The Travel Show: Very Special Show; Tips for Disney with Kids; Thailand

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwiz, the Getaway Guru,
and here we have the last travel show of the
year as we welcome into new Year. We've got a
great show lined up today, the details of the upcoming
Utah Travel Expo. We're going to be talking about traveling
to Disneyland with your kids and grandkids. New requirements to

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enter the UK and did you know that you can
renew your passport online. We'll be taking you to Africa, England, Scotland,
Wales and Thailand. And of course what show would be
complete without our Hawaii and Mexico specials. I'm in my
thirty fourth year as host of the Travel Show and

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I have a very special guest. It's her first time
appearing in studio on the guest the one, the only,
the lovely and talented my wife, Kathy Gelwick. Kathy, Welcome
to the Travel Show.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Thank you. It's nice to be here.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
I have always wondered what you did down here, and
now I get to experience it myself.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, most of your life you've been wondering what I
do now, but that's another story for another day. You've
been on the Travel Show before, you've called in You've
talked about destinations and trips, but this really is your
first time in the studio, isn't it It is?

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Now I can rival my grandchildren for that experience.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Well, the Travel Show is sponsored by Morris Columbus Travel,
where you always travel More and pay Less, and Norwegian
Cruise Line, the home of freestyle cruising. Now, Kathy, you've
attended with me the Utah Travel Expo both in Southern
Utah and here in Salt Lake this year, well this
coming year for twenty twenty five. In Southern Utah, it

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will be Wednesday, January twenty second at the Black Desert
Inn in Ivans that's up by Santa Clara, just outside
of Saint George. And then in the Salt Lake area
Friday and Saturday, January twenty fourth and twenty fifth at
the Mountain America Expost Center in Sandy. Now, no tickets
are required for the Southern Utah event, but it is

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a ticketed event in Salt Lake. It's only six bucks
a ticket for adults. However, We've set up a special
website for Travel Show listeners where I'm going to give
you my gift. My New Year's gift to you are
free tickets. Hey, that's a cheeseburger in diet coke at
McDonald's these days, free tickets for you, your your neighbors,

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your family. I mean, print as many as you want
for the Salt Lake January twenty fourth, twenty fifth Utah
Travel Expo at Mountain America Expo Center. Go to this website. Oh,
it's so easy to remember morriscolumbus dot com forward slash free.
And of course you've heard me say the only thing

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better than cheap is free. Morriscolumbus dot com forward slash free. Now, Kathy,
what is it about the expo that you have enjoyed
so much?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
I love having watching people come in, giving them their
little free bag and having them fill it up and
then they dream as they walk through the aisles. You
can ask lots of questions, you can plan your next trip.
There are a lot of smiles at the travel show.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
There really are. You know what's interesting is travel vendors. Now,
a travel vendor is an airline, a cruise line, of resort,
safari company, travel support companies. In southern Utah there will
be about fifty travel vendors. So that's all we can
fit into the conference. Center down there, but in Salt

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like one hundred and seven travel vendors, airlines, resorts, cruise lines.
You know, I've asked these travel vendors, Kathy, what is
different about the Utah Travel Expo. What they tell me
is the people. The people come prepared. People come with
notepads with questions written out. You may be wondering, is

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this resort, is this cruise line? Is this vacation destination
right for me and my family? Well, sit down with
the manager of that resort, sit down with an airline representative.
We'll have national tourist boards there that can answer questions
about their country. We'll have the business development manager of

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cruise lines talk to them about what you're expecting in
the cruise.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Maybe they really come to meet you and have their
picture taken.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
I ever thought about that.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
By the way, folks, that was not a setup question either.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
I thought of it myself.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
How about that? Well, we will be broadcasting the Travel
Show live from the Utah Travel Expost Saturday there in
Salt Lake City. Remember for free tickets Morriscolumbus dot com
forward slash free, but you can only print them before
the travel X Well, you can't print them on the

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day of it will disappear. Love to have you there, Kathy,
You and I have traveled a lot. In fact, I
married the sweetest girl on the face of the earth
who had been to Hawaii, traveling to the west in California.
But when we got married, you had never been further

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east than Vernal. My, how that has changed.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Well, you know, I married a school teacher, a rugby coach.
Little did I know that I would have these fabulous
experiences through my lifetime, and they certainly have enriched my
life and the lives of our children.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
How do you use, Kathy, how do you see the
benefits of travel? What does it do to you, to
our children, to families? How does it broaden our horizon
and really make us better people?

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Well?

Speaker 3 (06:00):
No, you can read about these places, but there's something
about being present, experiencing it, to learn about different cultures,
to meet different people. You know, we've had some interesting
experiences with our children. Emily are eight was eight years
old at the time. In her classroom, the teacher was

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talking about Westminster.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Abbey and in London.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
In London, and the teacher said, well, what's in the floor,
And Emily raised her hand and said dead people because
she has she had experienced it herself. Our children have
had experiences with different cultures, people have different skin colors, ethnicities,

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and absolutely and I see them with little or no
prejudice in their lives. To me, that is one of
the incredible benefits of traveling.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
You know, I see that. I've seen our children grow
up traveling around the world. It's how it's affected them,
and they've passed on the love of travel to their children,
our grandchildren. I think it allows us to see the
world through new eyes, gain an appreciation for what we have.
I've told the story Kathy that you know I've been
to one hundred and fifteen countries, most of them many

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times over. You've been to almost that. There's a few
places I've been that you have to count. We need
to count, but you're all you're almost there yourself. And
I have this emotion that whenever I return to the
United States and the plain Lands, be at New York,
Salt Lake, Seattle, LA. Wherever I have this emotion, I

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want to get down and kiss the ground and say,
thank you God that I live in this country. With
all of our issues that we're trying to resolve, we
live in the greatest country. And you know, I'm glad
for the First Amendment. I'm glad that people can express
their views. I really am. But I hear some of

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these people just trashing America. Yet they still choose to
live here. But it's like, do you realize what we have?
Have you seen the world as I've seen the world,
and few people have. You know. Travel also gives us
some distance from work, and we can learn about other cultures,

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strength and relationship, and it's really a chance to unplug
and recharge. Although I've said from some vacations, I got
to come home to rest up.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
You make the vacations, you do, meet people, run a
lot on your turn.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Now. Yes, you and I last month completely circumnavigated the globe.
We flew to Europe, we went to the Middle East,
went to Dubai, to India, to Asia, and then flew home.
Thinking about our life together almost forty eight years, which
will be in this April.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Amazing.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
She hasn't thrown me out of the house Yet't believe
me she's had, cause we've got about one minute left.
Just a couple of the really memorable trips that you've had.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
You know, that's really hard to narrow it down, but
I will tell you that I love being in the
British Isles.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
That just feels like home to me.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Africa was incredible. Hard to explain, but once you've been
there and seen the beauties. The other one that I
would say is probably my favorite are the Christmas market
on the Rhine River. Why because it's a whole different

