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Travel Savings Hacks That Feel Illegal (But Aren’t) · She's On The Money

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  Speaker 1: My name is Tatasha Bamblet. I'm a proud First Nations
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  Speaker 1: woman and I'm here to acknowledge country t Glenn Young
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  Speaker 1: Ganya Niana, kaka ya Ya bin Ahaka Nian our gay
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  Speaker 1: in Mbina yakarum jar Dominyama, Domaga Ithawakawaman, damon Imlan Bumba
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  Speaker 1: ban Gadabomba in and now in wakah ghana on yak
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  Speaker 1: raum jar Watnadaa. Hello, beautiful friends, we gather on the
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  Speaker 1: lands of the Aboriginal people. We thank acknowledge and respect
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  Speaker 1: the Aberiginal people's land that we're gathering on today. Take
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  Speaker 1: pleasure in all the land and respect all that you see.
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  Speaker 1: She's on the Money podcast acknowledges culture, country, community and connections,
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  Speaker 1: bringing you the tools, knowledge and resources for you to thrive.
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  Speaker 2: She's on the Money. She's on the Money. Hello and
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  Speaker 2: welcome to She's on the Money, the podcast that's here
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  Speaker 2: to help you live your best life without blowing the budget.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited and if you're like me, living your best
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  Speaker 2: life definitely includes travel ideally, but let's be honest.
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  Speaker 3: We just got back from Thailand, so clearly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, holidays can get very expensive. Very quickly they can.
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  Speaker 2: So today I'm joined as always by our go to
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  Speaker 2: for all things finance, Victoria Devine, to figure out how
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  Speaker 2: we can see the world without draining our bank accounts.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you could also drain your bank account, no judgment,
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  Speaker 3: you could, Yeah, I just I don't know. Like what
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  Speaker 3: you do with your money is actually none of my business.
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  Speaker 3: My job is to give you all the tools on
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  Speaker 3: me sources so that you can make a decision that's
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  Speaker 3: right for you. And if draining your bank account is
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  Speaker 3: in line with your valleys pop off queen. Absolutely ideally
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  Speaker 3: you've got some money to come home to, because I
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  Speaker 3: love a bit of financial stability. Oh, I just think
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  Speaker 3: that that is the responsible thing. And sometimes I think
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  Speaker 3: we need to put our big girl socks on and
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  Speaker 3: get our emergency fund set up because.
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  Speaker 2: You know what our future, you deserves that. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: so true.
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  Speaker 3: Like you just feel so much more financially secure when
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  Speaker 3: you've got some cash in the bank.
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  Speaker 2: It feels so good. I've right never really been in
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  Speaker 2: that position except for when I like, oh, I'll go
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  Speaker 2: to fel thousand dollars in your shares is Yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: feels good. It really feels good. So I feel like
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  Speaker 2: we could all do it.
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  Speaker 3: And we get so many messages from our community, especially
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  Speaker 3: our younger members, asking r V is like travel a
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  Speaker 3: really bad money goal. No, experiencely, please, memory please? Like
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  Speaker 3: any goal that's in line with your values is a
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  Speaker 3: good goal. Yes, And the research is pretty clear that
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  Speaker 3: spending on experiences actually makes us happier than spending on things.
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  Speaker 3: So I reckon, that's that's good enough for me. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to go back to Bali. So it's not about
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  Speaker 3: skipping travel. I think it's actually just about being smart
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  Speaker 3: with it. Like I just don't want to see you
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  Speaker 3: in thirty thousand dollars worth of personal debt and then
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  Speaker 3: going but I.
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  Speaker 2: Deserve a holiday.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, grow up, Like we've got to get together, beck, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because you deserve more than that, Like future you needs
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  Speaker 3: financial security, but also future you deserves to go to Bali.
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  Speaker 3: Future you deserves to see the world, and you can't
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  Speaker 3: put yourself in that position if you keep making decisions
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  Speaker 3: that put you backwards.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So he's travel bad. No, but like let's be smart. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and we can show you how to do that, which
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  Speaker 3: is why today is all about sharing travel savings hacks
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  Speaker 3: and tips and tricks that aren't the same boring tips
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  Speaker 3: that you've heard one hundred million times. I would say,
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  Speaker 3: because we've put this episode together, Beck, together together, these
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  Speaker 3: are clever, lesser known ones that actually save you some
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  Speaker 3: real cash.
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  Speaker 2: Good. I am half excited.
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  Speaker 3: But before we get into it, Beck, I want to know,
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  Speaker 3: do you have a bucket list trip that you want
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  Speaker 3: to go on?
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  Speaker 2: They're so sweet, Vitty, I think I really want to
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  Speaker 2: see the Aurora borealists.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, me too.
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  Speaker 2: Something about lights bright lights really exciting?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, hundred percent. But did you know you can see
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  Speaker 3: that in Tasmania? Really?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean not the same one, but like, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: yeah you can see la Oh my god, because I've
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  Speaker 3: heard that. Like, my best friend Harriet lives in Hobart.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry Harriet for just like outing where you live. But
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  Speaker 3: she has sent me photos from her back deck before
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  Speaker 3: of her experience and you can see it with the
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  Speaker 3: naked eye. Yeah, because Tasmania doesn't have as much light
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  Speaker 3: pollution as what you do it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well cool sounds.
