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Savvy Travel Secrets · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gadigal Land Always was, always
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  Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal Land.
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  Speaker 2: Hey cheeks, I'm Sal and I'm ow And this is
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  Speaker 2: Two Broke Chicks, the show that shares life lessons and
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  Speaker 2: tips to make you rich in life.
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  Speaker 3: And today we are sharing.
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  Speaker 2: Some secret savvy travel tips because Eurosummer is upon us.
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  Speaker 4: But don't stress.
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  Speaker 2: All of these tips will apply to whether or not
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  Speaker 2: you're traveling to Europe or really any holiday.
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  Speaker 3: And they're all the.
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  Speaker 2: Tips that we wish that we knew before so many
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  Speaker 2: of the holidays that we've done.
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  Speaker 5: I have wasted so much money on stupid traveling being
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  Speaker 5: like fuck.
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  Speaker 2: And also time because like we always say, everything takes
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  Speaker 2: longer when you're traveling, and when you're planning your travel
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 5: Everything takes longer and costs more than what you think it.
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  Speaker 4: Will, especially these days.
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  Speaker 5: I'll start on my Dad Talk again. Let's let's rebrand
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  Speaker 5: Ted Talks to Dad Talk. Yeah, and it's just like
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  Speaker 5: all the rants that your dad used to say that
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  Speaker 5: now you say, like turning the light bulbs off. Now,
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  Speaker 5: like when the line at the cafe gets long but
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  Speaker 5: you've already ordered, and he's like.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good diamond got it at the right time.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, or when you're leaving the restaurant, he says,
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  Speaker 5: oh time to rock and roll?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, love that it is us fuck yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, So, yes, this episode is absolutely crucial for all
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  Speaker 2: of your travel planning.
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  Speaker 4: So take notes, get the pans and pads out.
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  Speaker 5: Get you rich in life plan around and start taking notes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but before we get into it, we love to
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  Speaker 2: start with a product wreck or a trending topic.
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  Speaker 4: Of the week. So, al, would you like to kick
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  Speaker 4: us off?
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  Speaker 5: I would, but I don't know what I would like
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  Speaker 5: to recommend. Oh I do. Okay, so this is a
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  Speaker 5: movie recommendation.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, so's mine kind of We're okay this week.
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  Speaker 5: I've been a massive wik this week? Is i' been crazy?
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  Speaker 5: Like the other day I went to message my friend
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  Speaker 5: to check that she was coming to like a dinner,
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  Speaker 5: and she replied She's like what the fuck. I was
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  Speaker 5: literally in the middle of messaging he. I was like, hey, honey,
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  Speaker 5: and she was like she was like get out, and
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  Speaker 5: I was madging even And then I sent sal a
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  Speaker 5: picture of address and I was like, Oh, I think
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  Speaker 5: you'd really like this, But I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 5: more like your sister's vibe. Yeah, and you were like,
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  Speaker 5: that's fucked. Last night Meg sent me this saying you
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  Speaker 5: might like this for Europe, but I don't know if
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  Speaker 5: it's more my style.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And then we were with another friend and we're planning
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  Speaker 5: what dishes everyone's going to bring to dinner and I
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  Speaker 5: was like, oh, well, see, I's going to bring a platter,
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  Speaker 5: so like she's got the entree sordered and so I
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  Speaker 5: was like, I didn't even tell you.
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  Speaker 2: That, and I was yeah, ah, I was like I
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  Speaker 2: was planning to do that, but what Yeah, it's so weird.
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  Speaker 5: There's in so many.
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  Speaker 4: So here's another one. He's another one.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, watch the movie.
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  Speaker 2: It is Puss in Boots The Last Wish.
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  Speaker 4: When did that come out? Like last year? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: And is it on stand or something? It's on something.
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  Speaker 5: I watched it last night.
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  Speaker 4: I can't remember what app it was. You got hubble
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  Speaker 4: just type it in.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go. It is so good, Like I
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  Speaker 5: cannot wait to watch this movie with you.
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  Speaker 3: I laugh, I cry.
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  Speaker 5: And the animation style of it to like nerd out
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  Speaker 5: a little bit is just really beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: I love that.
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  Speaker 5: And there's so many little like Easter eggs to like
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  Speaker 5: fairy tale, which like is why everyone loves the first
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  Speaker 5: Shrek movie, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's.
