The Travel Show: Free Money; Rome; What do flight attendance notice about you?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Get away Guru. We have a wonderful show plan for
you today. We'll be talking about two hundred dollars free
from Norwegian Cruise Line to spend on your next cruise.
It's like free money and how to get it? And
what are we expecting in Rome with the passing of
Pope Francis? How has that affected travel plans? What are

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your Christmas traditions? Yes, we are talking about Christmas already.
Some of the best international travel advice you'll ever get.
And do you ever wonder behind that smile what flight
attendants first notice about you when boarding a flight. You
can renew your passport online. Yo, Delta is giving away

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twenty five hundred free sky miles and I'll tell you
how to get it. And the big breaking news is
Morris Columbus Travel. We'll be sponsoring the Fall Travel Expo
October eighteenth at the Davis Conference Center in late and
I'll be giving you more details on that. I'd like
to welcome back to the show Wendy Fraki, a group

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department manager with Morris Columbus Travel. Of course, Morris Columbus
Travel the sponsor of the travel show.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Good morning, Laria. I'm so happy to be back.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
It is good to have you here. How's the group
department doing?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
You know what. We are busy in thriving and so
excited to talk to everybody who is traveling this year.
They have been so many people calling with sub fabulous questions.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, listen, I talked about free money.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
And that's always such a good thing.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Morris Columbus Travel, as I mentioned as the sponsor of
the show, is the largest seller of cruises in the
entire Inner Mountain West, and as such, Morris Columbus Travel
gets some special deals, some exclusive deals that can save
you a lot of time and add to the fun
of your next cruise. Morris Columbus Travel has teamed up

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with an exclude, elusive offer with Norwegian Cruise Lines that
will give you up to two hundred dollars cash in
the form of an onboard credit per state room for
balcony and above. Now this is good for seven night
sailings or longer starting August the first. It covers all

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of the NCLs ships except to the Aqua and the Luna.
Now to get this you have to book it only
with Morris Columbus Travel. You know this deal is so
good Wendy two hundred dollars on board credit per state room.
You can't even get this directly from Norwegian Cruise Line.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
You know, I think we just get used to all
this preferential treatment because I hear things like that. I'm like, oh,
of course they give that to us.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well they do. Now, you do have to make your
reservations one hundred and twenty days or more prior to
sailing to qualify, and it's applicable to the NCL sailings
out of Miami. Contact your favorite Morris Columbus travel advisor
for all the details. But you don't want to miss
on two hundred dollars now.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Not if you're going anyway. And you know so many
of the cruise lines they send emails and there's a
lot of marketing that they do, and they say call
us or click here, and you can book these things online.
But you're just like you said, you're not going to
get this two hundred dollars. You're going to miss it
if you don't work with somebody who's going to take
care of you.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yes, news, and you lose. Now some other great news
you've heard of the Best of State awards they.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Find they recognize the thing that's familiar.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
How about that they recognize the best of the best
in business, in services, in food and dining, in travel,
in sports, I'm all of this stuff. For the fifth
year in a row, Morris Columbus Travel has been given
been awarded the best of State, the number one travel agency.

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It's done by a a well, i shouldn't say anonymous,
a private group that has no connections to any of
the travel companies in Utah. And there's a long list
of criteria. They'll even make secret calls kind.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Of like you know, the shy, yes, the secret.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Shoppers, to see what is it? Did? You also know
that the Mark Travel Corporation, which is a multi billion
dollar travel company headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, they have stuff
internationally multi billion name Morris Columbus Travel as one of
the top ten travel agencies in America. Top ten. Now

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they don't say one, two, three, four, They just say
these ten are the best of the best of the best.
And you know, we don't take this lightly at Morris
Columbus Travel. We're very proud of our organization, of the administration,
the people behind the scenes and the front line travel advisors.
And of course we're just giddy over our group department.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh, you know, we are lucky to work with the
best in the business. And I was just going to say,
I think it is our advisors that get to take
most of the credit for that award.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yes, they really do. You know, we want to extend
our condolences to people around the world, protectively those of
the Catholic faith. Following the passing unexpected passing, a stroke
and a heart attack of Pope Francis, there's really the
people's pope, you know, he reached out to the poor.

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But that does affect travel, and we're coming into the
peak season. Travelers to Rome should expect closures, visitor restrictions
and crowds at some of the city's main attractions. So
tourists who have booked a visit to Rome in the
coming weeks will experience the city during a rare historical moment,

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and regardless of your faith, you can be a part
of that. In Saint Peter's Square visiting the Basilica. Following
the death of Pope Francis on April twenty first, a
series of religious rituals and procedures are being enacted that
very well will impact travel plans. One of the primary

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sites that will be affected is the Sistine Chapel. It
is now closed to the public for the conclave that
will be coming, and the Sistine Chapel is used for
voting on the new pope, a process that will see
the famous room close for well over a week. Crowds
and cues around the Vatican are expected to be very heavy,

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especially given the celebration of the Catholic Church's twenty twenty
five Jubilee year, which is all on twenty five years
opening of the Jubilee Doors, which has increased the number
of visitors well. Around fifteen to twenty days after the
pawn its death, a conclave will begin, and it's a

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very storied process to determine the next king. This strictly
confidential gathering sees the Roman Catholic cardinals locked inside the
Sistine Chapel until a decision is met. As such, the room,
which is adorned with michael Angelo's frescoes toward de de Force,

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has now closed and will remain closed for the entire
duration of the process. It will likely open again a
few days after the conclave ends, but there's no guarantee
on that, as it done has done for previous deaths. Now,
the conclave's expected to start next week May May fifth,

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the tenth in that and it could go on for days.
It is possible that the Sistine Chapel will not reopen
until mid May. Now the chapel is access through the
Vatican Museums, and the museums right now will remain open
but not have access to the Sistine anyway. The other

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thing is the Vatican Museum said that all tickets, including
tickets for the Sistine Chapel, are non refundable and the dates, times,
and names cannot be modified. So you may have bought
a ticket for the Sistine Chapel, but it will not
I mean, you're not going to say that's just the
way it is. You know, the chapel is. Have you

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been to the Sistine Chapel?