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  Speaker 3: Like it sounds a bit cheaper, but I'm not trying
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  Speaker 3: to be cheaper. But let's go on the big boushie
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  Speaker 3: holiday because one day I have in my head that
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  Speaker 3: I really want to go to like a Bora Bora.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And don't get me wrong, I've been on some nice holidays,
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  Speaker 3: but I cannot in my head justify like a three
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars a night overwater villa thing. No, but one day,
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  Speaker 3: one day, maybe when I like get enough Virgin points
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  Speaker 3: or something, I will be able to go. I believe,
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  Speaker 3: I just go. Imagine being in a villa that's over
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  Speaker 3: water and you like look through the floor and there's fishies.
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  Speaker 2: That's so cooler. That would be really amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine having breakfast. Oh anyway, sorry, that's where I would
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  Speaker 3: like to go. God, And I don't know, there's probably
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  Speaker 3: a million other places, because I do really like travel,
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  Speaker 3: but like I've just kind of stepped a little bit
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  Speaker 3: out of my travel era. I would say, because I
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  Speaker 3: have a toddler, Yeah, I would say, limits, your choice
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  Speaker 3: is a little bit, a little bit tricky. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: my last holiday beck was actually based around finding a
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  Speaker 3: family friendly resort, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Was like, oh my god, this has like so many
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  Speaker 2: kids pools.
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  Speaker 3: Brilliant. The next thing I looked at was like, oh
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  Speaker 3: my god, this resort I went to in Bali.
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  Speaker 2: It has a petting zoo. Oh that's so cute.
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  Speaker 3: Whereas I would say that past me if I was
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  Speaker 3: going on like an international lag, you know, I would
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  Speaker 3: say beachy holiday, I'm thinking, oh, private villa, private pool.
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  Speaker 3: Now I've got a toddler. I was like, private pool
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  Speaker 3: and Bali there's no pool fencing, absolutely no scary. Your
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  Speaker 3: life changes a little bit, but that doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 3: travels off the cards.
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  Speaker 2: Beck absolutely, So what's your first tip?
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 3: So you're not going to like this because you're a
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  Speaker 3: chat GPT like not fan, but if I could convince
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  Speaker 3: you to save some money, I reckon you could get
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  Speaker 3: on board. So we're going to actually turn to chat
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  Speaker 3: GPT and be like, hey girl, yeah, can you pretend
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  Speaker 3: to be my travel agent? Got you?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: And you're going to make her role play in not
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  Speaker 3: a weird way. You're going to make her role play
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  Speaker 3: as a travel agent. Now I know that that's probably
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  Speaker 3: not very groundbreaking. You're like that, you promise good tips,
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  Speaker 3: and then you said chat GPT, but I wanted to
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  Speaker 3: share a few things that you could use it for
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  Speaker 3: that you maybe have not used it for before. Because
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  Speaker 3: like everyone knows that you could probably use chat chpt
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  Speaker 3: right right, But you could ask it to find the
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  Speaker 3: cheapest time to go somewhere. So you could say something like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: find me the shoulder season windows for BALI that dodge
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  Speaker 3: Australian school holidays, and then all of the major events,
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  Speaker 3: like I would really want three days in a row
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  Speaker 3: where the like flights drop the weather's really good, and
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  Speaker 3: then add a sentence of why for each window. So, like,
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  Speaker 3: I think something that people don't realize about chat GPT,
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  Speaker 3: or you haven't used it as a incessantly as I have,
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  Speaker 3: is that you can be as specific as you want,
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  Speaker 3: and like, if you're not getting the answers you want,
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  Speaker 3: you can like clarify okay. You could be like, oh no,
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  Speaker 3: I don't like that window because it actually clashes with
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  Speaker 3: my husband's birthday and we're doing something else, and then
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  Speaker 3: it will like regenerate again. So you can ask it
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  Speaker 3: a million questions. I'm still in a phase where I
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  Speaker 3: say please and thank you. You probably don't need to,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel like I don't know, I'll be polite
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  Speaker 3: one day if my like chat GBT search history like
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  Speaker 3: gets leaked. At least you guys are going to go
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  Speaker 3: through and be like, well, you know what, Victoria was
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  Speaker 3: really polite when asking that six million times, you know,
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  Speaker 3: or you could find the most cost effective like airline
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  Speaker 3: or flight for you, so you could compare infant and
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  Speaker 3: childfair rules across like Quantas and Singapore airlines and Emirates
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  Speaker 3: if you're planning on going to Italy or something. So
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  Speaker 3: I want really stick totals for a family of four
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  Speaker 3: with one infant who sits on my lap and a
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  Speaker 3: kid aged seven and one sure, because money win, beck
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  Speaker 3: And I think some people know this, but not all
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  Speaker 3: people know this.
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  Speaker 2: Kids under two.
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  Speaker 3: Usually fly free.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: So like our flight to Bali, we paid for our
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  Speaker 3: tickets or you know, actually got tickets on points, but
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  Speaker 3: like we didn't have to pay for Harvey because he
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  Speaker 3: actually sits on one of our laps.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's so good.
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  Speaker 3: Money win. The second he turns to though, we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have to pay for him. And honestly, I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 3: And my son is quite big, Like I don't share
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  Speaker 3: a lot about him, but like I would say that
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  Speaker 3: when people meet him, they often say, oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: like he's much bigger than I thought he would be
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  Speaker 3: because he's just this is a big boy doing big Oh.
