Travel Aficionados????

[illilli]

I concur with BassFever on getting a travel agent. We've taken lots of trips and I've found that depending on the time of year and the location, a travel agent has some of the best deals.

Also, I highly recommend getting an all-inclusive package, if possible. Make sure it includes booze - good booze, not lame-ass rail shit. The last thing you want to worry about is how much it will cost to get your new bride all liquored up. In fact, if you drink enough booze, you won't even care about gunfire all that much.

[sweet_yamz]

I concur with BassFever on getting a travel agent. We've taken lots of trips and I've found that depending on the time of year and the location, a travel agent has some of the best deals.

Also, I highly recommend getting an all-inclusive package, if possible. Make sure it includes booze - good booze, not lame-ass rail shit. The last thing you want to worry about is how much it will cost to get your new bride all liquored up. In fact, if you drink enough booze, you won't even care about gunfire all that much.

That's hilarious... Yeah I've heard good things about all-inclusives and definately love the Turks and Caicos but I think the all-inclusives there are a little out of my budget. The things that I have seen online are a little bit cheaper than what I've been quoted from several travel agents although a couple places are like a couple hundred less than what the travel agents quoted me. It could just be the agents here in ALABAMA (insert smiley that has a redneck here) So I guess the question I should be asking is "Is the security of a travel agent worth a couple extra hundred bucks? or in some cases only a few bucks?" A few bucks absolutely, as I am not mentally retarded, but a couple hundred??? That from what I have gathered on here would be a very fine box of cigars

Bassfever I would love some travel agent info if you have any bud. Thanks.

[SuperChuck]

Personal opinion: Go to Paris. It's wicked cheap and much more interesting than any resort, IMHO.

[drew_goring]

Personal opinion: Go to Paris. It's wicked cheap and much more interesting than any resort, IMHO.

CHEAP??!??!

I went there a couple years ago and the first thing I did was go to the Eiffel(sp?) tower and a large coke cost me 12 euros. But I guess it was all-inclusive and never saw the hotel rates/meal rates.

[SuperChuck]

CHEAP??!??!

I went there a couple years ago and the first thing I did was go to the Eiffel(sp?) tower and a large coke cost me 12 euros. But I guess it was all-inclusive and never saw the hotel rates/meal rates.

Any tourist spot is going to bend you over... If you went to a coke machine a block over, you'd probably pay 1E...

[drew_goring]

Any tourist spot is going to bend you over... If you went to a coke machine a block over, you'd probably pay 1E...

Yeah, true...and it was pretty cool buying beer from a vending machine and drinking it as you walk down the street...on second thought, can't some of you guys in the states do that?

[SuperChuck]

Yeah, true...and it was pretty cool buying beer from a vending machine and drinking it as you walk down the street...on second thought, can't some of you guys in the states do that?

Not where I live! :)

I don't know about vending machines, but some places (New Orleans and Las Vegas come to mind) do allow you to walk around with an open container...

Amsterdam is the big winner, though... Beer and soda are the same price. And you can buy beer pretty much anywhere. And there's the live sex show, best deal in town.

[Mr Peat]

Yeah, true...and it was pretty cool buying beer from a vending machine and drinking it as you walk down the street...on second thought, can't some of you guys in the states do that?

We dont have the vending machines for beer, but we can walk around with open containers. Long as you dont bother a soul and disrupt others. But then again, we can also walk around with guns out in the open. Its legal, but its a good way to get someone to call the cops on you making up some crazy ass story.

I do travel alot, but I will say this so I dont thread jack. Orbitz you get some decent prices but if something comes up, you are screwed. My last ticket from them I needed to cancel and couldnt. They didnt even give me a penalty either or couldnt change the gates. So I had to use it which kinda hurt me but oh well.

[Bassfever]

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