Speaker 2 (08:48):
I have. I was actually going to comment that over
the years, we've had groups there twice that have been
kept from going into Saint Peter's not into the Basilica itself,
because the pope had just closed it down for his
own uses, but not the Cistine Chapel, and that would
be really really hard.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
You know, of Michelangelo's statues, you have Saint Pietro in
Vincola with Saint Peter. Change, that's in Rome. The Pieta
which is in the Vatican, which is Mary holding her
crucified in Saint Peters in the Academia Museum is the

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famous Larry statue. Yes, thank you. Sometimes no, not the
David statue. But the Sistine Chapel is something different. It
is so beautiful. It's located within Vatican City, within the museums.
It was built between fourteen seventy seven and fourteen eighty

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and of course Michael Angelo painted much of the frescoes there.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
There's been some fantastic movies about it.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Did you know that the cist Chapel has been used
as the venue for choosing the new pope? Catch this
since fourteen ninety two. Now, what do we remember about
fourteen ninety two Christopher.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Columbus, Yes, that's right, you sell the Ocean Blue.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
He sailed the Ocean Blue. Hey, when we come back,
I want to tell you how to get an extra
exclusive offer of two hundred dollars off per state room
on your next Viking cruise. All of that right here
on the travel show. Now, luck talk about today and
I'm heading out two hundred bucks on Viking cruise.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
I'm in line done.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
You're listening to the travel show. I'm Larry Gelvins said,
get away.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Good.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
May I say thank you for joining us? Did I
get so excited for every weekend when we can talk travel, travel,
smell and taste travel. I've been to one hundred and
fifteen countries and I've got some new ones coming up
this year, and I'm just giddy like a little kid
about travel. I want to welcome back Wendy Fraki, a

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group department manager for Morris Columbus Travel. You know, Wendy,
what I think people are looking for now are experiences.
I think there's two types of people who travel, and
both are wonderful. One is not diminished, one is not
better than the other. I call them tourists and travelers.

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Travelers have that spark of adventure. They're looking for new horizons.
Tourists are very comfortable with the tried and true travel.
Yes that they do. And again, one is not better
than the other.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Well, I identify as both, so it depends on the destination.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
I am definitely a traveler. Yeah, you know, I'm always
looking at the next hurra and I think about I've
spent so much time in the South Pacific and friends
down there when they come to America they stay at
our house. We've stayed. And there's I think of Letti
Sayili in Fungeray on the island of Upolu, and there's

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also a fung Ray, New Zealand. But out there at
Matareva on the island of Upolu, we go out and
you know, they have a There are very few grass
covered huts because they use like a corrugated metal now
because it holds up, but it's open sided. They can
drop partitions down. If it's raining. You sleep on the

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floor on mats with a mosquito net over you.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
That is a real travel experience.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
There's no tables to sit at for meals or anything else.
They had one light bulb because they're close to the road.
All meals cooked over and open fire with coconut husks.
You know, people are looking for experiences, not a death wish,

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but simply looking for experiences. And you know, I love Thailand.
I love Southeast Asia. People ask me all the time, Larry,
and I'm going to put this question to you. What
is your favorite place to travel? I'm going to ask
you Wendy, Well.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
You you just mentioned Rome, so I'm going to go.
I think Rome in Italy is one of those places
that I could go to over and over again and
just not be tired of it and eat so well,
you know, there's always that Gelato is my move past time.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yes, you know. In another show we'll discuss there is
a difference between Italian cuisine and Rome Roman cuisine. A
lot of people think they're same, but they're very very different.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well, no, and there's different cuisine whether you're in northern
or southern Italy.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
And the taste of the pasta, and yeah, I think
the biggest difference between most Italian food in the US
and in Italy is we oversauce it. We taste in
the sauce, where in Italy the sauce is a perfume
to the they want to taste the pasta. It actsents

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it well. People ask me all the time, Larry, what
is your favorite place? And I have to say it
depends on the purpose of the trip. For absolute physical
beauty that overloads the census that you can't get enough
of French Polynesia, Tahiti, Bora, Bora.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
I can smell it just as you're talking enough.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Flowers and the clarity of the water for something exotic, different,
perfectly safe, beautiful, beautiful beaches, mountains, the foothills of the Himalayas.
Great food, great people, the friendliest people on earth. Thailand
it's called the land of Smiles now for his It's

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pretty tough to beat Europe in the Middle East. For adventure.
If that's the purpose of your trip, It's a safari
in East Africa Kenya during the so called Great Migration,
which only takes place in July, August and September. There
is nothing like it in the world. Nothing even comes
close to it. But there's a downside to it, a

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big downside, because Hogel Zoo will never be the same,
will never be the same. You know, why is it?
People ask me why do you love Thailand and Southeast Asia, Vietnam,
Cambodia so much. It's the people, the culture, the food,
the graciousness. It's exotic. You have everything from tropical islands

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and rice patties, the actual foothills of the Himalayas, elephants,
you know, the hospitality. It is over on the food.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
And I'll tell you, I think you said food at
least twice.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Food food, food for food, and when you get there,
it is one of the best values. You can stay
in five star, over the top deluxe hotels for the
same price here in the US, you'd be paying for
a three star hotel.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, let's not even talk about the cost of massages.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Oh, you know, that's part of the culture, you know, Yeah,
it really is part of the culture. And Kathy and
I we live for them. A foot massage, body massage.
They're very appropriate, very modest.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
I was really disappointed the last time I was there,
I only got three three but.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
That was in one day.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
I set out.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
I would love to have you. You know, I do
an annual Thailand and cambodho trip. Will talk more about that.
I'm going again planning my next one, but I will
be taking an Alma Waterway's river cruise on the Mighty
Maykong through Cambodia and Vietnam from Sean Reap that's Anchor
Watt down to Saigon now called Ho Chi Minh City.

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The village is the out of the way places along
the Makon. We will have a pre cruise option in Bangkok.
If you want to come with, I'll be your personal
host and tour guide. The dates are November nine to sixteen,
twenty twenty six, next year, and again we'll have a
pre we'll have a post, we'll have these different things.

