Flights, Hotels, and Prices... Oh My! Travel brokers always start by trying to get you the best price for getting to your destination and hotel. I want to start with “Why” I am going, and ‘What” is there for me when I get there. It’s as though the “Why” and the “What” have no value in the travel equation, and your destination only adds up if the commodity provider can make his/her commission.
As the name of our blog Travel. It’s personal. implies, I am on a quest to find personalized travel that fits the “Why” I am going, and “What” is there for me. I want the commodity brokers to know it’s the first time my family is going to Europe and that first impression is important to me. The cultures, the customs, the food, the people are the “Why and “What,” about which we want our big adventure to be. How does a flight to Paris, 3 nights in the 7th ward, a train to Florence, 4 nights there, picking up a car and driving to Rome with 5 nights in that city and returning to the States on the 6th day, answer my “why and what?” These parts of travel are just parts. They do make a difference, but the sum of the parts does not equal the whole. I guess it would be easier if we took one of the hundreds of different prepackaged tours. Should I choose this alternative, I would be sharing my personal family time for two weeks with fifty newly acquainted mates traveling on the coach with us.
I would know what I want if I knew what was out there, but I don’t have the time to dedicate four hours a night for six weeks on the internet to make a personalized and detailed itinerary. It's the time between the commodities that counts. It’s the “Why” we are going, and “What” is there that make the destination. Is any one out in Travel-land listening to the travelers?
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