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experience when it comes to preparing for the holidays. It
feels so much more authentic than you know, department stores.
It's been going on for six hundred years. They know
how to do this, they know how to get ready
for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Well, just about two weeks ago we got back from
Christmas Markets on the Danube with a wonderful group. It
was again over the top. Now people ask me if
we're going to do this again. It's not on the website.
Our travel advisors don't even know that. Kathy and Larry
have planned a December twenty twenty six Christmas markets on

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the Rhine Switzerland, Germany, France and the Netherlands. The details
will be available at the Utah Travel Expo. When we
come back, we're going to be talking about traveling to Disneyland.
Helpful hints and suggestions with your kids and grandkids. Welcome

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back to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, the Getaway Guru,
joined today by Kathy gel It's my lovely wife of
almost forty eight years this April, and we've traveled the
world together. I invited her to be a special guest.
She's actually been on the Travel Show before, but I've
had her phone in and give reports today in studio

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for the full two hours. I want to welcome to
the show. That's right anyway, Thank you very much for that.
We've traveled the world together. You know, Kathy. One of
the most popular places for families to travels, also called

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the happiest place on Earth, Disneyland. I'd like to welcome
to the show a Disney expert, an absolute Disney file.
Jennifer Christiansen. Jennifer, welcome to the Travel Show.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Hey, thanks for having me. I don't know who Jennifer
Christiansen is. Hi, Jenny, this is.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, this is Jennifer Gelwick's christians Send our daughter, oh,
Jess Gelwick's. Okay, is Brandon listening to this all right?
Jenny Gelwick's Jenny Christiansen. I don't know who you are today,
but you know since I first took Jenny to Disneyland
about her second birthday, and she's been in love with that.

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You know that was a great trip. We've got pictures.
I took all the kids to Disneyland at about that age.
We'd make it a day trip, fly down and back
and have a great time. Jenny, you and John Potter
are the greatest Disney experts. I might throw Scooter in
there too. On Disney And I want to ask you

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some questions about you've traveled back. You just got back
from earlier this month from Disneyland with the kids. It's
an annual pilgrimage at least once a year. Let me
ask you some specific questions about traveling to Disneyland. And
we're talking about California here with kids. First of all,

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the big question is where to stay. Everybody had liked
the California Grand California, but that's like seven hundred bucks
a night literally for families who are not related to
Bill Gates and can afford that. Where do you recommend
that people stay.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
For families on a teacher salary like myself, I always
recommend something within walking distance.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
There's one in particular, can I say the one.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Of course that we stay at.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
I am not paid for this, but we've been staying
there for about eighteen years. It's the Best Western Stove
Balls and it's on the Disneyland Drive side.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Which is the side that has the Disney hotels.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
A lot of the most of the hotels are on
the Harbor Boulevard side that has the bus entrances, and
that's where most of the hotels are. But I like
to stay on the other side because it's a little
bit quieter, and the it's within walking distance, and the entrance,
like the going through security is generally a lot faster
than the other side.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, but Jenny, I've stayed, We've gone with your families,
stayed at the Best Western Stoveall stou Va l or
something like that, and to know you, but other Yeah,
from the hotel to the entrance, which is the security
entrance on the Disneyland Hotel side, it's about a ten

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minute walk, isn't it. Yeah? Yeah, at most, I would say, Well,
let's move on to another topic about food suggestions. I mean,
flat out, at every theme park food is expensive. How
do you manage a budget with kids? Food suggestions going
to Disneyland, Well.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
One thing I will say that I don't utilize because
I like to be on vacation. When I'm on vacation,
but they do allow you to bring food in. So
I've been sitting at a restaurant and seeing a family
take out an entire loaf of bread with peanut butter
and jelly and make sandwiches there. So there is is
that cost effective alternative. Personally, I like to have reservations.

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I like to go to fun fund restaurants. And one
thing that I would definitely recommend is ordering quick service on.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
The app ahead of time.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
You can order hours ahead of time, so you could
order your family's dinner at a quick service restaurant, which
is just not a fit down with a waiter. You
can order it five hours in advance, and I would
recommend that because sometimes they run out of particular things, but.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
If you order them, you get that.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
So those are the two things I would definitely recommend
is make reservations or order on your app because you
can skip long lines that way.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah. You know, one thing I used to do your
mom and I used to do with you kids, and
it was on a tight budget. Would stay at a
hotel like the Stoveball that has a wonderful breakfast and
then going to it, maybe at the seven level or something.
We'd pick up packaged sand which is for lunch, and
then always to a restaurant for dinner because that's part

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of the fun. Now you know, you have Disneyland the
park and then California Adventure. What are your thoughts about
taking smaller kids to California Adventure.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
I think it's great.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
There's definitely stuff for them to do.

Speaker 5 (16:19):
I don't find that there's as much for the smaller
kids to do, but they definitely have rides like the
Little Mermaid. They do have the Redwood Creek Trail, which
my boys I have a nine year old and a
six year old, and they love. It's just an open
area for them to run around. There's rope courses, they
have zip lines, like it's just like it's almost like

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a little boy Scout area where you could just run around.
During Christmas time, they actually have Fanta there as well,
But it's just a fun place for kids to run around.
But they have stuff for little kids to do, just
not as much. So if you're only going to disneyand
for one day, I would recommend Disneyland over California Adventure.
But if you're going to do too, I would definitely
go over to California Adventure with your little A lot

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of fun.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
We're speaking to Jenny Gelwiz Christiansen, a Disney expert. Jenny,
we've got about a minute left and so much to cover.
Talk about something you mentioned dressing kids in small kids
in matching outfits and Apple Air tag on their ankle.

Speaker 5 (17:20):
Oh, just for some safety things. I always put an
Apple Air tag on my voice, but I put it
on their ankle on one of those straps you can buy,
just so that's not as easy to take off. I
write my name and my phone number on their arms,
not their names.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
I dress them in.

Speaker 5 (17:36):
Matching clothes so that if one does get lost, I
can say this is what he's wearing. And then I
also show them like the one we just did, the
big Christmas Tree on Main Street was our meeting place
if they got lost. But I also show them to
find those cast members with tags as designated helpers, that
if they do get lost, find somebody with a tag,

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then they can help you find us.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
We've got about thirty deccands left very quickly. The difference
between Minnie's Breakfast and Goofy's Kitchen.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
They're both.