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But here's the deal, Wendy. As you know, we bought
half the ship and as a result, the prices that
we are offering are anywhere from several one hundred dollars
less than the lowest price you can get directly from
Almah Waterways, the Deluxe river cruise Company, to over one
thousand dollars per person below the cost of buying it

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direct Why because we bought half the ship. Why because
we're the largest seller of river cruises in the entire
Inner Mountain West. Love to Have You join. You can
get all the details at Morriscolumbus dot com. Scroll down.
I think it's about the third item down Morris Murdoch
Escorted Tours and click on cruises. Go to November twenty

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twenty six. Love to Have You with Me. Space is limited.
When we come back, I'm going to tell you some stuff.
You just can't make this stuff up year in a row,
and I think Wendy's.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Probably the I'm so proud of us.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, it's you know, most of our travel advisors have
been there for a very long time.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Lost of experience, exactly. The person who's been on my
group department staff has been the longest thirty five years.
Happy thirty fifth anniversary, Danny Edmonds.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Go Danny, go Danny. You know there's so many fun
travel stories, and I think of the crazy things that
people do, and you can't make this stuff up now.
Just oh, just recently, some crazy things happened. But you know,
these days, airlines will do anything to hit you with

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a fee. Airlines have never met a fee or a
charge that they did, like especially low fare carriers that
sell ridiculously inexpensive tickets and then try to make it
up from everything from a sign seating. You know, some airlines,
if you don't check in online beforehand, there's a massive

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fee all up to one hundred dollars per person if
you checked in pre boarding. You want water, you have
to pay for it. You want luggage, well everybody is
paying for that right now. I came up with a
great profit scheme for the airlines. I don't know why

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they haven't taking me. I don't know why they don't
hire me to increase their revenue. And this is it
charge for the toilet.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Oh yeah, now here, here's.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
How you're going to do it. Okay. First of all,
when you open the door, you slide your credit card
like you do anywhere, and then there's a little ticker
there like a on a taxi meter, and the longer
and it just just charge, charge charge. Now you know
how a taxi has extra charges for luggage or night Well,
every tissue you take it things you with another charge,

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then another charge. You want to wash your hands, extra charge,
you want soap, extra charge them.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
I'm so glad they're not listening to you.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Thank you very much. And I've you noticed that sometimes
there's a line outside the toilet exactly, Well, you auction
it off, all right. I've got ten dollars, ten dollars,
ten dollars, I've got fifteen, fifteen, and there's a line
of five men. You know, the man who is dancing
holding himself in the back is going to pay anything

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to get into that towel. What do you think?

Speaker 2 (21:06):
You know? I don't look forward to that day.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well, you know, some airlines charge if you want to
put something in the overhead bin.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Mm hm.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
It's just it's well, they could slide a card to
open up the overhead been Actually you could put it
in for free. You have to charge to get out.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
You've probably seen some crazy stories of passenger getting arrested
here in the United States, usually flying Frontier or Spirit Airlines,
for flipping out at the gate agents for making them
pay extra fees or not be allowed to board. As
it turns out, the gate agents earn a commission for

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every passenger they get to pay an extra fee. Do
you think they're motivated?

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh? How could they not be.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
You can't board unless you pay this carry on fee
of whatever, fifty bucks, one hundred bucks. Like well, a
passenger with Spirit Airlines, Sean Hover, broke his skateboard at
the gate because the gate agent was trying to charge
him eighty nine dollars, of which she was going to

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get part of that, saying that the skateboard was longer
than their personal item dimensions. I tell people go on
every airline's website, see what the dimensions are for check luggage,
carry on, what can you take? Some airlines have a
weight limit. Now I fly Delta almost exclusively. It's a

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great airline. I've never once had Delta weigh my carry on,
but I have had it weighed on other airlines, particularly
foreign airlines. Oh yeah, China Air. Well, you know there's
another passenger. How about this also, Well, this one was

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with Ryan Air, a low cost European carrier. They said
his tiny suitcase was too big and they wanted to
charge him seventy euro which is about seventy five seventy
six bucks. And it's just he didn't have any checking
out and it's really small. No no, no, it's a

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half inch half inch too big. So he busted off
the wheels. He literally ripped them off, unscrewed them. Now
it's a half an inch shorter to avoid paying the fat.
But that is nothing, nothing compared to what a man

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did on a Delta Airlines flight. I'm not making this
stuff up, all right. Well, you see a video and
I think he's doing it for clicks and video. You've
got some people doing stupid things for a talk or YouTube.
You see this man bringing supplies. It looks like a bomb,

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but it's just supplies. He got it through tsa Once
on board his Delta flight, he heads to the lavatory
or the restroom. He locks the door. He unpacks his
six volt battery pack, connecting it to a cigarette lighter
style power cord, and he does what everyone is told

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not to do as long as a child, powering up
water in the sink. He then takes out a diaper
changing table for a work service. So he's heated up
the water in the basin with this portable heater. When
the water is boiling, he dumps raw shrimp into it.

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I'm not making this stuff up. So he's cooking the
shrimp in the water. He takes it out and places
them on paper towels, and then in the water that's
left over, he adds dried mashed potato mix into the water.
Now he's got a bag full of garlic mashed potatoes
coated shrimp. He then dumped the shrip in the mashed

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potatoes as a snack, and he goes back to his
main cabin economy seat. Three years ago on Delta Lea Airlines,
a man did a similar thing in the lavatory. He
heated it up with a battery because you can't plug anything,
and he cooked himself a Steaknence, I'm not making this

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stuff up.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Well, they're ideas, I guess for people to consider, because
obviously they got away with it.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
I'm trying I do a lot of crazy things in
my life, but honestly, I can't think of any crazy
behavior I've ever done on an airline. I travel so much.
My fears I do something stupid I get banned from flying.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
You know, we actually tell people who are doing the
long international flights that if you don't usually take a
sleep aid, don't do it for the first time on
an airplane. Some people want to sleep that long flight,
and so they'll borrow of friends. Ambient not a great idea.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
I used to take ambient and okay, I'm going to
confess you. No, I'm going to confess I've never told
this story on the radio. But I was in Pouquet, Thailand,
the JW Marriott, which is the ritziest, most deluxe hotel
on the island of Pouquette, Thailand, and I was at

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a single occupancy ground level with a sliding glass door
going outside to the public areas, and I took an
ambient And sometimes it makes me do crazy things or
have crazy.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yes, it does.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
I came to consciousness. I woke up outside in my
underclothing that I sleep in the mesh type. Seriously, that's
the if you know, Yeah, I mean LDS mesh type,

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and I don't know where I am. I'm looking around.
It was like two o'clock in the morning, and I
don't know where I am.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
And I'm outside, I'm in your under.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Dressed, in my underclothing, walking around, and finally I come
to a road. Okay, I know where I am, and
you know, every now and then a car passes and
I'm kind of covering up strategic areas because it's mesh
and okay, the hotels down here. I'm walking down this country.

