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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the travel show all across the fruited plane.
I'm Larry Gelwicks, the Getaway Guru, joined today by the
Argentinian Gaucho himself, Carlos Feda, and the lovely intalented Wendy Frakio.
I'm sorry, Carlos's the lovely and talented Carlos Feda. I
used to call him Carlos Fido, but today, but today
(00:27):
I didn't. Hey, listen, We've got a great travel show today.
Some of the highlights which major cruise line is offering
free prepaid gratuities. I've got an update. I've been talking
the last couple of weeks about these Instagram ads I've
seen for four hundred and seventy seven dollars USA to Thailand. Well,
(00:51):
I've got an update of what's happening with him. What
airline will install the fastest in flight internet in the sky.
Wendy's going to highlight some unique and out of the
ordinary group tours. And did you hear this? Two of
the major airlines in America are merging. The dot Department
(01:15):
of Transportation has just approved their merger, and I will
be telling you about a new tour program that Morris
Columbus has never done, and it will absolutely explode your mind.
Carlos will be talking about family, individual travel, missionary pickup
(01:36):
in Latin America, and of course what are the best
deals to Hawaii and Mexico. We thank you for joining us.
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. Well, Carlos and Wendy, welcome
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to the Travel Show, Hey, Wendy. Morris Columbus Travel this
last week sponsored two Viking Cruise seminars on let's see Thursday.
Just a couple of days ago, it was up in Ogden,
dinner and an information seminar, a wonderful evening at the
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Union Grill. And then last night it was a night
with the Utah Symphony. And you know, we like to
do these things, and we have an information seminar and
a ticket to the Utah Symphony. Those who attended either
event are saying, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You know, these are just really fun opportunities to get
to know a vendor like Viking River Cruise, Ocean Cruise better,
meet travel advisors and ask questions in person.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
It just is a fun night, It really is.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You know, most cruise lines will specialize in either a
river cruise, not just Europe. We have them in Africa,
Southeast Asia. Here in the United States we have they
are and others specialize in ocean cruises. Rather unique for
Viking to do.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Both, you know they are. They are such a again,
a wonderful partner.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
We love Viking.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
We have got several that we we we have we
call our preferred vendors. Viking is definitely one of them,
and it's because they are such a wonderful product with
their customer service, their quality, their value.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
On the Rhine and he was amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Any anybody who's who's gone with on a river cruise
of any sort knows that the general layout, most of
the excursions, if not all of them with other companies,
are included in the cost, and it's one of the
great values of them.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It really is. Now, there was some special promotions that
are unique US, that are unique and exclusive to Morris
Columbus Travel. For those who attended the seminars, the good
news is they have been extended for a limited time.
You got to book this coming week and the offer
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with a Viking cruise is up to two hundred dollars
per cabin off your cruise fare and up to a
one hundred dollars on board credit. We call that an
OBC OBC on board credit, and that's like cash that
you can spend just about anywhere except the casino if
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they have a casino. But that is an exclusive with
Morris Columbis.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Morse Columbus exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
These are You have to book with a Morris Columbus
advisor to get these promotions.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Now, if you have the telephone direct line of one
of your Morris Columbus advisors, call them direct if not
one eight hundred triple nine forty six forty six one
eight hundred triple nine forty six forty six, or check
out all the specials at Morriscolumbus dot com. Now, since
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we're talking exclusive deals, Morris Columbus has another exclusive deal
with Norwegian Cruise Line. And what's out there are free
prepaid gratuities. Now for a seven day cruise. You know
that's going to run you about one hundred and twenty
one hundred and thirty bucks per person. Well, it's free
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prepaid gratuities. There are some terms and conditions, but the
other part of the Norwegian NCL offer is this. They
have a free air promotion. Now it's very important to
understand that Norwegian will pick your flights. You cannot say
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I want United, I want Delta, I want tim Buck too.
You can't do that now. And there's no appeal now.
The reason that they have no appeal or preferences. I
don't know how many people they have comeing to go
in every week, fifty sixty thousand or more. Oh yeah,
can you imagine how many people would call Carlos Well,
I don't want to change planes in Denver. I have
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a sister in Chicago? Could you switch it?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Are my sisters coming from Chicago and I need you
to reroute me through this place?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
You exactly? And so yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
It is.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I'm so glad that you pointed that out, Larry, because
it is a huge, huge value and benefit to these bookings.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
But you have to know what you're getting.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
We'll give you an example. Last year we did and Kathy,
my wife, and I escorted a London to Iceland tour.
We went to London, well, we went there a couple
of days and then down to Southampton, sailed across the
Channel to Bruges, Belgium, maybe the most beautiful in Europe. Onto, well,
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I'll be Amsterdam in the Netherlands, up to Garringer Fjord,
Ulissenden and Bergen in Norway, the Norwegian Fjords, and then
three stops in Iceland. Now I checked out the fair.
This was last year, so that's a It's an old example,
but it works. I priced it on United and Delta.
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It was over twenty two hundred dollars. The price from
Norwegian was sixteen hundred dollars for me and Kathy went free.
That gives an effective rate of eight hundred dollars per person.
But yeah, I would have preferred to fly Delta because
I get my sky miles. I went on Lufthanse NonStop
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from Salt Lake to Frankfort and then Luftan's up to London,
came home on Iceland there, so you do have to
give up that. The other thing that Norwegian has that
I really like is Free at Sea. Now, Carlos, I
know how important this is to you because it's an
open bar.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I love it, but it's both leaded and unleaded drinks.
You know, everybody thinks I'm an alcoholic. I'm not, but
they think because I get my virgin Pina Colada.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I don't know, Larry, you bring always a drink, but
I don't know what's in that cup.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Well, as I start, no, I get my virgin Pina
Colada and I you know people who drink alcohol. You
see him sipping it. Well, I chug this and say
I'll have another. That is the town Whino or something
like that. So but this Free at Sea has free
unlimited drinks, and I call it leaded and unleaded. It
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has let's see, free Wi Fi usually have for a
one week cruise. I think it's about two hundred and
fifty minutes. It varies by the sailing.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
That's one of my favorite values.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You get the free specialty dining for the upscale restaurants,
free short excursion credits, and on select cruises you get
the third and fourth person sharing your cabin absolutely free. So, Carlos,
when you and Karen take your next cruise, Kathy and
I'll be the third and fourth in your room.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I was looking forward to that again this day.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Morris Columbus Special, Hey did you hear about this? Now?
I just want to ask you if I saw a
woman and said, hey, she's really hot. Would that be rude?
Were well, okay, let me tell you about this. Let
me tell you about this. I want to tell you
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about a woman who I think is really really hot
other than my wife Kathy. Now, stupid is not against
the law, but there are consequences of stupid. A woman
visiting just the other week. Last week Yellowstone National Park
suffered second and three degree burns. Yes, she's hot, after
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wandering off trail in a restricted area in a thermal area.
Just this past Monday, it was sixty old woman from
New Hampshire burnt her leg near the Mallard trailhead. She
was walking out there and she broke through the thin
crust of soil into scalding water that can reach four
(10:30):
hundred degrees and she was terribly burned. Yeah, the woman's hot,
But like I said, it's not against the law to
be stupid. Stay on the trail. More to come here
on the Travel Show.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
You're listening to The Travel Show on Talk Radio one
oh five nine knrs.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Just listen and you'll know Welcome back to the Travel Show.
I'm Larry Gelwicks, the get Away Guru, joined by Wendy
Frakia Group department manager of Morris Columbus Travel and Carlos Feeded,
director of Latin American Sales. You know that last story.
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I hope you didn't think I was making a mockery
of this woman's injury. But she wandered off the trail,
step past guard rails, was walking on what she thought
was ground, but it was a thin crest with four
hundred degree water flowing.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
She cut herself there.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, and I hope she fully recovers. But sure, you
know we were talking just off the air of the
Cliffs of Moore in Ireland. You think of Mullage and
the Princess Bride, you know, that's the Cliffs of More
and it's an eight hundred foot drop right to rocks,
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with the ocean crashing as the waves come in and out.
And they don't have a big fence, but what they
do have is a little wooden guard rail maybe two
feet off the ground. Signs posted everywhere do not go
past danger. Well every year there's people who step over that.
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They go they want to look over the edge, and
most get back safely, but there are more than one
or two that lose their balance. There's a gust of wind,
their footing gives way and it is certain death eight
hundred feet down to rocks. Just follow the directions. Hey,
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do you remember the last couple of weeks I've been
talking about this ticket broker called asap tickets dot com.
And their website says that they're in Maryland, but tremkas Stan,
which is over by Iran and Russia and Ubekistan, is
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where where they are. And you know, I I called
them because I saw a USA Bangkok fair for four
seventy seven. Now I know there's no such thing, but
maybe maybe I'm just missing something I don't know, right,
And so I talked to this guy and English was
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clearly a sixth language for him, I think. But it's
been two weeks.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Worse than mine.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No, let's say, uh I you know I So I
talked to them a couple of times. They're emailing me.
I will not get they're asking for personal information. I said, legally,
I can't say this company is a scam. I can
legally say I choose not to do business with them
or anybody like it, and you folks make your own
(14:00):
informed decision. But now they're offering tickets I'm seeing at
these posts three hundred and forty three dollars round trip
to Tokyo, Manila, Bangkok. Now, Wendy, come on, if.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It's too good to be true, that is just a true,
true rule for travel.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Before for this, Well, they do because you always hear that.
People say, oh I found the best deal, and you
don't want to be the one.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Whe they want is your credit card information. Now I'm
also seeing Instagram posts for cruises major cruise lines twenty
nine dollars a day. I know that doesn't exist. I
know it doesn't right, but they say this happens all
the time. These scams. You know we talked about, so
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be careful who you buy your tickets from. Buy it
from a known, recognized entity. Now, Carlos, you and I
were talking about this. You get some of these scammers
and they will they will send you an itinerary. Oh yes,
So what you always want to look for is, first
of all, if you buy it from one of these sources,
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get the itinerary, the ticket number, and the it's called
the booking code or record locator confirmation number. It's a
six alpha numeric code a you know, ABC one, two three,
and then contact the airline and what you want to
do immediately is if the airline doesn't show that you
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have a paid for a reservation, then you still have
a window to cancel it on your credit card. Well,
here's a fellow who showed up an American Airlines counter
and found out that the scammer had sold him a
fake ticket. Now he was a construction worker. Excuse me.
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He started rifling through his bag. After an airline employee
informed him he wouldn't be able to board the flight
because it was a fake ticket, the man flew into
a violent rage. The news report said he started screaming.
He then climbed on top of the counter at the
check in and took out a hammer. He was a
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construction worker. I don't know how he thought he's going
to get a hammer.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You cannot fly the hammer.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
But he was out. He hadn't run through security, and
he began to obliterate computer screens desktops he was. The
police quickly got there and arrested him and American imagine Carlos,
this guy on top of the counter banging, destroying their
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computers and their desks. I guess for publicity reasons, American
Airlines called it quote a disruptive individual disruptive.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I'm just kind of wondering how he thought that that
particular action was going to get him boarded on a plane.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh my gosh, Well here it comes. United Airlines will
soon announce Starlink Internet, the fastest Internet in the sky,
to replace its current horrible service, just horrible. The first
test will occur early next year, so a few months away,
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and then it's kind of like a beta test, see
if it works, and then they'll end up over a
period of time, deploying Starlink in the full fleet, not
only of the main line, but the regional jets. I
don't like, we call them rjs, you know, like the
fifty sixty passenger.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yes, I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Sometimes you can't avoid.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It, right, yeah, the little hop Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Anyway, once fully deployed, this will put United ahead of
Delta Airlines and Jet Blue, which currently offer reasonably fast
free WiFi. Now like on the Delta, you have to
you have to enter your skymiles number, which is free
at Delta dot com and it will. Yeah. Now, like Southwest,
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United's current Wi Fi performance is poor, Southwest is poor. Well,
a lot more to come. Next segment, Wendy is going
to talk us about some really unique tours here on
the Travel Show. Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm
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Larry Gelwicks, the Getaway Guru, and we invite you to
call us here at the Travel Show. You really are
the best part of the show. Your own experiences, recommendations,
your thoughts on travel, and certainly questions that you might
have triple eight five seven oh eighth one. Oh that's
eight eight eight five seventy eighty ten. I want to
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tell you about a neighbor of mine just down the street,
dear friends, Steven Susan. Steve, in his work, traveled the
whole world for decades, and I kept trying to get
Stephen and his wife to come on one of the
tours that Kathy and I host. No, no, no, I
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don't want to it'll be hrded like cattle. I like
to do my own thing. Finally, after years, I got
him to agree to come to Thailand and Cambodia with me.
Come to Thailand, and he was worried about would it
be a you know, a cattle car or something. He
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was blown away at the benefits of group travel. He said,
the only thing I had to do was show up
on time. Every admission was taken care of, the transportation,
the meals, great hotels. I had free time to do
the things that I wanted. In fact, he was so
enthusiastic I actually brought him here on the Travel show
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to give an endorsement of Morris Columbus Travel group tours.