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  Speaker 2: My god, it's so cute.
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  Speaker 3: He's busy boy. It was a lot to have him
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  Speaker 3: on my lap. So I don't know how long that
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  Speaker 3: is going to go. But you can also compare like
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  Speaker 3: baggage rules or like those stroller rules, and like seat
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  Speaker 3: selection fees, so you can see the actual true cost
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  Speaker 3: because how many times have you gone to book a
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  Speaker 3: flight and then you're like, oh, one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 3: nine dollars to Sydney like money win, and then it's
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  Speaker 3: like plus tax, plus baggage plus these that, and then
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  Speaker 3: they ask you to make a contribution to charity and you're.
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  Speaker 2: Like, right now, I just don't have the money.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand. But you can even get it to
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  Speaker 3: like dig up cheaper roots or like flag budget airlines
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  Speaker 3: that don't show up on the usual comparison website. So
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  Speaker 3: if you go to webjet, they only like rank the
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  Speaker 3: places that pay them to be on Webjet.
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  Speaker 2: Got you okay?
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  Speaker 3: So you can compare even more using chat GPT, And
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  Speaker 3: if you're not sure what to ask ask chat GPT,
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  Speaker 3: be like, hey, I don't know how to really use
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  Speaker 3: you what are the questions I should ask because I
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  Speaker 3: want to book a budget holiday.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you, Oh my god, Okay, that's great.
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  Speaker 3: I think that my favorite thing at the moment is
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  Speaker 3: you can just ask, like you can just ask and
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  Speaker 3: just ask. It doesn't make you feel stupid.
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  Speaker 2: No, okai, Well outside of chat GPT, if you happen
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  Speaker 2: to have are there any other Yes?
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  Speaker 3: There are. I'm sorry that you hate CHATTA. So these men,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like you're doing a dodgy, but it's completely legal.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to change your point of sale country. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 3: change your point of sale country. Yeah. So airlines don't
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  Speaker 3: just like price flights because of the distance. They actually
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  Speaker 3: price them by where you buy. And this is where
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  Speaker 3: you could use your VPN very well. Okay, So sometimes
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  Speaker 3: the exact seat costs literally hundreds of dollars less if
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  Speaker 3: you book it on the airlines destination country website in
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  Speaker 3: their local currency.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my godd.
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  Speaker 3: For example, I did a little bit of research because
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  Speaker 3: I was like, all right, I need to give you
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  Speaker 3: guys a good example of this. A Tokyo flight can
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  Speaker 3: be a lot cheaper on the Japan version of the
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  Speaker 3: airline website than the Australian one.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: They kind of like, oh, well, the Japanese obviously going
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  Speaker 3: to fly home to Tokyo, and that's not as interesting
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  Speaker 3: as someone from Australia coming on a holiday.
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  Speaker 2: Are you allowed to like trans what's the word I'm
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  Speaker 2: thinking of, like translate translate in English, it won't pick
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  Speaker 2: up that you're.
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  Speaker 3: No, but you can just put it into English and
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  Speaker 3: say that you're in Japan while you're booking hairt put
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  Speaker 3: your VPN there. Oh my god. And so I saw
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  Speaker 3: someone online say because I looked it up, but I
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  Speaker 3: saw someone online say that she and her husband flew
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  Speaker 3: to Italy for seven hundred and fifty dollars return whoa
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  Speaker 3: from la versus fifteen hundred dollars using this hack in
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  Speaker 3: our Facebook group? Really yep, money win. So to do this,
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  Speaker 3: obviously you have to make sure that you only use
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  Speaker 3: like the official website, like don't just go on random
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  Speaker 3: Japanese websites because like that could be like sketchy, like
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  Speaker 3: no sketchy third party links. And then what we want
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  Speaker 3: to do is reject pop ups like no pop ups allowed,
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  Speaker 3: like you know when it pops up, so reject pop
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  Speaker 3: ups that change into your own currency and then pay
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  Speaker 3: with a card that doesn't have foreign exchange fees because
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  Speaker 3: you don't want to get slapped with that. And then
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  Speaker 3: always double check the fair rules and the baggage because
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  Speaker 3: it can actually differ from market to market everything. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's so annoying with airlines, but like they might have
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  Speaker 3: a limit on luggage, whereas you know you get twenty
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  Speaker 3: three kilos if you book from Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, so you just want to be careful, right, that
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  Speaker 2: is so clever.
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  Speaker 3: I did not know there was a thing pretange you
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  Speaker 3: somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: That's so good.
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  Speaker 3: Check and I mean I'm going back to chat GPT,
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  Speaker 3: but you could ask them what the best fare would be.
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  Speaker 3: Do I book from Japan or do I book from here?
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  Speaker 2: WHOA, Okay, they won't do the hard.
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  Speaker 3: Work for you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm scared that, like, because you know sometimes I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he I don't know if this is true or not.
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  Speaker 2: But if you google a flight and then you google
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  Speaker 2: it again, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's another tipic clear cookies. But I feel like people
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  Speaker 3: know that. That's why I haven't put it in as
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  Speaker 3: a But if you ask your chat gypt does.
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  Speaker 2: That, maybe the internet will know. I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: deep it goes.