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  Speaker 5: Just such a good movie. This is the second time
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  Speaker 5: I've watched it.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I feel like you saw it
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  Speaker 3: in the movies maybe.
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  Speaker 5: Last Yeah, I just saw it at home, but like
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  Speaker 5: I probably spoke about it then. Yeah, but like it's
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  Speaker 5: just so good and so funny, and I just I've
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  Speaker 5: been on a bit of a Shrek marathon lately. I
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  Speaker 5: watched Shrek one to four recently. I actually watched it two, three, four,
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  Speaker 5: and then watched one just to be uni.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, shake it up.
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  Speaker 5: Rumbel steelt Skin from Shrek fur so fucking camp rumble
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  Speaker 5: Stiltskin from Shrek four.
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  Speaker 3: I want to get a drink with him. Sounds like
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  Speaker 3: a good time.
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  Speaker 5: He's fucked, Like he's fucked and I'm so into it.
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  Speaker 4: Like he's so camp.
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  Speaker 5: He rides around on this fucking demon goose and just
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  Speaker 5: like sounds like everyone has wigs for his different moods.
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  Speaker 5: Like he's got his angry wig and his like business wig.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm like, this is a gay icon. He's a
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  Speaker 5: drag queen.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, anyway, those are.
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  Speaker 5: My recommendations, all the Shrek movies, especially the fourth and
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  Speaker 5: Puts in Boots.
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  Speaker 4: The Last Wish amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, speaking of gay icons, my product recommendation of the
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  Speaker 2: week is also a movie, I suppose, but it's Lady
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  Speaker 2: Gaga's CHROMATICA Ball, which is now stan So it's a
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  Speaker 2: concert film of her most recent tour, which is the
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  Speaker 2: CHROMATICA Ball, which is the tour for the album that
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  Speaker 2: came out in twenty twenty, which is her most recent album.
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  Speaker 4: But Lady Gaga is.
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  Speaker 2: Easily one of the best live performers I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: I think I've seen her three times now, but she
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  Speaker 2: hasn't toured in Australia since twenty fourteen, So especially for
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  Speaker 2: Australian Gaga fans, it's just an amazing opportunity to, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Experience some crumbs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, get like one little straw of a concert from
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  Speaker 2: her and hold on to it for as long as
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  Speaker 2: you can because I don't know when she when or
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  Speaker 2: if she'll ever come back.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, she's just so talented.
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  Speaker 2: And also if you've never seen her live, it's like
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  Speaker 2: an amazing opportunity to I guess get that experience.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, it's really cool.
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  Speaker 5: It's on stand sal and I watched the U and
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  Speaker 5: I music video the other day and it was great.
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  Speaker 5: That's my favorite Lady Gaga song.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, anyone was wondering month students both from the same album.
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  Speaker 4: There You Go, There You Go. Let's get into the episode.
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  Speaker 5: Woo okay, jumping into our secret savvy travel tips.
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  Speaker 4: Is planning your cash money?
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  Speaker 5: Like, I know budgeting for a holiday is important, it's
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  Speaker 5: also a little bit boring, like it's not necessarily fun,
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  Speaker 5: but I do think it's the first steps because it's
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  Speaker 5: literally going to be the source of truth of how
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  Speaker 5: you're doing your entire holiday. And when you're planning your holidays,
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  Speaker 5: you want to look at your budget because there is
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  Speaker 5: no one set rule of how much you'll need, because
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  Speaker 5: it does depend on whether you want to go bougie
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  Speaker 5: or you want to go budget, or maybe you want
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  Speaker 5: to have different tiers like saves, bend, splurge your holiday.
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  Speaker 5: But some things you do need to take into consideration
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  Speaker 5: when planning a travel budget is your flights, your travel insurance,
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  Speaker 5: internal transport like flights, trains, ferries, accommodation like how much
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  Speaker 5: is your budget per night? Is there a certain place
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  Speaker 5: or your itinerary that you want to splurge for something
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  Speaker 5: a bit nice and take into consideration places that are
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  Speaker 5: a bit more expensive, like, for example, Paris is fuck off. Yeah, Like,
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  Speaker 5: looking at accombination Paris, I was.
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  Speaker 2: Like, oh no, I think Paris is always expensive, but
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  Speaker 2: the Olympics doesn't.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to go live with ratitude yeah, like gratitude bye.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to live in some chef's hat.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, down King is the real school.
