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Post by Webs on Jan 9, 2013 11:05:13 GMT -5
How far in adavance do you plan trips?
I'm looking into stuff for December 2013.
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Post by sophie on Jan 9, 2013 12:43:20 GMT -5
depends.. a big trip, long time in advance.. short ones.. short time.. going to Bali in a week and a half.. just got a guide book.. and just did a tiny bit of on line research.. but it is a short trip, accommodation is all taken care of, 5 tours included in the price.. not much left to do but enjoy the ambience, shopping, snorkelling... oh, and checking out the restaurants..
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Post by sophie on Jan 9, 2013 12:45:04 GMT -5
speaking of which.. does anyone have a 'must do' for Bali they recommend?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2013 12:46:35 GMT -5
I must be the only western australian who has not been to Bali so I am no help to you but if you want me to ask some friends for recommendations just let me know x
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Post by viv on Jan 9, 2013 12:49:35 GMT -5
I'm crap. I do last minute stuff mostly. The only time I plan ahead is if I'm going with the parents, then it's at their pace!
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Post by canayangel on Jan 9, 2013 13:04:03 GMT -5
for me, planning is part of the whole package. If i am going for a month or more I have planned almost a year in advance at times. That doesn;t mean I don't do last minute stuff. But the further i get from home, both culturally and mileage-wise, the longer the prep. I read anything I can get my hands on before...not just travel books. I try to find novels and/or adventure books written about the place i am going. I try to pick movies filmed there etc.
I am so happy I immersed myself before i went to W. Africa, because it really helped in so many ways. Sometimes it's pretty hard to find anything.
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Post by MsBelleRae on Jan 9, 2013 13:39:19 GMT -5
We usually plan a few months out; that way tickets are too expensive.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 9, 2013 13:55:21 GMT -5
Looong time. I started thinking about my March Ireland trip back in mid-October.
Like canangel (jeez girl you have a lot of names) said, for me planning is a lot of the fun. And now I'm all techy about it, I have to create 300 Evernote notes about all the restaurants, I have to study all the birds and make an iPad flashcard deck for them, I have to study the language if it isn't English, I mean I might as well be planning a fucking invasion for all what I do.
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Post by Tulipana on Jan 9, 2013 15:05:22 GMT -5
Websie - should I be starting to clean the spare room??
I am planning to sell some of my travel stories to a magazine I sometimes work for, so planning already started last year since magazines plan months in advance. This weekend the man and me are going to a travel fair where, no doubt, more plans will be made.
We are now back from Luxembourg for 10 days and I am itching to go away again!
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Post by figjam1 on Jan 9, 2013 15:21:44 GMT -5
Websie - should I be starting to clean the spare room?? Only if it's in Vienna or Prague. |
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Post by lizby1 on Jan 9, 2013 16:56:17 GMT -5
Planning financially - I can probably beat you all! As I am paying for my studies I have no travel money. But I have a savings account. If I manage not to touch it I reckon I can afford to take the family to SE Asia in December 2016! Lol.
Short trips I plan about a month ahead.
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Post by Queen on Jan 9, 2013 16:59:17 GMT -5
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Post by scicaro on Jan 9, 2013 17:00:34 GMT -5
Not very. We're currently trying to decide where to go at Easter. Needs to be hotter than here and not too many hours flight. Interesting scenery (ideally mountainous), beach and or pool. Canary islands or Greek islands are in the running at the moment. Even big trips don't get planned very well, I think we booked Ecuador about 6 weeks before we went. We quite like working it out as we go along. Or we're just very disorganized  |
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Post by mapletree on Jan 9, 2013 17:35:00 GMT -5
I love planning trips, I'm usually planning the next one in my head on the plane home from the last one. Once a destination is picked I start looking for interesting accommodation, usually about 6 months in advance.
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Post by Phoenix on Jan 10, 2013 5:16:37 GMT -5
I wanna go to Prague!
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Post by romily on Jan 10, 2013 6:00:32 GMT -5
Vienna gets my vote - I haven't been, and Vienna with webs sounds great!
I have starte dplanning my upcoming trip in february about ten months back - nooke dteh flights in July 2012. I love to do planning in stages and have something to look forward to! It starts usually with an idea...then I start reading - then I book the international flight. the rest follows in bits and bobs - this time I changed my mind and moved from going to burma to going to laos/Cambodia, and just now, a few weeks before going, did I book my first and last night hotel. the rest will fall into place once I'm there.
