September 30, 2024 • 16 mins
Have you ever wondered how to transform family vacations into unforgettable educational experiences? This episode promises to unveil the secrets of family travel that not only strengthen bonds but also provide rich, real-world learning beyond the classroom.
I'll share heartwarming personal stories of journeys to historical sites like the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC and Mount Vernon, showcasing how these trips can be more impactful than any textbook. Discover how to seamlessly integrate these educational adventures into the school year without compromising academic progress by coordinating with teachers and taking advantage of off-peak travel seasons to avoid crowds and high costs.
Unlock the luxury of travel without breaking the bank by mastering the art of leveraging points and miles. I provide step-by-step guidance on how to earn and utilize these travel incentives to turn dream vacations into affordable realities. From practical tips on setting travel dates and booking trips, to maximizing your experiences through smart planning strategies, this episode is packed with actionable advice.
Don’t forget to connect with us on our YouTube channel, Travel Point Pros, for more insider tips on making the most of your points and miles. Get ready to redefine what family travel can accomplish!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You are listening to, travel is Cheaper than Divorce.
This podcast for all those whomay be struggling with their
spouse or their children and therelationship with them.
We help give you tips andtricks by using travel as the
means to be able to help yourrelationships with your family.
I'll provide those tricks andother ways to help travel with
(00:29):
little or no cost.
So let's get into it.
One of the things that travelhas helped me do for my family,
that travel has helped me do formy family, is it's really
(00:50):
helped my family to get a bettereducation my kids and even my
spouse and I.
There is a real problem.
Most people would agree withthe education system in this in
the United States and in thiscountry and, um, everybody says
it but nobody ever really wantsto do anything about it.
Really, it's hard to get asolution that is to the liking
(01:12):
of everyone, but they keep usingit.
They keep thinking that right,there is.
The goal Is to get them throughschool and they can't miss a
day of school.
Heaven forbid they miss a weekof school.
Heaven forbid they miss a weekof school.
Heaven forbid they miss 10 daysof school.
My friends, one of the thingsthat I have learned over the
(01:34):
years and it's not hard, you cando a simple Google search and
know this that the mostexpensive travel times of the
year is during the summer.
Why?
Why?
Because it's warm.
Sure, I guess San Diego is warmall year, so in Florida I mean
what warm.
You can go a lot of places thatare warm.
(01:55):
Some of the places that arereally beautiful are really
beautiful during the winter.
It's not about the warmth, it'sabout the education schedule of
your children.
That's why it's more expensiveduring the summer.
That's why it's more expensiveduring the weeks between
Christmas and New Year's.
That's why it's more expensiveduring spring break.
(02:17):
It's everything.
Everybody's travel scheduleseems to rotate around their
kids' school schedule.
I'm telling you that that's notthe way to travel right now.
That is not the way to travel.
There are exceptions to thisrule, of course, but let me tell
you a little bit.
Let me tell you a story aboutsomething that our family did.
First of all, almost all of ourfamily travel is not in the
(02:40):
summer.
It's not.
I don't worry about taking mykids out of school for three
days, four days, seven days, tendays.
Some people might think that'scrazy.
That's fine.
That's just how I feel how wefeel as a family, because we
believe they get a bettereducation with us on a vacation,
even if it's on the beach, thanthey do inside the classroom.
(03:02):
Because, if we go back towhat's really important right,
we talked about in an earlier inearlier episodes, about how
memories are more important thanstuff.
Love is the most importantthing in the world.
I've said that a lot.
What are they going to get inthe class?
Are they going to get love inthe classroom?
Guys, really, it's importantfor your family to stay together
(03:26):
.
That's the point of thispodcast.
Really, I'm just teaching analternative way to do it.
So here's what we did.
One of our Christmas vacations Italked about was our vacation
to Washington DC.
My kids learned more on thattrip than they would have in a
history classroom during thosesame 10 days, and they developed
(03:47):
a love, a love for the country.