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I had walked a fair amount and I'm walking back
to the hotel and I don't have a key. So
I grabbed a pillow off the sofa, two of them,
and strategically placed one in the front, one in the back,
and waddled up the hotel. I am sorry, but I

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don't have a room key, and the young lady behind
it is just kind of shocked, and she says, well,
what is your room number? I don't know. I gave
her my name and she gave me a room key,
and I said, where is the room and she pointed

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me in the right. I was so humiliated.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
How long ago was this.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Pre Fresno pre mission? About twenty years ago. Wow, about
twenty years ago?

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Well, okay, so the moral of the story, don't take ambient,
I guess even if you're used to it, because you've
got it.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Embarrassing it is. That is not my most embarrassing moment
in life. That'll be a story for another day. But
I was so embarrassed. I don't take ambient. I take
a trasidonus and it does the trick.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
So when you're on an airplane, just to beware of
the medications. Going back to the where that story began with.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
And if you travel with me and I'm wandering around
in mesh underclothing, flap you and you wake up with that. Hey, listen,
it is only two hundred and thirty six days till Christmas.
That is thirty three weeks and five days, seven months
and twenty two days. But it's seven months, twenty two days.

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Then we have Thanksgiving. We're getting ready, so we really
have about six months till we have to get into
Smiths in Earnest very quickly. What is a Wendy Frakia
Christmas tradition?

Speaker 2 (30:06):
It is decorating after Thanksgiving and it's getting the tree
up and it's just going all out.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
I see stores decorating in September.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
You can't do it, can't do it, cannot before Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
When we come back, I want you to talk about
the most unique tour, the twenty twenty five Festive Christmas
Traditions visiting Germany, Austria and Switzerland, hosted by none other
than the lovely and talented Wendy Frakia.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yes, I'm so excited about this.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
I've got some interesting social media. Yeah, right here on
the Travel Show. You're listening to the Travel Show sponsored

(30:59):
by More's Columbus Travel, winner of the Best of State
Award is the number one travel agency in the great
state of Utah for the fifth year in a row.
And I'm just so proud of the travel advisors at
Morris Columbus Travel. And we were talking about Christmas and
you had a Christmas.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Tradition decorating after Thanksgiving. That is just we always have
to give Thanksgiving its recognition. It's such an important holiday
to express gratitude. But I'll tell you what, as soon
as that turkey is cleaned off and dishes are done,
that tree goes up as fast as it can. I
cannot wait to get crazy about Christmas.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Disc really is something about Christmas. The one Christmas tradition
I just don't understand, and they still do it, mostly
in the Germanic countries is putting on a Christmas tree,
not an artificial tree, a real tree, lighted candy candles.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Isn't that the christ Really?

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Have you ever seen what a Christmas tree does when
you put it in your fireplace and explodes with flames.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
I wonder if it does that in Germany, like like
all the things they show us here in the US,
because you know they cut it well, I guess it
does catch fire. They put it out with beer and
they have lots of it.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Hey, listen, I'm kind of disappointed in you.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Oh, get used to it, Get used to it.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
I mean, you really let me down, Wendy. You have
one of the most exciting group tours Christmas markets, the
festive Christmas traditions. You'll be this December Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
I'm disappointed because you didn't invite me.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
You know, it's because they're still room and I would
love to have you because we're going to visit your
most favorite Christmas market in the world. Do you want
to talk about it?

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Nurremberg.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah, it's on the XY.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
The Christmas Markets of Europe are a six hundred year
tradition where every city, big and smallest, hamlets, villages, major
cities completely totally, absolutely lose their mind at Christmas, and
many cities, like Vienna, they have ten different Christmas. It's

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all outdoor, it's music, it's entertainment, it's drink, it's both
alcohol and non alcoholic, and you know everything about Christmas.
I'm not a shopper. I don't like to shop for socks,
but the first time I went to the Christmas markets,
I had to buy a suitcase and it was all

(33:43):
stuff for the grandkids. So run us through this particular
I think you leave after Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
We actually leave in November, so we get to give
Thanksgiving its total total respect. But then we're right into
the Christmas holiday that weekend, and we're off the Christmas
season strong, and we're going to the birthplace of the
Christmas traditions in Germany is where this starts. But we

(34:10):
don't just visit Germany, like you mentioned Vienna. We go
also into Austria and then we go into Switzerland is
actually where this ends. And these Christmas markets and all
three of these countries are very similar and yet they're
each very unique. And we titled this Traditions Festive Traditions

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because each country has very different, yet similar Christmas traditions.
So this is Christmas markets are just so important, but
we're also doing all the historic things. But then we're
putting the holiday activities in, Like we're going to the
chapel where Silent Night was written there and we're going

(34:52):
to have a concert there, a Silent Night concert. When
we're in Austria, we're going to do a jingle bell sleigh. Right,
We're actually going to get on a sleigh and we're
going to go out and do the jingle bells. And
then in Switzerland we're going to go to this abbey
that in Saint Gallan that is just centuries old.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
It's amazing, And of course there's more than just a
Christmas rus all the sight seeing. I also understand that
I will be recording my version of singing jingle bells,
which you will take and I'll take.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
It with us. Absolutely we'll sing it.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
You asked me about Nuremberg. That is my favorite Christmas
market in all of Europe. It's in the old town,
cobblestone streets. It just grabs me lead Kukin which is
the little cakes.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Oh, everything is so good there. I'll tell you one
of the best things about this toura, Larry, because the
itinerary is just fantastic. I'm in love with it. But
we got group air Are you ready for this because
you haven't heard this for a while. Fly to frank
we're flying for Frankfurt, yes, and then we fly home
from Xerox, Switzerland, and we've got air under one thousand dollars.

(36:10):
We've got air for nine hundred and fifty eight dollars
to go on this tour front door. That's what I'm saying.
It's as Christmas skif for you eight or nine fifty
eight for our airfare and our group airfare.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
I am.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
I'm really excited because that's such a big benefit because
airfare has been so incredibly expensive.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
You know, you can't predict Mother Nature, but I go
to the Christmas markets all the time. I have found
the weather very comparable to Salt Lake City.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Sure, you could have a very cold time, but in
the many times that I've gotten there, I've gotten temperate
winter weather. Yeah. I've got a jacket on, sure.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
And a scarf.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yeah, but you're not like Shivery Deep Freeze or anything
like that. All the details at Morriscolumbus dot com. That's
Morriscolumbus dot com on the homepage. Click just scroll down
to the third item, Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours. That's the
brand name for the Morris Columbus Escort of Tours. It's

(37:17):
like General Motors and Chevrolet. And then just click on
Europe and go to December twenty twenty five. Stay tuned
for our number two and what flight attendants think about you.