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  Speaker 4: We can put the single beds together.
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  Speaker 5: And then of course you're spending. So those are the
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  Speaker 5: ways that you would break it up. So you would
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  Speaker 5: break it up in terms of your budget as per
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  Speaker 5: those categories, and then that can kind of help you.
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  Speaker 5: And then one thing with your budget is, like we
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  Speaker 5: said at the start of the episode, have a buffer
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  Speaker 5: because you'll be like, yeah, I went into Europe being
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  Speaker 5: like one hundred bucks per night, right. My silence speaks
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  Speaker 5: all the and I actually think it's very rare to
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  Speaker 5: even find hotels for that price. Now that you know
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  Speaker 5: hotels or airbnbs for that price that you know are
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  Speaker 5: a decent location with decent reviews, and you know all
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  Speaker 5: the services that you want there definitely are some out
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  Speaker 5: there for sure, of course, but yeah, I had a
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  Speaker 5: rude shock when I looked at some prices.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I just think.
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  Speaker 2: As well, your security and your safety is so important,
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  Speaker 2: So that's also something to factor in when you're looking
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  Speaker 2: at the cost of accommodation especially.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's good to set your dream budget and
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  Speaker 5: then have a little bit wiggle room in.
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  Speaker 4: It, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And because they are like a few different components
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  Speaker 2: in your travel budget, it's really good to build it
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  Speaker 2: out in an itinerary in Google sheets or whatever, you know, Excel,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you prefer, And then that way you can have
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  Speaker 2: everything listed out.
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  Speaker 4: You can do it per day.
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  Speaker 2: Per night, and then also per person if you're traveling
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  Speaker 2: with a friend or with a partner, and then also
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  Speaker 2: have links to all of your confirmations for your hotels
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  Speaker 2: and activities and flights linked in that to a Google Drive.
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  Speaker 4: So then that way you're not like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wait, fuck, where's that hotel accommodation receipt?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know where's this invoice?
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  Speaker 2: You have the receipts, Yeah, so you've got everything there
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  Speaker 2: and it's all in one place. And then as well,
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  Speaker 2: then you can really keep track of how much you're
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  Speaker 2: spending across your flights, accommodation, and activities to get more
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  Speaker 2: of a big picture idea of how much you're spending.
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  Speaker 4: And if you're sticking to your.
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  Speaker 5: Budget, then you're going to want to organize your packing.
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  Speaker 3: So why is this the hardest part?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, seriously, I am on a journey of trying to
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  Speaker 5: be a better packer. I think I'm good with the necessities.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not very good with the nice to haves, And
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  Speaker 5: that's the two categories that like you put your packing into.
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  Speaker 5: So organizing it in two tiers of absolute necessities. If
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  Speaker 5: you don't bring this on the trip, you're fucked, and
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  Speaker 5: nice to have of Yeah, I'm glad I brought it,
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  Speaker 5: you know. So absolute necessities for your international trip includes
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  Speaker 5: obviously your passport. But you need to check the expiration
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  Speaker 5: date on your passport because you need a buffer on that.
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  Speaker 5: So I didn't realize this until really recently that for
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  Speaker 5: a lot of places to travel to you need six
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  Speaker 5: months left on your passport as a minimum, Like for
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  Speaker 5: America and Bali, you need to have six months. If
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  Speaker 5: you have less than six months but you're going next month,
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  Speaker 5: you still can't go. Yeah, which is wild and you
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  Speaker 5: need to check it depending on where you're traveling to,
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  Speaker 5: because everywhere has different kind of rules around that, Like
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  Speaker 5: in Europe it's like three to six months depending on
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  Speaker 5: what country you're going to.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And you can do express to get your passport renewed.
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  Speaker 4: But how much did that cost? It costs like five
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  Speaker 4: hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Oh that's expensive and passports are already expensive.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah exactly. Also that five hundred dollars on top I
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  Speaker 4: was like five hundred and something together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so still very expensive, especially when you're
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  Speaker 2: trying to save for your holiday. Yeah, so keep that
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  Speaker 2: in mind for sure, and don't leave it to the
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  Speaker 2: last minute.