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  Speaker 3: But I also always make sure that when I'm looking
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  Speaker 3: up flights or like accommodation, I do it in like
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  Speaker 3: an incognito brows emotely, and I like clear my cookies
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  Speaker 3: because I don't want there to be a history of
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  Speaker 3: me having looked it up, because it does increase They're
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  Speaker 3: so sneaky. I mean, it's good for them to make
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  Speaker 3: more money because they're like, oh, well, if Beck looked
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  Speaker 3: at that right now and then didn't buy it, and
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  Speaker 3: then she comes back, she'd be happy to pay another
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  Speaker 3: fifty bucks, that'll be fine.
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  Speaker 2: Because they're rude, bere I'm not paying the cheaper price.
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  Speaker 2: Why am I paying the more expensive price? Time to
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  Speaker 2: think about it, ill, I don't like it anyway, So Vid,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just like skimming over the page that we're that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of guiding us. And goldilocks window is on here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not too hot, it's not too cold, it's
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  Speaker 2: just right ah on the window.
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  Speaker 3: Se No, it's not got anything to do with that.
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  Speaker 3: But that was a good example. Maybe it's fantastic, But
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  Speaker 3: there's also something called a Goldilocks window for buying flights,
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  Speaker 3: So too early you are paying full fare, like you're
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  Speaker 3: booking like a year and a half in advance. They're
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  Speaker 3: going to be like, she's prepared, We're not going to
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  Speaker 3: give her any discounts.
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  Speaker 2: We don't care.
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  Speaker 3: Too late, and you pay surge pricing, okay, because you
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  Speaker 3: know they're like, she's desperate to get to Sydney or
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  Speaker 3: she's desperate to get to Italy tomorrow, We're going to
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  Speaker 3: charge her through the nose because.
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  Speaker 2: What else is she going to do?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So taking some time to research this window
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  Speaker 3: for your flight to kind of hit the sweet spot
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  Speaker 3: in between could save you some serious cash. Right, And
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  Speaker 3: this is where I'll say that your friend chut GPT
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  Speaker 3: could probably tell you Sure, every destination is going to
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  Speaker 3: be really different because like some places, if it's like
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  Speaker 3: a domestic flight, maybe they're like, whatever, we don't care,
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  Speaker 3: we don't need to charge them through the nose. But
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  Speaker 3: then like a big dog flight to like New York
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  Speaker 3: or something last minute, they might go, Nah, if you
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  Speaker 3: need to get to New York last minute, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to take the mickey. I see, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: So mean, so we've just got to.
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  Speaker 3: Keep an eye on it.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, sure, Sure that is so because I imagine if
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  Speaker 2: you're desperately trying to get overseas, it's maybe because like
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  Speaker 2: a family member is seeing something but they don't give
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  Speaker 2: a dan. They're like, great, this is more money for
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  Speaker 2: us eastally sickening. Anyways, story for another time. But what
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  Speaker 2: about accommodation?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so this is a good one. This is going
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  Speaker 3: to be rude. So if you're a hotel company and
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  Speaker 3: you were like, oh, I really want to wear Crusche's
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  Speaker 3: on the money, maybe you don't anymore because I'm going
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: to tell you that you can rebook your accommodation and
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: when the prices drop.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay.
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: So hotel prices often move around all the time, even
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: after you've booked, so we're always looking. So if you've
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: booked a hotel, let's pretend it's like in New York,
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: like just keep checking every couple of weeks, like what
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: the price per night on that hotel is. Because if
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: you've chosen the flexible rate, meaning that there's like free cancelations,
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: you can actually cancel and then rebook for the lower rate.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and I think that that will save you
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: some money. And there's apps like Provo so pro Vo
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: pr Uvo YEP and rate punk, and these two apps
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: actually will check your exact hotel and your room for
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: you and keep you up to date with that. So basically,
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: when you're booking, don't be like, oh, I'm gonna not
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: do the flexible rate because this won't work for you.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: But you book with the flexible rate, then if you
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: were going to use one of these apps, you would
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: forward your confirmation email to Provo or install rate Punk's
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: browser extension, which is my preferred method because it's like
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: in how you have like a shop back extension or
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: whatever like that, and then the tool watches that same
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: room type and the same date range on multiple different
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: websites for you, and then if the price falls, they're like.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Hey, Beck, did you realize that like your hotel's cheaper today?
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And then you cancel your old booking and then
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: rebook the exact same room for less money.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: That is so clever, right, And the catch is you
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: do have to book the flexible rate, so often you'll
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: find that it's like ten or twenty dollars more personally
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: to do that, but it can actually save you hundreds
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: of dollars without changing your trip at all, and that
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: can be I don't know. I'm one for flexibility. You
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: never know what's going to happen. So and that's a
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: good deal.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: That is so clever. So what else have you got?