And no it's not a cattle car. Yes, everything is
taken care of. You have plenty of independent time. You
can do your own thing. And so we welcome Wendy Fraki,
a group department manager, and of course Carlos Feda here
on the show too escort some of our group tours. Wendy,
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I think Steve's experience is rather typical.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I think it is too.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I think our repeat business, our referral business, is testifies.
If you will of that particular formony, I will bear
my testimony. I am a convert absolutely like your friend to.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Group track, convert to group track.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Convert to travel.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You know, there are destinations and reasons to be with
a group, and we've talked about that there. You don't
need to necessarily go with a group to Cancun, or
you don't need to go with the group to Disneyland,
or you don't need to go with a group to
you know, some other.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Places, unless that group is your friend.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Unless that group is your family, and there's some additional
benefits that are going to enhance that value.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
So let me put you on the spot, which of
course I never do ever. No, I mean the Morris
Columbus Travel offers so many tours. Go to the website
Morriscolumbus dot com and on the homepagees scroll down. It's
usually the second or third item listed. The name for
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our escorted programs is Morris Murdach Escorted Tours. Just scroll
down there, then click on the geographic area. If it's
a cruise, click on cruises right. Yeah, what are some
really unique I mean they're all wonderful. We don't have
time to go through all that. Just a couple of
really unique itinerary.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Okay, thank you, and I'm going to see how quickly
we can do that. But I wanted you like to
play something, dummy. I want to play something with you
that's called travel like this or travel like that. Group
Travel edition. Are you ready you're gonna play this with me?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
There are two different group experiences, their group cruises and
their group land tours and they're very specific and they're
very different in the way that they the experience that
you're going to have while you're traveling. So we've got
some destinations that we have both land experiences and cruise
experiences too. So I'm going to start in New Zealand. Now, Larry,
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you have got a cruise that's going to visit New
Zealand next year. What do you tell me about that?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
That will be a We're sailing from Sydney to Tasmania
to New Zealand, both the North and the South Islands.
That's February of twenty twenty five. Now, I know space
is tight, but there's still a sub And you talk
about land vacations. Of course, when we do a cruise,
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we include land tours at the different.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
The land tours at the different ports, but they are
coastal tours. They are on the coast of the different
places going. And this is yes, yes, and this is
thank you for that clarification. This is a also Australia
as well as New Zealand. We've got a tour to
New Zealand that is in October, so it's about a
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year just over a year of next year of twenty five.
The eight through the twenty second, where we're spending two
weeks in New Zealand. This is a deep dive into
all the highlights of New Zealand. This is from the
top of the country to the bottom and all the
wonderful experiences in between. So while your cruise is fantastic
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because you get a taste, you get to see it.
It's a you know, check off of your list, you
can scratch it off your map. But really, did you
have a full New Zealand experience? Did you really get
to see the villages and the people, and the mountains
and the bays and all the experiences that New Zealand
has to offer. So that's one experience. We have both
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a cruise and a land, so let's jump into one.
A brand new tour you want to talk about unique
and authentic. This is a brand new tour just launched
this week that's going to Norway and Iceland. Now you
talk about your Norway Iceland cruise real quick?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Oh that will be one minute. See June of next year.
I think we leave on the twelve and we will
fly to Iceland, make three stops in Icelands, including Recuvict
the capital, and then on to nor the Norwegian Fjords,
oh listened and Bergen down to the Netherlands, Amsterdam to Bruges, Belgium,
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which really is one of the most beautiful cities in
all of Europe. That across the English Channel to Southampton
and you can either come straight home or extend that
visit there in England, which we will offer that that's
June of next year. I will be your person host.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
First of the host and that one is so popular.
This is the third time that you've done it, so
next year also in September now September nineteenth through the thirtieth,
twenty twenty five, we have got a twelve day tour
of Norway and Iceland. This is your in depth, deep
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dive into these beautiful countrysides. These are seeing all the fjords,
all the highlights. This is the perfect time if northern
lights are on your bucket list, this is the opportunity
to hit those northern lights. You're flying in between the
two you're cruising out to the Fjords. You will have
breakfast and dinner included, which is the most expensive part
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of being in these countries. This is one of the
most expensive destinations right now in the world. This tour
is such an amazing value for everything that you're getting.
So let's see if we can do one more really quick.
Let's talk about the MED. Now, you specifically don't have
a cruise next year to the Med, but Anthony Sweat
does have.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
A cross such a tour.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
He's amazing and you know what, this is such a
fun one too, because May twenty second through June three,
twenty twenty five, Anthony Sweat is doing We actually call
this a cruise tour because we're going to spend four
days in Rome, exploring the city and doing the highlights
of that area before we jump on our MED cruise
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and we're going down to Naples. We're going to Santorini, Greece,
We're going into Turkey, We're going to see Ephesus, back
into Greece, Mika No's ending in Athens. Really great, right,
all the beautiful places you want to see. Now, let's
go in depth on a land tour. We've got a
land tour April seventh through the seventeenth, twenty twenty five,
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which starts in Turkey, and we call this one Journey
of the Apostles. Tim Taggart is going to be the
guide on this one. This one is a Christian faith tour.
It's not specific to a specific religion. It is a
Christian journey of the Apostles. We're talking about the New Testament.
We're doing Turkey, we're doing Greece, and we're doing Rome.
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So same places, different experience. Deep dive into very specific
places you're never going to get to see on a cruise.
So if you want to say that you're doing Journey
of the Apostles, you're not doing it in depth, in
full on a cruise, but you do on a land tour.
I think I've got chance maybe to do one more.
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Let's talk about Venice. So I'm going to specifically talk
about Venice because I have got a cruise that I'm
actually going to be leading in July. It's July nineteenth
through the twenty six on the star Clipper, the beautiful
cell ships that departs out of Venice, and we're spending
a couple of days in Venice before the cruise. If
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you want to come in early selling through the Grand
Canal on that beautiful cell ship down the Croatia coast.
This is only specifically about Venice because another wonderful deep
dive into Italy always the top three worldwide tourist destination,
and then we can deep dive on that April fourth
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through the fourteenth doing the Splendors of Italy tour, which
we do every year. It is so popular, it sells out.
It's leaving just a couple of weeks with the sold
out crew. This one is Venice, It's Florence, and it's Rome,
and it's everything Italian food, art, history, the iconic cities
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and villages and art pieces and everything wonderful. So that's
one of the things that I love about group travel
because you can go on either the cruise experiences that
you explained or the land ones that I've explained a
little bit more about, and you are going to get
a tremendous value for what you're paying. Traditionally, cruises are
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going to be a lower price point buying into, but
then you're buying your excursions and you're doing other things
pre impost tours to get a little more experience. On
these land tours, we're going to make sure that the
every penny you pay for you are getting the best experience.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
And again you can find all of the Morris Columbus tours,
including Carlos the ones he takes to South America at
Morris Columbus dot com Morriscolumbus dot com and on the
homepage just scroll down a little.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Bit or give us or give it an advisor a call,
let us talk you through them.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
But uh, look, you can access them on the homepage.
And then the Morris Murdoch Escorted tours. Now later in
the show, I have promised you we have a new
tour coming out. I'm not gonna let the cat out
of the bag quite yet. Set we have never, as
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Morris Columbus, done this tour before, and because this tour
is determined by the lunar calendar, and I'm not even
going to tell you where we're going. I will later
in the show. And oh my goodness, I am so excited.
We're going to keep this to thirty six people because
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it's a deep dive. You just stay tuned. I promise
we're going to talk to you about it, you know.
Very quickly. The Department of Transportation the DOT tipped its
hand on its consumer protection playbook and look for three
things in the future the coming future that the DOT
(31:19):
is going to run with for consumer airline protection. One
will be financial compensation for major flight delays, loyalty programs
without moving goldposts, and free seat assignments for families with
young kids. All that and more on The Travel Show.
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Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks They
get Away Guru. We thank you for joining us every
week as sharing your weekend with us here on the
Travel Show. We love travel and that's why you're listening.
To be sure to contact your friends at Morris Columbus
Travel where you always travel more and pay less. Well,
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there's big news, Carlos and Wendy in the airline industry.
Two major airlines are merging. No, it's not now to
an American it is not Hawaiian Airlines at the proposed
acquisition merger with Alaska Airlines has now been approved by
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the Department of Transportation. Now they completed their regulatory investigation
and things are now progressing swiftly for both carriers. Among
the last major hurdles to cross for the merger was
securing approval from the US Department of Transportation for an
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interim exemption application for the transfer of international route authorities.
You know, Hawaiian flies all over the Pacific, Alaska does not,
and so we will see how this comes out. Now,
there were some conditions that the DOT put upon the
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proposed merger. One was a protection against devaluing rewards. And
I've seen this, you know, I think I fly Delta
a lot, and they continue to devalue the mileage and
the medallion, and it's like you keep kicking dirt on
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your best customers. And they're not alone United and America.
They're all doing it. And you know they advertise, you know,
they advertise like thirty five thousand miles to get to Hawaii.
Have you ever seen anybody finding at thirty five thousand? No.
I was looking at some just the other day and
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they're up there seventy seventy five thousand, and that's about
where I normally see them. The other So they're raising
the redemption level, raising the requirements, and in some cases
reducing the available seats. So one of the protections the
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DOT said, you can merge your miles with Alaska and
Hawaiian and there can be no expiration date. Also, you
Alaska and Hawaiian airlines must maintain critical inter island and
continental routes. There is service in Alaska and service to
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small communities in Hawaii that depend upon air service, especially
for cargo and for food coming in. It's called essential
air service and they had to promise. So we'll keep
you posted on how this is going to affect us,
and of course for those of us here in Salt
Lake City or those listing in Las Vegas or other cities.
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Hawaiian Airlines offers NonStop flights to Honolulu. Delta offers NonStop
to Honolulu and Maui. A lot of fun there, a
lot of fun there. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines I really.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Like them, m They're one of our prefers.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
But they did something in the name of safety. I
hope it is. It kind of bugs me. They recently
added a surprising item to their list of prohibited items
for passengers, and that would be like an adapter, a
multi plug outlet. Now many ships will have for recharging
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your phone, your laptop, your camera. They often have one
US plug and one European plug. Well, we always take
an adapter. Doesn't change the current, the electrical current, but
we can plug in for power strip.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Yeah. No, it's one of my favorite travel.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Seemingly harmless device. Royal Caribbean has now deemed a potential
fire has it and strictly forbidden on the cruise line.
How are they going to protect how are they going
to enforce that?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I thought it was really interesting because somebody we just
had a pre departure meeting for your Panama Canal cruise,
and somebody came and said that they actually did have
their adapt their power strip confiscated, and it was given
back to them at the end of the cruise. They
just kept it and they said, I'm sorry, you can't
use this anymore.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
I wonder if that was in the carry.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
On it must have been, because how founded that's right?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Anyway, this band will not allow any type of multi
plug adapter on Royal Caribbean ships. Now. Extension cords, surge
protectors have always been bent, along with irons and steamers
and things like that.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
A fire on a cruise ships like the worst.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
That's the worst thing. Now, Carlos, don't worry. You can
still take your curling iron.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
I don't have much hair.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Well, that's why it's a small curling Okay, okay, okay, okay.
You know you have to time your visit to the
on board restroom on a plane the lavatory. Uh and
in some countries like flying to Israel. They lock the
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doors and they tell you in advance. Well, recently, a
passenger on an air China flight, this was two days
ago on Thursday, was looking for the restroom. He was
on an Airbus A three nineteen and he opened the
wrong door. Now they're still on the ground, but he
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opens the door. It's the emergency exit door and the slide,
the emergency slide deploys. People are panicking and everyone is
sliding down the slides to the tarmac oute. He didn't
find his rest TUREE say more in our number two
of the Travel Show. Welcome back to our number two
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of the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwiz, that get away Guru,
joined today by Wendy Fraki, a group department manager, and
Carlos Feeda Director of Latin American Sales at Morris Columbus Travel,
where you always travel more and pay less. Check out
the deals at Morriscolumbus dot com. That's Morriscolumbus dot com,
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or give any of their agents a call on their
direct line and if you don't have a direct line
one eight hundred triple nine forty six forty six eight
hundred triple nine forty six forty six. All right, Carlos and.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Wendy, Yes, sir, right here.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
I have never been so excited in my life as
to introduce this brand new, unique tour. I I don't
see anybody else offering this, and it is a November
of next year, limited to thirty six people to take
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you to places You've probably never heard of some of them,
and probably I'd be surprised if any of you have
been there. Maybe some of you have.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
This tour is one that gives you all the bragging rights.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Oh my gosh. The title is Thailand, Vietnam and Loi
Kretong and the dates were dictated by the Loi Kretong Festival. Now,
the Loi Kretong Festival is the biggest, most colorful, most
outrageous holiday celebration in the Kingdom of Thailand. I mean
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this is hearkens back to the days of the King
and I and what Loykretong is. It's a bit of Easter, Christmas,
Pioneer Day, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, Ramadan, the Day of Atonement.