But they learned more than thatBecause we took these kids to a
bunch of places in WashingtonDC, but one of the places we
took them was the HolocaustMuseum.
For those who haven't beenthere, there is a room inside
the Holocaust Museum where it'sjust full of shoes.
This room, these shoes, wereworn by the people that were
(04:09):
killed in Auschwitz.
I believe it was Auschwitz, orit might be all of them, but
it's a room full of shoes ofvictims.
It is said that if you don'tlearn history, you're doomed to
repeat it.
This is only one of the historytrips we've been on, in fact,
one of the things you'll.
Another thing we'd tell ourkids, and much of the chagrin of
(04:31):
them, is that every otherChristmas trip, so every other
year, we do a trip that isfocused on education, because we
do believe the education isextremely important.
We just don't believe educationin the way that is currently
done is as important aseducation.
Going out and seeing thesethings.
There's another educationaltrip that our family went on
(04:52):
that my son, my oldest son, myoldest child.
Because of that trip he and itwas an educational one.
We've literally never beencloser.
I'm going to do a whole episodeon that on a later date
probably.
But when you're sitting aroundthe actual sites, the places
where things happened, whenyou're able to look behind the
glass at the actual Constitution, the actual Declaration of
(05:15):
Independence, when you're ableto tour the halls of Congress
before they closed that downafter the January 7th event,
then you get a better educationthere and that's what my kids
got.
That's what my kids havereceived in the couple of
(05:37):
educational trips that we'vetaken them on.
These aren't short.
Generally speaking, we tried togive them as much of an
education as we can goingthrough these things.
And you might think, oh, mykids will be bored of these
things.
Not really.
I mean.
They do have to be ageappropriate.
You're not bringing athree-year-old through the
(05:58):
Holocaust Museum and expectingthe three-year-old to get it.
But that doesn't mean you can'teducate your three-year-old in
some other way.
Plus, as I've said earlier and Ialluded to earlier, if you can
travel in the quote off seasonswhich means not in the summer
your prices are much better.
In fact, I'm really trying torack my brain while I'm sitting
(06:19):
here and thinking about all thetrips we've been on since we
started traveling quite a bit,and I don't think many of them
have been during the summer.
It just doesn't make sense tome, money-wise or even
points-wise, for me to take myfamily, or even my spouse,
somewhere major during thesummer.
(06:42):
In fact, my next plan don'ttell my wife is to take her to
London, and I ain't doing thatduring the summer.
First of all, it's hot there,but it's just more expensive,
everything's more expensive,everything's more expensive.
So why do it?
So there's two reasons.
(07:03):
I'm sorry, let me go back up.
There's actually only onereason to do that, and then it's
just simply cost.
But the other, actually there'stwo reasons.
I was right the first time.
The first is cost.
But the second thing is is youwon't know this by this podcast
maybe, but I'm an introvert.
I don't really like to be.
I'm not the one that everstrikes up a conversation with
people.
I can carry a conversation verywell once somebody strikes up
(07:27):
one with me, and if I get toknow you pretty well, I can joke
around pretty well with you.
But by nature I'm an introvert.
I'm the guy on the plane whowill put on headphones pretty
much right when he starts, rightwhen I'm riding on the airplane
.
I'm not the one and there areI've seen this before where you
have an extrovert and they wantto talk to everybody.
My dad was like that.
(07:48):
It used to drive me insane.
My dad would talk to literallyeverybody.
Still does.
Actually, that's a great skillto have.
I don't have that skill, but hethat, and so, being that way,
you can imagine I don't like tobe around crowds.
So that's the second reason.
In my opinion being an introvertand maybe you are too of why I
(08:09):
don't like to travel in thesummer.
There are crowds everywhere,everywhere.
Again, there are exceptions tothis rule.
There are places like I want tovisit in Canada, for example.
I don't want to go to Canada inthe winter.
Who would really?
Unless you're skiing, I supposeI would rather.
I'd rather go there in thesummer.