Speaker 5 (18:08):
They both have different characters that come out. They're both
kind of bigger, a little bit busier. Minnie's is in Disneyland,
so you have to have a park ticket to get in.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Goofy Kitchen is at the Disneyland Hotel.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
Thank you very much. Jenny Gelwicks, Christiansen, Disney expert here
on the Travel Show.

Speaker 6 (18:25):
I love you, Jenny, You guys, Bye, Welcome back to
the Travel Show.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
I'm Larry Gelwicks, the Getaway Guru, joined today by my
co host in life, Kathy Gelwick's Kathy, great to have
you here on the show.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
I'm enjoying is this kin sun.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
You know.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
We have Kathy and I have this philosophy of life
that it's whatever you want to do in your life, yourself,
personal goals, travel, family, grandkids, Some accomplish it, something that
you want to do. Our philosophy is do it while

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you can and go while you can. We all know
people in life and maybe them their spouse, their partner,
their family, their finances, their health, could be anything, and
overnight something changes and suddenly these dreams and things that
they wanted to do, they simply can't do. Maybe it's them,

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maybe it's a family member or work related. But whatever
it is in life, do it while you can, love
while you can, go while you can.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
You know, I think people have been very concerned about
what they're going to be leaving for their children after
they pass, and more and more I'm hearing things like, well,
if you don't spend the money to fly first class
or to go on the big trip, your kids will
all right.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
To our kids, you'll get nothing. We're gonna fly up
in row two if we can. Kathy, I have many
loves in life. You're, of course at the top of
the list, followed you, followed by our kids and grandkids.
But as far as travel, you've heard me say that

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if it weren't for our kids and grandkids, the place
that I would like to live and retire is Thailand.
You've known me low these many years. What is it
about Thailand that draws me just like a magnet?

Speaker 3 (20:43):
Well, and that's absolutely true. I have heard him say
in July. Mind you, he goes to Thailand a lot.
But I've heard him say during the year, Oh, I
wish I were in Thailand. In one eighteen month period,
about ten years ago. I think he went nine times

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to Thailand. It is it's the culture, it's the food,
it's the people. They're such a gentle group of people.
I love oh and shopping, of course, but I love

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watching your groups adapt to this. To learn how to
say solwidika or solwidi cop and.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Which is the native greeting hello, how are.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
And the placement of your hands, and to begin to
feel and see it.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's wonderful.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
And I don't know of anybody who has been there
who doesn't want to go back again.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
There's a different feel in Thailand. Well, next month, January,
I will be in Thailand. In fact our show next
week I will be in Bangkok. So yes, I'm leaving
in the next few days with our Thailand and Legends
of Siam. Now a lot of people are asking are

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you going to do it again? Because this is what
I consider my signature tour, the tour of all the
places I go that I'm the most proud of Thailand
and the Legends of Siam. We have an excursion afterwards
up to Anchorwat and PanAm Pen, Cambodia. Anchor Wat one
of the great wonders of the world, dating back to
the twelfth century and a working temple since that time.

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The dates are out for twenty twenty six. We will
leave January the fourth and you'll be home January eighteenth. Now,
if you go to Cambodia, add another four or five
days to it, and I hope you do. You're in
the neighborhood. You don't want to miss it. But this
is an epic tour. We do the midlands up north

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to the foothills of the Himalayas. In the jungle. We're
on an elephant safari. We're on longtail boats down to Pouquette.
We see the country. Now, what's interesting, Kathy, I think
I told you this. We're just enounce This is the
first announcement of the trip, but right now one third

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is already sold out. Before we announced it because people
were calling saying, when's Larry gonna do this again? And
I keep it to thirty six people. That's it. One bus,
one bus. I've used the same local guide. Her name
is kat Uh for twenty years. How would you describe kat.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Well, she and I are sisters from another mother. But
I wonder sometimes if she couldn't be considered well, at
least she's your personal assistant in Thailand. I don't know
that i'd call it your Thai wife, but she is
delightful sense of humor.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
She is so funny and so attentive to the group.
The dates are Jayjanuary fourth. Now that's like a midnight fight.
You can even go to work that day, January fourth
to the eighteenth, and then if you add on to
that Cambodia, you will be back on January twenty one.

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I'd love to have you join me. Let's see, we've
sold fourteen already, so there's what some twenty two spaces
and we haven't even put it out for sale yet.
That's Thailand and the Legends of Siam. You can go
to Morriscolumbus dot Commorriscolumbus dot com and on the homepage
scroll down on the homepage. I think it's the third item.

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It says Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours, and Morris Columbus Travel
has about eighty different escorted tours, summer cruises, summer land tours.
This of course is a land tour. But if it's
a cruise, click on cruise. If it's a geographic destination,
click on Europe, holy Lands, Asia, Africa, South America. You'll

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see this one January fourth, the eighteenth, twenty twenty six,
just one year away. Again, love to have you join me. Well,
you know, in that last segment, our daughter Jenny, who
is the ultimate Disneyland expert Disney File, gave some very
helpful suggestions of traveling to Disneyland with kids. One of

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the things that she's told me they always buy one
of those Mickey balloons helium balloons and tie it to
the stroller. And she I mean they have our grandson
Milo is nine. They have two kids, Milo and Brooks,
nine and six. And even with older kids, it's a

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good idea to have a stroller just to put your
stuff in. But after their last day of their visit,
they will give the balloon to some kid that they
see that doesn't have a balloon. So, Kathy, you and
I have traveled with our children literally all over the world.
One of the great things we did was this summer

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we took all of our adult children and their spouses
on a Rhine River cruise Netherlands, France, Germany and Switzerland.
What are some of the reflections you have on family
travel and suggestions of traveling with kids.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Well, I will just tell you.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
We sat down to dinner on the first night of
the Rhine River Creuse and my son in law said,
you have been holding out on us. This is the
way to travel. We had a marvelous time. I asked
my children, because they love traveling, they travel with their kids,
and I have a long list of suggestions, but I'll

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give you a couple of them. Try and get the
bulkhead that's the very front seat on the airplane. On
the airplane for extra room, back change of clothing just
in case their accidents. Be sure to have a binkie
or a bottle or a sucker those little dumb dums
for ears when you take off and land. Bring tons

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of snacks. Download your favorite episodes. You can't have too
many of blue on headphones for them to watch, and
download them before you leave home, and please make sure
that the headphones work. Bring their comfort items. For parents

