize enjoyment of your trip over perfection.

1408
01:07:50.472 --> 01:07:54.860
And I think that, like, no vacation or no trip

1409
01:07:55.061 --> 01:07:55.763
is perfect.

1410
01:07:55.864 --> 01:08:00.240
And I think back on perfect plans and these sort of things, and when I see people at

1411
01:08:00.280 --> 01:08:05.640
Disneyland and I see people not enjoying Disneyland, like, people, like, idealize some of these things

1412
01:08:05.660 --> 01:08:07.026
and be like, it just has to be perfect.

1413
01:08:07.489 --> 01:08:09.860
And when it doesn't go perfect, everything is lost.

1414
01:08:10.562 --> 01:08:11.605
and it is not lost.

1415
01:08:11.706 --> 01:08:16.180
You're still likely in an amazing place doing amazing things,

1416
01:08:16.760 --> 01:08:20.496
hopefully with people that you like and enjoy spending time with.

1417
01:08:20.636 --> 01:08:21.480
And so instead,

1418
01:08:21.960 --> 01:08:28.740
look at the side of the coin to be like, you know, there are these amazing things to do.

1419
01:08:28.740 --> 01:08:30.146
We're at this amazing place.

1420
01:08:30.306 --> 01:08:33.700
And you know, because chances are, if you're on a trip like

1421
01:08:33.740 --> 01:08:34.889
this, you might be on a vacation trip.

1422
01:08:34.989 --> 01:08:36.440
I get that you could be preparing for a work trip.

1423
01:08:36.520 --> 01:08:41.720
But if you're on a vacation trip, then, well, at least you're not working.

1424
01:08:41.940 --> 01:08:42.100
All right.

1425
01:08:42.566 --> 01:08:42.919
Boom, boom.

1426
01:08:43.420 --> 01:08:43.999
Yeah.

1427
01:08:45.400 --> 01:09:02.620
And so I also think that back on the energy arc where we talked at the beginning, it is more important on a trip to prioritize your mental and physical well-being than it is to see it all.

1428
01:09:02.924 --> 01:09:03.100
Right.

1429
01:09:03.361 --> 01:09:08.220
And I think that sometimes this comes from the checkmark travel philosophy.

1430
01:09:08.540 --> 01:09:12.820
It also comes from the, I'm never going to go to this destination again.

1431
01:09:13.060 --> 01:09:17.160
And so therefore, I need to just pack everything into this trip.

1432
01:09:17.240 --> 01:09:21.080
Because if I don't do it on this trip, I'm never going to see it again.

1433
01:09:22.260 --> 01:09:29.140
And I like to go into destinations with like, and I tell OC Girl, I'm like, if this place is amazing, we'll be back.

1434
01:09:30.305 --> 01:09:32.220
If we love it so much, we'll be back.

1435
01:09:32.743 --> 01:09:34.435
we've been to Japan 15 times

1436
01:09:35.383 --> 01:09:36.300
we love it, we'll be back

1437
01:09:36.381 --> 01:09:38.339
we've been to Singapore a whole bunch of times

1438
01:09:38.564 --> 01:09:39.056
we love it

1439
01:09:40.269 --> 01:09:41.600
Naples, Italy, we haven't been back

1440
01:09:41.701 --> 01:09:42.439
it was full of trash

1441
01:09:42.966 --> 01:09:44.100
so it's okay

1442
01:09:45.586 --> 01:09:48.780
so prioritize the enjoyment over perfection

1443
01:09:49.245 --> 01:09:50.699
and my last tip

1444
01:09:52.051 --> 01:09:53.160
to help you travel stress-free

1445
01:09:53.584 --> 01:09:55.279
is to watch more

1446
01:09:55.746 --> 01:09:56.660
Yellow Productions videos

1447
01:09:57.023 --> 01:09:58.900
because all these things are primary

1448
01:09:59.364 --> 01:10:01.120
kind of like rules

1449
01:10:01.201 --> 01:10:02.440
that I look at travel through.