So there are exceptions toevery rule.
Everything I've said there's anexception to a rule somewhere.
(08:31):
This is generally what I havehad in my experience.
I don't like crowds and it'scheaper.
That's the two major reasonswhy I do not travel in the
summer.
But I was talking about thekids' education earlier.
Because people get hung up somuch on the fact that, oh, my
kids are in school, I can't takethem out of school.
(08:51):
Bull.
And in fact, let me tell youanother story, because it's not
that hard, guys, because let me,let me tell you the truth.
I I had this trip planned formy kids.
It's like it was a christmastrip.
They didn't know what the tripwas and I emailed and talked to
and again, you gotta realize mykids are in, you know, high
(09:14):
school and junior high and such,and so I had to email and talk
to probably 14 to 16 teachersand I called or emailed every
single one of them to get workfor them or would they be okay,
or what do they need to do to beokay as far as grade wise?
Because I know there are somepeople out there who are just
(09:37):
stressed out as all get out iftheir kid doesn't get an A in
that class, then talk to theteachers.
Your dollar stretches wayfarther with your kids and you
have a better experience,frankly, because there's not as
many crowds.
Even if you are an extrovert,you may not want to be around
that many crowds, or maybe yourspouse doesn't, or maybe your
kids don't.
(09:57):
Get with the teachers.
Then Plan the trip.
Get with the teachers.
What can we do?
What can we do?
What can we do Now?
Mine was a little bit.
Mine was a little difficult,though, because I couldn't let
the teachers, let my kids knowthat this was happening, because
they didn't even know when thetrip was.
I not only did I plan the trip,they don't know where they're
going, they didn't know whenthey were going.
(10:18):
So in this case it was reallyhard for them, because normally
they go hey, you're going on atrip in a week, so we're going
to do a make-up now, but theycouldn't even tell them that.
I asked them not to and theywere very accommodating.
We'll call it.
They were very accommodating.
So all you have to do is reallyjust get with those teachers
(10:38):
and say, hey, this is what we'replanning on doing.
How can we work this out Ifyou're really worried about that
, and then give your kids abetter education A better
education, in my opinion, thansitting in a classroom learning
about things.
Take them out of the classroomand show them things.
That's what I did.
(11:00):
My kids still talk about someof the things that they learned
there and it makes your heartglad that they're able to learn
all of those things.
So you get a double opportunityright you get to build memories
with your children and you alsoget to teach them something
without actually having to teachthem something.
(11:21):
Nobody wants to listen to alecture from mom and dad, but if
they can see it, touch it.
No-transcript.
Mount Vernon in Virginia was awonderful experience for my
children.
If they could do all of thesethings and do without the crowds
(11:46):
, because another thing aboutcrowds is.
They can't get as intimate ofan experience if they're behind
500 other people rushing them toget along, go along, go along,
get out of the way.
There's so many people who wantto see this get out of the way.
What kind of an experience isthat?
And that has happened with acouple of my trips with my kids.
Here and there, get along, movealong, come on.
(12:06):
There's other people there andwe do want to be courteous to
those people, so we do actuallyaccommodate them.
We don't want to be rude, butif you can, less crowds, then
you don't have to worry aboutthat.
So here's what I would do.
Last episode I talked or one ofthe episodes earlier I talked a
lot about scheduling that trip.
(12:28):
Now, now, now, now, now, foryour spouse and you.
It's important 100%.
Believe in that when you returnfrom that trip, start looking
at planning a trip with yourchildren.
And again, my recommendation toyou again is that it's not done
during the summer and it's notdone during Christmas break and
(12:53):
it's not done during springbreak.
It's just too busy.
You think all these travelcompanies give you better deals
on these weeks?
Are you kidding me?
It's just the exact opposite.
They pump prices up becausethey know.
They know there's too manyparents in this country who
believe that they can't taketheir kids out of school because
(13:14):
it'll stunt them, maybe in thepandemic way, for like years,
maybe stunt them.