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  Speaker 5: And this next one is you is it? You actually
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  Speaker 5: taught me about this next one because I was doing
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  Speaker 5: it the original way, but you've kind of enlightened me
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  Speaker 5: into this next tip.
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  Speaker 4: So talk us through it. Oh sure.
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  Speaker 2: So with your phone, you've got a few different options. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you need to take your phone with you. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of plans in Australia have like five dollars a day roaming. However,
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  Speaker 2: you need to toss up whether or not it's a
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  Speaker 2: better option to do that or get a SIM card.
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  Speaker 2: Or an e SIM, because it really depends on how
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  Speaker 2: long you're going to be traveling. Because if you're going
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  Speaker 2: away on a short trip, using roaming is probably going
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  Speaker 2: to be fine. If you're going away for a week,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's probably going to be what thirty five dollars, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's probably okay. Whereas if you're going away
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  Speaker 2: for you know, thirty to forty days on a europe
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  Speaker 2: trip for example, that could cost one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: to two hundred dollars if you were to use your
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  Speaker 2: five dollars a day roaming, Whereas you can get e
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  Speaker 2: sims that cost one hundred and twenty dollars and you'll
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  Speaker 2: get two hundred gigs and that'll last you the whole trip,
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  Speaker 2: and you don't actually have to.
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  Speaker 4: Buy a physical sim.
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  Speaker 2: It's an electronic sim that you can just switch on
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  Speaker 2: and off in your phone. Yeah, whereas previously I had
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  Speaker 2: always like gone up to the phone counter.
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  Speaker 5: Wait, is that why it's called an e SIM.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So with a SIMP usually like in New Zealand,
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  Speaker 2: for example, I go up to the little counter and
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  Speaker 2: be like, Hi, can I please buy a SIM card?
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  Speaker 4: And then you know, take it out and put it
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  Speaker 4: in your phone.
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  Speaker 5: Want something down the pod?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, with this, it's an electronic sim that you have
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  Speaker 2: to scan a QR code and then it gets uploaded
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  Speaker 2: in your phone, and then it'll give you instructions on
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  Speaker 2: how to do it, because it'll vary depending on your device,
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  Speaker 2: but it'll give you instructions on how you can go
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  Speaker 2: in and switch your existing SIM card off and then
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  Speaker 2: turn your e SIM card on and then that way,
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  Speaker 2: for some reason, you did want to use your original
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  Speaker 2: SIM card, for example, to use your number, So for like,
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  Speaker 2: if you've got reservations linked to your existing phone number,
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  Speaker 2: you can still turn it on. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: go and get that little fucking pin and pop open
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  Speaker 2: your SIM card and make sure that's in a safe place.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, wow, I'm mind blind.
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  Speaker 2: So not only could it end up more affordable or
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  Speaker 2: more cost effective, but also less stressful and less time
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  Speaker 2: consuming as well. But yeah, just make sure that when
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  Speaker 2: you do buy the eSIM, you're doing it somewhere with
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  Speaker 2: Wi Fi, whether that's before you leave or in the airport,
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  Speaker 2: because you will need to scan a QR code and
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  Speaker 2: like download and download it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. So next on our list of like necessities or
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  Speaker 5: your fucked is your bank card, So get a bank
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  Speaker 5: travel card that doesn't charge international transaction fees and populnes
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  Speaker 5: we've seen in like our hectic research and planning is
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  Speaker 5: wise and up bank. Obviously that's not financial advice. You
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  Speaker 5: can do your own research, but those are ones that
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  Speaker 5: we've seen most people sharing as like what they used.
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  Speaker 5: And then some quick little last ones. Is a portable charger.
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  Speaker 5: You use your phone so much. Nothing worse than having
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  Speaker 5: to like go between aeroplane mode, a universal travel plug adapter,
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  Speaker 5: air tags, a luggage scale because you're like five hundred
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  Speaker 5: grams over in the airport.
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  Speaker 4: It's like that'll be.
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  Speaker 5: Seven hundred and twenty thousand dollars in your firstborn plus
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  Speaker 5: a kidney, yeah, thank you. And then an everyday bag
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  Speaker 5: specifically like a cross body bag, and then a money
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  Speaker 5: wallet because.
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  Speaker 3: We ain't got no burglars. Here another reason why we're
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  Speaker 3: turning into her dad's spot.