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in particular, be relaxed about this. People don't hate you
for having a child who maybe a little cranky. They
have headphones that they can put on, and mostly people
are thinking, oh, that parent is trying so hard, so
just relax, be calm.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
That will help your kids. The other thing is.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Before the flight, walk them through the airport, tire out
their feet, be sure to clean up after yourself. Bring
an activity book, bring new activities for every hour of
the flight. Talk to it's a long flight, talk to
your doctor about using a sleep aid for a child

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who might be excitable, and then clean up after yourself.
Don't leave that for the flight attendants or the cleaning crew.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
There was a recent story of a mother with some
small children and I guess left a horrific mess on
an airplane, I mean crackers and food and paper in
the seat on the floor, and the flight attendant asked her,
could you please clean up after your children? And evidently
the mother was she went on social media offended. I

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think that was a fair request. You know, some of
the mess kids are going to make a mess, and
some will require a vacuum. But pick up after he
gets Take a bag with you just to put the
garbage on. What packing hacks do you have?

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Oh, my goodness sakes, I always take too many clothes there?

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Amen? Can I get an amen for that?

Speaker 7 (29:14):
Well?

Speaker 3 (29:14):
I like shoes too, Make a list and demcos you
can be very methodical about how you pack. I like
packing cubes and for long flights. I need to be
comfortable regardless of where I sit on the plane. You

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can buy a foot rest so that you can elevate
your feet. I take a light blanket, a neck pillow, headphones.
I particularly like an imask that has bluetooth in it
so I can just zone out for all of that.
There are some packing strategies. There are three three three

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or five three one. You know, you take five tops
three bottoms. There's lots of information on the website for that,
and if it works for you, take a sleep aid.
It's nice to be able to get a little bit
of rest.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
You know. I have a routine that my doctor doesn't like.
I have a prescription sleeping pill that will knock an
elephant out, so I sleep across the ocean. But then
the worst thing you arrive in Europe in the morning,
you arrive in Asia in the morning or something. If

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you're on a night flight, the worst thing you can
do is sleep all day, because then you're going to
be up all night. So I've got to force myself
to stay awake. So I've taken the sleep pill, and
then when I get to my overseas destination, if it's morning,
I overdose on diet coke just keeps probably reaks havoc

(30:58):
on my body, but it keeps me awake so that
I can quickly adjust. And you know it's not a
bad idea to have some of those sleep pills or
sleep aids for the first night or two to get
yourself asleep in the hotel. I've got a setup question.
We're going to pull open the Kimona of what it's

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like to travel with the Getaway Guru. Welcome back to
the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwick's the Getaway Guru and
on this the last travel show of the year. As
we come into the new year twenty twenty five, may

(31:40):
I express my personal thanks and appreciation to you for
joining me every weekend here on the Travel Show. This
is going into my thirty fourth year as host of
the Travel Show, and I just get giddy looking forward
to it. And joined today by the one and only,

(32:03):
the wonderful Kathy Gelwick's my lovely wife, who's my traveling
companion for lo these many years. We will have been
married forty eight years come this April, and uh, it
has been forty eight years of bliss.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Keep saying that I'd like you to describe bliss.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Hey, you really are the best part of the show.
I want to invite you to call in. It's triple
eight five seven oh eighth one oh eight eight eight
five seventy eighty ten, with your questions, your comments. You
may have something that you want to ask Kathy. I
think that's a great idea. She's gonna throw me under

(32:43):
the bus right now. But anything you want to ask
me or Kathy, we'd love to have you call in.
Triple eight five seven oh eight oh one oh. Now, Kathy,
you have told me and I've actually heard people ask
you this question. What is it like?

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Do you want the good or the bad?

Speaker 1 (33:04):
I want all of it? What is it like traveling
with Larry? Living with Larry? Everything? We don't have time
for that. But I want to hear the good, the bad,
the ugly. You know, it's like the frustrations of living
and traveling with me and the joys. Go ahead.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
I'm going to be really calm. You're kind, kind and
calm here.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
I'm traveling with Larry is truly the way to go.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
I know that there are a.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
Lot of people, a number of people who like traveling
with him and come on multiple trips, and I'm going
to tell you why I think that is so you
don't have to worry about anything when you travel with Larry.
For me, I know the kind of which we were
going to and what time we're leaving the house.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
I rarely know.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
The flight because he has all of this information. He
loves people. He loves to show what he loves two people.
He's very very diplomatic. People feel safe with Larry. They
know that he is capable of handling the little things

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and the big ones. And he asks simply as a
member of the group that you show up on time.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Let's go to the phone lines. Richard is calling in
from Springvale. Richard. Welcome to the travel show. Oh yes,
what can we help you with, Richard.

Speaker 8 (34:54):
Well, I'm interested in knowing. In my fantasy of mind,
I like to take a trip if I if I
to the country of Poland. I have posh ancestry on
both sides, and so I like to know more about that. However,
I know that there's you know, the Ukraine, the Ukraine

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War is well, I'm going over there obviously, and so
I mainly want to go there to Toposman for a
genealogy expedition.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
All right, So if you're asking, I would consider travel
to Poland. Kathy and I have enjoyed our travels there
to Poland. I would not hesitate. Yes, there's things going
on in the Ukraine, but it's like saying, you know,
we got problems in Detroit, so let's not go to
San Diego. I would have no hesitation of going to Poland. Now,

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if you're going to do it on family history, it's
going to be a very different trip. Most visitors will
go to Warsaw and Kakaw fits down there. The salt
mines of krackour fabulous. We've enjoyed old town in Warsaw.
But what you'd want to do is talk to a
travel professional because you're likely to go to places Richard

(36:15):
that most tourists would not be interest because your family
is there. But as we come to the top of
the hour, that's how I would appreciate it, and I
appreciate your call. Let's go to Kent. Calling from Salt
Lake City, Hi.

Speaker 7 (36:32):
Ken Door, can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (36:34):
I got you there.

Speaker 7 (36:36):
I'm planning I'm going with you June tents to Iceland.
I like to know details of the London trip afterwards,
how much in Where are we going in London?