I mean, it's just everything rolled into one. And what
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it is it's a fresh start in life. And what
I mean by that we have a day where we
can pass off our mistakes, our sins, our bad karma,
our bad feelings, our hurt feelings, our abuses, whatever it
may be. That's what's that. Oh my gosh. But on
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this day you get a kratong which is a banana leaf,
and on the banana leaf you put a you put
a candle, some incense, a little food offering to the gods,
and you push the cretongue out on water, a lake,
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a stream, a puddle, wherever it is. And what you're
doing is symbolically, I'm releasing myself of all negativity. I
forgive the people who have offended me. You know, It's
like it's like the Good Lord said, I will forgive
whom I will forgive, but of you. It's commanded to
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forgive all people. Now, when't we forgive people doesn't mean
that we set ourselves up to be a punching bag
or taken advantage of you. You free yourself from hate
and hard feelings. And the ceremony around this is outrageously cool. Now,
celebrate it all over the country. But the epicenter is
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in the ancient city, the ancient temple ruins of Sukotai.
Now Sukutai is a city about halfway between Bangkok and
chang Mai. Now I have been to Loy Kratong. You know,
Morris Columbus is the merger of Morris Travel and Columbus Travel,
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and I have when I we were still Columbus Travel.
I did a couple of these tours, but it's driven
by the lunar calendar, and usually it's too close to Thanksgiving.
We haven't done a tour like this in at least fifteen,
maybe twenty years.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Well, you probably have some things you need to release
then in that time.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
So it's really if you put your sins and mistakes
and bad luck on a banana leaf. I don't need
a banana leaf. I need a cargo ship.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
The symbology of this is just beautiful. This is one
of those life changing.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
It really is. It is so colorful, the costumes, the dancing,
we'll be we will actually go to the temple kind
of the epicenter of the origination, and there's a sound
and light show that is mind bogging. Now, Carlos, you
told me something about Lloyd Kertom.
Speaker 5 (43:14):
Well, you know I read about it. You give us
the website that is an amazing experience. I like these
particular things because it's a true invention, immersion in the legends,
in the religious practices of the country, and you don't
have any many of that in the world.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
So what we're gonna do. We will leave on the
midnight flight on October thirtieth out of probably Los Angeles.
In a late night flight crossing the international dateline, we
lose a day. I'm sorry. If October thirty first sallow,
that's right. But so we'll leave October thirtieth, and we'll
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spend three days in Bangkok. Now, I know some of
you've been to Bangkok with me, but it's such a
wonderful city. We can go back. And then we go
to Ayutia, the ancient capital of Siam or what we
call today as Thailand, and amongst the ruins the one
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of the summer palaces of the royal families.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
There it is so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Then we continue through the midlands of Thailand through forest
to fitz uluk Will and then to Suko Thai, and
then we and the festival, and then we make our
way to cheng Mai and there we'll go into the
foothills of the Himalayas, into the cheng Dal Valley. We
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do an elephant safari, now, Carlos, most elephant safaris are
really I'm going to ride Dumbo in the Kmart parking lot. No,
we don't do that, Wendy. It's about a thirty forty
minute safari. You sit in a box. They have the
what they call I call them the Buwana kid. It
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is the mahut, the mahout who sits on the head
and drives it. And but you're there and you have
seat belts too, so it's very safe. But you're wading
through rivers, uphills, downhills into valleys, through the jungle. It's
a it's a marvelous experience. We'll be visiting what dous Soutep,
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my favorite temple in all of Asia. Now what is
the word used not only in Thailand but me and
mar Lao Cambodia for temple. There's a LDS temple in
Salt Lake. The Ties would call it watt Salt Lake
w a T. And this what dousu Tepe. It's an
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interesting it's in a national park on the top of
a hill and it goes back, you know, hundreds of
years and they had a collar bone from Lord Buddha,
and they tied it to a white elephant, which was
considered a sacred element, an elephant, and they said, the
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elephant will tell us where to build this temple. It
wandered for days and then on the top of this
hill it laid down, trumpeted three times and died, and
that they knew was a divine sign. Well, it's a
working temple. People say, oh, it's a gold temple, so
it has a little bit of gold. No, no, no,
it is gold, and we'll get blessed by the priests there. Shopping, shopping, shopping.
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Then we fly to Hanoi, Vietnam, and visit a fascinating city.
We can see where John McCain was held as a pow,
and then out to Halong Bay now Holong Bay. If
I showed any of you a picture, you would immediately
recognize that. We have chartered a liver aboard boat and
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our group will take the whole boat. We are a
group of thirty eight including Kathy and myself, so only
thirty six guests. It's a deep dive. Most of your
meals are included. It's a deep dive into culture. Local
people like you've never had bues and We will then
explore Halong Bay, which has over a thousand islands. It
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is the most iconic picturesque these like gum drop mountains.
If I showed you a pictures I said, you'd recognize it.
So we'll spend three days two nights out at Hollong
Bay and then return to Hanoi and fly to Ho
Chi Min City, which most of us remember as Saigon,
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and we'll spend a couple of days there well, even
visit the Kuchi Tunnels. Now, the Kuchi Tunnels was that
labyrinth of tunnels the Vietkong bordered over a thousand kilometers.
In fact, those tunnels go all the way to the
Cambodian border. We'll have a chance to see them. You
can go in them if you want. But they had
a whole community of host biddles, of barracks, of classrooms
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down there, and that's how the Vietcong thought. But we
will see the Presidential Palace, which is the Vietnam White House.
We actually go in it. So the tour itself is
we'll leave the night of You can go to work
on October thirtieth. The night of October thirtieth, we're back
November sixteenth, now, why these dates because the lunar calendar
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this year from time on our side years is Lloyd
Cretong the Epicenter Celebrations November fifth. It's one day, one
day only for this. Now, this thing's going to sell
very fast. I want you to contact either the group
department at Morris Columbus Travel or your favorite travel advisor.
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It's on the website Morriscolumbus dot com. Scroll down to
Morris Murdoch.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Escorted Tours Asia.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
I want you with me, Lloyd Cratong when we come back.
Speaker 6 (49:10):
You're listening to the travel show on talk radio one
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Speaker 1 (49:16):
Just listen and you'll know Bean Benito's a travel show yo. Sorry,
Larry Gelwicks. They get away at Guru Me and Migo
Carlos Fita. Do you want me to trustay that that
was catch you on? You don't speak catchu on?
Speaker 4 (49:36):
I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
So would you do me a favorite speak English today? Okay?
Speaker 5 (49:41):
I will do it with accent and without an accent, Oh,
definitely with Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
Tmo, your tambien, Uh, Carlos. You know a lot of
people we've talked about the the joys of group travel,
but sometimes you want to go when a group isn't going,
or you just want to kind of be your own.
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You are doing a lot of individual family and couples
travel to Latin America, and this is very interesting.
Speaker 4 (50:16):
What you mentioned is very true.
Speaker 5 (50:18):
We have a lot of missionary pick up people that
come from here from Solac City or any other place
in the country to go and pick up their missionaries.
They want a specific itinerary because the missionary we like
to visit the members.
Speaker 4 (50:32):
That they converted and things like that.
Speaker 5 (50:34):
So that is an individual travel, you know, for two
or three or four people. But then there are other
people that wants to do special things. For example, I
received a request that was the last yesterday for a person.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
One individual that we like to go and do cooking.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
Classes solo travelers.
Speaker 5 (50:55):
One person I said, is that you only you yes,
And he's going to all these places to take classes
cooking classes. Maybe he owns a restaurant. I hope he
invites me to the restim and see what he's cooking. Anyway,
people like to do this thing. Families, same thing with families,
family that have projects. They want to go and work
in a community in a Native community and develop something.
Speaker 4 (51:18):
So that requires not a group.
Speaker 5 (51:21):
Travel requires an individual, right, So I think that there
is place for everything. If you don't want to work
with a group, even in the group, the group will
allow you to do a lot of things on your own.
But in this particular instance, you set up the eighteen ornty.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
So you know, I've said before to our listeners, Carlos
is a walking google on all things in Latin America.
But so let me ask you this, Carlos. If someone
wants to talk to you about individual travel as a
couple or a group of friends, or as a family,
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what information should they sort out first before they come
and see you.
Speaker 4 (52:11):
Well, usually I send an email. You know.
Speaker 5 (52:14):
Most of the time, they contact their prefer agent in
their office, you know, in any of the offices, and
so they transfer the call to me. We work together,
that agent and myself work together in setting up the
at And so the first thing that I ask, what
kind of.
Speaker 4 (52:31):
Hotels you like? Do you have a prefer airlines?
Speaker 5 (52:34):
You have my extra miles to fly on Delta, United
or American airlines?
Speaker 4 (52:39):
I ask what would you like to do? What your preference?
Speaker 5 (52:44):
And then I give you some ideas how they can
set up something exclusive and different.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
You know, some people really don't know what they want
to say, but that's okay.
Speaker 4 (52:56):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
Others say I'd like to see this or that, which
we then can add to and facilitate. Another question that
I like to ask them is what is your target budget? Now.
I don't know why people hesitate to talk about travel budgets,
but if I'm going to buy anything in life, go
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to a restaurant, buy a car, a laptop, of house,
I have a budget in mind. We like to come
under budget. But if you tell me you have five
thousand dollars to spend as opposed to fifteen or twenty
or ten or whatever, then my approach is very very different.
Speaker 5 (53:38):
Yeah, you're right, But there is another thing that I
think it is very important. I was approached by a
couple and a brother that are trummling together, three of them,
and I said, well, would you like what kind of
hotels do you like? Five star hotels, three star hotels,
for stark hotels? And she said to me, I have
a budget. And I said, okay, let me know what
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the budget is. Ten thousand dollars per person and they
are going to go.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
That's a nice budget.
Speaker 4 (54:04):
A very nice budget.
Speaker 5 (54:06):
They want to go to Peru, Dukuzko Matupchu, then travel
to the Galapagos Islands. And I do know that I
can beat that budget and maybe come one thousand or
fifteen hundred dollars below per person.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
If someone just said i'd like a good I'll probably
go to South America one time. It's a huge continent.
But I'd like you, Carlos, to suggest two or three
places I absolutely should go as an introduction to South America.
I have my list, but what's your list?
Speaker 5 (54:43):
Well, many people said I have fifteen days, and I said,
what did you like to see?
Speaker 4 (54:49):
I don't know. I said, okay, I will work for
you in nineteen or it will.
Speaker 5 (54:53):
Take me fifteen minutes, put it together and send it
to you by email. So I always say, Rio de
jane know if you like beaches, if you like sunshine, yes,
Buenos aires Is. Want to see a big capital, you know,
European type of thing. You want to go through the
wilds of Patagonia, Yes, we can do that. Santiago, Chile,
we can do that, and you can visit the lake
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region and then Cousco Machupicchu on the way back home, and.
Speaker 1 (55:20):
Sometimes it's a nice tin and then.
Speaker 5 (55:23):
Sometimes add the Galapagos Island, which is a unique destination
and I think everybody would like.
Speaker 1 (55:31):
To see that. I think they would too. Now you
had mentioned as you came into the segment about missionary travel,
I'd like to refer our listeners to a website missionary
pickup dot com. That is missionary pickup dot com. It
was put together by a former mission president. That would
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be thank you very much, and just some helpful suggestions.
Because the church's policy, the eliest church policy has changed
somewhat about picking up missionaries. But one of the most
important things if you're planning to pick up missionaries son
and daughter or parents is ask the missionary how many
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well you determine how many sundays you'll be in country
and where do you want to spend that Sunday? Because
it may be in tim bucktoo that no tourist would
ever go to, but it's where he or she served
and wants to show you that place that's dear to
their heart.
Speaker 4 (56:31):
Now, Larry, he said, twist to that.
Speaker 5 (56:34):
You know many times they've visited their church on a Sunday,
but now they want to stay a little bit longer
because they want to visit one of them many many
temples that we have in South America.
Speaker 1 (56:47):
I'll give you Carlos Fieda's personal telephone number at work.
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Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm Mary Gilwicks tick
Away Guru, joined by me and Migo Carlos Fida. Yes,
my dear dear friend. For what going on forty years?
That tells you how we travel the world together. It's
been so much fun. Carloson of course, is the walking
Google of all Latin American travel. And give Carlos a call.
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Here is his direct line eight oh one four eight
three fifty two to twelve. Eight oh one four eight
three fifty to twelve. Carlos, What is it about travel
do we love so much?
Speaker 4 (57:50):
For me? For me, it's just to immerse in a
different culture.
Speaker 5 (57:54):
You know, my parents come from Italiana, have been to
Italy quite a few times.
Speaker 1 (57:58):
But you're morn and raised in our But I was.
Speaker 5 (58:00):
Born in Regional so I know all of Argentine and
most of South America.
Speaker 4 (58:04):
But I know a lot about Europe because I.
Speaker 5 (58:07):
Have traveled there with my family and myself in the
last years.
Speaker 4 (58:11):
Of course, many many times. I like this.
