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Have you considered an escorted tour before? Recently one of our clients booked a Trafalger Tour which featured 10 nights, 14 included meals, visits to 4 cities and one special event all in one escorted tour.
In our post about Alternative suppliers, we mention Silversea. This post discusses Silversea in some depth.
In the first and second parts of this series, we listed 10 river cruise comparison points. To review they are the ship design, the excursions, bicycles, the wine, the food, dining accommodations, ship spaciousness, terms and conditions, single supplement waivers and ownership.
River Cruise comparisons are easier if you know the right questions to ask. We looked at five categories in our first post. Here we look at five more important points of comparison.
What are the reasons to buy travel protection? We use Allianz Insurance a lot so we trust what they have to say. Here's what Kimberly Seay, Allianz director of assistance lists as her top reasons. She's the one that answers the phone when something goes wrong - so she knows!
I just want to share my 10 seconds of fame. While it's not quite the Andy Warhol's "15 minutes of fame", it's still pretty exciting! During the noon newscast on Feb 9th, 2018 on CBS, between 100 and 150 million people saw a version of the following video:
Recently I was reminded of a few hidden travel agent services that I routinely provide. These will not make the top 10 list or even mentioned in our previous post on the travel agent services. Both occurred in the past few days from current clients. And both made the travel process so much less stressful for my clients - and even saved them money.
This time of year many investors hear the words "past performance can not be used to predict future returns". In fact today I received a note from Vanguard discussing this very phenomena. They called it past performance bias. Here's the premise: in many areas of life, performance from one time period to another is consistent. For example, if you had a really good experience eating at a restaurant, chances are good that you'll enjoy your next meal at the same restaurant. But in investing (ie: stocks and bonds) this is not necessarily true. Vanguard suggests that there are three factors to making better decisions about investing: Education, Discipline and Focusing on what you can control. I thought it would be interesting to see if these also apply to vacation planning.