But a week, talk to theirteachers.
Talk to their teachers.
So let me give you astep-by-step very briefly.
I already said this, but let mejust make it easy on you.
When you get back from your trip, you sit down with your spouse
(13:37):
and you plan that family trip.
Maybe it is a Christmas trip,like we do as a family, it
doesn't matter.
But plan a trip.
Maybe it's just two or threedays because you can't afford it
.
Fine, plan a trip with yourkids this time.
Once you have that planned, andif it's during the school year,
(13:58):
next step immediately startemailing or calling your
teachers, their teachers.
Unless it's in the middle ofthe summer, like if it's the
summer break, at the time youcan't get ahold of their
teachers.
But if it isn't, email or calltheir teachers immediately.
And if it's during the summer,first thing, one of the first
things that happens they saywell, what can we do for your
(14:20):
child?
Is what I seem to get from allthese kids.
Well, there's a deal, we'regoing on a trip.
I want to see what I can do formy child, make sure they're not
falling behind.
That's your second step.
Your third step is to book it,because so far I've said, get a
date, talk to the teachers, thenbook it.
The reason why I say don't bookit after you I mean don't book
(14:40):
it before you talk to theteachers is sometimes you talk
to teachers to find out, have afinal or at the end of the
semester or whatever they mighthave to adjust your dates here
or there.
So pick a dates first, thentalk to the teachers.
If you're worried about that Isay that if you're worried about
that, because me personally I'mnot worried about that I don't
care as much.
A long trip like a 10 day tripthat's when I actually emailed
(15:02):
them.
But if it's like a two or threeday trip, that doesn't bother
me.
If the kids are out two orthree days, it doesn't bother me
.
I don't think they're going tobe stunted.
But talk to their teachers,then book that trip.
You can use some of thefundamentals I taught in the
earlier episode when it was justa couple trip.
And again, there's other waysof booking travel with points
that's the system I keep talkingabout, the points and miles
(15:26):
system to earn and spendproperly.
Those miles.
Blow your mind.
Blow your mind where you cantravel in luxury as a family for
little or no cost.
So that's also another option.
You start working on that aswell.
So that is my recommendation toyou, or that's what I would do,
(15:49):
because that's what I did do.
You have been listening to.
Travel is Cheaper Than Divorcewith me, your host, david Packer
.
Please connect with us on ourYouTube channel at Travel Point
Pros.
There you will learn many tipsand tricks on how to use points
and miles to travel in luxuryfor little to no cost.
(16:11):
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Thank you for listening.
You are listening to, travel is Cheaper than Divorce.
This podcast for all those whomay be struggling with their
spouse or their children and therelationship with them.
We help give you tips andtricks by using travel as the
means to be able to help yourrelationships with your family.
I'll provide those tricks andother ways to help travel with
(00:29):
little or no cost.
So let's get into it.
One of the things that travelhas helped me do for my family,
that travel has helped me do formy family, is it's really
(00:50):
helped my family to get a bettereducation my kids and even my
spouse and I.
There is a real problem.
Most people would agree withthe education system in this in
the United States and in thiscountry and, um, everybody says
it but nobody ever really wantsto do anything about it.
Really, it's hard to get asolution that is to the liking
(01:12):
of everyone, but they keep usingit.
They keep thinking that right,there is.
The goal Is to get them throughschool and they can't miss a
day of school.
Heaven forbid they miss a weekof school.
Heaven forbid they miss a weekof school.
Heaven forbid they miss 10 daysof school.
My friends, one of the thingsthat I have learned over the
(01:34):
years and it's not hard, you cando a simple Google search and
know this that the mostexpensive travel times of the
year is during the summer.
Why?
Why?
Because it's warm.
Sure, I guess San Diego is warmall year, so in Florida I mean
what warm.
You can go a lot of places thatare warm.
(01:55):
Some of the places that arereally beautiful are really
beautiful during the winter.
It's not about the warmth, it'sabout the education schedule of
your children.