1450
01:10:02.740 --> 01:10:04.540
And so you can be sure in all the travel guides

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01:10:04.560 --> 01:10:05.600
that I do on any destination,

1452
01:10:06.101 --> 01:10:08.280
I'm gonna be covering all these areas.

1453
01:10:08.440 --> 01:10:10.474
All right, fellow explorers, let's go on to Q&A.

1454
01:10:12.101 --> 01:10:14.760
Fellow explorers, it is now Q&A time.

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01:10:14.900 --> 01:10:16.739
If you've got a question, I've got an answer.

1456
01:10:19.223 --> 01:10:21.320
Oh, and thank you to Luis for joining us,

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01:10:21.360 --> 01:10:23.240
a channel member as well, to support the channel.

1458
01:10:23.380 --> 01:10:25.420
By the way, for those of you who are channel members,

1459
01:10:25.500 --> 01:10:29.320
you'll get access to the Travel Tips by Crisp series,

1460
01:10:29.440 --> 01:10:35.820
which is a somewhat regular video series every couple weeks that I put out for channel members

1461
01:10:35.981 --> 01:10:39.200
just to talk about some of the things that are on my mind.

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01:10:39.540 --> 01:10:40.356
So there we go.

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01:10:41.840 --> 01:10:48.500
Okay, so Luis and Scotty Girl, go check those travel tips videos.

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01:10:48.761 --> 01:10:49.439
Travel thoughts.

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01:10:49.903 --> 01:10:51.300
Travel thoughts videos out.

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01:10:51.900 --> 01:10:53.540
Okay, Kathy Koala Cat says,

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01:10:53.640 --> 01:10:55.720
I've started watching your London video to prepare myself.

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01:10:55.883 --> 01:10:56.120
Awesome.

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01:10:56.520 --> 01:10:58.719
Kathy, hope you have a good trip to London.

1470
01:10:58.840 --> 01:11:01.412
And Janelle says, Chris, any 250 birthday plans?

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01:11:04.100 --> 01:11:07.319
Generally, we see fireworks on July 4th.

1472
01:11:07.803 --> 01:11:09.019
So we're going to do that again.

1473
01:11:09.381 --> 01:11:11.220
We're not going to see any, like, special fireworks.

1474
01:11:11.481 --> 01:11:21.420
But one of the fireworks we generally go see in Orange County in Costa Mesa, they do a July 3rd fireworks.

1475
01:11:22.081 --> 01:11:25.179
And so that's pretty fun because it's the day before July 4th.

1476
01:11:25.380 --> 01:11:26.560
And so it's not as crowded.

1477
01:11:26.680 --> 01:11:28.060
It's not as hard to get in and out.

1478
01:11:28.201 --> 01:11:31.640
that's generally at the Orange County Fairgrounds.

1479
01:11:33.160 --> 01:11:35.220
Funalicious says, if you had one tip to avoid overpacking,

1480
01:11:35.300 --> 01:11:35.715
what would it be?

1481
01:11:36.603 --> 01:11:38.260
It would be to keep in mind,

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01:11:39.044 --> 01:11:41.320
if you're going to a destination that is like a city

1483
01:11:41.967 --> 01:11:43.100
and not like some,

1484
01:11:43.500 --> 01:11:45.160
you're not going on like an African safari

1485
01:11:45.201 --> 01:11:46.440
or something like that, but you're going to a city,

1486
01:11:46.762 --> 01:11:48.720
a lot of the stuff you might need, you could buy there.

1487
01:11:49.141 --> 01:11:51.160
So if you can just keep that lens in mind to be like,

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01:11:51.361 --> 01:11:54.920
I don't need to take everything for every possible thing.

1489
01:11:55.603 --> 01:11:57.460
I can buy what I need when I'm there.

1490
01:11:57.801 --> 01:11:59.960
Obviously, you need to be in a place that you can buy what you need,

1491
01:12:00.080 --> 01:12:02.940
but I feel like that mindset is one way to help overpacking.

1492
01:12:03.300 --> 01:12:04.900
Bdel says, have you used a travel agent?

1493
01:12:05.080 --> 01:12:07.420
We have used travel agents in the past.

1494
01:12:08.581 --> 01:12:11.234
We haven't used them recently.