(37:39):
Welcome back to our number two of the Travel Show
in the best two hours in radio. I'm Larry Gelwiz,
the getaway Guru. The Travel show is sponsored by Norwegian
Cruise Lines, the home of freestyle cruising, and I'll be
cruising with Norwegian next month from Iceland to Norway to

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the Netherlands to Belgium to England with one hundred and
four of our Travel Show listeners. That is a fantastic
cruise and we're pleased to welcome Wendy FRACKI a group
department manager at Morris Columbus Travel. Now I often think
about this, folks, how grateful I am and we are

(38:23):
at Morris Columbus Travel for listening to the travel show
and your support. You know, without without our listening audience,
without our customers, Wendy, we don't have a show.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Well, we don't have a show. We don't have a business, we.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Don't have a job. So if you've had a good
experience with Morris Columbus Travel or enjoyed one of our
many group tours, would you join us and follow us
on social media? It helps other people find this would
be a big favor to me, builds connections within the
travel community. Now we have very active accounts in both

(38:58):
Facebook and Instagram. Oh follow Morris Columbus.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Travel and Morris Murdock Escorted Tours.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
You came up to date on all things travel. If
you have topics you'd like us to talk about on
the radio, we'd love to hear from. You can call
it in or send it through social media accounts. It's
an easy way to communicate with us and let us
know how we can make the show and your travel
experience even better.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
We do love hearing from you absolutely. We've also got
a YouTube channel both Morris Murdock Escorted Tours as well
as Morris Columbus Travel. And the other thing I want
to mention about the social media is a lot of
times our promotions like this two hundred dollars on board
credit with role with Norwegian, and some of the other

(39:49):
promotions that we do list on Facebook and the social
media post. So besides the information they're getting those deals early, do.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Join us on all of our social media. Now, in
the last hour, we were talking about our favorite places,
and you mentioned Rome and I said, my favorite travel
experience out of the one hundred and fifteen countries I visited, somebody,
thank you very much, But I mentioned for sheer, absolute

(40:23):
scenic beauty that completely overloads the census. You simply can't
take it in. It's French Polynesia, I tell people when
we're in Tahiti or Morea Bora Bora right Yetaya Rangiroa,
nukuhevahiva Oa, the Tuomotus, all of these areas, you will

(40:45):
take photos and when you take them home, people say, oh,
that's so beautiful. I don't care if you have a
high deaf camera. It doesn't capture the depth you can have.
The hues and the colors, especially of the blue and
the green, and people say, oh that is so beautiful.
Oh no, no, it doesn't begin to capture it. People

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literally gasp when they are seeing what we see in
French Polynesian. And I'll tell you that first sunrise, that
first sunset is a world apart. It touches the virginity
of our senses, wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. It is something else,
It really is something else. Well, you can join me

(41:31):
in the South Seas. Funny, I should mention that this
year I'll be leading one of our adventures from the
island of Tahiti. Now there's no such thing as Tahitian Islands.
Tahiti is one island of French Polynesia. There's actually five

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island groups in French Polynesia have the Gambier Islands, the
austral Islands, the Society Islands, Motus which is really an archipelago,
and then up to the Marquasis Islands. It is believed
that the early inhabitants of Hawaii sailed from Rightieta, which

(42:13):
is in the Society Islands, and also another ocean going
voyage from the Marcasius Islands. I don't know how to
properly describe the South Seas. Wendy. It captures you, there's
a romantic feeling, you feel something.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
You know.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
In Samoa, where I've spent so much time, there's two
words for the English word spirit, but only one translates
into English. You have the in Samoan and other Polynesian languages.
It's the same. You have anganga, which that is like
holy ghost, holy spirit. It has a religious connotation. And

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then another word mana. Now mana would be the spirit
of aloha. What you feel that they feel that the
mana is the tie that wherever they go in the
world brings them back. It's like a long umbilical cord

(43:19):
from their native islands, their culture, and their people that
keeps them Tahitian, Tongan, saman Hawaiian, Fijian, the Nioways, the
Cook Islands, I eat Toki, all of these islands. Wherever
they are in the world, they feel a connection. And
this mana is in the rocks and the trees and

(43:41):
the seashells of the coconuts, the pineapple, the ocean, the waves,
the sand, everything about it is the spirit of that
people and spirit of the eyes. And I'm telling you,
I feel that I can feel the manna when I

(44:01):
go to these islands you know, I was on a
zoom call when was it Saturday with our unofficially adopted
Maori's son. I introduced him as my son. He introduces
me as his father. His dad is American dad. He's
in his early fifties. He's a grandfather now himself.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
But we we just kind of unofficially adopted him when
he was eighteen. You know, he came as an exchange student,
played rugby for US at the Highland Rugby team, and
I felt it just talking to him. I felt that, well,
this is what you can experience, and I would love
to show you my Polynesia. The dates, the actual cruise

(44:46):
dates are May fifteenth to the twenty seventh. It's fourteen days,
thirteen nights. This is the ultimate South Pacific experience. Rate
start at just nineteen fifty nine including all taxes and
fees for two weeks.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
Now that's like nine hundred and something dollars a week,
and you would pay that anywhere in Mexico, the Caribbean,
that's below Alaska prices on a per week basis. We
start in Tahiti and then we visit the island of Moorea,
which I dearly love, right Yetaya that's the ancient temple

(45:25):
of Hawaiki. That was the name of the ancient temple
where the ocean going voyages would leave from. And many
people believe that the early as early as nine hundred AD,
that found sale to the Hawaiian islands and they didn't
know it was there. But they're navigating by the stars