Speaker 5 (58:14):
You mentioned this particular festival, the Lorton. I think that
that would be the ultimate experience. I compare this to
many others. But there's nothing it's not a carnival, of course,
it's not a celebration. Like there's nothing like the world
like the Indie rhyming, you know, which is located in right,
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and so it's different. It's different, and it covers the
whole country and the region. It's not just one country,
and that goes through different languages, different practices. So that's
what makes travel interesting.
Speaker 4 (58:50):
You know.
Speaker 1 (58:51):
It's if you want things the same, no stay home,
and you know you can. I look for hotels that
have some cultural ambiance. I mean, you can go to
a Marriotte or a holiday inn and they're wonderful hotels,
but they look the same everywhere in the world. I
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love to travel. It's the people, the culture, the food.
Speaker 4 (59:14):
It's exotic and who you traveled with makes a difference.
Speaker 1 (59:18):
Yeah, it really does, It really does. And you know,
I have a particular love of Southeast Asia and the
South Pacific. I've said, if it weren't for my kids
and grandkids, Kathy and I could easily leave live in
Thailand and Thailand has everything from tropical islands, rice patties,
the foothills of the Himalayas, elephants, everything about it. I
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think in Samoa we'd always stay at Aggie Gray's Hotel,
very famous hotel, steeped in culture. But my dear friend
Letti Saili, we'd always go out and spend a night
or two in his folly, the open sided and you know,
the floor is rocks, smooth river rocks covered in woven mats,
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and you sleep there with this mosquito net. There's no
indoor plumbing, there's no indoor stove. All the food is
cooked over and open fire burning coconut husks. Samoa, Western
Samoa is the most traditional Polynesian island that remains imanueaff.
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Whatever you say I said, may God bless you, I did,
it is may God bless you and keep you. I
just absolutely love to travel. I mean Europe, South America.
I love South America, but you know, Southeast Asia just
does something to me. In this Thailand Vietnam Loi Kretong Festival,
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we're going to keep it to thirty six people only.
Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
That it would be an amazing trip.
Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
It will really be that, now, do you remember some
time ago where demonstrators, protesters took over the roads leading
to airports, particularly Chicago, O'Hare, New York, JFK and LAX
(01:01:20):
support Palestinian supporters, some Hamas supporters. They took over roads,
making them impassable. We actually had one here in Salt
Lake City. I was driving home, Oh, when was it
this last fall early winter, driving home from the studio,
(01:01:41):
and I was on I eighty east and I just
passed the thirteenth East overpass, and I saw in the
news that it happened about ten minutes later that some
cars were driving east on I eighty coordinating a whole
bunch of them and just slowed down and stopped, got
out of their cars. And then on the overpass there
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were a couple hundred protesters, dropping banners, Palestinian flags, all
of this stuff. Now, I'm not going to take any
political position on the ARA, but I'm simply saying, these
these protesters, they closed down airports, nobody could get in,
people missed their flights. Tell me what you think of this.
(01:02:26):
And by the way, even the ACLU agreed there is
no first the protesters saying, well, this first amendment. Even
the ACLU said there's no First Amendment right to block traffic.
In fact, protesters were impeding the constitutional right to travel.
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Now tell me what you think. A lawsuit has been
filed as a class action lawsuit against the organizations that
sponsored at organized these protests. I'm assuming that if people
were arrested, they would have those are organizations, but that
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individuals who may have been arrested are likely to be named.
There is a plaintiff who missed his flight, lost a
day of work, failed to make it to a business appointment,
and a work event as destination is suing on behalf
of other passengers held in their cars, displaced by the blockade,
(01:03:32):
and who suffered consequences of mistravel, like you're missing your
connection overseas, you're missing your crews. Yes, because these people
wanted to demonstrate, I'm all for peaceful demonstrations.
Speaker 5 (01:03:47):
Well, the governor Argentina, they had a big demonstration, like
three hundred and fifty thousand people in the seats, and
the president came said.
Speaker 4 (01:03:55):
I will allow and I believe that we have to.
Speaker 5 (01:03:57):
Allow the people to demonstrate, but you do not put
a foot on the streets.
Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
Where the cars need to go by.
Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
You do not block the road to the airport because
you will be put in jail now, because the justice
is a little bit, you know slow in Argentina. Here
you are forty five days in jail with bread and
water maybe, and that's the end of everything, because they
allow you their right to demonstrate, but they don't allow
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you to disrupt the life of the people.
Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
You remember, you and I were in Quito, Ecuadoria. No,
I remember that, and there was a political demonstration we
watched in resistance.
Speaker 5 (01:04:38):
It was against Korea, the president, the communist president.
Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
Yes. And when the demonstrators were done, they picked up litter,
trash the place was. They didn't impede anybody's walking or cars.
A similar thing happened some years ago. There was a demonstration,
political demonstration in Thailand and they demonstrated at the Suwanoboom Airport,
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which is the big international airport, and they were there
for a couple of days. The government just let them
be there. They didn't stop anybody from checking in. But
when they were done, they had brooms that they had
brought and trash bags. They swept the area clean and
left peacefully. Now, these demonstrations that I see where they
(01:05:31):
tear down statues trash places is quite a bit different.
So anyway, I thought it was kind of interesting because
those protests displaced thousands of people in their travel plans.
Speaker 5 (01:05:45):
Well, if it is a union in in some places
they will sue. The government will going to sue the
union to compensate for those that have missed the flight,
or they ruined the houses by painting graffiti all the
And I think that that's the way it should be.
I think that we can they mustrite that we cannot
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disrupt the life of the rest of the day.
Speaker 1 (01:06:07):
That's right. Now. Kathy and I return from Australia and
New Zealand. We have that wonderful cruise. There's still some
space available, very very limited. We sail from Sydney to Auckland.
We visit Australia, Tasmania, the North and South Islands, the
fjord lands of New Zealand, and we will fly home
(01:06:31):
March the second. We're going to spend a couple extra
days in Auckland, New Zealand. Well, so I have the
month of March. And so last week I said to Kathy,
you want to go to Maui in March?
Speaker 4 (01:06:46):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
She said sure, So I booked the two tickets to
Maui after we get back. There are some incredible air
and hotel deals. Now I call them secret airfairs. And
you know why because if you call the airline, there
are unpublished airfares. You have them to South America, we
have them to Europe just about anywhere that you want
(01:07:09):
to go. But they're so deeply discounted airlines will not
allow us to sell them air only. So I call
them secret airfares because if you call the airline reservation,
they don't know anything about but you have to. You
have to bundle it or package it with something. It
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could be a car rental, could be a hotel, and
you know, if you're going to be gone a week,
you don't even have to have a car hotel. Some
of you will remember the name of Marion D. Hanks,
and he and his wife had a house there in
Hanna on the island of Maui, and I always help
(01:07:53):
them out, and so I would book the air to
Maui to Kahlui and a two day car rental. They
had their own car which a neighbor would drive up
to get them from Hannah, you know, but I could
not sell sell them this ticket by itself, but that
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airline ticket plus the two day car rental on some
Jalopi that I would know it was a good car.
But just like an economy car, the cheapest compact was
less than airfare, only it was less. They didn't even
pick up the car. You know, you don't have to.
It doesn't break any rules not to pick up the car,
(01:08:40):
you know. Uh, But they saved They saved a couple
hundred bucks by doing that. Abby Banel, who is a
well known talk show host here on station k NRS
where we originate our show in Salt Lake City. She
I love Abby, she is has that wonderful British accent. Well,
(01:09:03):
she would fly back home and we would help her,
and we found that we could get the same airline
ticket on Delta Airlines with a two day hotel. She'd
fly into Manchester. She never went to the hotel, she
had has family there. But she saved literally hundreds and
(01:09:24):
hundreds and hundreds of dollars off the lowest air only
and she was on the same dates, the same flights.
So here very quickly is a couple of examples. Honolulu
four Star first Class Hotel, and I'll catch these up
when we come back here on the Travel Show.
Speaker 6 (01:09:54):
You're listening to the Travel Show on talk radio one
oh five nine knrs.
Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
Listen and you'll know Welcome back to the Travel Show, Carlos.
I don't know where two hours or how two hours
can go so fast, too much time. We are having
my thigs. Please express our appreciation for you, the listing audience.
(01:10:21):
Without you, we don't have a show. Fact about you.
We don't even have a job. I'd be out panhandling
on one of the exits off I fifteen. But we
are very grateful. I look forward to Saturday so very
very much. I want to remind you that I recommend
and always stay drop my car at Parking Jet. It's
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one of the two major off airport parking lots, but
it's the only one that's locally owned. All the money
stays here, and with Morris Columbus Travel you can get
a twenty percent discount. Now, I hope that you're buying
your travel allowing Morris Columbus to arrange it. But even
if you arrange your own travel or somebody else does
(01:11:04):
your travel. Go to the Morris Columbus website and there's
a toolbar at the top. Click on resources, click on
the parking discount and print about five or six of them,
keep them in your car, give them to your friends
and family. Twenty percent a day can add up to
a lot of money, a lot of at least buy
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a cheeseburger somewhere, and that is at Morriscolumbus dot com.
Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
The number one overseas destination. I say not. I said
overseas meaning across the ocean is the UK for Americans,
and I understand that there's a there's a connection, or country,
a cultural Not all of our ancestors, My ancestors came
(01:11:56):
from the UK. Yours did not. But that's the number
one place. Kathy and I will be personally hosting an
August tour of the UK, Scotland, Wales and England August
the eleventh to the twenty first, and we see all
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of the highlights, and one of the highlights will be
in Edinburgh, Scotland, the famous Tattoo Festival. And that has
nothing to do with I know you have the angel
Moroni tattooed all over your back. I've seen it. No, no,
it's not true.
Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
I'll never show you my back.
Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
Thank you. Well, let's stop right there. That's an image
I'm trying to erase from my mind. But anyway, it's
it's the largest uh uh. It's a military and bands
of bagpipes and drum corps in the world. One hundred
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thousand excuse me, one hundred million people watch it worldwide.
It's only in the month of August. That'll be one
of the highlights. We're going to go to some of
the out of the way places. We're keeping this to
just forty people one bus and it's already half full.
So again, go to morriscolumbus dot com, scroll down to
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the group of Morris Murdoch Escort and Tours, a click
on Europe and check that one out. That is August
eleventh to the twenty first of next year. And today
we introduced Thailand, Vietnam and Lloyd Kretong, the biggest, the brightest,
the most colorful festival in all of the Kingdom of Thailand.
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And it is still a kingdom. They have a king.
Yes there, think of the king and I you know
that's and we'll visit his royal palace. But the Loydkretong festival,
it's rare that we get to see it because on
the lunar calendar. It's usually very close to our Thanksgiving
and we want to be home for Thanksgiving, yes we do,
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but this year it falls on November fifth, so we're
going to visit Thailand. We're going to visit the foothills
of the Himalayas, the temples of Thailand. For those who
are of an interest in LDS temples, you'll have a
chance to go to the Bangkok LDS Temple as we
do have a free day there in Bangkok with optional activities.
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We'll go to Vietnam and then Holong babill spend three days,
two nights. We've chartered our own live aboard on the
ship and we'll be sailing. How long we'll see Saigon,
Ho Chi, Minh City, Hanoi, Cheng Mai, the cheng Dao Valley, Elephants, safaris,
all of this. That one will be limited to thirty
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six people. The dates are we leave on the midnight flight,
late night flight October the thirties. You actually go to
work that day if you want, then fly down early
evening and be back November sixteenth. I'll be your personal
host and tour guide. Carlos. You will be leaving soon
(01:15:11):
for Galapago's October, the eleventh.
Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
October, the eleven, Yes, and to the twenty third.
Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
Now if I know it's only three weeks away, but
if someone were interested, is it still possible to.
Speaker 4 (01:15:24):
Do Yes, it is space four two. Yes, we can do.
Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
It, and that'll be Ecuador, Galapito. Take them down and
see if there's a political demonstration like we saw it.
Speaker 5 (01:15:37):
Well one of my last tours, I did have a
major demonstration that blocks the roads and we have a
lot of interesting experiences there.
Speaker 1 (01:15:46):
Yeah, Hey, one other tour that I'll be hosting. I
have the best life in the world. I love Alaska,
and my twenty twenty five I've purposely picked up a
late August. Not only are the rice is better August
twenty third to the thirtieth, but fall foliage comes early
to Alaska, much earlier than here. And while there's no guarantee,
(01:16:11):
we'll be looking for the Northern lights, which can be
seen where we are, whether we see him or not,
that is Mother Nature. All those that Alaska is August
twenty third to the thirtieth, from Vancouver to Anchorage, and
we have two glacier days on that. Well, that brings
the end to another travel show. This is my thirty
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third year hosting the show. We wish you godspeed, a great,
great week, and we'll talk to you right here next week.
Welcome to the travel show all across the fruited plane.
I'm Larry Gelwicks, the Getaway Guru, joined today by the
Argentinian Gaucho himself, Carlos Feda, and the lovely intalented Wendy Frakio.
I'm sorry, Carlos's the lovely and talented Carlos Feda. I
used to call him Carlos Fido, but today, but today
(00:27):
I didn't. Hey, listen, We've got a great travel show today.