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Okay, Kent's talking about the Iceland to London. Kathy, you've
done that with me and you'll be on this year
we visit Iceland, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and England and specifically
and we have about thirty seconds left. Cant so as
far as the cost, contact your travel advisor, but we'll

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be there for a couple of days. In London, we'll
have a full London city tour and some free time
to enjoy the city. Contact your Morris Columbus travel advisor
and they can give you the specific cost. But you're
going to be in London. The ship actually disembarks in Southampton.
It's about an hour and fifteen hour and a half

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south of London on the coast there. But inasmuch as
you're there, you don't want to miss it.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
Now.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
One of the things that you want to remember is
that for travel to the United Kingdom starting January eighth
and electronic travel authorization has to be completed and you
do it online. Your travel advisor will help you with that.
I appreciate your call. More count in our number two

(37:58):
of the Travel Show, Thank you YouTube. Welcome back to
our number two of the travel show. I'm Larry Gelwicks,
that get away guru, and yes, I'll be getting away
to Thailand and Cambodi in just a few days. In fact,
next week's show, I will be in Bangkok, one of

(38:21):
my favorite cities around the world. I'm joined today by
my lovely wife, Kathy Gelwicks, who is so well traveled.
You've traveled over one hundred countries and you have a
great perspective. We were talking in the last hour and
then we got a couple of calls, and we love
the calls. Triple eight, five, seven, eighth one. Oh, is

(38:43):
there a question you'd like to ask me, or better yet,
you'd like to ask Kathy about travel, marriage, relationships, everything.
You've got some doozies right there. But you were talking
about the joy and frosh stration of living with me
and especially traveling with me.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
I know that.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Larry is very meticulous in planning all his trips. He
dots the i's, crosses the t's. But the very good
thing is that he is cool when unplanned themes happen.
Although there are a couple of frustrations that I have
with him. He tends to lose me when we're in
a group, I have to make sure that I can

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find for myself. But he also wears the same shirt
multiple days, and he is not a fashion icon on any.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Of the trips.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Say that because you have one shirt and I'm hoping
it'll wear out soon.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
But are you talking about my shirt?

Speaker 3 (39:50):
No, I hid that one. You did the one, well,
it needs a little repair work. It's quite old now.
And and the infant thing is he is so very kind.
I wish once in a while he would speak the
truth to a member of our group who is not behaving.

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But he is, like I say, so kind. People just
enjoy being around. He loves to work the crowd. He'll
leave me in a cruise cabin in the evening, which
is fine with me, but he'll go out just to.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Talk to people.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
Oh you're sweet.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Well, yeah, that's enough for now.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Do you know one of the things that Kathy you
said once that I have not thought was just brilliant,
and I have repeated that to every group is one
of the joys of group travel is there's one thing
and one thing only you have to remember.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Oh no, no, no, I've changed that. There are two.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Oh, there are two things, all right, Number one is
you just.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
Have to show up on time. And I will tell
you our group are so they're good. They yeah, one thing,
show up in time. But the other thing that I've
added my suggestion is you have to keep up with
the rest of the group. So show up and keep
up and you will have a.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Fabulous And your part of that keeping up is picking
the right and appropriate tour. There are questions that travelers
should ask, like how much walking is there? Is there
uneven surfaces, about the weather, all of these factors that
come in. Yes, I want to see this, but can

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you really do it? And I mean that in the
kindest way, because it's your enjoyment and a group is
only as efficient as its slowest member, and I don't
mean that in any disrespectful way. For example, the africature,
Oh my goodness, the africature, there's not a lot of walking.
There really isn't, and so it's really appropriate for just

(42:03):
about anyone. Maybe a holy Land tour where you're going
over uneven surfaces and there's a fair amount of walking,
one should consider if that is really appropriate.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
There also should not be surprises for the tour hosts.
Oh my gosh, And you know, you don't want to
show up in a far flung country that you know.
Mind you doesn't have a DA requirements with the wheelchair.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Now, we do have tours that are perfectly appropriate for
wheelchairs and others. It's a real challenge with that. You know.
One of the big differences with Kathy and I is
how we recharge our batteries. When Kathy needs to recharge,
she wants solitary reading a book almost by herself.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Well that would mean it's okay if you're not there.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Thank you. But for me, how do I recharge? You
kind of alluded to it.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
You love people, You love visiting with them, telling them stories,
talking to them, getting to know them, and you learn
people's names very quickly.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
I have a problem with that. I think there's some condition.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
If they ever ask me to recognize someone in a
police lineup, I could not do it.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Names and faces go flying out of there.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Do you suffer from a condition called name itis?

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Well that's good enough for me, Kathy.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
Here's a question for you. In social media, you'd think
this happens every day every flight. It does happen, but
not that often. What do you do if you're seated
in your seat and somebody, and somebody asks you to switch.

Speaker 6 (43:46):
Or.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
You get on the plane and someone is set it
seated in your assigned seat and wants you to take theirs,
or refuses to move. What do you do?

Speaker 2 (43:59):
You don't mess with me?

Speaker 1 (44:01):
Oh learned that. I learned that forty eight years ago.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
I think it's poor planning on people's part when they
don't end up with the seats that they think that
they deserve. We've been on flights where out of convenience,
we've been asked to switch, and if you switch to
a comparable seat, I think that's just a kindness. It's

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when people book in basic economy and expect their companion
to sit with them or to be moved up in
the plane. Those things are simply not fair to the people.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Who did plan in.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Now, basic economy means you do not get in a
signed seat until you arrive at the airport and check in.
There's no advanced seat assignment. It's a lower price ticket.
There are some other restrictions. Some airlines restrict what a
carry on can be if you can even bring one
on a Basic economy. Different airlines have it by a
different name. But I know there's some people that they'll

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book their whole family to save money. That's their decision.
No criticism here of basic economy. But then they expect
everybody on the plane to rearrange their seats to ecconomate them,
and if you do it, it's just fine. I've actually
volunteered sometimes. I remember once I got upgraded on a
domestic flight to first class on Delta, and I saw

(45:25):
a couple got on. They were chatting and the lady,
because in first it's two seats in isle and two seats,
the lady sat next to me and the gentleman sat
one row in front of me and on the aisle.
Now I have to have an aisle seat, absolutely have
to have it. And they sat down, didn't say anything,
and so I actually said to the man and the lady,

(45:47):
I said, are you two traveling together? They said yes.
I said, I'm happy to switch with you to the
gentleman if you'd like to sit together, and they were
most gracious. I think what I have a problem with
is someone, let's say you're in comfort plus, you're in
row fifteen, and you paid for the seat with extra
leg room, and somebody sits next to you and they

(46:09):
have a traveling companion in main cabin economy or coach,
and they want you to go back and take that
seat and let their companion come up.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Cherk is the word.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Well, what you want to do there is suggest to
that person you take your comfort plus seat and offer
it to the person in main cabin to upgrade them.
I think you ask them to move, and don't feel
any hesitation to say no about switching seats. That's your seat.