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: All right? So the best rate guarantee? We are taking
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: advantage of this. And I'm not saying taking advantage as
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: seeing we're going to take the mickey, but we're going
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: to use the best rate guarantee if it's being offered.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: So most big chains, so think like Hilton Hotels or
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: the Marriott, or like I don't know, the Whole or SOFTOTL,
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: they often run what's called a best rate guarantee. So
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: like that sounds good, but most of us don't deep
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: dive into what that actually means. But that means if
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: you book direct on their personal website, so not through
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: like a third party platform, then find the room cheaper
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: somewhere else, which you might so like you might go
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: on like a God or like I don't know, Last
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Minute or something dot com, they will not only price match,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: but they'll actually give you an extra twenty to twenty
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: five percent off. Oh okay, So I feel like that's
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: a good deal. So book direct first on a refundable rate,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: so we're doing flex again so that you're safe if
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: you know, the claim fails, so you can be like, oh,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: screw you, I'll just cancel my whole thing and go
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: through a Goda like whatever. But then find a public
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: ota with a lower price, which is like just like
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: a third party platform for the same room name, the
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: same bed type, the same cancelation terms, and the same currency.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: And then I would be screenshot everything, like with the
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: date and the time, so like, don't just screenshot the
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: little bit, screenshot your whole computer screen so that it's
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: got the room name and like the cancelation type and
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: like the time and the date up in the corner
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: of your computer and then total price before taxes and fees,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: and then file.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Within twenty four hours of booking direct, and they.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: All price match it for you.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Gorgeous. That is so cool.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I mean to add to that, I want to say,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I'm a pest. You already know I'm a pest.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: I'll just call you direct. I'll just call the hotel
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: to book. I'm scared, but yes or no, Like the
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: girl on the phone's usually really nice.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: True, they're probably having a slow day on reception and
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: then they're like, oh, this annoying girl is calling, and
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I'd be like, hey, like a better rate you can do?
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Usually yes, yeah, that's true.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Actually usually yes, thank you, thank you.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Love that. I feel like this is a really good
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: time to have a really quick break, a holiday, you
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: could say, a holiday, a mini holiday. Imagine if we
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: actually came back in like six months, finish the episode.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so don't put it past us.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: So we're gonna could take a quick on the flip side,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: were we get a lot more money saving hacks. Okay, guys,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: we are back. And if you're anything like me, I'm
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: literally shaking, gagging at throwing up at the idea of
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: more travel hacks. And I feel like you've got a
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: few here. You just have to be smart, right, yeah,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: you just got too smart. It's like it's probably a
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: tiny bit more admin.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: But imagine happy to do admin if I'm saving money,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Like I know some people say, oh no, I'm happy
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: to pay the premium. I don't know at what point
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I will be happy to pay the premium? No, Like,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: at what point will I be like do you know
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: what Victoria like? You're pretty financially comfortable. Stop trying to
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: get the best deal. No, I think it's in my blood.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: How do you think she got here? How do you
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: think I got here? I'm not leaving anyway. There is
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: nothing more frustrating, I think than being charged to use
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: your own money when you're on holiday. What do you
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: mean I see? And when you're traveling. I think this
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: is like a million times worse. So I do have
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: a few hacks for this, and the first you're probably
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: going to be surprised by this because this is a
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: question we get all the time, like do I pay
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: in local currency or do I pay in Australian?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Like, what do I do? Always pay in local currency
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: and avoid dynamic currency conversion or DCC? Okay, got the
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: DCC from the Cowboys Cheerleaders. Just DCC, which is like
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: the bad type. But DCC is when a cashier ATM
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: or card terminal asks, oh, do you want to pay
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: in aud instead of the local currency, and you go,
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: oh yes, no we say no, no, no, no, we
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: don't want that because it kind of looks helpful to
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: see the like you know, you're at checkout in Thailand
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: and it's like you want to pay in Australian it's
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: like fourteen dollars. You go, oh, well that makes more
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: sense to me. Yeah, okay, because it feels safer. It's
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: not because the cash rate is the conversion rate set
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: by the ATM or the merchant and that's usually much
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: worse than the official bank rate or the card network rate.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: They're taking the absolute mickey, and then they often tack
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: on some kind of hidden margin. So you come home
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: and you're like, where are all these additional fees and
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: charges coming from? It's from that, got you? Okay. I
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: always always always choose the local currency and your bank
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: or your card network, like if you're with Visa or
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: master Card will handle the conversion and what I would
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: call a much fairer currency, right, that is wild. And
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: if you have a card without foreign exchange fees, you're
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: going to save even more. And that would be a
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: top tip, like don't go overseas if you've got a
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: card with foreign exchange fees.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Kelly, got you, got you save your money like
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I in g or something. I don't know, I guess
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: you could do.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Personally, I can't give you advice on what bank to
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: use because that would be going against my financial services license.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: But when I went to Bali, i used my WISE card.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Wise that's just why us, that is just what I used.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: You would I know about money or making decisions, You've
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: got to make your own decision. But I used my
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: WIS card.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Are there other banks that have, you know, no foreign
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: exchange fees?