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and the moon, the temperature of the water, the waves,
the wind, the marine animals, the birds that they see.
They believe they may have renamed Hawaii after the Temple
of Hawaiki. By the way, the Church of Jesus Christ
of latterday Saints has announced a new temple on Trighten.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
And then we'll sail through the Tumotu Archipelago, most of
them uninhabited islands, crossing the equator, and then to Hawaii
and we'll visit Hilo, of course seeing the Volcano National
Park there. We'll visit Kawaii. We'll be back to Kona
on the.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Big Island, one of my favorite places in Hawaii. I
do love you want to talk about a romantic place
I picked.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
And then to the island of Oahu and Honolulu, and
this is with Norwegian Cruise Lines. I've done this cruise
two or three times now, can't get enough of They
have the free airfare offer. You want to explain that, Well, the.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Two for one air offer that Norwegian does is probably
one of the best air programs out there with all
the cruises that you buy the first one at a
good price at it's not jacked up twice of what
the normal price was, but the second one is free,
so it's fifty percent off air for two people, and

(47:10):
it is a fantastic deal. You don't have any control
over your schedule, so you and your best friend on
a different booking may end up on different flights. But
you know that going in to get the deal.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Yeah, you can't. You don't have to take their deal.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
You don't have to now, but if you want, but
it's a deal.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
It is an incredible deal. Yeah, it's incredible deal.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
You just have to know going in.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Yeah. And they also have the more at C offer
with unlimited drinks, free Wi Fi, free specialty dining, free
shore excursion credits.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Gratuities everything.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
It is a wonderful deal. Well, when we come back,
what is it that flight attendance first notice about you
when you board the plane and what play on this
God's Green Earth has just been voted in an international

(48:06):
poll as the most romantic place on Earth.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Not ConA.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
I love Kailua Kona, but it didn't make the Listen. Hey,
all that more on today's travel show Humility the character Trader.
I've never been accused of.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
What I love about you, and we.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Welcome Wendy Frakie, a group department manager at Morris Columbus Travel.
In that last segment, Wendy, we were talking about the
Tahiti to Hawaii cruise. You can get all the details
at Morriscolumbus dot com. Morriscolumbus dot com, scroll down on
the homepage to Morris Murdoch Escort of Turth. Now this

(48:54):
one you got to click on cruises and go to
May of twenty twenty six. It's next year, and then
look at all of the wonderful escorted programs, including Wendy's.
We talked about the twenty twenty five Festive Christmas traditions
visiting Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Now, you and I fly

(49:18):
a lot. I don't know anyone who flies more than
I do.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
I even have pilots and flight attendants beat because they
have capped hours. I don't now when you board a plane, Wendy,
have you ever wondered what the flight crew is thinking
as you say hello. That hello to them turns out
the sizing you.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
Of course they have to.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
As one airline said, when boarding the aircraft, flight attendants
are happy to smile and greet you, but they are
analyzing a number of important factors that could tribute to
the in flight experience. They are identifying passengers who may
be able to help assist in an emergency. I think

(50:08):
that's a good thing.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Oh yeah, as.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Well as passengers who may need help in an emergency situation,
such as elderly or injured persons. Now, crew members are
also looking to identify passengers who may be nervous. Nellies,
nervous flyers may need some words of encouragement. But overall,

(50:31):
the number one thing running through their mind at all
times is how to keep each and every passenger safe
from the moment you step on the plane to the
moment you deboard. Now, flight of tendants observe several things
about passengers as they board the aircraft, including behavior and attitude.

(50:54):
How do passengers interact with each other with the crew
is there friendly or aggressive behavior too. Is seating arrangements.
Right now, there's a problem with seat lice as I
call them, Oh yeah, meaning people who don't sit in

(51:16):
their assigned seats. They sit in whatever seat they want
and they you know, some people are nervous and they
say that's my seat. No, no, you go, and they
just back off. They're afraid to speak up. If you
get in that situation, the person won't call the flight attendant.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Absolutely, have your boarding pass ready.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
Yeah, they look at carry ons, but they say they do.
I see. You know, you're supposed to have one carry
on that can fit in the overhead or underneath, and
then a person on like a purse or a laptop, right,
something like that, A small.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Backpack, a small backpack.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
I was on a flight coming home from Miami when
we are on the NCL Inaugura. We went to Miami
at Land of Salt Lake. The guy behind us brought
four carry ons, including large ones.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Oh no, how did he do that?

Speaker 1 (52:09):
No? Flight attendants said, oh, he took the whole practically,
the whole bin. What about the other people? Health and
safety flight attendants look for signs of distress, illness, or
discomfort with passengers. You know, it's also a demographic. What's
the mix of passengers, families, business, travels, special needs, punctuality,

(52:31):
you're there when your zone is called, and engagement with
the crew are they are the passengers friendly? Now I
know that you and Art are a very romantic couple.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Art Art is the guy bless Art.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Is her husband, the guy she lives with. Art is
such a romantic guy.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
Not I was going to say, in the right time.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
In the right place. Well, for the last seven years,
in a poll, a very comprehensive poll funded by Funjet Vacations,
the Talker Research Institute took They interviewed over two thousand

(53:19):
what they called general population Americans, not people like me
that travel all the time and know what they're talking about.
But the Paris has for seven years in a row,
has been considered the most romantic place for UI. But

(53:40):
this year they lost out and they went to number two.
Now I don't agree with the new number one. I
love this place, but I don't agree it's the most romantic.
It's Maui. Kathy and I were in Maui last month.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
And you weren't feeling romantic.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
Oh, I was feeling romantic, but I could be at
burger king and feeling romantic with Kathy. Okay, love you, Kathy,
the best thing that ever happened to me. Well, Maui
and Paris took the top spots one and two. Rome
your city was in third place, and in fourth place
was Venice, Italy and can Kun number five. They're all

(54:21):
wonderful places to me. I love Maui, but I can
think of more romantic places.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
So what's your number one?

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Oh have to be in Thailand?

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Well, Thailand buquet who raby?