(46:45):
Don't get in a confrontation, call the flight attendant to
do that. There was a case recently where a man
took a bulkhead seat and refuse to move, just refused,
and his reason was, I'm an American citizen. Well, the
person who's a signed seat said, well I am too.

(47:07):
You know, they had to deplane the entire aircraft and
the police had to take this guy off. What an idiot?
What an idiot with that? Okay, here's some comments about travel. Now,
none of these were directed to Morris Columbus. I got
these off a travel website of real complaints or comments. Kathy,

(47:29):
how would you react to this one? My plane journey
was a disappointment as the sky was too cloudy, obstructing
my children's view of the sea and ruining our game
of I Spy.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Some people should not be on airplanes at all. I
think I would say, take a photo and put it
in the window and let your kids look.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
The water in the Gulf of Mexico was salty, and
no one told told me that there was going to
be salt in the ocean.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Again, I don't have an answer.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Okay, here's one I hope has never been said about me.
Quote we could not enjoy our tour as our guide
was too ugly. You can't admire a beautiful view when
staring at a face like his.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
But you know what, people say, you have a face
for radio. So I don't know if i'd go with
that one.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
One more. After a trip to the zoo, the animals
in the zoo looked very sad, and it made our
children cry. Can't you train them to smile?

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Oh? Yes, we'll do that. I'll have a hard enough
time with my dog.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Okay, we're headed to Africa and a woman's perspective on
a great safari Here on the travel show Jumbo and
welcome to the travel show. What was the native greeting

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in East Africa? Like aloha a buenos Dias guten togg.
All of these things rolled in together called ITCHI wa anyway, Africa, Kathy,
Let's talk about Africa, because you had some mixed emotions
and feelings about going to Africa. And I think your

(49:23):
first trip was twenty nineteen, twenty eight. I think it
was twenty nineteen. I'd been to Africa before, but you
had some mixed emotions, some hesitancy. What was going on?

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Well, I didn't know what to expect. Did I want
to see one animal consuming another? Was I going to
be concerned about my safety? I simply had nothing to
relate it to.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
But you seemed immediately captivated by the experience. And you
told me on that first trip that you went with
me in twenty nineteen, five six years ago. You told
me before we even got home that you wanted to
come back again the next year.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Now I've been three times now. I generally have to
fight off my daughters, in particular, because they think they
need multiple trips. They go back and flash. You see
the circle of life in its reality. There's something when

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you can sing about it. It's a beautiful song. But
you notice that every single animal, insect, bird, has a purpose,
and you are observing this, it's happening outside of you.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
You have no control.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
It's beautiful, the sunsets and sunrises, and you get to
see those regularly. I have adopted a favorite and them
all I happen to.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
This kills me the wart hog.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Dumbest animal on the planet.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
But I saw baby wart hogs this last trip and
that was really fun.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Dumbest animal you haven't met some of my rugby play well.
You know, there's an overused phrase, but I hear it constantly.
You used it and people that go with us on
the Great Migration use it that it is a life
changing experience. Now, there are wonderful safaris all over Africa.

(51:35):
I've been in them, in Zimbabwe, in South Africa, all
over the continent I've been, but there's nothing that comes
even close to the Great Migration, where it seems the
whole continent is on a move. You have one and
a half to two million wildebeests on the move, half
a million zebras. You know, we give everyone a booklet

(51:57):
about the their safari and with pictures and descriptions of
animals that you're likely to see, and invariably, by day
three you will have checked off over fifty species, not
including the birds. One of the unique things that we do.
And by the way, the Great Migration is only July,

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August and September and only in Kenya and Tanzania, and
for a lot of reasons, Kenya is a much better choice.
We use these Toyota land cruisers. That's seat eight plus
the driver. We don't put more than four unless a
family said we want five with that. But it's a

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different experience. Now, there's no such thing as a typical day.
And what was your experience with a daily schedule.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
Well, you get up, you get up early, but you
get to see the sunset of sunrise. That's the benefit.
But you never see I've been three times. Every trip
is different, every day is different. You go on three
game drives with meals in between, and it's so fun.

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It's so fun to look for the animals. You be
you become a participant in what you're seeing out there,
and the guides are terrific. It can develop a really
fun relationship with them. Seeing those balloons, hot air balloons

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against the sunrise.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
You know, I never did.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
Feel unsafe even when those lions, well, but they would
come right up to the vehicle if I'd have put
my hand out, it would have been gone. But the
the predator does not see the individual. It sees the vehicle, vehicle,

(53:57):
the whole vehicle, and so they will from right up
your three or four feet away. It's spectacular and it's
hard to describe.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
It really is. And we have people that go back
for a second even third trip with this. It's we
keep our groups to a about twenty eight maximum participants,
four to a vehicle. It's not your Kmart blue Light special.
It's you know, it's a it's more than a trip

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to Disneyland, but it's a What I always say is
shop not just the price, but the value of Anyone
ever questions me on the price, and the land is
about seven thousand plus bucks. Now I say, let's have
this conversation next week. You go out and find apples
to apples, and which I've already done. There's an Abercrombie

(54:54):
and Kent fabulous Deluxe tour company that has an African sfar.
It's the closest one I could find to ours, and
it's one less day, but it's comparable everything. It's over
twelve thousand dollars. And then people come back and say, okay,
what am I missing? How can you do it for

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this price? Well, we have a twenty five year relationship
with these lodges. We're staying right in the middle of everything.
Who do you recommend this trip for.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
I would say anyone who has an interest in.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Adventure.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
I think you could take children as young as ten
or twelve, but they would have to have an interest.
If they're easily distracted, perhaps not. But because there's not
a lot of walking, you can if you have mobility issues,

(55:54):
you can be accommodated. I love that you can get
your steps in because with every bump of the vehicle
you get an extra step.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Well, it's one of the great experiences of a lifetime.
Go to Morriscolumbus dot com Morris Columbus dot com and
on the homepage scroll down to Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours.
That's the brand names like General Motors is the company's
Chevrolet is the brand name. And click on Africa. I
have a few spots left on my safari, which leaves

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the US July twentieth. More, when we come back on
the travel show. You're listening to the travel show, I'm
Larry Gelwick's The Getaway Guru joined today by the Getaway

(56:52):
Goures not under duress, although she is much of our
marriage by me, I'm joined today. I invited my lovely wife,
Kathy Gelwicks to join me in studio here for a
very special edition of The Travel Show, our last show
of twenty twenty four, my thirty fourth year going into

(57:14):
as hosting the Travel Show, Kathy. Let's go back to
the phone lines. Mark is calling from the Salt Lake area. Mark,
Welcome to the Travel Show. How can we help you?