Some of the highlights which major cruise line is offering
free prepaid gratuities. I've got an update. I've been talking
the last couple of weeks about these Instagram ads I've
seen for four hundred and seventy seven dollars USA to Thailand. Well,
(00:51):
I've got an update of what's happening with him. What
airline will install the fastest in flight internet in the sky.
Wendy's going to highlight some unique and out of the
ordinary group tours. And did you hear this? Two of
the major airlines in America are merging. The dot Department
(01:15):
of Transportation has just approved their merger, and I will
be telling you about a new tour program that Morris
Columbus has never done, and it will absolutely explode your mind.
Carlos will be talking about family, individual travel, missionary pickup
(01:36):
in Latin America, and of course what are the best
deals to Hawaii and Mexico. We thank you for joining us.
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. Well, Carlos and Wendy, welcome
(01:58):
to the Travel Show, Hey, Wendy. Morris Columbus Travel this
last week sponsored two Viking Cruise seminars on let's see Thursday.
Just a couple of days ago, it was up in Ogden,
dinner and an information seminar, a wonderful evening at the
(02:21):
Union Grill. And then last night it was a night
with the Utah Symphony. And you know, we like to
do these things, and we have an information seminar and
a ticket to the Utah Symphony. Those who attended either
event are saying, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You know, these are just really fun opportunities to get
to know a vendor like Viking River Cruise, Ocean Cruise better,
meet travel advisors and ask questions in person.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
It just is a fun night, It really is.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You know, most cruise lines will specialize in either a
river cruise, not just Europe. We have them in Africa,
Southeast Asia. Here in the United States we have they
are and others specialize in ocean cruises. Rather unique for
Viking to do.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Both, you know they are. They are such a again,
a wonderful partner.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
We love Viking.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
We have got several that we we we have we
call our preferred vendors. Viking is definitely one of them,
and it's because they are such a wonderful product with
their customer service, their quality, their value.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
On the Rhine and he was amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Any anybody who's who's gone with on a river cruise
of any sort knows that the general layout, most of
the excursions, if not all of them with other companies,
are included in the cost, and it's one of the
great values of them.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It really is. Now, there was some special promotions that
are unique US, that are unique and exclusive to Morris
Columbus Travel. For those who attended the seminars, the good
news is they have been extended for a limited time.
You got to book this coming week and the offer
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with a Viking cruise is up to two hundred dollars
per cabin off your cruise fare and up to a
one hundred dollars on board credit. We call that an
OBC OBC on board credit, and that's like cash that
you can spend just about anywhere except the casino if
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they have a casino. But that is an exclusive with
Morris Columbis.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Morse Columbus exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
These are You have to book with a Morris Columbus
advisor to get these promotions.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Now, if you have the telephone direct line of one
of your Morris Columbus advisors, call them direct if not
one eight hundred triple nine forty six forty six one
eight hundred triple nine forty six forty six, or check
out all the specials at Morriscolumbus dot com. Now, since
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we're talking exclusive deals, Morris Columbus has another exclusive deal
with Norwegian Cruise Line. And what's out there are free
prepaid gratuities. Now for a seven day cruise. You know
that's going to run you about one hundred and twenty
one hundred and thirty bucks per person. Well, it's free
(05:34):
prepaid gratuities. There are some terms and conditions, but the
other part of the Norwegian NCL offer is this. They
have a free air promotion. Now it's very important to
understand that Norwegian will pick your flights. You cannot say
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I want United, I want Delta, I want tim Buck too.
You can't do that now. And there's no appeal now.
The reason that they have no appeal or preferences. I
don't know how many people they have comeing to go
in every week, fifty sixty thousand or more. Oh yeah,
can you imagine how many people would call Carlos Well,
I don't want to change planes in Denver. I have
(06:17):
a sister in Chicago? Could you switch it?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Are my sisters coming from Chicago and I need you
to reroute me through this place?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
You exactly? And so yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
It is.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I'm so glad that you pointed that out, Larry, because
it is a huge, huge value and benefit to these bookings.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
But you have to know what you're getting.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
We'll give you an example. Last year we did and Kathy,
my wife, and I escorted a London to Iceland tour.
We went to London, well, we went there a couple
of days and then down to Southampton, sailed across the
Channel to Bruges, Belgium, maybe the most beautiful in Europe. Onto, well,
(07:01):
I'll be Amsterdam in the Netherlands, up to Garringer Fjord,
Ulissenden and Bergen in Norway, the Norwegian Fjords, and then
three stops in Iceland. Now I checked out the fair.
This was last year, so that's a It's an old example,
but it works. I priced it on United and Delta.
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It was over twenty two hundred dollars. The price from
Norwegian was sixteen hundred dollars for me and Kathy went free.
That gives an effective rate of eight hundred dollars per person.
But yeah, I would have preferred to fly Delta because
I get my sky miles. I went on Lufthanse NonStop
(07:49):
from Salt Lake to Frankfort and then Luftan's up to London,
came home on Iceland there, so you do have to
give up that. The other thing that Norwegian has that
I really like is Free at Sea. Now, Carlos, I
know how important this is to you because it's an
open bar.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I love it, but it's both leaded and unleaded drinks.
You know, everybody thinks I'm an alcoholic. I'm not, but
they think because I get my virgin Pina Colada.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I don't know, Larry, you bring always a drink, but
I don't know what's in that cup.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Well, as I start, no, I get my virgin Pina
Colada and I you know people who drink alcohol. You
see him sipping it. Well, I chug this and say
I'll have another. That is the town Whino or something
like that. So but this Free at Sea has free
unlimited drinks, and I call it leaded and unleaded. It
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has let's see, free Wi Fi usually have for a
one week cruise. I think it's about two hundred and
fifty minutes. It varies by the sailing.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
That's one of my favorite values.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You get the free specialty dining for the upscale restaurants,
free short excursion credits, and on select cruises you get
the third and fourth person sharing your cabin absolutely free. So, Carlos,
when you and Karen take your next cruise, Kathy and
I'll be the third and fourth in your room.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I was looking forward to that again this day.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Morris Columbus Special, Hey did you hear about this? Now?
I just want to ask you if I saw a
woman and said, hey, she's really hot. Would that be rude?
Were well, okay, let me tell you about this. Let
me tell you about this. I want to tell you
(09:44):
about a woman who I think is really really hot
other than my wife Kathy. Now, stupid is not against
the law, but there are consequences of stupid. A woman
visiting just the other week. Last week Yellowstone National Park
suffered second and three degree burns. Yes, she's hot, after
(10:06):
wandering off trail in a restricted area in a thermal area.
Just this past Monday, it was sixty old woman from
New Hampshire burnt her leg near the Mallard trailhead. She
was walking out there and she broke through the thin
crust of soil into scalding water that can reach four
(10:30):
hundred degrees and she was terribly burned. Yeah, the woman's hot,
But like I said, it's not against the law to
be stupid. Stay on the trail. More to come here
on the Travel Show.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
You're listening to The Travel Show on Talk Radio one
oh five nine knrs.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Just listen and you'll know Welcome back to the Travel Show.
I'm Larry Gelwicks, the get Away Guru, joined by Wendy
Frakia Group department manager of Morris Columbus Travel and Carlos Feeded,
director of Latin American Sales. You know that last story.
(11:15):
I hope you didn't think I was making a mockery
of this woman's injury. But she wandered off the trail,
step past guard rails, was walking on what she thought
was ground, but it was a thin crest with four
hundred degree water flowing.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
She cut herself there.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, and I hope she fully recovers. But sure, you
know we were talking just off the air of the
Cliffs of Moore in Ireland. You think of Mullage and
the Princess Bride, you know, that's the Cliffs of More
and it's an eight hundred foot drop right to rocks,
(11:56):
with the ocean crashing as the waves come in and out.
And they don't have a big fence, but what they
do have is a little wooden guard rail maybe two
feet off the ground. Signs posted everywhere do not go
past danger. Well every year there's people who step over that.
(12:18):
They go they want to look over the edge, and
most get back safely, but there are more than one
or two that lose their balance. There's a gust of wind,
their footing gives way and it is certain death eight
hundred feet down to rocks. Just follow the directions. Hey,
(12:41):
do you remember the last couple of weeks I've been
talking about this ticket broker called asap tickets dot com.
And their website says that they're in Maryland, but tremkas Stan,
which is over by Iran and Russia and Ubekistan, is
(13:05):
where where they are. And you know, I I called
them because I saw a USA Bangkok fair for four
seventy seven. Now I know there's no such thing, but
maybe maybe I'm just missing something I don't know, right,
And so I talked to this guy and English was
(13:29):
clearly a sixth language for him, I think. But it's
been two weeks.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Worse than mine.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No, let's say, uh I you know I So I
talked to them a couple of times. They're emailing me.
I will not get they're asking for personal information. I said, legally,
I can't say this company is a scam. I can
legally say I choose not to do business with them
or anybody like it, and you folks make your own
(14:00):
informed decision. But now they're offering tickets I'm seeing at
these posts three hundred and forty three dollars round trip
to Tokyo, Manila, Bangkok. Now, Wendy, come on, if.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It's too good to be true, that is just a true,
true rule for travel.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Before for this, Well, they do because you always hear that.
People say, oh I found the best deal, and you
don't want to be the one.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Whe they want is your credit card information. Now I'm
also seeing Instagram posts for cruises major cruise lines twenty
nine dollars a day. I know that doesn't exist. I
know it doesn't right, but they say this happens all
the time. These scams. You know we talked about, so
(14:51):
be careful who you buy your tickets from. Buy it
from a known, recognized entity. Now, Carlos, you and I
were talking about this. You get some of these scammers
and they will they will send you an itinerary. Oh yes,
So what you always want to look for is, first
of all, if you buy it from one of these sources,
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get the itinerary, the ticket number, and the it's called
the booking code or record locator confirmation number. It's a
six alpha numeric code a you know, ABC one, two three,
and then contact the airline and what you want to
do immediately is if the airline doesn't show that you
(15:36):
have a paid for a reservation, then you still have
a window to cancel it on your credit card. Well,
here's a fellow who showed up an American Airlines counter
and found out that the scammer had sold him a
fake ticket. Now he was a construction worker. Excuse me.
(16:01):
He started rifling through his bag. After an airline employee
informed him he wouldn't be able to board the flight
because it was a fake ticket, the man flew into
a violent rage. The news report said he started screaming.
He then climbed on top of the counter at the
check in and took out a hammer. He was a
(16:22):
construction worker. I don't know how he thought he's going
to get a hammer.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
You cannot fly the hammer.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
But he was out. He hadn't run through security, and
he began to obliterate computer screens desktops he was. The
police quickly got there and arrested him and American imagine Carlos,
this guy on top of the counter banging, destroying their
(16:52):
computers and their desks. I guess for publicity reasons, American
Airlines called it quote a disruptive individual disruptive.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I'm just kind of wondering how he thought that that
particular action was going to get him boarded on a plane.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh my gosh, Well here it comes. United Airlines will
soon announce Starlink Internet, the fastest Internet in the sky,
to replace its current horrible service, just horrible. The first
test will occur early next year, so a few months away,
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and then it's kind of like a beta test, see
if it works, and then they'll end up over a
period of time, deploying Starlink in the full fleet, not
only of the main line, but the regional jets. I
don't like, we call them rjs, you know, like the
fifty sixty passenger.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yes, I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Sometimes you can't avoid.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It, right, yeah, the little hop Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Anyway, once fully deployed, this will put United ahead of
Delta Airlines and Jet Blue, which currently offer reasonably fast
free WiFi. Now like on the Delta, you have to
you have to enter your skymiles number, which is free
at Delta dot com and it will. Yeah. Now, like Southwest,
(18:18):
United's current Wi Fi performance is poor, Southwest is poor. Well,
a lot more to come. Next segment, Wendy is going
to talk us about some really unique tours here on
the Travel Show. Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm
(18:53):
Larry Gelwicks, the Getaway Guru, and we invite you to
call us here at the Travel Show. You really are
the best part of the show. Your own experiences, recommendations,
your thoughts on travel, and certainly questions that you might
have triple eight five seven oh eighth one. Oh that's
eight eight eight five seventy eighty ten. I want to
(19:19):
tell you about a neighbor of mine just down the street,
dear friends, Steven Susan. Steve, in his work, traveled the
whole world for decades, and I kept trying to get
Stephen and his wife to come on one of the
tours that Kathy and I host. No, no, no, I
(19:41):
don't want to it'll be hrded like cattle. I like
to do my own thing. Finally, after years, I got
him to agree to come to Thailand and Cambodia with me.
Come to Thailand, and he was worried about would it
be a you know, a cattle car or something. He
(20:03):
was blown away at the benefits of group travel. He said,
the only thing I had to do was show up
on time. Every admission was taken care of, the transportation,
the meals, great hotels. I had free time to do
the things that I wanted. In fact, he was so
enthusiastic I actually brought him here on the Travel show
(20:26):
to give an endorsement of Morris Columbus Travel group tours.