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  Speaker 5: I've always been a bum bag lover.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was never I was like I'm not
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  Speaker 2: wearing a money wallet when i was in my early
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  Speaker 2: twenty years, and now I'm like, I'm one thousand percent
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  Speaker 2: wearing money wallet to your own exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Called growth, it's called evolution, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Another tip for your packing is check the baggage limits
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  Speaker 2: because this will vary between different airlines if you're traveling
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  Speaker 2: if you've got multiple legs of your trip, so you
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  Speaker 2: may have twenty three kilos of baggage for example in Australia,
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  Speaker 2: but then if you're flying between countries or interstate, depending
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  Speaker 2: on where you're going, they may have different limits for
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  Speaker 2: size and weight. So you don't want to be going
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  Speaker 2: over there with twenty three kilos only to find out, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I can only have twenty kilos for my domestic flight
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  Speaker 2: in America, and now I have to pay eight hundred
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  Speaker 2: dollars to go from this flight from LA to New York.
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  Speaker 5: out of different destinations, you can end up having to
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  Speaker 5: prioritize time saving, cost efficiency or stopovers, depending on what
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  Speaker 5: you want to fit into your itinerary.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Like if you want to.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: Just get to places and that's your priority, then it'll
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: show you the fastest ones. If you want to be
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: on a budget, it will show you the cheapest ones,
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: which might mean like a couple stops or however that looks,
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: or it might be an earlier flight. You can fly
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: into one city and out from another, So it's also
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: really good if you're traveling by car or train somewhere
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: in between your destinations, or if you're doing a circular route.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: So there's three steps you want to do to purchase
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: up to six flights in one go in the multi
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: city tab on the Webjet website or mobile app, So
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: simply search the departure, city, destinations, and travel dates to
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: explore a variety of flight options that the technology provides,
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: select the flights that align with your preferences like we
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: just said before, so like cheapest, fastest or best available,
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: and finally book by entering your passenger details and finalizing
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: the payment process all in one gom gorgeous And.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Like we said, when we did this, it saved us
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: so much time and money. It literally only took a
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: couple of minutes, whereas usually if you were having to
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: book flights with multiple different airlines for different legs of
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: your trip, that would take you so long and would
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: be so confusing and stressful. So yeah, we'll put a
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: link to the webjet multi city to Turk in the
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: show notes so that you can check it out.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Long haul flights, though, I am like a bit. I
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: think the longest flight I've ever done is fourteen hours
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: in one in one seat or just in general. Oh
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: no wait no, New York to Sydney. New York to
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Sydney was a good stint. But yeah, fourteen hours on
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: a plane is hectic, and there's lots of like little
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: tips that you can pick up for long haul flights.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: But I saw this hack, like this amazing travel tip
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: and hack for flights on TikTok, and it was that
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: if you text yourself the flight number for your flight.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: You can text it to yourself or you can text
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: it to someone else and you click the link, it
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: shows you your flight details and the flight path, and
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: then within twenty four hours, apparently it'll show your gate number.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: It'll show you if it's delayed, like it updates in
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: real time, so if someone's picking you up from the
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: airport as well, you can send them just the flight
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: number and it will show them, like when you're coming
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: in and landing, like you can get a really good
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: tailwind and you land a bit earlier. I know why
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: am I like? But it shows you in real time,
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: like your flight details, your gate, if your gate changes.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: That is so cool, I know.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: So I saw this from a TikTok called Derby, and
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: I'll link it in the show notes as well. So
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: I tested it on a flight that we've got coming
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: up and it worked. But like I think, but because
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: it's a little bit further out, it didn't show all
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: the details. But then I think in twenty four hours
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: it'll show you all the other details. That's so cool,
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: so cool, what a good hack. I know.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: I loved it.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: And then the other one I saw was this one's
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: a bit of a gamble. This travel hacks a bit
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: of a gamble. Is you know, when you're selecting your
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: seats and say you're traveling with two people, Yeah, one
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: of you will seat in the window, and one of
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: you'll seat in the middle, And the middle is the
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: fucking bane of my existence. I've never ever ever had
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: to go experience sitting in the middle seat. I'm always
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: Actually that's a lie. One time we sat next to
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: that really nice dad. Oh yeah, he was great, and
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: I was like, I love you. Yeah. But recently I
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: also sat next to the worst man in the world,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: which was the story for another time.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: If you listen to a few episodes back here, he.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Was like man spreading, he was taking my arm rest.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: It was horrible. So this is like a little hack
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: to get like the whole row for two people, and