Speaker 4 (57:23):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Mark?

Speaker 4 (57:26):
Hi, Hey, I'm just a longtime fan the Guru. I've
learned a lot, been around the world a few times.
But my question for Kathy is, so I spent some
time in Strasburg, France. I know you've been there quite
a few times, and I was just curious. I'm headed

(57:48):
back there soon, hopefully with family, and I was wondering
what your thoughts were.

Speaker 8 (57:53):
I than your favorite.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
I absolutely love Strasbourg, porcois la petit France. The hey, hey,
a little accent there.

Speaker 3 (58:08):
I love the cathedral, But I will tell you my
favorite time to be in Strasburg is during the Christmas markets.
Nobody decorates like Strasbourg. The businesses across the little alley street.

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It is just magnificent. I love Strasbourg.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
You know they have right in front of that cathedral.
It's actually Notre Dame, but there's Notre Dame Paris. This
is Notre Dame Strasburg. There's a huge plaza. It's everything
that you dream and imagine old Europe to be, and
that's where they set up the biggest of the Christmas markets.
Now there's other Christmas markets in Strasbourg. You mentioned La

(58:57):
Patit France. That is kind of like old France four
hundred years ago, timbered half timbered houses, canals, beautiful flowers.
I love the Christmas markets, but for me, I think
springtime or fall in Strasbourg, which is just down the

(59:19):
road from the Frankfurt airport in Heidelberg, uh Mark. You
said you've spent some time in Strasbourg. What do you
like about that city?

Speaker 9 (59:29):
You know? So, yeah, spent had had a really good
so plas clay bear Is is a nice and that's
I think that's where you're referring to. As far as
the thoroughfare there is. The entrance to the cathedral is
right there, but that whole plast uh and place I

(59:49):
should say it's cobblestoned and and it's it's it's retrofit
to the euro lifestyle. Is is really it's a thoroughfare
to the the young, the old, and the new Goriche.
So I just Strasburg is cool because it has the
embassy there, so there's the American influence, but you still
have old Europe there and it's just it's a great place.

(01:00:12):
So I was just I'm headed back there with an
old friend at old friends, but I just I was curious. Kathy.
Great to hear from you and your perspective.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
So thanks so much, Mark, thank you for your call.
You know, Kathy, we kind of let the cat out
of the bag.

Speaker 7 (01:00:32):
You.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
None of our travel advisors at Morris Columbus even know
about this. It's not on the website, but in December
of twenty twenty six, we'll be doing a Christmas Market
Rhine River cruise that will include Strasburg. We'll sail Amsterdam
to Basel, Switzerland, with the Netherlands, France, Germany and Switzerland

(01:00:55):
with some pre and post travel opportunities. Rude the Shine
oh Rudesheim. That is one of my favorite stops there.
It's everything you dream of Christmas time to be hey.
Earlier in the show, Kathy I had mentioned that the
UK United Kingdom, which is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

(01:01:18):
Northern Ireland and Ireland are separate. Ireland's its own independent country,
a member of the EU, but Northern Ireland is still
part of the UK. God save the King. Well. The
UK has a new requirement for visitors who passed through
the UK border, and that is an ETA electronic travel authorization,

(01:01:43):
not estimated time of arrival. Electronic travel authorization by the
way New Zealand has. In Australia and different countries have
these electronic authorizations. It's not a visa, it's an electronic
travel authorization. Will effect in just four days. What's that

(01:02:03):
going to be Wednesday, January the eighth. You must have
this and you get it online. Now the UURL is
far too long for me to give over the air.
But simply google uk ETA official site. Now. One of
the things with visas and ETAs, there's all these I

(01:02:26):
call them scammers. They will charge you a fee and
all they do is electronically link you to the government site.
Now there is a cost to the ETA with the UK,
but it's nominal. I don't know. It's a few British pounds,
a few US dollars and I think it's good for

(01:02:47):
two years. But anyway, you absolutely have to plan with
this apt. Yes, yes, they'll have an electronic record of that,
and they should check it when you board the flight
to get on. Now, you mentioned earlier in the show,
Kathy that one of your favorite areas in the world

(01:03:10):
was Great Britain, the UK, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland.
What is it about Britain that just attracts you and
draws you back again and again.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
I remember our very first trip to Europe. We started
in Rome and worked our way through, ended up in
London three weeks and I felt at home. So much
of my by history is centered in the British isles.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
I do. I just feel a connection.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
Somehow, particularly to Scotland.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
My claim to fame is that my great grandmother was
a Wallace and she could trace her that line all
the way back to the father of Braveheart William Wallace.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
If you remember a bit about William Wallace, I know
what you're going to say is warring thick. That explains
a lot when Kathy gets upset with me, the wallace
in her bloodstream comes out.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Right and there's no way you can get rid of it.
So you just got to live with that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
Let me tell you about a couple of Morris Columbus
travel opportunities that include the UK that I'll be personally hosting.
Kathy'll be joining me on some of them. First is
one that I know you're looking forward to. We've done
it before. We had a caller earlier in the show
asking about this. It is Iceland to London, and it

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really is. It's with Norwegian Cruise Line, which has the
free air offer. It's really a bogo bo geo by
one get one free, and it's a legitimate free airfare offer.
They don't jack the price up of the first one.
When we went a couple of years ago, we flew
into London and home from rekuvic Iceland and I priced

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it out on Delta and Unite. It was over twenty
two hundred dollars a ticket. Our ticket with NCL Norwegian
Cruise Line was sixteen hundred dollars for me. You went
absolutely free, which gave us a per person effective rate
of eight hundred dollars a person so for two of
us we paid sixteen hundred dollars as opposed to forty

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four hundred dollars plus if we had bought it the
tickets ourselves. Now, the one thing that you have to
remember in that is the choice of airlines, which means
that when you get the NCL Bogo bogo buy one,
get one, they choose the airline. You cannot request airline,

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you cannot change it. You have to give up all
personal preference. Well, I don't want to change planes in Denver.
I don't want to fly American. You got to know that.
Get going in. But the cost savings is is it
worth several thousand dollars to us? It saved us about
three thousand dollars total by letting them pick the airline.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
And you know, I didn't get your Delta st I didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Get my Delta skymus Other people got Delta, but I didn't.
So this particular one on is in June, and it's
let's see, in June. I think it's the tenth of June.
We leave board the ship on the twelfth. Anyway, it's
about a eleven day cruise and we visit Iceland. Three

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stops in Iceland Norway with olisenden Bergen and then the
Norwegian Fjords, which are fab tacular, and then down to well,
i'll be Amsterdam. In the Netherlands, we'll have a tour.
We do our own tours. We're gonna go to the
Ann Frank House in Amsterdam, a canal tour, the Old

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dam Square I'm not swearing, that's the name of it,
the Old Damn Square, and then onto Bruges. Remember Bruce, Belgium.
What do you love about Bruce.