And no it's not a cattle car. Yes, everything is
taken care of. You have plenty of independent time. You
can do your own thing. And so we welcome Wendy Fraki,
a group department manager, and of course Carlos Feda here
on the show too escort some of our group tours. Wendy,
(20:51):
I think Steve's experience is rather typical.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I think it is too.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I think our repeat business, our referral business, is testifies.
If you will of that particular formony, I will bear
my testimony. I am a convert absolutely like your friend to.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Group track, convert to group track.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Convert to travel.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You know, there are destinations and reasons to be with
a group, and we've talked about that there. You don't
need to necessarily go with a group to Cancun, or
you don't need to go with the group to Disneyland,
or you don't need to go with a group to
you know, some other.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Places, unless that group is your friend.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Unless that group is your family, and there's some additional
benefits that are going to enhance that value.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
So let me put you on the spot, which of
course I never do ever. No, I mean the Morris
Columbus Travel offers so many tours. Go to the website
Morriscolumbus dot com and on the homepagees scroll down. It's
usually the second or third item listed. The name for
(22:04):
our escorted programs is Morris Murdach Escorted Tours. Just scroll
down there, then click on the geographic area. If it's
a cruise, click on cruises right. Yeah, what are some
really unique I mean they're all wonderful. We don't have
time to go through all that. Just a couple of
really unique itinerary.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Okay, thank you, and I'm going to see how quickly
we can do that. But I wanted you like to
play something, dummy. I want to play something with you
that's called travel like this or travel like that. Group
Travel edition. Are you ready you're gonna play this with me?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
There are two different group experiences, their group cruises and
their group land tours and they're very specific and they're
very different in the way that they the experience that
you're going to have while you're traveling. So we've got
some destinations that we have both land experiences and cruise
experiences too. So I'm going to start in New Zealand. Now, Larry,
(23:02):
you have got a cruise that's going to visit New
Zealand next year. What do you tell me about that?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
That will be a We're sailing from Sydney to Tasmania
to New Zealand, both the North and the South Islands.
That's February of twenty twenty five. Now, I know space
is tight, but there's still a sub And you talk
about land vacations. Of course, when we do a cruise,
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we include land tours at the different.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
The land tours at the different ports, but they are
coastal tours. They are on the coast of the different
places going. And this is yes, yes, and this is
thank you for that clarification. This is a also Australia
as well as New Zealand. We've got a tour to
New Zealand that is in October, so it's about a
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year just over a year of next year of twenty five.
The eight through the twenty second, where we're spending two
weeks in New Zealand. This is a deep dive into
all the highlights of New Zealand. This is from the
top of the country to the bottom and all the
wonderful experiences in between. So while your cruise is fantastic
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because you get a taste, you get to see it.
It's a you know, check off of your list, you
can scratch it off your map. But really, did you
have a full New Zealand experience? Did you really get
to see the villages and the people, and the mountains
and the bays and all the experiences that New Zealand
has to offer. So that's one experience. We have both
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a cruise and a land, so let's jump into one.
A brand new tour you want to talk about unique
and authentic. This is a brand new tour just launched
this week that's going to Norway and Iceland. Now you
talk about your Norway Iceland cruise real quick?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Oh that will be one minute. See June of next year.
I think we leave on the twelve and we will
fly to Iceland, make three stops in Icelands, including Recuvict
the capital, and then on to nor the Norwegian Fjords,
oh listened and Bergen down to the Netherlands, Amsterdam to Bruges, Belgium,
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which really is one of the most beautiful cities in
all of Europe. That across the English Channel to Southampton
and you can either come straight home or extend that
visit there in England, which we will offer that that's
June of next year. I will be your person host.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
First of the host and that one is so popular.
This is the third time that you've done it, so
next year also in September now September nineteenth through the thirtieth,
twenty twenty five, we have got a twelve day tour
of Norway and Iceland. This is your in depth, deep
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dive into these beautiful countrysides. These are seeing all the fjords,
all the highlights. This is the perfect time if northern
lights are on your bucket list, this is the opportunity
to hit those northern lights. You're flying in between the
two you're cruising out to the Fjords. You will have
breakfast and dinner included, which is the most expensive part
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of being in these countries. This is one of the
most expensive destinations right now in the world. This tour
is such an amazing value for everything that you're getting.
So let's see if we can do one more really quick.
Let's talk about the MED. Now, you specifically don't have
a cruise next year to the Med, but Anthony Sweat
does have.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
A cross such a tour.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
He's amazing and you know what, this is such a
fun one too, because May twenty second through June three,
twenty twenty five, Anthony Sweat is doing We actually call
this a cruise tour because we're going to spend four
days in Rome, exploring the city and doing the highlights
of that area before we jump on our MED cruise
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and we're going down to Naples. We're going to Santorini, Greece,
We're going into Turkey, We're going to see Ephesus, back
into Greece, Mika No's ending in Athens. Really great, right,
all the beautiful places you want to see. Now, let's
go in depth on a land tour. We've got a
land tour April seventh through the seventeenth, twenty twenty five,
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which starts in Turkey, and we call this one Journey
of the Apostles. Tim Taggart is going to be the
guide on this one. This one is a Christian faith tour.
It's not specific to a specific religion. It is a
Christian journey of the Apostles. We're talking about the New Testament.
We're doing Turkey, we're doing Greece, and we're doing Rome.
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So same places, different experience. Deep dive into very specific
places you're never going to get to see on a cruise.
So if you want to say that you're doing Journey
of the Apostles, you're not doing it in depth, in
full on a cruise, but you do on a land tour.
I think I've got chance maybe to do one more.
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Let's talk about Venice. So I'm going to specifically talk
about Venice because I have got a cruise that I'm
actually going to be leading in July. It's July nineteenth
through the twenty six on the star Clipper, the beautiful
cell ships that departs out of Venice, and we're spending
a couple of days in Venice before the cruise. If
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you want to come in early selling through the Grand
Canal on that beautiful cell ship down the Croatia coast.
This is only specifically about Venice because another wonderful deep
dive into Italy always the top three worldwide tourist destination,
and then we can deep dive on that April fourth
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through the fourteenth doing the Splendors of Italy tour, which
we do every year. It is so popular, it sells out.
It's leaving just a couple of weeks with the sold
out crew. This one is Venice, It's Florence, and it's Rome,
and it's everything Italian food, art, history, the iconic cities
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and villages and art pieces and everything wonderful. So that's
one of the things that I love about group travel
because you can go on either the cruise experiences that
you explained or the land ones that I've explained a
little bit more about, and you are going to get
a tremendous value for what you're paying. Traditionally, cruises are
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going to be a lower price point buying into, but
then you're buying your excursions and you're doing other things
pre impost tours to get a little more experience. On
these land tours, we're going to make sure that the
every penny you pay for you are getting the best experience.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
And again you can find all of the Morris Columbus tours,
including Carlos the ones he takes to South America at
Morris Columbus dot com Morriscolumbus dot com and on the
homepage just scroll down a little.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Bit or give us or give it an advisor a call,
let us talk you through them.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
But uh, look, you can access them on the homepage.
And then the Morris Murdoch Escorted tours. Now later in
the show, I have promised you we have a new
tour coming out. I'm not gonna let the cat out
of the bag quite yet. Set we have never, as
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Morris Columbus, done this tour before, and because this tour
is determined by the lunar calendar, and I'm not even
going to tell you where we're going. I will later
in the show. And oh my goodness, I am so excited.
We're going to keep this to thirty six people because
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it's a deep dive. You just stay tuned. I promise
we're going to talk to you about it, you know.
Very quickly. The Department of Transportation the DOT tipped its
hand on its consumer protection playbook and look for three
things in the future the coming future that the DOT
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is going to run with for consumer airline protection. One
will be financial compensation for major flight delays, loyalty programs
without moving goldposts, and free seat assignments for families with
young kids. All that and more on The Travel Show.
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Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks They
get Away Guru. We thank you for joining us every
week as sharing your weekend with us here on the
Travel Show. We love travel and that's why you're listening.
To be sure to contact your friends at Morris Columbus
Travel where you always travel more and pay less. Well,
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there's big news, Carlos and Wendy in the airline industry.
Two major airlines are merging. No, it's not now to
an American it is not Hawaiian Airlines at the proposed
acquisition merger with Alaska Airlines has now been approved by
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the Department of Transportation. Now they completed their regulatory investigation
and things are now progressing swiftly for both carriers. Among
the last major hurdles to cross for the merger was
securing approval from the US Department of Transportation for an
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interim exemption application for the transfer of international route authorities.
You know, Hawaiian flies all over the Pacific, Alaska does not,
and so we will see how this comes out. Now,
there were some conditions that the DOT put upon the
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proposed merger. One was a protection against devaluing rewards. And
I've seen this, you know, I think I fly Delta
a lot, and they continue to devalue the mileage and
the medallion, and it's like you keep kicking dirt on
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your best customers. And they're not alone United and America.
They're all doing it. And you know they advertise, you know,
they advertise like thirty five thousand miles to get to Hawaii.
Have you ever seen anybody finding at thirty five thousand? No.
I was looking at some just the other day and
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they're up there seventy seventy five thousand, and that's about
where I normally see them. The other So they're raising
the redemption level, raising the requirements, and in some cases
reducing the available seats. So one of the protections the
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DOT said, you can merge your miles with Alaska and
Hawaiian and there can be no expiration date. Also, you
Alaska and Hawaiian airlines must maintain critical inter island and
continental routes. There is service in Alaska and service to
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small communities in Hawaii that depend upon air service, especially
for cargo and for food coming in. It's called essential
air service and they had to promise. So we'll keep
you posted on how this is going to affect us,
and of course for those of us here in Salt
Lake City or those listing in Las Vegas or other cities.
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Hawaiian Airlines offers NonStop flights to Honolulu. Delta offers NonStop
to Honolulu and Maui. A lot of fun there, a
lot of fun there. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines I really.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Like them, m They're one of our prefers.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
But they did something in the name of safety. I
hope it is. It kind of bugs me. They recently
added a surprising item to their list of prohibited items
for passengers, and that would be like an adapter, a
multi plug outlet. Now many ships will have for recharging
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your phone, your laptop, your camera. They often have one
US plug and one European plug. Well, we always take
an adapter. Doesn't change the current, the electrical current, but
we can plug in for power strip.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Yeah. No, it's one of my favorite travel.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Seemingly harmless device. Royal Caribbean has now deemed a potential
fire has it and strictly forbidden on the cruise line.
How are they going to protect how are they going
to enforce that?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I thought it was really interesting because somebody we just
had a pre departure meeting for your Panama Canal cruise,
and somebody came and said that they actually did have
their adapt their power strip confiscated, and it was given
back to them at the end of the cruise. They
just kept it and they said, I'm sorry, you can't
use this anymore.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
I wonder if that was in the carry.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
On it must have been, because how founded that's right?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Anyway, this band will not allow any type of multi
plug adapter on Royal Caribbean ships. Now. Extension cords, surge
protectors have always been bent, along with irons and steamers
and things like that.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
A fire on a cruise ships like the worst.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
That's the worst thing. Now, Carlos, don't worry. You can
still take your curling iron.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
I don't have much hair.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Well, that's why it's a small curling Okay, okay, okay, okay.
You know you have to time your visit to the
on board restroom on a plane the lavatory. Uh and
in some countries like flying to Israel. They lock the
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doors and they tell you in advance. Well, recently, a
passenger on an air China flight, this was two days
ago on Thursday, was looking for the restroom. He was
on an Airbus A three nineteen and he opened the
wrong door. Now they're still on the ground, but he
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opens the door. It's the emergency exit door and the slide,
the emergency slide deploys. People are panicking and everyone is
sliding down the slides to the tarmac oute. He didn't
find his rest TUREE say more in our number two
of the Travel Show. Welcome back to our number two
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of the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwiz, that get away Guru,
joined today by Wendy Fraki, a group department manager, and
Carlos Feeda Director of Latin American Sales at Morris Columbus Travel,
where you always travel more and pay less. Check out
the deals at Morriscolumbus dot com. That's Morriscolumbus dot com,
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or give any of their agents a call on their
direct line and if you don't have a direct line
one eight hundred triple nine forty six forty six eight
hundred triple nine forty six forty six. All right, Carlos and.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Wendy, Yes, sir, right here.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
I have never been so excited in my life as
to introduce this brand new, unique tour. I I don't
see anybody else offering this, and it is a November
of next year, limited to thirty six people to take
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you to places You've probably never heard of some of them,
and probably I'd be surprised if any of you have
been there. Maybe some of you have.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
This tour is one that gives you all the bragging rights.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Oh my gosh. The title is Thailand, Vietnam and Loi
Kretong and the dates were dictated by the Loi Kretong Festival. Now,
the Loi Kretong Festival is the biggest, most colorful, most
outrageous holiday celebration in the Kingdom of Thailand. I mean
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this is hearkens back to the days of the King
and I and what Loykretong is. It's a bit of Easter, Christmas,
Pioneer Day, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, Ramadan, the Day of Atonement.