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: you select.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: So you've got two people.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: One of you selects the window seat and one of
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: you selects the aisle seat, and it's probably better to
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: do it a little bit more to the back of
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: the plane because they book from the front to the
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: back most of the time. But you leave the middle
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: seat free and because most people don't want to sit
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: in the middle seat, it likely won't get booked. And
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: obviously it's a gamble because if it's a full flight,
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: someone will just get put there.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: It's a risk.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: But what you just do because no one likes to
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: sit in the middle seat, is you just like, oh,
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: like that's that's actually my friend. Do you mind if
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: we swap seats and I'll take the middle seat and
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: then that person gets the aisle seat. Yeah, so i'd
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: be like cool upgrade. Yeah, exactly. So I want to
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: try it. I haven't tried it before, but I want
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: to try it because I want to see if it works.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, should we.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: I'm scared, I know, but like I'll I'll copy it
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: and I'll just sit in the middle seat if it doesn't.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: But like, yeah, I just I saw that and I
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: was like, fuck, that's good because the person that was
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: doing it it worked once and then it didn't work,
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: and then I saw another one.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: I'm off.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: As you can tell, you're doing my tea talk research,
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: and it was to book an aisle seat so when
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: you get on last and you've got the ale seat,
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: you can see all the rows that are free and
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: just be like, can I have that one please place.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: I've never had a whole row to myself me neither,
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: but one day.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's also another tip as well. Just ask, yeah,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: because we've had that in the past where it hasn't
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: necessarily worked out, but they do listen.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they go check for you.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: But if you're in like.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: A bad seat that's next to the toilet, or ye
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: are in the middle, or yeah it's you're in like
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: a three seater and you want to see if you
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: can get your.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Own road, just ask because all they can do is say.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: No, exactly, okay.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Accommodation. Accommodation can potentially be the most expensive part of
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: an international trip, obviously depending on how you do it,
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: such as like staying in hostels and some potentially have
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: private rooms, which is good. Like I stayed in a
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: private room in a hostel and it was amazing. Yeah,
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: but it's kind of just like you got to see,
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: maybe it'll work out, maybe it won't.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: And we had Cassidy on Cassidy Miguel Yeah last year,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: and she was telling us about her euro trips and
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: giving us her solo trips specifically, and she was telling
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: us that a lot of the time, she would stay
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: hostels that were female only.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: For security, but also she said.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: That it was great because you made so many friends,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: which is definitely a good tip if you're traveling alone.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: So yeah, there are definitely ways that you can do
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: hostels and it can be like a good experience.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: However, if you are looking at.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Hostels, hotels, or airbnbs, there are a few different things
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: that you should look out for when you are booking
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: your accommodation before a holiday.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Number one reviews.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Look for consistencies across the different reviews, both good and bad.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: I've been doing.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: This a lot, especially with looking at potentially airbnbs for
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Paris and paying attention to things like people talking about
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: the cleanliness of the airbnb, people talking about the proximity
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: to noise.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Noise is another big one.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Noises a big one, especially if it's on the ground
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: floor and you're staying in a busy place like Paris or.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: London, and sometimes you just find deal breakers in there.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Like I was looking at an Airbnb and someone said
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: that the owner just like let themselves in because they
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: thought they were out, And I was like, you guys,
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: like that's going to be a null. Yeah, and like
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: obviously reviews, you can kind of read them and you
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: can kind of get the vibe because sometimes people have
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: a bad experience, have a bad experience, or they have
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: a different standard to you that like something that bothers
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: them might not necessarily bother you. Like I read one
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: and it was like it didn't have soy milk, and
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: they were really mad that didn't have soy milk.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: And that's fine. They can be mad about that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: That's so fine, But like that wouldn't bother you. That
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: wouldn't bother me, And that probably wouldn't bother you either,
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: even know you do drink soy milk, Like you probably
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: wouldn't write a review about it. Yeah, But like what
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: I did write a review about was when I had
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: a flower bath and there were leeches in it.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that wasn't good.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: That's something that I did.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: That's like the only review I've ever written out in
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: my life. And I spelt leech is wrong because you
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: were so I was so angling and I was like
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: and then I couldn't delete it, and I was like, oh,
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: I regretted it so much, but I was like, whatever,