1495
01:12:13.843 --> 01:12:15.700
But a lot of times for our travel to Asia,

1496
01:12:16.581 --> 01:12:22.100
we might even be booking flights that you can only get certain cheap rates

1497
01:12:22.221 --> 01:12:23.600
if you book with a travel agent.

1498
01:12:23.840 --> 01:12:25.480
So that's when we usually use travel agents.

1499
01:12:25.581 --> 01:12:27.740
We generally don't use them to book our whole trip.

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01:12:27.960 --> 01:12:30.940
I mean, we run a travel channel.

1501
01:12:31.220 --> 01:12:35.780
And so we kind of are like kind of anal about what we want to do and where we want to go.

1502
01:12:37.661 --> 01:12:39.540
Fandom Traveler, who's been a member for five months,

1503
01:12:39.620 --> 01:12:41.480
says membership with Yellow Productions is well worth it.

1504
01:12:41.500 --> 01:12:42.120
Highly recommended.

1505
01:12:42.320 --> 01:12:43.859
Thank you, Fandom Traveler.

1506
01:12:44.401 --> 01:12:46.957
And Points Traveler says, who's been a member for 33 months,

1507
01:12:47.520 --> 01:12:48.359
thank you for support.

1508
01:12:48.760 --> 01:12:50.600
Well worth the membership for the members-only videos.

1509
01:12:50.720 --> 01:12:52.640
Glad to hear you both enjoy it.

1510
01:12:52.761 --> 01:12:53.359
Thank you kindly.

1511
01:12:55.094 --> 01:12:55.220
Okay.

1512
01:12:55.842 --> 01:12:59.220
Uh, Luis says, I save 50% going carry-on only to Spain.

1513
01:12:59.280 --> 01:13:03.079
Yeah, if you're flying these discount carriers and things like that, uh, carry-on only can

1514
01:13:03.300 --> 01:13:06.020
really help because you don't have to pay ridiculous check-in fees.

1515
01:13:06.661 --> 01:13:10.100
Um, because I've traveled so much with United Airlines.

1516
01:13:10.461 --> 01:13:14.560
Being a million miler on United Airlines, I get like two free check bags for me and

1517
01:13:14.580 --> 01:13:16.000
anybody else that's traveling with us.

1518
01:13:16.060 --> 01:13:20.220
So if it's me, uh, OC Girl and the Curious Princess, we get like six free check bags

1519
01:13:20.281 --> 01:13:21.279
on every flight we take on United.

1520
01:13:21.541 --> 01:13:24.780
So the cost for us tends to not be that much of an issue.

1521
01:13:25.523 --> 01:13:29.700
uh west coast uh says how do you approach taking recommended vaccinations it seems like travel

1522
01:13:29.880 --> 01:13:36.820
clinics recommend so many um i don't know i just go to my regular doctor and i get the recommended

1523
01:13:37.001 --> 01:13:43.200
vaccines i maybe like i haven't been to a lot of places that are like oh like the dengue fever is

1524
01:13:43.260 --> 01:13:47.500
going around or things like that so i might have a different approach if i was going there i might

1525
01:13:47.600 --> 01:13:49.806
do what the travel clinics say.

1526
01:13:49.866 --> 01:13:54.620
I would say I probably, I probably lean on the like, um,

1527
01:13:55.780 --> 01:14:00.460
you know, whatever there is to like vaccinate yourself because it's good for you to not get

1528
01:14:00.500 --> 01:14:02.668
the stuff or like vaccines are evil.

1529
01:14:02.688 --> 01:14:05.679
Uh, I tend to be more on the, like, I don't want to get the

1530
01:14:05.860 --> 01:14:09.819
stuff that I, I don't want to get, I don't want to get these, I don't want to be over here.

1531
01:14:09.839 --> 01:14:09.980
Cause

1532
01:14:10.020 --> 01:14:11.329
I don't want to get dengue fever.