I mean, it's just everything rolled into one. And what
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it is it's a fresh start in life. And what
I mean by that we have a day where we
can pass off our mistakes, our sins, our bad karma,
our bad feelings, our hurt feelings, our abuses, whatever it
may be. That's what's that. Oh my gosh. But on
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this day you get a kratong which is a banana leaf,
and on the banana leaf you put a you put
a candle, some incense, a little food offering to the gods,
and you push the cretongue out on water, a lake,
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a stream, a puddle, wherever it is. And what you're
doing is symbolically, I'm releasing myself of all negativity. I
forgive the people who have offended me. You know, It's
like it's like the Good Lord said, I will forgive
whom I will forgive, but of you. It's commanded to
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forgive all people. Now, when't we forgive people doesn't mean
that we set ourselves up to be a punching bag
or taken advantage of you. You free yourself from hate
and hard feelings. And the ceremony around this is outrageously cool. Now,
celebrate it all over the country. But the epicenter is
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in the ancient city, the ancient temple ruins of Sukotai.
Now Sukutai is a city about halfway between Bangkok and
chang Mai. Now I have been to Loy Kratong. You know,
Morris Columbus is the merger of Morris Travel and Columbus Travel,
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and I have when I we were still Columbus Travel.
I did a couple of these tours, but it's driven
by the lunar calendar, and usually it's too close to Thanksgiving.
We haven't done a tour like this in at least fifteen,
maybe twenty years.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Well, you probably have some things you need to release
then in that time.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
So it's really if you put your sins and mistakes
and bad luck on a banana leaf. I don't need
a banana leaf. I need a cargo ship.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
The symbology of this is just beautiful. This is one
of those life changing.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
It really is. It is so colorful, the costumes, the dancing,
we'll be we will actually go to the temple kind
of the epicenter of the origination, and there's a sound
and light show that is mind bogging. Now, Carlos, you
told me something about Lloyd Kertom.
Speaker 5 (43:14):
Well, you know I read about it. You give us
the website that is an amazing experience. I like these
particular things because it's a true invention, immersion in the legends,
in the religious practices of the country, and you don't
have any many of that in the world.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
So what we're gonna do. We will leave on the
midnight flight on October thirtieth out of probably Los Angeles.
In a late night flight crossing the international dateline, we
lose a day. I'm sorry. If October thirty first sallow,
that's right. But so we'll leave October thirtieth, and we'll
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spend three days in Bangkok. Now, I know some of
you've been to Bangkok with me, but it's such a
wonderful city. We can go back. And then we go
to Ayutia, the ancient capital of Siam or what we
call today as Thailand, and amongst the ruins the one
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of the summer palaces of the royal families.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
There it is so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Then we continue through the midlands of Thailand through forest
to fitz uluk Will and then to Suko Thai, and
then we and the festival, and then we make our
way to cheng Mai and there we'll go into the
foothills of the Himalayas, into the cheng Dal Valley. We
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do an elephant safari, now, Carlos, most elephant safaris are
really I'm going to ride Dumbo in the Kmart parking lot. No,
we don't do that, Wendy. It's about a thirty forty
minute safari. You sit in a box. They have the
what they call I call them the Buwana kid. It
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is the mahut, the mahout who sits on the head
and drives it. And but you're there and you have
seat belts too, so it's very safe. But you're wading
through rivers, uphills, downhills into valleys, through the jungle. It's
a it's a marvelous experience. We'll be visiting what dous Soutep,
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my favorite temple in all of Asia. Now what is
the word used not only in Thailand but me and
mar Lao Cambodia for temple. There's a LDS temple in
Salt Lake. The Ties would call it watt Salt Lake
w a T. And this what dousu Tepe. It's an
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interesting it's in a national park on the top of
a hill and it goes back, you know, hundreds of
years and they had a collar bone from Lord Buddha,
and they tied it to a white elephant, which was
considered a sacred element, an elephant, and they said, the
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elephant will tell us where to build this temple. It
wandered for days and then on the top of this
hill it laid down, trumpeted three times and died, and
that they knew was a divine sign. Well, it's a
working temple. People say, oh, it's a gold temple, so
it has a little bit of gold. No, no, no,
it is gold, and we'll get blessed by the priests there. Shopping, shopping, shopping.
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Then we fly to Hanoi, Vietnam, and visit a fascinating city.
We can see where John McCain was held as a pow,
and then out to Halong Bay now Holong Bay. If
I showed any of you a picture, you would immediately
recognize that. We have chartered a liver aboard boat and
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our group will take the whole boat. We are a
group of thirty eight including Kathy and myself, so only
thirty six guests. It's a deep dive. Most of your
meals are included. It's a deep dive into culture. Local
people like you've never had bues and We will then
explore Halong Bay, which has over a thousand islands. It
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is the most iconic picturesque these like gum drop mountains.
If I showed you a pictures I said, you'd recognize it.
So we'll spend three days two nights out at Hollong
Bay and then return to Hanoi and fly to Ho
Chi Min City, which most of us remember as Saigon,
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and we'll spend a couple of days there well, even
visit the Kuchi Tunnels. Now, the Kuchi Tunnels was that
labyrinth of tunnels the Vietkong bordered over a thousand kilometers.
In fact, those tunnels go all the way to the
Cambodian border. We'll have a chance to see them. You
can go in them if you want. But they had
a whole community of host biddles, of barracks, of classrooms
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down there, and that's how the Vietcong thought. But we
will see the Presidential Palace, which is the Vietnam White House.
We actually go in it. So the tour itself is
we'll leave the night of You can go to work
on October thirtieth. The night of October thirtieth, we're back
November sixteenth, now, why these dates because the lunar calendar
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this year from time on our side years is Lloyd
Cretong the Epicenter Celebrations November fifth. It's one day, one
day only for this. Now, this thing's going to sell
very fast. I want you to contact either the group
department at Morris Columbus Travel or your favorite travel advisor.
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It's on the website Morriscolumbus dot com. Scroll down to
Morris Murdoch.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Escorted Tours Asia.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
I want you with me, Lloyd Cratong when we come back.
Speaker 6 (49:10):
You're listening to the travel show on talk radio one
oh five nine k n rs.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
Just listen and you'll know Bean Benito's a travel show yo. Sorry,
Larry Gelwicks. They get away at Guru Me and Migo
Carlos Fita. Do you want me to trustay that that
was catch you on? You don't speak catchu on?
Speaker 4 (49:36):
I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
So would you do me a favorite speak English today? Okay?
Speaker 5 (49:41):
I will do it with accent and without an accent, Oh,
definitely with Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
Tmo, your tambien, Uh, Carlos. You know a lot of
people we've talked about the the joys of group travel,
but sometimes you want to go when a group isn't going,
or you just want to kind of be your own.
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You are doing a lot of individual family and couples
travel to Latin America, and this is very interesting.
Speaker 4 (50:16):
What you mentioned is very true.
Speaker 5 (50:18):
We have a lot of missionary pick up people that
come from here from Solac City or any other place
in the country to go and pick up their missionaries.
They want a specific itinerary because the missionary we like
to visit the members.
Speaker 4 (50:32):
That they converted and things like that.
Speaker 5 (50:34):
So that is an individual travel, you know, for two
or three or four people. But then there are other
people that wants to do special things. For example, I
received a request that was the last yesterday for a person.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
One individual that we like to go and do cooking.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
Classes solo travelers.
Speaker 5 (50:55):
One person I said, is that you only you yes,
And he's going to all these places to take classes
cooking classes. Maybe he owns a restaurant. I hope he
invites me to the restim and see what he's cooking. Anyway,
people like to do this thing. Families, same thing with families,
family that have projects. They want to go and work
in a community in a Native community and develop something.
Speaker 4 (51:18):
So that requires not a group.
Speaker 5 (51:21):
Travel requires an individual, right, So I think that there
is place for everything. If you don't want to work
with a group, even in the group, the group will
allow you to do a lot of things on your own.
But in this particular instance, you set up the eighteen ornty.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
So you know, I've said before to our listeners, Carlos
is a walking google on all things in Latin America.
But so let me ask you this, Carlos. If someone
wants to talk to you about individual travel as a
couple or a group of friends, or as a family,
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what information should they sort out first before they come
and see you.
Speaker 4 (52:11):
Well, usually I send an email. You know.
Speaker 5 (52:14):
Most of the time, they contact their prefer agent in
their office, you know, in any of the offices, and
so they transfer the call to me. We work together,
that agent and myself work together in setting up the
at And so the first thing that I ask, what
kind of.
Speaker 4 (52:31):
Hotels you like? Do you have a prefer airlines?
Speaker 5 (52:34):
You have my extra miles to fly on Delta, United
or American airlines?
Speaker 4 (52:39):
I ask what would you like to do? What your preference?
Speaker 5 (52:44):
And then I give you some ideas how they can
set up something exclusive and different.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
You know, some people really don't know what they want
to say, but that's okay.
Speaker 4 (52:56):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
Others say I'd like to see this or that, which
we then can add to and facilitate. Another question that
I like to ask them is what is your target budget? Now.
I don't know why people hesitate to talk about travel budgets,
but if I'm going to buy anything in life, go
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to a restaurant, buy a car, a laptop, of house,
I have a budget in mind. We like to come
under budget. But if you tell me you have five
thousand dollars to spend as opposed to fifteen or twenty
or ten or whatever, then my approach is very very different.
Speaker 5 (53:38):
Yeah, you're right, But there is another thing that I
think it is very important. I was approached by a
couple and a brother that are trummling together, three of them,
and I said, well, would you like what kind of
hotels do you like? Five star hotels, three star hotels,
for stark hotels? And she said to me, I have
a budget. And I said, okay, let me know what
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the budget is. Ten thousand dollars per person and they
are going to go.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
That's a nice budget.
Speaker 4 (54:04):
A very nice budget.
Speaker 5 (54:06):
They want to go to Peru, Dukuzko Matupchu, then travel
to the Galapagos Islands. And I do know that I
can beat that budget and maybe come one thousand or
fifteen hundred dollars below per person.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
If someone just said i'd like a good I'll probably
go to South America one time. It's a huge continent.
But I'd like you, Carlos, to suggest two or three
places I absolutely should go as an introduction to South America.
I have my list, but what's your list?
Speaker 5 (54:43):
Well, many people said I have fifteen days, and I said,
what did you like to see?
Speaker 4 (54:49):
I don't know. I said, okay, I will work for
you in nineteen or it will.
Speaker 5 (54:53):
Take me fifteen minutes, put it together and send it
to you by email. So I always say, Rio de
jane know if you like beaches, if you like sunshine, yes,
Buenos aires Is. Want to see a big capital, you know,
European type of thing. You want to go through the
wilds of Patagonia, Yes, we can do that. Santiago, Chile,
we can do that, and you can visit the lake
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region and then Cousco Machupicchu on the way back home, and.
Speaker 1 (55:20):
Sometimes it's a nice tin and then.
Speaker 5 (55:23):
Sometimes add the Galapagos Island, which is a unique destination
and I think everybody would like.
Speaker 1 (55:31):
To see that. I think they would too. Now you
had mentioned as you came into the segment about missionary travel,
I'd like to refer our listeners to a website missionary
pickup dot com. That is missionary pickup dot com. It
was put together by a former mission president. That would
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be thank you very much, and just some helpful suggestions.
Because the church's policy, the eliest church policy has changed
somewhat about picking up missionaries. But one of the most
important things if you're planning to pick up missionaries son
and daughter or parents is ask the missionary how many
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well you determine how many sundays you'll be in country
and where do you want to spend that Sunday? Because
it may be in tim bucktoo that no tourist would
ever go to, but it's where he or she served
and wants to show you that place that's dear to
their heart.
Speaker 4 (56:31):
Now, Larry, he said, twist to that.
Speaker 5 (56:34):
You know many times they've visited their church on a Sunday,
but now they want to stay a little bit longer
because they want to visit one of them many many
temples that we have in South America.
Speaker 1 (56:47):
I'll give you Carlos Fieda's personal telephone number at work.
(57:09):
Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm Mary Gilwicks tick
Away Guru, joined by me and Migo Carlos Fida. Yes,
my dear dear friend. For what going on forty years?
That tells you how we travel the world together. It's
been so much fun. Carloson of course, is the walking
Google of all Latin American travel. And give Carlos a call.
(57:31):
Here is his direct line eight oh one four eight
three fifty two to twelve. Eight oh one four eight
three fifty to twelve. Carlos, What is it about travel
do we love so much?
Speaker 4 (57:50):
For me? For me, it's just to immerse in a
different culture.
Speaker 5 (57:54):
You know, my parents come from Italiana, have been to
Italy quite a few times.
Speaker 1 (57:58):
But you're morn and raised in our But I was.
Speaker 5 (58:00):
Born in Regional so I know all of Argentine and
most of South America.
Speaker 4 (58:04):
But I know a lot about Europe because I.
Speaker 5 (58:07):
Have traveled there with my family and myself in the
last years.
Speaker 4 (58:11):
Of course, many many times. I like this.
