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Pros and Cons of Extreme Day Trips - Travel Tip Tuesday · Travel Mug Podcast

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  Hey everyone, and welcome back to Travel Tip Tuesday with the Travel Mug Podcast.
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  This is Jenn, and I am joined by my partner in podcasting.
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  Meggan.
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  Meggan, I have a question for you today.
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  Would you take an extreme day trip, meaning that you fly somewhere early in the morning and take a late flight back home that very same day, would you do this?
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  So I have seen one guy do this a few times on, the Clock app.
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  , He's an Australian fellow, I think living in England.
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  And I personally have literally never considered this before in my entire life because Canada, like the size of Canada, probably just like blanked that out from my mind because why would I do that?
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  But I mean.
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  For the right circumstances and reasons, I probably would.
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  And if I were in Europe, I'm sure I would, and I know of course I could go from like province to province in Canada, but that sounds boring.
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  So maybe country to country.
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  If I lived in Europe, maybe.
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  Interesting.
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  Yes.
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  I have also seen it on the Clock app and the algorithms have brought this to me of course, 'cause I watched one and.
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  Now I see a bunch.
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  But the one guy I've actually seen is, , he's traveling from New York, like city to um, other countries.
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  So obviously he's got a lot of flight options from New York City.
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  So I definitely think this trend is not brand new, but it definitely is gaining speed or at least notoriety.
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  I think there was a a Wall Street Journal article about it recently, so I think it's just more that we're hearing about it now.
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  Sure.
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  like I said, it does involve flying somewhere like first flight out at the crack of dawn or before the crack of dawn and then flying home that night.
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  And there are a couple of like pros that I thought of.
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  So one, you don't have to pay for a hotel.
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  So that's a significant savings.
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  You don't have to use any vacation time if you're going on a day that you're not working anyway.
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  And then I thought it could be fun as trying out solo travel, like you're only gone for the day, so if you hate it, then whatever.
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  It's just one day.
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  You are dipping your little toe in.
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  That's a great idea.
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  That's a good way to think about it.
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  Yeah.
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  But it also has some cons.
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  So obviously like flight delays happen, like.
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  You have to depart at two.
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  And your return flight is at six?
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  Yeah, so like obviously like delays could affect your trip to the point where you don't Yeah.
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  even get to go.
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  Yeah.
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  And then, I mean, there's the environmental impact of traveling for one day.
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  I mean, I've seen people make the argument like, planes are going that way anyway, but like.
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  You know, we're all adding to the problem Yeah.
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  here.
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  And then, I mean, the obvious con is like you're only there for really like hours and so you can only really do a few things.
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  It is, like you said, dipping your toe in the destination.
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  So I think if I were going to do it, I would definitely book a short, nonstop flight away.
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  Like that would have to be how it is and from where we You gonna go to Moncton?
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  Where you going?
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  Maybe like.
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  Toronto Toronto, the problem is, is we don't really have a lot of flights that are like, you could fly out early morning and back in the same day.
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  So that's a problem.
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  But anyway, if you live somewhere you can do this.
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  , I would definitely choose a destination where the airport isn't too far from the city.
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  You don't wanna land somewhere and then have like a two hour journey into the city or something.
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  I will say, even though I haven't done an extreme day trip, that even short trips.
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  Can be really fun.
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  We have done two nights in Boston and we have another two night trip coming up to Toronto later this year.
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  And you can definitely pack in a lot Oh yeah.
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  in a short amount of time.
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  And it, a lot of the things people say is like, you're not worried about like going for a rest because you're there to like power through and do as much as you can in a short amount of time, and then you're gonna get home and sleep in your own bed.
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  And likely there's no jet lag.
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  So like those factors aren't there as heavily.
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  Yeah, so this definitely seems like you said more popular in the uk.
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  There's even a website called Extreme day trips.com that is for people who are based in the UK and they have ready-made itineraries for some cities like Malaga, Spain, Dublin, Lisbon, Copenhagen, lots more.
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  So if that's something you're considering, I would check them out, uh, 'cause they have done a lot of the work for you.
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  I love that.
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  So anyway, that's all we have for this week's episode.
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