TRAVEL TIP 3: BUNDLE YOUR TRIP I found these lovely maps on Lisa Barbero's etsy shop. The images do not belong to me. You can find them here. Once we decided to take a trip and had money in our travel fund, i spent lots of time checking groupon for upcoming deals. While the trips were cheap, they had a few major drawbacks. 1. They were short. If I'm dishing out a lot of money, I want my trip to last more than a few days. 2. They went to some interesting cities, but others that I didn't care about. I wanted to get a good deal, but i also wanted more control over the trip. "Wouldn't it be great if we could pick out the exact cities we want to see, for the price of a Groupon?" I asked Jon as I was scoping out vacation packages. As luck would have it, you can! And that's just what we did.
We booked our trip through this site. They have a lot of package deals similar to Groupon, but they also give you the option to totally customize your trip. Oh my gosh, it was so fun to play around on that site! At first, I entered in all our dream cities "just for fun..." But then when I saw the price (and did like five double takes), I realized that we could actually go to all our dream cities! They key to finding a great price through that site is to play around with the different options. Warning: this takes a lot of time and patience! Here are some things to play around with:
Our final itinerary looked like this: Athens (4 nights) --> Santorini (2 nights) --> Palermo (3 nights) --> Positano (3 nights) --> Barcelona (2 nights). And now, I'm planning imaginary trips as I type. I might have a problem.
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Kristi
3/19/2014 10:53:53 pm
I love the maps anndhow great to know about The discount travel sight. Will check it out for sure. Great tip to start with your dream cities. Dreaming of you on you next adventure!
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Elle
3/20/2014 05:48:50 am
Mom, you should! It's such a fun part of the process to pick out all the cities and and play around on the site. It really gets you excited for the trip!
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