With short trips in Europe i am much more flexible and spontaneous, sometimes I just decide a few days before to go somewhere because flights are cheap.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Jan 10, 2013 6:06:48 GMT -5
roms, I saw this site mentioned on the tree and thought it might help you with your travel planning (which is probably all done now!), seeing how the SE Asian branch is well and truly gone for now: www.travelfish.org/ |
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Post by poppy on Jan 10, 2013 7:03:44 GMT -5
not long after I get home from the last trip. Start getting brochures, thinking and dreaming of what I would like to do. Change my mind several times, put a budget of sorts together then make a decision. Next planned trip for April, have been planning it for over 12months, just at the beginning was thinking of something different but still including Italy. Think my quick trip last October may be why I have scaled this down a bit and the thought of another trip on my own in the near future.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2013 7:37:13 GMT -5
Webs, we can all squeeze in into my flat in Prague! It´s only two rooms and a kitchen, but the more the merrier!
To answer your question: it depend. I started to plan the Thailand trip (Dec 2012) in February or March when the flights were cheaper.
However, I´ve been known to buy tickets, pack lugagge and hop on a plane to Sicily within 12 hours.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 10, 2013 8:09:03 GMT -5
I'm currently planning West Coast North America for the middle of 2014. I'm hoping to catch up with some of you when I get there. (I need to start now to have the money).
Otherwise, I may only plan just before leaving (I have a ticket home from Sydney for the week after next, but haven't worked out how I am getting there yet.)
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Post by itsasmallworld1 on Jan 10, 2013 12:42:20 GMT -5
I can not plan a thing right now, just mentally.
I am thinking of NYC in march, but won't do anything about it till the end of feb, to see if it is still all under control at home and I am able to actually travel.
I used to plan travel with at least a couple of weeks advance.
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Post by welle on Jan 11, 2013 1:41:34 GMT -5
2-4 months out for bigger trips.
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Post by elliedee on Jan 12, 2013 7:45:35 GMT -5
Usually not very far in advance, say a couple of months. However this year I'm going away with a group of friends and because we wanted everyone to be able to come we started planning more than a year in advance, something I've never done before.
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Post by littlevixen on Jan 13, 2013 23:34:03 GMT -5
I stated sketching out our Europe trip in September 2012. Now that we're 6 months out (leaving July 2013) I'm about to start booking stuff - flights, tours, accommodation, rail passes etc.
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Post by Raised_By_Wolves on Jan 14, 2013 13:00:22 GMT -5
i'm a 'planner' and yes, a year in advance is normal for me. already know where i'll be visiting next christmas.
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Post by pyrrha on Jan 14, 2013 14:48:20 GMT -5
4-6 weeks at most, because I never know (a) if I'll have a job; or (b) if/when I'll get time off. As it stands, my only hope most years is late December and July.
I wish I could plan much further in advance. One day.
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Post by owlet on Jan 14, 2013 15:44:02 GMT -5
A few months is probably fairly usual, the longest has probably been 6-7 months before. Shortest? We once decided to go up to Scotland when going to bed and started driving in the morning. I may have done a few weekend breaks on a similar schedule, but can't remember. I need to travel more.
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Post by treehugger on Jan 14, 2013 18:12:27 GMT -5
Prague is SO much cheaper and nicer than Vienna. Plus it has Rez! But I would go anywhere in Europe to meet Webs, provided I wasn't travelling for work a week or two either side (even then, if I had enough notice I could swing it)  |
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Post by Sticktoria on Jan 23, 2013 23:00:56 GMT -5
I like having at least two trips lined up. I can't remember the last time inad nothing at all planned, but I guess we're going to ave to see how the next few months go. I have loosely started thinking about a music festival I want to go to in May, but that would probably involve camping. My dad is really keen for us to spend some time in France with them ASAP, but I need to process that. .
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Post by Queen on Jan 24, 2013 1:27:59 GMT -5
Prague is SO much cheaper and nicer than Vienna. Plus it has Rez! But I would go anywhere in Europe to meet Webs, provided I wasn't travelling for work a week or two either side (even then, if I had enough notice I could swing it) Vienna has the advantage that I've never been there, and you can take a train from their to Prague, takes about five hours. Enough time to read one book. And is 11 months enough notice?  ;-) |
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