That's why it's more expensiveduring the summer.
That's why it's more expensiveduring the weeks between
Christmas and New Year's.
That's why it's more expensiveduring spring break.
(02:17):
It's everything.
Everybody's travel scheduleseems to rotate around their
kids' school schedule.
I'm telling you that that's notthe way to travel right now.
That is not the way to travel.
There are exceptions to thisrule, of course, but let me tell
you a little bit.
Let me tell you a story aboutsomething that our family did.
First of all, almost all of ourfamily travel is not in the
(02:40):
summer.
It's not.
I don't worry about taking mykids out of school for three
days, four days, seven days, tendays.
Some people might think that'scrazy.
That's fine.
That's just how I feel how wefeel as a family, because we
believe they get a bettereducation with us on a vacation,
even if it's on the beach, thanthey do inside the classroom.
(03:02):
Because, if we go back towhat's really important right,
we talked about in an earlier inearlier episodes, about how
memories are more important thanstuff.
Love is the most importantthing in the world.
I've said that a lot.
What are they going to get inthe class?
Are they going to get love inthe classroom?
Guys, really, it's importantfor your family to stay together
(03:26):
.
That's the point of thispodcast.
Really, I'm just teaching analternative way to do it.
So here's what we did.
One of our Christmas vacations Italked about was our vacation
to Washington DC.
My kids learned more on thattrip than they would have in a
history classroom during thosesame 10 days, and they developed
(03:47):
a love, a love for the country.
But they learned more than thatBecause we took these kids to a
bunch of places in WashingtonDC, but one of the places we
took them was the HolocaustMuseum.
For those who haven't beenthere, there is a room inside
the Holocaust Museum where it'sjust full of shoes.
This room, these shoes, wereworn by the people that were
(04:09):
killed in Auschwitz.
I believe it was Auschwitz, orit might be all of them, but
it's a room full of shoes ofvictims.
It is said that if you don'tlearn history, you're doomed to
repeat it.
This is only one of the historytrips we've been on, in fact,
one of the things you'll.
Another thing we'd tell ourkids, and much of the chagrin of
(04:31):
them, is that every otherChristmas trip, so every other
year, we do a trip that isfocused on education, because we
do believe the education isextremely important.
We just don't believe educationin the way that is currently
done is as important aseducation.
Going out and seeing thesethings.
There's another educationaltrip that our family went on
(04:52):
that my son, my oldest son, myoldest child.
Because of that trip he and itwas an educational one.
We've literally never beencloser.
I'm going to do a whole episodeon that on a later date
probably.
But when you're sitting aroundthe actual sites, the places
where things happened, whenyou're able to look behind the
glass at the actual Constitution, the actual Declaration of
(05:15):
Independence, when you're ableto tour the halls of Congress
before they closed that downafter the January 7th event,
then you get a better educationthere and that's what my kids
got.
That's what my kids havereceived in the couple of
(05:37):
educational trips that we'vetaken them on.
These aren't short.
Generally speaking, we tried togive them as much of an
education as we can goingthrough these things.
And you might think, oh, mykids will be bored of these
things.
Not really.
I mean.
They do have to be ageappropriate.
You're not bringing athree-year-old through the
(05:58):
Holocaust Museum and expectingthe three-year-old to get it.
But that doesn't mean you can'teducate your three-year-old in
some other way.
Plus, as I've said earlier and Ialluded to earlier, if you can
travel in the quote off seasonswhich means not in the summer
your prices are much better.
In fact, I'm really trying torack my brain while I'm sitting
(06:19):
here and thinking about all thetrips we've been on since we
started traveling quite a bit,and I don't think many of them
have been during the summer.
It just doesn't make sense tome, money-wise or even
points-wise, for me to take myfamily, or even my spouse,
somewhere major during thesummer.
(06:42):
In fact, my next plan don'ttell my wife is to take her to
London, and I ain't doing thatduring the summer.