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: there were leaders in my butt.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Ye, look at the reviews also look at the location,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: because you typically want to make sure that your accommodation
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: is centrally located to all of the things that you
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: want to do.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Or at least close to public transport.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Whereas in the past we have booked accommodation based on
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: the budget and the rate for the night, and we
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: were like, oh, this is great, what a steal. And
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: then we've realized it was about forty minutes away from
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: the center of the city, which is where we were
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: going every single day, so we had to account in
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: not only the time but the cost of going there
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: via public transport or ubers, and we were like, yep,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: we probably should have just splurged and stayed in the
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: city and we would have saved more money in the
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: long run.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: And we were near public transport as well, so we
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: ended up paying like the difference in ubers. Yep, good time,
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: fucking dickheads. It was a lovely hotel though, oh it
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: was still a good it's a lovely stay, but I
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: was like, it's a factor in like forty minutes for
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: every activity too, and I was like, idiots. Yeah. And
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: then the last one was a little hot tip from
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: my mum who came over and kicked us up the
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: bum because she was like, have you guys planned your
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: trip and we're like, oh, yeah, we know kind of where.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: And she was like, have you booked anything and we
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: were like, oh no, not yet and she was like,
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: you too need to sit down, and we got in
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: trouble from my mummy. But it's if you've ever booked
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: a hotel and like you look at the photos and
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: you're like, Wow, this hotel's amazing, and then you get
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: there and it's a bed and four walls, you're like,
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: what the fuck? Like it's literally a tuna tin can
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: and you're like.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: How did this happen to me? Booped?
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah. So a little hack for booking your accommodation to
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: make sure you're not like staying in a shoe box
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: of a room is to look at the size, like
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: it actually will show you on sites to book accommodation
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: the square meter of the room. And so when you
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: go into the description, just look out for wherever it'll be.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: It's normally around the top somewhere under description, and it'll
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: have like nineteen square meters, twenty five square meters, or
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: fourteen square meters, which that's when you're getting into.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Small room, cozy territory.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Room, Yeah, cozy room territory.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: And I think then.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: When we would look at reviews, we would see like
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: consistent reviews being like the room was quite small, the
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: room was quite small, like great location, really clean, room
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: was quite small, And then you go and look at
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: the size and it'll be like fourteen meters or something
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: like that, and you can see why that was a thing.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: Versus then if you look and someone says, all the
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: room wasn't very big and it's twenty square meters, Yeah,
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: you're like, Okay, I know that's okay for me though,
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: So getting like a little good understanding of that and
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: checking that because the photos can.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Be a bit cheeky.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they know what angles to work with to
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: make the room look bigger than it actually is.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: So yeah, definitely check that out.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Well that's a wrap on our secret Savvy travel tips.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: But shall we move into advice with chicks? My partner
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: just broke up with me after being together for seventeen
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: years and since we were sixteen. How do I move
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: on and navigate this crazy dating world? Well, firstly, I
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: want to say I am so sorry to hear that
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: you're going through this that would be so so rough
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: because that is half your life basically that you've been
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: with this person, but you were still incredibly young, and
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I just don't want you to think that like it's
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: too late or you know that there's not going to
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: be any opportunities.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Out there for you.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I think maybe take this time to focus on yourself
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: and enjoy being single and spending time alone and learning
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: about the things that you like to do alone, and
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: spending time with your friends and enjoying that for a
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: little bit, maybe before you jump into dating straight away,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: because I think going from being with a long term
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: partner that you've been with since you were a teenager
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: into dating as somebody in their early thirties, I can
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: imagine it would be quite a shock. So it might
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: be a good idea to focus on yourself and ease into.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: It a little bit. Yeah, I think that's created.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: By We've also got a bunch of episodes on how
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: to get through a breakup and have like your post
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: breakup glow up, So we'll put links in the show
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: notes to those so you can give those a listen,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: have a bit of a refresh, and you can get
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: some hot tips from there. Well, that is a wrap
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: for today's episode of Two Broke Chicks. I hope everyone
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: is ready to go on book the Girls trip, get
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: it out of the group chat.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: Finally, thanks to your chicks for having us in your
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: ear holes. We absolutely love to be here. And thanks
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: to m I K Made for making today's episode.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Happen by chicks.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Bye,