Retirement Travel School: How to Plan World Travel | Tips and Tricks for Planning a Long Trip
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Full-time senior travelers John and Bev outline their comprehensive methodology for planning long-term international journeys. They emphasize the importance of organization, utilizing a customized Monday.com spreadsheet to manage flights, hotels, and excursions to avoid double bookings and lost information. Their planning process begins with regional mapping and weather research via weatherandclimate.com to ensure optimal timing. The creators suggest building trips around business class flight deals and using Rome2Rio as a preliminary transportation guide, though they caution users to verify all details independently. For rail travel, they recommend Seat61 for route overviews and Rail Ninja for automated booking when windows open. When selecting accommodations, they prefer Booking.com for transparency and loyalty benefits, often comparing prices to book directly with hotels for better rates. They also highlight the value of using Hyatt credit card points and staying near public transportation. To manage logistics, they suggest downloading specific apps for various transport modes and using toursbylocals.com or GetYourGuide for excursions. Finally, they advise travelers to research visa requirements, pre-order tickets for major attractions, and register with the US Department of State Safe Traveler program for emergency preparedness.
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we generally take about two big trips a year and we end up booking the flights hotels and excursions for each week of our travel
we sit down twice a year to do our planning because we have no time to do it as we travel
our first five years would be our active travel years we're on our third year abroad and we expect to visit most of these locations by the end of 2025
we love to walk it's great exercise you know our family calls this forced marching and sometimes we agree but we do get a lot of exercise
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