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Book Your Admissions In Advance - Travel Tip Tuesday · Travel Mug Podcast

• 0:00
  Jenn: hey everyone.
• 0:01
  Jenn: Welcome back to travel tips Tuesday.
• 0:05
  Jenn: Very exciting.
• 0:06
  Jenn: Today.
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  Jenn: I want to talk about something I have failed to do in the past, but I will do in the future
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  Meggan: a tip for all of us,
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  Jenn: a tip for all of us.
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  Jenn: And it is pre-booking tickets to attractions.
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  Jenn: And in today's world, it's actually more important than it ever was because it is now a requirement at some places where it wasn't before.
• 0:28
  Jenn: So in the past, Despite all of my planning, neurotic planning of the day, I didn't always want to, pre-book a ticket, especially a ticket that had a timed entrance on it because you, because you know, things change, maybe the weather is terrible that day and that thing is outside and you don't, you know what I mean?
• 0:51
  Jenn: I liked the little bit of flexibility to switch things around.
• 0:55
  Jenn: However, I will tell you that I did spend two hours standing outside the Louvre in Paris waiting to buy tickets.
• 1:05
  Jenn: And that was not fun.
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  Meggan: You didn't enjoy that.
• 1:09
  Jenn: I did not enjoy that experience, especially when there was people walking by to go straight in.
• 1:15
  Jenn: Cause they had it.
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  Jenn: Right.
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  Jenn: So.
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  Jenn: I will be pre-booking tickets in the future.
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  Jenn: And right now we are planning our trip to Scotland and COVID-y times you have to book tickets and some of them are timed and some of them aren't.
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  Jenn: But most of the time they require you to book it in advance and you can't really just walk up and get tickets.
• 1:36
  Jenn: So.
• 1:38
  Jenn: Do your research as our tagline, should be our tag line.
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  Meggan: It should be our tag line
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  Jenn: and they, you can also sometimes save a little bit of money as well, buying tickets online versus buying them at the gate.
• 1:55
  Jenn: Usually like a couple of dollars, but that adds up over a trip.
• 2:00
  Jenn: So I know it can make things less like spontaneous and less.
• 2:04
  Jenn: Yeah, it's just more rigid.
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  Jenn: Like you've booked a time and you have to be there for that time.
• 2:09
  Jenn: But Meggan, have you run into this when you're planning your trip as well?
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  Meggan: Um, not so much upcoming trip yet.
• 2:17
  Meggan: But in the past, yes.
• 2:18
  Meggan: So we booked to the London eye for a specific time.
• 2:22
  Meggan: One time, one time there.
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  Meggan: And actually coming up, we will have to book when we want to visit Dachau in Germany, you will have to book that in advance.
• 2:30
  Meggan: So we will be doing that.
• 2:32
  Meggan: But you're right.
• 2:32
  Meggan: Like it does take away, like you don't know what your day is going to bring you two months from now.
• 2:38
  Meggan: So in your brain, even though you like to plan, you still want to be able to understand, well, maybe that day that won't work.
• 2:45
  Meggan: So it is, it's something you do have to commit to.
• 2:47
  Meggan: Now, when we were in Dublin, we wanted to go to the Guinness storehouse and do the whole tour and stuff.
• 2:54
  Meggan: So what we did honestly is same day.
• 2:56
  Meggan: We sat in like a cafe and to save money we did actually book them in advance for two hours later.
• 3:02
  Jenn: Yeah.
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  Meggan: That is a bit of the same thing where you're not doing it two months before, but sort of same day, but not everything is going to work that way.
• 3:09
  Meggan: And that was in the before times.
• 3:11
  Meggan: So I really just think it's going to be something that people are really going to have to pay attention to because you don't want to show up somewhere and be.
• 3:18
  Meggan: Oh, I needed a ticket for this because of X, Y, or Z.
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  Meggan: So yes, it takes away from the spontaneity, but do you really want to see that thing or not?
• 3:27
  Jenn: Yeah, exactly.
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  Jenn: And like, even a lot of the museums in like the UK are free and you still need to book a time now.
• 3:37
  Jenn: Yeah.
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  Jenn: You can't just show up.
• 3:39
  Jenn: So, I mean, they're trying to control the crowds and I totally understand why they're doing it.
• 3:45
  Jenn: And maybe if you went early in the day, Like give you a time to come back or you might be able to go right in depending.
• 3:51
  Jenn: But yeah, you, you do have to, to book a date at a time.
• 3:56
  Meggan: It's a whole new landscape out there.
• 3:58
  Jenn: It is a new it's a whole new world out there, but yeah, I think for us, we will be booking things that we definitely want to do.
• 4:06
  Jenn: Leaving time open because we've run into the problem.
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  Jenn: When we were in London, we were doing the tower of London and it took way, look, we spent so much more time there than I thought that we would.
• 4:19
  Jenn: And so I'm glad that I didn't have anything booked right after that because we planned to do the tower bridge.
• 4:25
  Jenn: And by the time we got kicked out of the tower of London, cause they were like, we're closing, like get out.
• 4:31
  Jenn: So we didn't get to do the tower bridge at all, which I was really sad about, but also glad that I didn't pay to book and then rush ourselves through the tower of london and when we really enjoyed it, and that's why we really took our time there and spent a lot of time, but also not enough time because I got kicked out.
• 4:48
  Jenn: So I have to go back.
• 4:51
  Meggan: I obviously didn't see all the things I wanted to see.
• 4:56
  Meggan: Well, at least, you know, you have something to add back to your list.
• 4:59
  Jenn: Yes.
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  Jenn: Yes.
• 5:00
  Jenn: So that is our tip.
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  Jenn: for today.
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  Jenn: Check it out.
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  Jenn: do some research.
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  Meggan: That's everything in a different now you can't take it for granted that it's just going to be there for you when you arrived.
• 5:12
  Meggan: So happy trip planning, and hopefully you get to see everything you want to see.
• 5:16
  Jenn: Yes, that's all we have this week on the travel mug podcast.
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  Jenn: Thanks so much for listening.
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• 5:58
  Meggan: Yes, me too.