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
Oh, it is so typical of an old European village.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
You can get your lace, your.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Famous famous for lace. And then we disembark in Southampton.
You can go straight to the airport or we're going
to have an extension into London. That is that is
just one of the absolute great tours that we're going
to be offering right there. Another one is the British Isles.

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Now this is a this one's sales round trip. From
Southampton will visit England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and France
and you'll have an opportunity to see stoneheads. You also
in the have France is the port city where we
will have an excursion to Normandy, the d Day Beaches,

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the American Cemetery. It is the emotional and moving experience.
Love to have you with that. Now I've saved the
best for last. This is and we had to change
the name on this one, Kathy. We called it the
Tattoo Festival, which is actually the name, and everybody thought
it was body art not so we changed it. Tattoo

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comes from the old sixteen hundreds tattoo, which means close
the pubs, turns the vats off, send the soldiers home. Literally,
tattoo became tattoo and they'd have a drummer in bagpipes
playing this in the streets to send the soldiers home. Well,
the world's largest bagpipe festival is in Scotland every August.

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We're going to be in Scotland, Wales and England. This
one is your top of your list.

Speaker 3 (01:09:07):
I can't tell you how excited I am for this.
We were in Edinburgh as they were setting up for
this with the bleachers where you can watch the drums
and the bagpipes. Fabulous. Please come We'll.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
See you there, hey when we come back. More of
the travel show Sawadi cop com kun Kopp. Yes, next
week I'll be in Thailand. That's the native greeting Swadi

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cop and Kathy would say sowadi cop. The same greeting
buenos dias, aloha, guten tog, whatever you want to say.
That's how you greet people. In time the show next week,
I will be in Bangkok, Thailand. I'll be crossing the
Pacific this week with a group of travel show listeners.

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What a great time we're going to be having. If
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Twenty percent can really add up very very quickly. Also,
I'd mentioned those trips to the UK. Let me just
clarify the dates the Iceland to London. The actual travel dates,

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not including travel to and from, is June twelve to
twenty two. Iceland, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and England. The British Isles,
England Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland and France including the Normandy
d Day Beaches is July seven to twenty. I had
mentioned the Africa Sofari that I'll be taking. Your US

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departure date is July twentieth. You'll be back on the
thirty first, But we have some other dates too that
just happens to be the one that I will be
taking for that. And then the Scotland, Wales, England that
Kathy is giddy about with the world's largest Bagpipe and
Drum Corps festival. We actually have tickets to. It's held

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up in the Castle in Edinburgh is August eleven to
twenty one. Love to have you join us, Morriscolumbus dot com.
Morriscolumbus dot com scroll down on the homepage to Morris
Murdoch escorted tourist, pick a cruise, pick a geographic destination. Well, uh,

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and I'm joined today by my wife, Kathy Gallis. Kathy,
thank you for joining me on the travel show today.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
Fun.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
I think we'll have to have you back. You and
I love Mexico all inclusives, and we love traveling to Hawaii.
Now we're going to play I won't use the usual
stuffed dummy. Oh, we won't do that. I don't dare
do that, but I'm going to put you on a quiz.
Here in Hawaii. There in the state of Hawaii, there

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are one hundred and fifty two islands atolls things like
a one hundred and fifty two, but there are eight
main or major islands. Can you name them?

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
I've lived with you long enough that I think that
I can o Wahu, Hawaii.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
Which is meaning the big island island Maui. That's three Kwaii,
four Molokai.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
That's the Yeah, Molokai, that's the pineapple. And that's six.
Now the next two are kind of tricky, and I'm
gonna let you off easy if you don't get them.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Olava.

Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
How did you know that one?

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
I said, I've lived with you long enough.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
That was as an uninhabited island that was used as
a bombing range in World War two in the Vietnam.
It's now a state park, but you can't go to
it because there's unexploded ordinances all over the island. But
snorkeling in front of it in the cove is fantastic.
Oar one more Mehow that's the private island, very very good.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
How many times have.

Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
You been to Hawaii? Larry legitimately and sixty nine?

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
Whoa, and you about half that?

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
Probably?

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
Yeah. I used to commute there once or twice a
month for years and years, we were doing so much
business over there. One of the great vacations we had,
what year was it, when we rented a townhouse out
in Laea, took our family and we were there for
almost two months. I did do some commuting back and
forth because I couldn't be gone. We didn't have zoom

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or the Internet back then. Yeah. Yes, Jenny was a toddler.

Speaker 3 (01:14:12):
Maybe maybe eighty five.

Speaker 1 (01:14:14):
Maybe. Hey, listen, the best way to see Mexico or
Hawaii is on an air and hotel package. It's the
so called secret airfares where if you package it together,
it will save you, in most cases hundreds and hundreds
of dollars. Let me give you a couple of examples.

Speaker 5 (01:14:31):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
Now, I picked out some late winter dates. I'm looking
at March sixth to the eleventh, at six days, five nights.
You can certainly add more days than I recommend you do,
and the price would be adjusted accordingly. Keep in mind
that all prices and promotions are subject to availability and
change at the time of booking. I'm looking at a

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five star deluxe hotel in Honolulu, the Romar Waikiki at
the Ambassador Live Star round trip air hotel, taxes and
fees nine hundred and ninety nine dollars per person for
a five star hotel. By the way, in Hawaii, the
one tax that they have to collect locally is the

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so called resort fees, so that's not included. Mexico all
inclusive at a first class hotel, the Crown Paradise Club.
It's a four star, first class all inclusive air hotel, transfers, meals, drinks, taxes,
even the gratuities on the same dates. Kathy, nine hundred

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and seventy six bucks per person, double occupancy. Let's go,
Let's go today. You know actually we can do that well.
Contact Morris Columbus Travel for any of these deals that
brings us the end of the show. Kathy, love you
more than I could ever express, a great traveling partner,

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and I will be in Thailand next week. You're not
going with me on this trip. I wish treasures for
me with that cob kun kop, which is tie for
thank you. God, bless

Speaker 4 (01:16:12):
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