First of all, it's hot there,but it's just more expensive,
everything's more expensive,everything's more expensive.
So why do it?
So there's two reasons.
(07:03):
I'm sorry, let me go back up.
There's actually only onereason to do that, and then it's
just simply cost.
But the other, actually there'stwo reasons.
I was right the first time.
The first is cost.
But the second thing is is youwon't know this by this podcast
maybe, but I'm an introvert.
I don't really like to be.
I'm not the one that everstrikes up a conversation with
people.
I can carry a conversation verywell once somebody strikes up
(07:27):
one with me, and if I get toknow you pretty well, I can joke
around pretty well with you.
But by nature I'm an introvert.
I'm the guy on the plane whowill put on headphones pretty
much right when he starts, rightwhen I'm riding on the airplane
.
I'm not the one and there areI've seen this before where you
have an extrovert and they wantto talk to everybody.
My dad was like that.
(07:48):
It used to drive me insane.
My dad would talk to literallyeverybody.
Still does.
Actually, that's a great skillto have.
I don't have that skill, but hethat, and so, being that way,
you can imagine I don't like tobe around crowds.
So that's the second reason.
In my opinion being an introvertand maybe you are too of why I
(08:09):
don't like to travel in thesummer.
There are crowds everywhere,everywhere.
Again, there are exceptions tothis rule.
There are places like I want tovisit in Canada, for example.
I don't want to go to Canada inthe winter.
Who would really?
Unless you're skiing, I supposeI would rather.
I'd rather go there in thesummer.
So there are exceptions toevery rule.
Everything I've said there's anexception to a rule somewhere.
(08:31):
This is generally what I havehad in my experience.
I don't like crowds and it'scheaper.
That's the two major reasonswhy I do not travel in the
summer.
But I was talking about thekids' education earlier.
Because people get hung up somuch on the fact that, oh, my
kids are in school, I can't takethem out of school.
(08:51):
Bull.
And in fact, let me tell youanother story, because it's not
that hard, guys, because let me,let me tell you the truth.
I I had this trip planned formy kids.
It's like it was a christmastrip.
They didn't know what the tripwas and I emailed and talked to
and again, you gotta realize mykids are in, you know, high
(09:14):
school and junior high and such,and so I had to email and talk
to probably 14 to 16 teachersand I called or emailed every
single one of them to get workfor them or would they be okay,
or what do they need to do to beokay as far as grade wise?
Because I know there are somepeople out there who are just
(09:37):
stressed out as all get out iftheir kid doesn't get an A in
that class, then talk to theteachers.
Your dollar stretches wayfarther with your kids and you
have a better experience,frankly, because there's not as
many crowds.
Even if you are an extrovert,you may not want to be around
that many crowds, or maybe yourspouse doesn't, or maybe your
kids don't.
(09:57):
Get with the teachers.
Then Plan the trip.
Get with the teachers.
What can we do?
What can we do?
What can we do Now?
Mine was a little bit.
Mine was a little difficult,though, because I couldn't let
the teachers, let my kids knowthat this was happening, because
they didn't even know when thetrip was.
I not only did I plan the trip,they don't know where they're
going, they didn't know whenthey were going.
(10:18):
So in this case it was reallyhard for them, because normally
they go hey, you're going on atrip in a week, so we're going
to do a make-up now, but theycouldn't even tell them that.
I asked them not to and theywere very accommodating.
We'll call it.
They were very accommodating.
So all you have to do is reallyjust get with those teachers
(10:38):
and say, hey, this is what we'replanning on doing.
How can we work this out Ifyou're really worried about that
, and then give your kids abetter education A better
education, in my opinion, thansitting in a classroom learning
about things.
Take them out of the classroomand show them things.
That's what I did.
(11:00):
My kids still talk about someof the things that they learned
there and it makes your heartglad that they're able to learn
all of those things.
So you get a double opportunityright you get to build memories
with your children and you alsoget to teach them something
without actually having to teachthem something.