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, Yeah, I just didn't use those ones a bad
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: but again, do your own research.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: That's very good to know for no reason exactly.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: And also sorry, we're going to take this a step
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: further and let an app find the best fee free
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: ATM for you, because like gol, we live in twenty
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: twenty five. There's an app for everything. So ATM fees overseas,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: I think take the mikey right, Like, have you ever
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: gone to get cash out overseas? And you're like, but
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: you needed the cash because you're like already at the market. Yeah,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: what are you going to do? You're going to pay it,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: but we're not. Sometimes it could cost anywhere genuinely between
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: eight to twelve dollars just to take cash out your
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: own cash so that you can spend it. Oh, okay,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: taking the mickey, don't like it? There's an app for that,
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: because in twenty twenty five there's an app for everything,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: back to the ATM fee save app.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, these guys are crazy. I love them.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: They actually map ATMs in more than one hundred and
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: sixty countries and then they show you which ones are
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: like fee free or lower cost and even tells you
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: what like withdraw all limits are on it, or like
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: the foreign.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Cards it's accepting. I'm not paid for this.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I just thought this was genius because if you need
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: an ATM, like sorry, get the best one, and he's
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: kind of I've written down how it works so it
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: makes sense to you. First thing you're going to do
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: is download the app. Then you're like, okay, cool back.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: And I just got back from Bali, so I feel
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: like this is my most recent example. Go search Bali
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: and your country, so Bali Indonesia. It's going to show
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: a map of all the nearby ATMs with user reported fees.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: So the one thing I would say, it's user reported,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: So like, the more people that have this app, the
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: more people that are contributing to the data, the better.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: But then also it's not like verified through the bank,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: like I could go on and be like cost fifty
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: million dollars, what are they going to do? But then
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: you're going to head to the fee free option save
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: eight bucks because when you're back home in Melbourne, that's
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: a coffee, but when you're in Bali, that's like cocktails
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: for two people. Hell yeah, that's so exactly right, exactly,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: and I guess you're going to go fee what's the catch?
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Of course?
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Ye. Coverage is very dependent on I guess travelers submitting updates.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: As I said before, like it's kind of up to
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: the users to be like, oh, I do this. So
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: in Bali really easy because there's lots of Australians and
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: lots of people who do that, but like maybe more
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: niche travel destinations are a little bit harder to find it.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: So in some spots I would say it's.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Definitely not perfect.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: But when it works, it works, and it can save
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: you hundreds of dollars on a longer holiday.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: That is so good.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: We are here to save money.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, I'm like kind of itching to get on
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: my phone and tell all my friends about this, but
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I'm going to wait.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: You can just sell them the whole episode that we did.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I think I might do that, just be like Hey,
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: sit down Buckley in. Yeah, I'm on a podcast and
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I have been for years.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I have been for years. Actually, yeah, doct me. It's
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: not you. So okay, food can be a big one
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: on holiday. Yeah, do you have anything to save on that? Girl?
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: All I do is hack food when I'm away. And
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: you know what, this isn't for everybody. So I'll share this,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: and I've shared this on the pod before, so this
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: isn't the new part. But then I've got a few
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: tips that are new. I don't believe unless breakfast included
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: in the holiday or in the package or it's like
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: real reasonable, we're not having breakfast a gotel, don't get
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: me wrong. So, like most recent trip for me was Bali.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: We definitely had breakfast at the hotel because it's like
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: this big buffet and it was kind of part of
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: the experience. We'll staying at a resort, Like I didn't
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: want to leave to go and get food because it's
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: just not my journey for that trip. So what did
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: I do to make the most of that?
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I have a toddler. Toddler's I would.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Say eat ninety nine percent of the time. My grocery
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: budget is ninety nine percent snacks at this point for
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: my toddler. So I took a lunch box and I
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: made a little sandwich every morning and put some of
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: the snacks and treats in there. So when midday came
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: and Harvey had his little lunch and he had some
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: afternoon tea, I was set. It made me very comfortable.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: I didn't have to spend extra on going, Oh, we're
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: at the pool, like you know, we're still in our resort.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: We're hanging out. Harvey's hungry. We should order some like
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: you know, chips beside the pool. I don't mind what
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: food it is. Like, Don't get me wrong. It's not
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: about health and wealth and whatever at this point in time.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: It's actually about going to me. That's a ridiculous cost
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: for a toddler who would be just as happy with
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: a veggie Mike sandwich. Yeah, so I'm filling up my
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: lunch box at the buffet. When I was traveling Europe
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: with my girlfriends and we had no money, I had
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: zip lock bags that I bought at the local supermarket,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: and I put an extra croissant in there from the
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: hostel's buffet breakfast that was included, and like buffet breakfasts
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: at hostel's dire but sorry morning tea or afternoon tea.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Not having to get a little lack snack because you
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: were starving because I took it from buffet breakfast. Amazing.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I assume they'd throw that stuff out anyway.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: I think, so, I like, no one ever stopped me,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: No one has ever been like, oh no, Like in fact,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: when I was filling my little lunch box, They're like,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: do you need anything else? Oh? Thanks, cute?
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean?