Speaker 5 (58:14):
You mentioned this particular festival, the Lorton. I think that
that would be the ultimate experience. I compare this to
many others. But there's nothing it's not a carnival, of course,
it's not a celebration. Like there's nothing like the world
like the Indie rhyming, you know, which is located in right,
(58:35):
and so it's different. It's different, and it covers the
whole country and the region. It's not just one country,
and that goes through different languages, different practices. So that's
what makes travel interesting.
Speaker 4 (58:50):
You know.
Speaker 1 (58:51):
It's if you want things the same, no stay home,
and you know you can. I look for hotels that
have some cultural ambiance. I mean, you can go to
a Marriotte or a holiday inn and they're wonderful hotels,
but they look the same everywhere in the world. I
(59:11):
love to travel. It's the people, the culture, the food.
Speaker 4 (59:14):
It's exotic and who you traveled with makes a difference.
Speaker 1 (59:18):
Yeah, it really does, It really does. And you know,
I have a particular love of Southeast Asia and the
South Pacific. I've said, if it weren't for my kids
and grandkids, Kathy and I could easily leave live in
Thailand and Thailand has everything from tropical islands, rice patties,
the foothills of the Himalayas, elephants, everything about it. I
(59:41):
think in Samoa we'd always stay at Aggie Gray's Hotel,
very famous hotel, steeped in culture. But my dear friend
Letti Saili, we'd always go out and spend a night
or two in his folly, the open sided and you know,
the floor is rocks, smooth river rocks covered in woven mats,
(01:00:05):
and you sleep there with this mosquito net. There's no
indoor plumbing, there's no indoor stove. All the food is
cooked over and open fire burning coconut husks. Samoa, Western
Samoa is the most traditional Polynesian island that remains imanueaff.
(01:00:30):
Whatever you say I said, may God bless you, I did,
it is may God bless you and keep you. I
just absolutely love to travel. I mean Europe, South America.
I love South America, but you know, Southeast Asia just
does something to me. In this Thailand Vietnam Loi Kretong Festival,
(01:00:51):
we're going to keep it to thirty six people only.
Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
That it would be an amazing trip.
Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
It will really be that, now, do you remember some
time ago where demonstrators, protesters took over the roads leading
to airports, particularly Chicago, O'Hare, New York, JFK and LAX
(01:01:20):
support Palestinian supporters, some Hamas supporters. They took over roads,
making them impassable. We actually had one here in Salt
Lake City. I was driving home, Oh, when was it
this last fall early winter, driving home from the studio,
(01:01:41):
and I was on I eighty east and I just
passed the thirteenth East overpass, and I saw in the
news that it happened about ten minutes later that some
cars were driving east on I eighty coordinating a whole
bunch of them and just slowed down and stopped, got
out of their cars. And then on the overpass there
(01:02:03):
were a couple hundred protesters, dropping banners, Palestinian flags, all
of this stuff. Now, I'm not going to take any
political position on the ARA, but I'm simply saying, these
these protesters, they closed down airports, nobody could get in,
people missed their flights. Tell me what you think of this.
(01:02:26):
And by the way, even the ACLU agreed there is
no first the protesters saying, well, this first amendment. Even
the ACLU said there's no First Amendment right to block traffic.
In fact, protesters were impeding the constitutional right to travel.
(01:02:47):
Now tell me what you think. A lawsuit has been
filed as a class action lawsuit against the organizations that
sponsored at organized these protests. I'm assuming that if people
were arrested, they would have those are organizations, but that
(01:03:10):
individuals who may have been arrested are likely to be named.
There is a plaintiff who missed his flight, lost a
day of work, failed to make it to a business appointment,
and a work event as destination is suing on behalf
of other passengers held in their cars, displaced by the blockade,
(01:03:32):
and who suffered consequences of mistravel, like you're missing your
connection overseas, you're missing your crews. Yes, because these people
wanted to demonstrate, I'm all for peaceful demonstrations.
Speaker 5 (01:03:47):
Well, the governor Argentina, they had a big demonstration, like
three hundred and fifty thousand people in the seats, and
the president came said.
Speaker 4 (01:03:55):
I will allow and I believe that we have to.
Speaker 5 (01:03:57):
Allow the people to demonstrate, but you do not put
a foot on the streets.
Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
Where the cars need to go by.
Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
You do not block the road to the airport because
you will be put in jail now, because the justice
is a little bit, you know slow in Argentina. Here
you are forty five days in jail with bread and
water maybe, and that's the end of everything, because they
allow you their right to demonstrate, but they don't allow
(01:04:26):
you to disrupt the life of the people.
Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
You remember, you and I were in Quito, Ecuadoria. No,
I remember that, and there was a political demonstration we
watched in resistance.
Speaker 5 (01:04:38):
It was against Korea, the president, the communist president.
Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
Yes. And when the demonstrators were done, they picked up litter,
trash the place was. They didn't impede anybody's walking or cars.
A similar thing happened some years ago. There was a demonstration,
political demonstration in Thailand and they demonstrated at the Suwanoboom Airport,
(01:05:07):
which is the big international airport, and they were there
for a couple of days. The government just let them
be there. They didn't stop anybody from checking in. But
when they were done, they had brooms that they had
brought and trash bags. They swept the area clean and
left peacefully. Now, these demonstrations that I see where they
(01:05:31):
tear down statues trash places is quite a bit different.
So anyway, I thought it was kind of interesting because
those protests displaced thousands of people in their travel plans.
Speaker 5 (01:05:45):
Well, if it is a union in in some places
they will sue. The government will going to sue the
union to compensate for those that have missed the flight,
or they ruined the houses by painting graffiti all the
And I think that that's the way it should be.
I think that we can they mustrite that we cannot
(01:06:05):
disrupt the life of the rest of the day.
Speaker 1 (01:06:07):
That's right. Now. Kathy and I return from Australia and
New Zealand. We have that wonderful cruise. There's still some
space available, very very limited. We sail from Sydney to Auckland.
We visit Australia, Tasmania, the North and South Islands, the
fjord lands of New Zealand, and we will fly home
(01:06:31):
March the second. We're going to spend a couple extra
days in Auckland, New Zealand. Well, so I have the
month of March. And so last week I said to Kathy,
you want to go to Maui in March?
Speaker 4 (01:06:46):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
She said sure, So I booked the two tickets to
Maui after we get back. There are some incredible air
and hotel deals. Now I call them secret airfairs. And
you know why because if you call the airline, there
are unpublished airfares. You have them to South America, we
have them to Europe just about anywhere that you want
(01:07:09):
to go. But they're so deeply discounted airlines will not
allow us to sell them air only. So I call
them secret airfares because if you call the airline reservation,
they don't know anything about but you have to. You
have to bundle it or package it with something. It
(01:07:29):
could be a car rental, could be a hotel, and
you know, if you're going to be gone a week,
you don't even have to have a car hotel. Some
of you will remember the name of Marion D. Hanks,
and he and his wife had a house there in
Hanna on the island of Maui, and I always help
(01:07:53):
them out, and so I would book the air to
Maui to Kahlui and a two day car rental. They
had their own car which a neighbor would drive up
to get them from Hannah, you know, but I could
not sell sell them this ticket by itself, but that
(01:08:14):
airline ticket plus the two day car rental on some
Jalopi that I would know it was a good car.
But just like an economy car, the cheapest compact was
less than airfare, only it was less. They didn't even
pick up the car. You know, you don't have to.
It doesn't break any rules not to pick up the car,
(01:08:40):
you know. Uh, But they saved They saved a couple
hundred bucks by doing that. Abby Banel, who is a
well known talk show host here on station k NRS
where we originate our show in Salt Lake City. She
I love Abby, she is has that wonderful British accent. Well,
(01:09:03):
she would fly back home and we would help her,
and we found that we could get the same airline
ticket on Delta Airlines with a two day hotel. She'd
fly into Manchester. She never went to the hotel, she
had has family there. But she saved literally hundreds and
(01:09:24):
hundreds and hundreds of dollars off the lowest air only
and she was on the same dates, the same flights.
So here very quickly is a couple of examples. Honolulu
four Star first Class Hotel, and I'll catch these up
when we come back here on the Travel Show.
Speaker 6 (01:09:54):
You're listening to the Travel Show on talk radio one
oh five nine knrs.
Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
Listen and you'll know Welcome back to the Travel Show, Carlos.
I don't know where two hours or how two hours
can go so fast, too much time. We are having
my thigs. Please express our appreciation for you, the listing audience.
(01:10:21):
Without you, we don't have a show. Fact about you.
We don't even have a job. I'd be out panhandling
on one of the exits off I fifteen. But we
are very grateful. I look forward to Saturday so very
very much. I want to remind you that I recommend
and always stay drop my car at Parking Jet. It's
(01:10:42):
one of the two major off airport parking lots, but
it's the only one that's locally owned. All the money
stays here, and with Morris Columbus Travel you can get
a twenty percent discount. Now, I hope that you're buying
your travel allowing Morris Columbus to arrange it. But even
if you arrange your own travel or somebody else does
(01:11:04):
your travel. Go to the Morris Columbus website and there's
a toolbar at the top. Click on resources, click on
the parking discount and print about five or six of them,
keep them in your car, give them to your friends
and family. Twenty percent a day can add up to
a lot of money, a lot of at least buy
(01:11:26):
a cheeseburger somewhere, and that is at Morriscolumbus dot com.
Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
The number one overseas destination. I say not. I said
overseas meaning across the ocean is the UK for Americans,
and I understand that there's a there's a connection, or country,
a cultural Not all of our ancestors, My ancestors came
(01:11:56):
from the UK. Yours did not. But that's the number
one place. Kathy and I will be personally hosting an
August tour of the UK, Scotland, Wales and England August
the eleventh to the twenty first, and we see all
(01:12:18):
of the highlights, and one of the highlights will be
in Edinburgh, Scotland, the famous Tattoo Festival. And that has
nothing to do with I know you have the angel
Moroni tattooed all over your back. I've seen it. No, no,
it's not true.
Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
I'll never show you my back.
Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
Thank you. Well, let's stop right there. That's an image
I'm trying to erase from my mind. But anyway, it's
it's the largest uh uh. It's a military and bands
of bagpipes and drum corps in the world. One hundred
(01:12:59):
thousand excuse me, one hundred million people watch it worldwide.
It's only in the month of August. That'll be one
of the highlights. We're going to go to some of
the out of the way places. We're keeping this to
just forty people one bus and it's already half full.
So again, go to morriscolumbus dot com, scroll down to
(01:13:21):
the group of Morris Murdoch Escort and Tours, a click
on Europe and check that one out. That is August
eleventh to the twenty first of next year. And today
we introduced Thailand, Vietnam and Lloyd Kretong, the biggest, the brightest,
the most colorful festival in all of the Kingdom of Thailand.
(01:13:44):
And it is still a kingdom. They have a king.
Yes there, think of the king and I you know
that's and we'll visit his royal palace. But the Loydkretong festival,
it's rare that we get to see it because on
the lunar calendar. It's usually very close to our Thanksgiving
and we want to be home for Thanksgiving, yes we do,
(01:14:05):
but this year it falls on November fifth, so we're
going to visit Thailand. We're going to visit the foothills
of the Himalayas, the temples of Thailand. For those who
are of an interest in LDS temples, you'll have a
chance to go to the Bangkok LDS Temple as we
do have a free day there in Bangkok with optional activities.
(01:14:28):
We'll go to Vietnam and then Holong babill spend three days,
two nights. We've chartered our own live aboard on the
ship and we'll be sailing. How long we'll see Saigon,
Ho Chi, Minh City, Hanoi, Cheng Mai, the cheng Dao Valley, Elephants, safaris,
all of this. That one will be limited to thirty
(01:14:51):
six people. The dates are we leave on the midnight flight,
late night flight October the thirties. You actually go to
work that day if you want, then fly down early
evening and be back November sixteenth. I'll be your personal
host and tour guide. Carlos. You will be leaving soon
(01:15:11):
for Galapago's October, the eleventh.
Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
October, the eleven, Yes, and to the twenty third.
Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
Now if I know it's only three weeks away, but
if someone were interested, is it still possible to.
Speaker 4 (01:15:24):
Do Yes, it is space four two. Yes, we can do.
Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
It, and that'll be Ecuador, Galapito. Take them down and
see if there's a political demonstration like we saw it.
Speaker 5 (01:15:37):
Well one of my last tours, I did have a
major demonstration that blocks the roads and we have a
lot of interesting experiences there.
Speaker 1 (01:15:46):
Yeah, Hey, one other tour that I'll be hosting. I
have the best life in the world. I love Alaska,
and my twenty twenty five I've purposely picked up a
late August. Not only are the rice is better August
twenty third to the thirtieth, but fall foliage comes early
to Alaska, much earlier than here. And while there's no guarantee,
(01:16:11):
we'll be looking for the Northern lights, which can be
seen where we are, whether we see him or not,
that is Mother Nature. All those that Alaska is August
twenty third to the thirtieth, from Vancouver to Anchorage, and
we have two glacier days on that. Well, that brings
the end to another travel show. This is my thirty
(01:16:32):
third year hosting the show. We wish you godspeed, a great,
great week, and we'll talk to you right here next week.
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