Speaker 4 (54:35):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (54:35):
I like? I like puquette. Now Krabby is not my
attitude or demeanor. K r a b I is an
island in Tahiti. You have, I mean, excuse me, Thailand.
You have like Samui Krabbi Thailand, and you often hear
it referred to as co k h in the Thai

(54:58):
lang whige of course, to getaway Guru fluent in Thai
and all languages. Co means island, so sometimes it's co
pouquette Ko Krabbi Ko Samui Samui s a m Ui. Anyway,
I found that very interesting. I do think so if.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
People are feeling romantic, then those are some destinations that
they should be looking at.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Go to I'll tell you where to go and how.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
To proposals and anniversary trips and things like that.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
You know, I'm a very musical fellow, and I would
like you to share with me and our listening audience.
A celebration of music and the Diamond Jubilee of the
Sound of Music Movie. Yeah, we got all that more
on the travel show Alsborg and Vienna. A Celebration of

(55:58):
Music and the Music Movie Diamond Jubilee. The dates are
August thirtieth to September nineteenth. This year.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
We were really having fun naming that tour, so thank
you for reading the entire thing, because we are really
trying to figure out how to express everything this tour
has to offer. Originally we were just calling it the
Sound of Music. But you've got World War Two history,
you've got the Sound of Music movie that is celebrating

(56:28):
its sixtieth year, the Diamond Jubilee, and everybody loves going
into Austria and celebrating and the movie because it's such
a part of our lives. So many of us grew
up with this being just such a fantastic film. And
then of course the classic music that we all get

(56:48):
to celebrate why we're in Austria. We've got Mozart, we
got Beethoven, there's Bach, you know, and even if you're
not a classical music fan, you can't help but love
and appreciate the music and the talent it took to

(57:08):
write these things. The architecture in Germany in Austria, this
tour visits one of the most iconic castles in the
entire Mershfanstein Weinstein.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
It was built by Mad King Louis. It was started
in eighteen sixty nine completed in eighteen eighty six. But
what's interesting down and by the way, Walt Disney was
so enamored with Noschwanstein, which that he used it as
the inspiration for the Cinderella Castle at Disneyland.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Absolutely they did.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
The name Norschwanstein means new Swan Stone, and the name
derives from one of Wagner's opera characters, the Swan. But
what's interesting, Mad King Louis he only slept eleven nights
in this castle, I know, but he was down in
the valley at Honschangau, which is another castle, and he

(58:11):
would watch the progress through a telescope because nous schw
Einstein is perched about halfway up the mountain. It is
one of the most unbelievable things and at the time
it was the most expensive castle in all of Europe
and Mad King Louis wanted it there because he what

(58:33):
he really wanted was to live in an authentic style
of the old German knights nights k and I NHT.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Now it is definitely one of the highlights of the tour.
So this tour actually starts in Munich, so you get
to go in and see this capital city, you know,
the home of see where the Olympics was done, into
news Schweinstein, into the Bavarian mountains. Then we go into
Austria and we go into Salzburg, and we spend a

(59:05):
couple of days in Salzburg seeing the filming sites of
the Sound of Music and of course sing the songs
and all the different productions they're doing to celebrate the
filming of the of the or yeah, the history of
the filming of the movie. Bruce Knubold, I don't know

(59:26):
if you know this, but he is actually an actor.
He's been in many, many TV series and films back
in the nineties and two thousand. He's done books and
been behind the camera as well. So he's got some
fascinating theatrical experience that he can talk about here. But

(59:48):
he loves the history of this whole area as well,
and he's been studying up on not just the Sound
of Music, but so many other films that took place
all through this region and the history, the World War
two history that is a part of not only exactly
which is a place that we'll see, she was kind.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
Of Hitler's mountain palace. The eagles Nest was the name
the Allies gave to Hitler's retreat. The actual German name
of the house or the retreat was the Kleinstein House.
And bert Tish Garden is the town at the base

(01:00:27):
of the mountains.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Yeah, and well the views up there in the mountains
is just absolutely part of it. I love Innsbruck, Innsburg
absolutely the history there. And then of course the tour
originally ended in Innsbruck, and we're like, how do they
not go to Vienna? We are that close the city

(01:00:51):
of music. We had to go, and so we get
a couple of days in Vienna. At the end we
get to see the palaces, exaction up palace.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
You can make arrangements at the Opera House. You know
that Mozart was born in Salzburg but moved to Vienna.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
You know it is, and we're going to do a
Mozart concert while we're there too. So it's a celebration
of music, it's history, it's cinema. It's this August and
we would just love We've got some openings. We would love,
love love to have you join us.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
Well, Bruce Knuboul, there's nobody one better to take it.
August thirtieth to the September nineteenth of this year. There's
a few spaces left, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
As I say, take your sweetheart, that's going to be
a romantic There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
You can call any of our travel advisors or call
the Group department direct. What's your direct number to the
Group department eight oh.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
One for eight three sixty three sixty three.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
That's easy, eight oh one four eight three sixty three
sixty three.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
Absolutely okay.

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
A mother and daughter traveled to Mexico for vacation full
of beaches and margaritis, but they learned a very important
travel lesson a lost luggage nightmare. Jill shield House and
her mother flew to Porto Vyarta. They touched down Jill's

(01:02:22):
luggage came out, but mothers did not, an airline baggage
error that a traveler could have caught in time if
she had been paying attention, but put a serious dent
in their Mexico vacation. Well, they went to the customer
service counter, you know, the lost luggage, and presented their
tags and were given a suitcase, a large suitcase. But

(01:02:46):
it wasn't theirs. They opened it to be sure, and
it was somebody else's but it had her name on
the tag.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Oh wow.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
So what they filed a mishandled eye. I didn't report.
And here's what happened is have you ever noticed when
you give your luggage, you go to the front counter
or the check in counter, and they'll take your luggage.
Sometimes they'll put the destination luggage tag like I'm flying
to La or something on when it's on the scale.

(01:03:22):
But other times, you know, you might have multiple bags,
they'll pull them back and tag them all. Yeah, and
sometimes there's two or three or four or five and
somebody is helping them out. What happened is her bag,
her real bag, had somebody else's tag and it went

(01:03:43):
to India.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Oh no, and.

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
The person traveling to India's suitcase went to Partovayarta, so.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
You know, it's slight different.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
It took an eternity to get the bag back after
they got home. Now, with the computerized, you remember, you
don't see as many airs. You remember the old days
when they handwrite the destination. Well, Kathy and I back
in the handwritten days, so this dates us. We're at
the Frankfurt, Germany airport, flying to Salt Lake City on

(01:04:17):
twa and they tagged our luggage, took our luggage. I'm
walking away from the counter. I always checked the luggage
tax because it tells you the routing and the final destination.
Now what's their tip? What is the airport code for

(01:04:39):
Salt Lake City. It's an easy one, SLC SLC. I
noticed it had been tagged to SCL Santiago, Chile. Yes,
SLC became SLC. Well you can imagine the horror of this,
this very efficient German woman, you know, but they are

(01:05:06):
able to have to go retrieve my bag and retag
at SLC even with the computer. I see the computer
got their luggage tags right. But somebody switched bags thinking
that was it. So I watch the gate agent or
the check in agent tag my bag and I look

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at the little tags, the receipts. What is my final destination?
Does it show that on the tag?