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Also when I was in bigger locations. So as I've
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: gotten older, I've traveled more expense if places like New
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: York in America, I'm sorry. The second we got there,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: I was like, I'm not paying twenty five dollars USD
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: for the buffet breakfast at this hotel in the morning
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: for it to be toast and jam. So I went
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: to the supermarket and I got like cereals and stuff
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: like that set myself up amazing breakfast in bed every morning. Yeah,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: really cheap, really easy. And to be honest, one of
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: the hacks that I have for traveling is like try
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: and I don't know if this is a hacker, if
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: this is just something that we do is trying to
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: have one or two meals at the hotel each day,
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: like or at where you're staying each day. And breakfast
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: I think is such an easy tick off the list. Yeah,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: because I can eat something at home or eat something
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: where we're staying, and then we can go out and
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: still have a coffee, but we're not blowing our food
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: budget early in the day. I don't know about you,
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: but I'd much prefer to have like a fancy lunch
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: or a fancy dinner then spend money when traveling on breakfast. Yeah,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: unless it's like a bucket list item, it's just not
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: my journey for sure. But then also we've spoken on
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: the podcast for about eat Club. Yes, they are actually international,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: so you can hunt for eat club at your destination.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: So we talk about apps like this, but most countries
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: have their own version. So what I would do is
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: search Google or your friend chat GPT and just be like, hey,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: what's like the restaurant discount app for Europe, YEP for
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Italy be specific maybe you're in Dubai, I don't know,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: and then download it in advance and set up your
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: account so that you can see what's on offer. So
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: I did a little bit of research for you. In
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Europe and in Latin America, there's an app called the
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Fork and it looks basically like you eat club and
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: you earn like loyalty points and get discounted tables and
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: discounted rates, or you might get like a free bottle
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: of wine with your booking. Cool sorry, money in money.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: In in Asia they have eaty go or ettygo, I
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: don't know, et go, yes, eatigo okay, And that's time
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: based discounts, so like no booking in advance, but they
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: might be like, oh tonight, this places having twenty five
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: percent off a few books through here, right, money win,
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: and like amazing, you're on holiday. I feel like we
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: do most things last minute. In the UK and in
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Ireland they have Taste Cud Yeah, so they offer often
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: two for one or fifty percent off at thousands of
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: different restaurants. That is so good, right, So we're all
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: trying to save money at home, like, and we use
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: these apps at home, but then all of a sudden
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: when we go overseas, we forget that these things exist. Yeah,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: so that's good and one of our favorites of the show.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: And you've like mentioned it before, is like a broke
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: tip is too good to go. Yeah, sorry, that's international.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: We didn't come up with that in Australia. That's actually
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: availably in so many different countries around the world. And
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: I would say that's a really good option because you
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: could get on like eat to go, look at a
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: bakery or something, get some cute like chocolate croissants or
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: something the night before Bam breakfast.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: That's so clever.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: My sin is really smart. I think that's so I'm
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: so excited to tell everyone I know about it. I
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: just feel so good when you're on holiday. I don't
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: know about you, but you just have this idea that
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: oh it's a luxury Absolutely you just go, oh, it's
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: definitely going to be more expensive, but you can still
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: be a little bit savvy. Absolutely, like we can still
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: save money and like these rules, I've never felt like
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: they're restrictive, like this idea that we have, you know,
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: one meal at home for me. Yes, It's very different
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: when I'm traveling to a more budget friendly country like Asia.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: So like in Bali, I'm like, well, what really is
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: the difference of going to the supermarket and buying all
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: of the groceries and then bring in that's that's not
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: the journey for me and Bali but sorry in Italy
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: when we were in more expensive locations like New York
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  Speaker 3: America wherever, for me, I'm like, no, that's going to
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: save me like fifteen dollars USD, which is close to
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: thirty dollars Australian right off the bat. And if I'm
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: there for ten days, that stuff adds.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Up for sure. That's one hundreds and hundreds of dollars exactly.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: And I don't know about you, Beck, but sorry, American
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: cereals are really fun.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I love lucky charms. Yeah, we like went to the
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: supermarket there.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: It was like a whole other experience that was a
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: free activity, warm turn out of tear.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Even the comedian stores here, there's something about the American
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: sweets and treats.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, they just wanted to look at them exactly right,
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: So you can still have fun and doesn't need to
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: be boring. You don't need to go get your like
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: stocks downed. Okay, well, when we get there, we'll buy
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: a loaf of bread, non s something fun. It can
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: even be like something fun and a little bit more
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: like bougie than what you would usually do, but you're
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: probably already still saving money by doing exactly treat yourself.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: So we often have like solo travelers in our community
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: that say they want to save money on budget accommodation,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: but they don't want it to be in a dorm
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: for safety reasons, of course, and for other reasons. I'm sure,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: So give me your best tip.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: I've stayed in a few dorms and in like costels,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: and one of the things I would say is, I
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: absolutely agree. When I was traveling this is obviously like
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: segue into solo travelers, but one of the things I
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: would say is you can obviously pick like all female
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: dorms if you want, or like when I was traveling
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: with a group of four, we found it very economical
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: to book out a dorm for six people and say
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: that we wanted the whole thing, but it was only
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: four of us. Then we got like dorm rates, but
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: we didn't. We just split the cost and we kind
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: of had our own private room and that was a
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: good deal. But when it comes to individual travel, it
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: obviously like adds up because you can't split your room
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: cost with anybody. No, I'll be like, oh, I beck
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: this hotel is like two hundred bucks. Oh, it's only
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: one hundred dollars ahead, Like that just doesn't work. But
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: did you know when students clear out for like semester breaks,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: universities kind of sometimes quietly flip their dorms into budget accommodation.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, right, anyway, this means you could score a
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: bed and this usually happens in like America and London,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: not so much Australia, but like in a central city
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: location on a budget with I would say, way, if
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: you were drunk backpackers banking on your door at three
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: am in Australia, you could have a look and see
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: if like UNI lodge or like campus living villages do it,
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: because I know they do. It's just, as I said,
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: a little bit more scarce than overseas. Plus individual UNI
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: residences in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth seem to do that
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: over summer. Sorry, room started like forty bucks a night,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: beck Yeah, okay, that's so good. It allers, that's so good.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: That's dorm pricing, not for dorm rooms. And often you
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: get access to the kitchen or sorry, laundry facilities include it.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Right overseas, there's a website, and this is where you
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: get access to a bit more is university rooms dot
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: com and they have more than eight hundred different universities
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: across the UK, across Europe and across Canada, including get this,
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: you could stay at Oxford or Cambridge. Yeah, you could
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: put on your resume that you went to Cambridge.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: It was a day so cool. Imagine and you're dating.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: You're not lying, I went there one time. Like, yes,
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: of course I've been to Harvard.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I slept there obviously.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Obviously when you could, like I don't know, you live
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: out your royal fantasy like American student loan dream for
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: a fresh of the cost.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Of a hotel. That's so good.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: That is actually such a beatle work. This one I
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: thought was really cool. So I've been to Edinburgh before
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: and I loved it. I actually went to Edinburgh over
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: New Year's one year and went to Hogomena, which is
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: their big New Year's festival. Oh my god. I was
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: so cold because it was the middle of winter and
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: the middle of the night, but I had the best time.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Edinburgh unidorms actually moonlight as budget hotels during like the
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: fringe festivals, when normal accommodation prices go up.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: That's so good.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Look at like times that you want to be there
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: because like school's not in during New Years, so you
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: get an empty room in Edinburgh for hogmna at a
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: really cheap price.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: That's so sick. What anat idea?