1533
01:14:11.369 --> 01:14:13.120
So if there's a vaccine, I can, I don't even know if there's

1534
01:14:13.120 --> 01:14:19.560
a vaccine for dengue fever, but, um, okay, DJ Tista's checked, uh, bag fees are a scam, they are a bag fee

1535
01:14:19.620 --> 01:14:24.740
scam, I agree, Shio asks if I've been to, uh, Disneyland in Hong Kong, no, Tokyo, yes, Tokyo,

1536
01:14:25.141 --> 01:14:29.900
Tokyo Disneyland three times, Tokyo DisneySea two times, back on the thing to be like, if I like a

1537
01:14:29.940 --> 01:14:36.340
place, I'll be back, Singapore Zoo three times, I love the Singapore Zoo, okay, uh, Will says Singapore

1538
01:14:36.521 --> 01:14:42.460
versus Hong Kong in June, both super hot, uh, I don't know that there's, like, one better than the

1539
01:14:42.500 --> 01:14:47.835
other in June from terms of weather, they're both going to be equally hot and humid.

1540
01:14:49.099 --> 01:14:49.500
But me,

1541
01:14:51.425 --> 01:14:52.911
of the two, I would pick Singapore.

1542
01:14:53.051 --> 01:14:53.714
That's me.

1543
01:14:53.754 --> 01:14:54.777
I really like the food in Singapore.

1544
01:14:55.099 --> 01:14:55.480
I really like

1545
01:14:55.520 --> 01:14:58.917
the food in Hong Kong too, but if I had to pick one, I'd pick Singapore.

1546
01:14:59.439 --> 01:14:59.560
Okay.

1547
01:15:03.920 --> 01:15:06.548
DJT says, will there be a live stream next week?

1548
01:15:07.992 --> 01:15:08.433
Probably.

1549
01:15:09.316 --> 01:15:09.837
I think so.

1550
01:15:09.857 --> 01:15:10.800
I haven't written it yet,

1551
01:15:11.001 --> 01:15:14.620
but probably points trialist is did you ever fly if it never i've never flew spirit before the

1552
01:15:14.660 --> 01:15:18.700
downfall i just don't like all the fees i don't like all the hidden fleas fleas i don't like the

1553
01:15:18.820 --> 01:15:24.200
fleas i don't like the fees and i don't like the fleas i love the yellow planes but i don't like

1554
01:15:24.320 --> 01:15:27.720
this like oh you gotta pay for this you gotta pay for this you gotta pay for this and so when i just

1555
01:15:27.800 --> 01:15:33.540
fundamentally disagree with uh like how they've set up their business uh that was not the airline

1556
01:15:33.781 --> 01:15:39.720
for me okay shio says it is giveaway time all right let me push that button yes it's the time

1557
01:15:39.881 --> 01:15:41.053
you've been waiting for.

1558
01:15:41.194 --> 01:15:41.800
It's time

1559
01:15:42.046 --> 01:15:42.580
for the giveaway.

1560
01:15:44.947 --> 01:15:45.480
Alright, fellow

1561
01:15:45.561 --> 01:15:47.559
explorers, it is time for the

1562
01:15:47.700 --> 01:15:49.418
giveaway, and for you and

1563
01:15:49.721 --> 01:15:51.540
every one of my livestreams, I always give away

1564
01:15:51.540 --> 01:15:53.460
a Yellow Productions Crew shirt to somebody who answers

1565
01:15:53.683 --> 01:15:54.760
one of my questions.

1566
01:15:55.703 --> 01:15:57.440
And if you're the first person to put the answer to this in the chat,

1567
01:15:57.600 --> 01:15:59.340
you'll win that shirt shipped anywhere to you.

1568
01:16:00.706 --> 01:16:00.970
I, this

1569
01:16:01.701 --> 01:16:02.598
question is,

1570
01:16:03.582 --> 01:16:05.500
when I check into hotels, I always

1571
01:16:05.601 --> 01:16:07.540
request a quiet room, and

1572
01:16:07.661 --> 01:16:09.519
then I say I would like my room to

1573
01:16:09.620 --> 01:16:11.347
be away from two things.

1574
01:16:11.407 --> 01:16:12.471
What are those two things?