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
You know, I think nowadays, and you've seen this, I'm
sure that when you check in at the kiosk, now
they're the kiosk is printing out your luggage tag and
they want you to put it on the on the
luggage now because they don't want to be responsible for
that anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:05:51):
Nope, yeah, it's it's I just flew with both Delta
and American and both of them required that you put
your own tag on your luggage.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
When does your passport expire.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
In three more years? I just looked at that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:07):
Line's twenty thirty, so I got a little bit of time.
You know, I will probably have to get a new
one before that because.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
Your pages are going to ranges.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
Are all it used to be. You could mail it
in and they put another set of pages in there.
They don't do that anymore. Oh really, Yeah, So, the
Department of State has fully rolled out its online passport
renewal system, allowing travelers to apply for their documents from
the comfort of home. Now. The system, which the government

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introduces a pilot program in twenty twenty two, is now
fully up and running. According to the state Department, The
online application system eliminates the need to print and mail
a renewal application. You can renew online if you're at
least twenty five years old, living in a US state

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or territory, have a passport that was issued between nine
and fifteen years ago, and have the old passport with you.
Applicants must not currently plan to change their name, gender,
date of birth, or place of birth the state departments
and applicants should not plan to travel for at least

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eight weeks after submitting their online renewal application. Expedited service,
which is offered when you mail it in, is not
offered on online renewals. Currently, the processing time for passports
is six to eight weeks with routine service, two to
three weeks with expedited service. But again, you can't get

(01:07:45):
expedited with the online Now where do you do this?
Go to travel dot state dot gov, Travel dot state
dot gov, click on get a US passport, Click on
the line of a renewal online and follow the instruction
more when we come back with Delta is free twenty
five hundred skymiles enjoying by who are you? Wendy Frashia

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grew up a department manager at Morris Columbus Travel. Be
sure to check out all of the escorted tours at
Morris Columbus Travel. Simply go to morriscolumbus dot com where
you can see all sorts of cool stuff and offers
and promotions. But for the escorted tours on the homepage,
click on Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours and then if it's

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a cruise, click on Cruise. Otherwise, if it's a land tour,
click on a geographic location. For our listeners who are
using the Salt Lake International Airport, I recommend parkin Jet.
It's the I think the best off airport parking. You

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can get a free car wash, they pick you up
right at the car delivery to the airport friendly service,
and you can get a twenty percent discount, Wendy. If
you go to Morriscolumbus dot commorriscolumbus dot com, click on
home excuse me Resources, It's right near the top kind

(01:09:15):
of a horizontal toolbar, and click on resources, click on
parking discount. I say print a half a dime.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
I was going to say, and you can print as
many as you'd like.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
Twenty amount. There's a lot of money. Put your signature,
very very good. Now, how would you like twenty five
hundred free Delta sky miles? I get this all the time.
Thank you. Delta has a really a real commitment to service.
And they say, coming off a domestic fight, if your luggage,

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your checking luggage does not appear on the carousel within
twenty minutes, and that's from when the door opens, that's
considered the landing time, Wow, they will give you twenty
five hundred free Delta sky mile.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
Now was that my luggage in particular? Or is that
your the luggage coming down off of here. I'm going
to start running a time and let me tell.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
You how to really get those miles. Is during peak
periods or if you land at Terminal two, which is
halfway to Idaho at the airport, I find that at
least a third of the time, the bag isn't out

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in twenty minutes. And I'm sitting there watching it, watch
I had won. It was at like nineteen minutes forty
two seconds. Literally, dang, why did that bag come out?

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
And it's like it could have taken.

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
But no, they don't automatically give it to you. Now
you'll go to Delta dot com and in the upper
right hand corner is a search bar. Put twenty minute
bag rule. Twenty minute bag rule. And what you do
is you give your name, your skymiles number, the date,
and the city you departed from and the city in

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this case Salt Lake City or wherever you're going to.
And you have to file it within three days of landing.
So if you you could, if you land on a Monday,
you have Monday, that's day one, even though that's the
day you arrived. Tuesday Wednesday. That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
Now. Is this a new policy.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
No, I've actually talked about this on the Travel Show before.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
Well, it is good that we're talking about it again.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
I get a lot of miles that way, listen. I
love the travel Expo we have every January. We're over
one hundred travel vendors, airlines, cruise lines, safari companies, tour companies,
travel merchandise, everything everything.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
There and the Getaway Guru.

Speaker 1 (01:12:02):
We broadcast live well this October October eighteenth at the
Davis Conference Center in Leyton. We will have a one
day October eighteenth, which is a Saturday Travel Expo we
won't have one hundred because you can't fit one hundred,
but I think we usually can get about sixty sixty

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five Travel vendors, cruise lines, airlines, tour companies, hotels, resorts,
travel merchandise.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
I'm obsided.

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
I always comes to Salt Lake. I hope they come
up to Layton.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
Oh yeah. I think this is so fantastic because fall
is the best time to start planning your travel for
the next year, and that you're either closing out your
year or you're booking that next year. It's a perfect
window to end your summer and give you that kickstart
into the next year. I'm just so excited about it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
Well, you're one of the nice things. And I don't
know all of what will be given away, but I
know at the Salt Lake Expo, and I'm assuming it'll
be similar at the Davis County Expo. Is free travel now.
We gave away this year free domestic and international airline

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tickets courtesy Delta Airlines. Free zis, free resort stays, free credits,
free this free that. I mean, the list goes on
and on. I keep trying suggesting, let me draw the winner.
And if I have to draw, my own name as
pure coincidence.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
Not at all. I don't think you'd be silly enough
to do your own name, but Kathy's name might come
out of it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
Hey also a reminder if you're planning to travel to
the UK United Kingdom, which is England, Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland is in the EU
European Union, but Northern Ireland is part of the United
king them you have to have an ETA now that

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is not estimated time of arrival. That is Electronic Travel Authorization.
But when you do it, do a Google search uk
ETA official site. There's all these scammers. Some are a
charging you two hundred dollars and all they do is
transfer to the government site. It does cost thirteen British pounds, which.

Speaker 4 (01:14:24):
Is not sixteen minus.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
Well, it's been a great show. Give Morris Columbus and
follow at eight hundred and triple nine forty six forty six.
See you next week.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
Goodbye,