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Beck?
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: I know that a lot of this yap in has
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: meant that I'm running out of time very quickly, but
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: I want to know, do you have any broke tips
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: to share? We're going to like bring the Friday segment
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: into this episode to share when it comes to travel.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Like what have you round? I guess, like you know,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: and other than the ones that I've used before, where
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I'm like, where every single item of clothing that you
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: can so that you don't have to Oh yeah, that's
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: a kicking yeah yeah, And I think this one might.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: But I do think that's quite funny though. I saw
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: a girl on TikTok the other day and she's like,
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: if you don't want to wear all of your coats
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: and jackets and stuff, fold up, like wear an extra
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: extra large bra and fold up all of your undies
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: and all of your T shirts. No one's going to
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: question your breast size.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: No. And I was like what's going on there, because
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: that would be rude. She'd be like, hey, my eyes
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: are up here, sadly, stop looking at my T shirt exactly.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: So this one might not be like like a great
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: hack or whatever, like a lot of people might think.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: If you've come up with it, I think it'll be good.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Well I would hope so, but I fear that. So
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: what I'm going to say is the wiki camps app,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: because I tend to like I drive to Sydney a lot,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: and I just love like going on little like you know,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: short stays by myself or whatever, and the wiki camps
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: app will show you heaps of free or low coal
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: camping spots across Australia.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Oh that's a good deal.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Ones that are and you know there are so many
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: free spots, but they will, like, you know, if it's
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: any good, you'll be able to see, like you know,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: it'll show you the amenities list, but also you'll each
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: one will come with its own real reviews and photos
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: from other travelers, so you can see what you're signing
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: up for.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: If we drive in okay, so like if you went back,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: you would like take a picture and upload it and
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: be like this is pretty sick, or like take a
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: photo of a dodgy toilet and be like not so
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: great but still free exactly exactly okay, okay, And you
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: can filter it based on like, you know, I would
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: like a bonfire, I would like you know, a powered
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: site or whatever.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: You can filter it based on what you're looking for,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: and so I think it's really good.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: A bonfire is so fun. You know what I hate
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: about bonfires, and you probably don't care as much as
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: I do because I spend a lot of time doing
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: my hair, is that when you go to a bonfire,
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: you walk away and my hair smells like the bonfire,
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: like shampooed it like three times.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: It's so frustrating. No, I get it everything you own
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: for it because it's like the vibes. But then also
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: now I smell.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: Like a camp.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: You've really got to commit to a bonfire, yeah, Like
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: do I stay really far away?
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: And then even when I've done that, I'm like, I
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: still smell like a school camp.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Reaches is going on somehow to get you.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: So.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: But one thing I should say is Wiki camps is
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: not free aut but it's just like a one min
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: not free.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: How much is it?
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: It's only nine dollars ninety nine, but which I know
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: it's like it actually is not.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: That's pretty good if you're getting like free camp spots
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: and like it's doing all the research for you. ID,
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: that's a pretty good deal. And did you say you
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: like only buy it once.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: You o the bay ones, which you can. I like
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: I do every time you Okay, I like her to
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: pay up front. I know what I'm paying for and
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: then it's free forever.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: I feel like a good deal. You and I I
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: reckon you be on accommodation. Like you find the free
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: camp spot. I'll go to the supermarket, get us all
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: the breakfast items if we need go camping night before
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: bonfire hot dogs that's from Supermico Gorges. In the morning,
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: we're having cereal fine, and then we can go out
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: for lunch at like a bougie pub or something perfect.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: I feel like that's a good weekend away.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Let's do it.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Sorry genius, all right, beck I reckon that is probably
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: a very good place to leave it. I hope you
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: guys have picked up a few little hacks or tips
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: or tricks to make your next trip, I don't know,
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: a little bit easier. But also, like I think it's
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: fun doing the planning.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: It is fun. It's probably in a spreadsheet.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: If you're anything like me, put it in a spreadsheet
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: because it will make the planning better, but it also
• 38:19
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• 38:21
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• 38:32
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