1575
01:16:12.511 --> 01:16:14.680
You need to put those two things in the chat

1576
01:16:15.785 --> 01:16:17.894
together on the same line, and then you'll win that shirt.

1577
01:16:18.055 --> 01:16:19.220
It's shipped anywhere to you.

1578
01:16:19.640 --> 01:16:24.320
If you don't get to win that shirt, you can buy one from the Yellow Productions shop right there,

1579
01:16:25.101 --> 01:16:27.007
shop.yellow-productions.com.

1580
01:16:27.047 --> 01:16:29.214
You will find that in the description.

1581
01:16:29.234 --> 01:16:30.900
And if you wonder,

1582
01:16:31.501 --> 01:16:33.935
when is the next live stream next week, and what is the title?

1583
01:16:33.995 --> 01:16:34.900
Well, sign up for the Yellow

1584
01:16:34.920 --> 01:16:35.744
Productions update.

1585
01:16:36.005 --> 01:16:36.889
It's my email list.

1586
01:16:36.909 --> 01:16:39.260
I'll email you as soon as I have a topic and I have a time,

1587
01:16:39.542 --> 01:16:42.320
so you will never miss another live stream.

1588
01:16:44.023 --> 01:16:47.760
And now we have a winner, winner chicken dinner.

1589
01:16:49.961 --> 01:16:53.820
Okay, Shio says, who will be the winner?

1590
01:16:54.080 --> 01:16:56.060
That is a good question.

1591
01:16:57.100 --> 01:17:03.198
And the first person to put both on the same line is

1592
01:17:04.503 --> 01:17:07.480
Janelle Travels Ice Machine and Elevator.

1593
01:17:07.620 --> 01:17:09.040
Congratulations to you, Janelle.

1594
01:17:09.243 --> 01:17:10.579
you win the Yellow Productions cruise ship.

1595
01:17:10.721 --> 01:17:11.438
Ship anywhere you want.

1596
01:17:11.660 --> 01:17:12.600
Send me an elevator.

1597
01:17:12.983 --> 01:17:13.700
Send me an elevator.

1598
01:17:14.162 --> 01:17:15.980
Send me an email, Janelle,

1599
01:17:16.322 --> 01:17:18.259
and I will get that headed out to you.

1600
01:17:18.781 --> 01:17:21.360
Some other answers was elevator and road.

1601
01:17:21.782 --> 01:17:22.760
I don't like to be by roads,

1602
01:17:22.820 --> 01:17:23.940
but the two things I asked for,

1603
01:17:24.121 --> 01:17:25.300
ice machine and elevator,

1604
01:17:27.721 --> 01:17:30.000
narrowed comm, also gave the right answer.

1605
01:17:30.280 --> 01:17:32.100
Photo, put all three in there.

1606
01:17:32.300 --> 01:17:33.079
So there we go.

1607
01:17:33.240 --> 01:17:34.620
But Janelle is the winner.

1608
01:17:35.101 --> 01:17:37.320
Thank you all for watching today.

1609
01:17:37.962 --> 01:17:43.400
um so let's see Janelle is being very generous she says you can give it to the next person okay

1610
01:17:43.600 --> 01:17:55.260
so who is the next person the next person is gonna be uh Candy Lord 6690 that was the next person to

1611
01:17:55.340 --> 01:18:01.440
say elevator and ice so Candy Lord thank uh the very generous Janelle send me an email chris at

1612
01:18:01.580 --> 01:18:07.039
yellow-productions.com and I will get that shirt handed out to you lickety split.

1613
01:18:07.059 --> 01:18:07.420
Let me know your

1614
01:18:07.440 --> 01:18:08.425
size and your address.

1615
01:18:08.646 --> 01:18:09.469
All right, fellow explorers.

1616
01:18:09.911 --> 01:18:11.840
It was again, super great hanging out with y'all

1617
01:18:11.920 --> 01:18:12.202
today.

1618
01:18:12.483 --> 01:18:15.897
Hopefully I've helped you plan some more relaxing travel in the future.

1619
01:18:16.238 --> 01:18:16.660
And as usual,

1620
01:18:16.761 --> 01:18:19.460
I won't say goodbye because I'll see you in the next video.