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What is a Travel Deal? - Travel Tip Tuesday · Travel Mug Podcast

• 0:00
  Hey everyone, and welcome back to Travel Tip Tuesday with the Travel Mug Podcast.
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  I am Jen, and I am joined by my podcast partner, Megan.
• 0:09
  How's it going megan?
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  Things are well.
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  How are you?
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  Pretty good.
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  So.
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  At the beginning of this year when we were talking about what we were gonna do in 2025, I mentioned that I might, or I was planning to let's the travel deals lead me this year, and I'm gonna admit that this was harder than I thought it was gonna, I mean, I picture just like seeing a great flight deal and booking it.
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  Megan, what is a great flight deal, is the question.
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  I think it's a fine question.
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  This is the hardest part, like honestly, obviously like a $500 flight to one location is a crazy deal, or it could be like completely, totally expensive.
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  It completely depends on where it is.
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  There's a couple tools that you can use that I've been using.
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  Um, I like Google Flights.
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  They have a little like bar chart that shows you what the normal range of prices are for that particular flight.
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  I do have trust issues with it.
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  I'm not sure how correct it is.
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  I don't know.
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  Anyway, also services or websites that email you flight deals.
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  I already get so many emails that I found this really overwhelming.
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  Like I did sign up for a few.
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  Like my inbox has over a thousand unread emails in it, and I, like truly am Megan is shaking her head at me.
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  For those that, that, those words are so anxiety inducing, I can't even explain it to you.
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  I would have to just go to the top, hit the one thing that covers every email and just hit the little trash can and call it a day.
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  I need some of them like, like.
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  Like you worry about getting up on a plane, but not the fact that you have a thousand unread emails.
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  I think it was 1200 when I last looked.
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  No, I can't even, I, I can't even.
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  But do carry on.
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  Do-.
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  So sorry.
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  Anyway, I don't need any more emails.
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  Honestly, what I've learned over the last few months is of like constantly looking at flight deals is when you see a price you're happy with to a place that you're interested in, that's a deal.
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  Like just take it That is the deal.
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  What else to tell you?
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  Because constantly, constantly obsessing over the prices gets really overwhelming.
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  And it's happened to us a couple of times where we've seen a flight price that we were happy with to, uh, somewhere that we were interested in, uh, like Dublin and we like waffled on it and didn't pull the trigger.
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  'cause we're like, what if it gets less expensive?
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  And like that's just, that's a crazy way to live and you can't do it like that.
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  And then I also feel like my idea of a deal is skewed.
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  Like, I don't know what year I think it is.
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  'cause I'm like.
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  What is it, 1995 or 2025?
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  Literally.
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  Like, oh, aren't I gonna get a player like a flight to Dublin for $300?
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  Like, no, Jen, you're not, it's not gonna happen.
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  And I just, I don't think they're as common in Canada, right?
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  Like our airlines are way more expensive than, than like, uh, other places.
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  And they just, they, those types of deals just don't exist for us.
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  They just don't Agreed.
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  Anyway, all this is, say Megan, I'm not sure this method of booking travel is for me.
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  I never, for a second thought it was, I'm gonna be super honest.
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  I, I loved that it was a fresh new year and you thought, you know what?
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  I'm just gonna let the prices guide me and end up where they take me.
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  And I thought, no, you're not.
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  No you're not.
• 3:58
  Oh, okay.
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  Well apparently you knew me better than I knew myself.
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  What I, I was like, but I would love to be proved wrong.
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  And I've waited until this moment, and here we are in April and we.
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  We've per in, I have nothing booked.
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  Absolute paralyzed by this.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean we did book, we are going to Ottawa and Montreal in June.
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  And that wasn't really our original plan, obviously.
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  Um, but it's, uh, anyway, that's what we're doing.
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  I don't know what we're doing for the rest of the year.
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  I, uh, I, I don't know man.
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  I don't know where I am.
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  I don't know what we're doing either, honestly.
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  So we're, this is a very off travel year for you and I for sure.
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  Yeah.
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  Um, I know you're also going north though, so that's very exciting.
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  So there's that.
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  Yeah.
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  You do have that now.
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  My thoughts around all of this is I've never sort of like followed the deals.
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  Don't get me wrong.
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  I'm not looking to to pay the most either, so I'm not saying it in that way, but I've never thought I'll take whatever's cheapest to go wherever.
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  So that's not something.
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  So normally when we wanna go somewhere, we know where we go and we don't like the price and then we pay for it.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Yes.
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  Right.
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  That is, that is usually how we do it.
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  Now, don't get me wrong.
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  If someone is able to do this and the day comes even, you're able to do this, I think it's awesome.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  It doesn't always have to be so written in stone, but you're also right, like.
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  You don't wanna pull the trigger sometimes because there's always that thing in your mind where you're like, what if it becomes cheaper?
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  It's like gambling.
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  It's like, what if I win the next time?
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  It's kind of the same idea, but you're right.
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  Yeah.
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  Like if there's a good price that you're okay with, you're never gonna be truly happy because everything is too expensive.
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  But if it's a price you're okay with and place you're interested, like we said, that is your deal.
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  Thank you.
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  Yeah, buy it.
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  That's it.
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  That's it.
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  Check mark.
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  Have a safe trip.
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  I don't, that's it.
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  Yeah, so that's definitely the deal.
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  Cool.
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  Well, that's this week's episode.
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  That's all I got.
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  Let us know if you have an amazing tip for finding travel deals.
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  Obviously, I don't know what I'm doing.
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  And until next time, I'll see you later.
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  Bye bye.