(11:21):
Nobody wants to listen to alecture from mom and dad, but if
they can see it, touch it.
No-transcript.
Mount Vernon in Virginia was awonderful experience for my
children.
If they could do all of thesethings and do without the crowds
(11:46):
, because another thing aboutcrowds is.
They can't get as intimate ofan experience if they're behind
500 other people rushing them toget along, go along, go along,
get out of the way.
There's so many people who wantto see this get out of the way.
What kind of an experience isthat?
And that has happened with acouple of my trips with my kids.
Here and there, get along, movealong, come on.
(12:06):
There's other people there andwe do want to be courteous to
those people, so we do actuallyaccommodate them.
We don't want to be rude, butif you can, less crowds, then
you don't have to worry aboutthat.
So here's what I would do.
Last episode I talked or one ofthe episodes earlier I talked a
lot about scheduling that trip.
(12:28):
Now, now, now, now, now, foryour spouse and you.
It's important 100%.
Believe in that when you returnfrom that trip, start looking
at planning a trip with yourchildren.
And again, my recommendation toyou again is that it's not done
during the summer and it's notdone during Christmas break and
(12:53):
it's not done during springbreak.
It's just too busy.
You think all these travelcompanies give you better deals
on these weeks?
Are you kidding me?
It's just the exact opposite.
They pump prices up becausethey know.
They know there's too manyparents in this country who
believe that they can't taketheir kids out of school because
(13:14):
it'll stunt them, maybe in thepandemic way, for like years,
maybe stunt them.
But a week, talk to theirteachers.
Talk to their teachers.
So let me give you astep-by-step very briefly.
I already said this, but let mejust make it easy on you.
When you get back from your trip, you sit down with your spouse
(13:37):
and you plan that family trip.
Maybe it is a Christmas trip,like we do as a family, it
doesn't matter.
But plan a trip.
Maybe it's just two or threedays because you can't afford it
.
Fine, plan a trip with yourkids this time.
Once you have that planned, andif it's during the school year,
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next step immediately startemailing or calling your
teachers, their teachers.
Unless it's in the middle ofthe summer, like if it's the
summer break, at the time youcan't get ahold of their
teachers.
But if it isn't, email or calltheir teachers immediately.
And if it's during the summer,first thing, one of the first
things that happens they saywell, what can we do for your
(14:20):
child?
Is what I seem to get from allthese kids.
Well, there's a deal, we'regoing on a trip.
I want to see what I can do formy child, make sure they're not
falling behind.
That's your second step.
Your third step is to book it,because so far I've said, get a
date, talk to the teachers, thenbook it.
The reason why I say don't bookit after you I mean don't book
(14:40):
it before you talk to theteachers is sometimes you talk
to teachers to find out, have afinal or at the end of the
semester or whatever they mighthave to adjust your dates here
or there.
So pick a dates first, thentalk to the teachers.
If you're worried about that Isay that if you're worried about
that, because me personally I'mnot worried about that I don't
care as much.
A long trip like a 10 day tripthat's when I actually emailed
(15:02):
them.
But if it's like a two or threeday trip, that doesn't bother
me.
If the kids are out two orthree days, it doesn't bother me
.
I don't think they're going tobe stunted.
But talk to their teachers,then book that trip.
You can use some of thefundamentals I taught in the
earlier episode when it was justa couple trip.
And again, there's other waysof booking travel with points
that's the system I keep talkingabout, the points and miles
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system to earn and spendproperly.
Those miles.
Blow your mind.
Blow your mind where you cantravel in luxury as a family for
little or no cost.
So that's also another option.
You start working on that aswell.
So that is my recommendation toyou, or that's what I would do,
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because that's what I did do.
You have been listening to.
Travel is Cheaper Than Divorcewith me, your host, david Packer
.
Please connect with us on ourYouTube channel at Travel Point
Pros.
There you will learn many tipsand tricks on how to use points
and miles to travel in luxuryfor little to no cost.
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