The Travel Show: Puerto Vallarta; Cancun; Oahu

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Larry Gelwicks, the getaway Guru, back from my whirlwind
around the world tour. I have been just about everywhere,
and I'm excited to tell you all about it. The
Travel Show is sponsored by Morris Columbus Travel, where you
always travel more and pay less. Check out their website
Morriscolumbus dot com. That's Moorriscolumbus dot com. If you have

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a Morris Columbus favorite travel advisor, keep calling him or
her at their direct line. If you don't have one,
very easy one eight hundred triple nine forty six forty six.
One eight hundred triple nine forty six forty six. Now
you know that I love travel, and I'm assuming because

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you're tuned in today, you do too. Maybe you're traveling,
or maybe you just love to talk and dream about travel.
We refer to that as the armchair traveler, and we
love all of you. Well, if you're looking for a
great deal, you know, really we always shop price, and
that's critically important. But in my view, even more important

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than shopping the price, and we have to shop price
is to shop value. What am I really getting for
my price? Well, if you're looking for a great travel
deal on price and value. I've got some great news
for you. The full Utah Travel Expo is coming back

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to the Davis Conference Center in Leyton. It's a one
day event Saturday, October eighteenth. So what are me about
a month away or so, And it will bring together
over fifty travel vendors, airlines, cruise lines, safari companies, tour operators, resorts, hotels,

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just about everything connected with travel where you can take
advantage of exclusive of Travel Expo discounts and I mean
these are exclusive, you can't get them anywhere else. And
then there'll be some information seminars. Admission is free. You
want the details Utahtravelxpo dot com. That's Utahtravelxpo dot com.

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One day, Saturday, October eighteenth at the Davis Conference Center
in Layton. Now you know that we always have a
expo in Saint George on a Wednesday, also a one
day event, free admission and about the same fifty sixty

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travel advisors. We say fifty sixty for Layton and Saint
George because that's all we can fit into the convention area.
So next year January twenty twenty six, Saint George will
be Wednesday, January twenty one and the Monster the Mother
of all travel expos. We'll be in Salt Lake at

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the Mountain America Expos Center in Sandy with over one
hundred travel vendors. Last year we had one hundred and
seven airlines, cruise lines, tour operators, resorts, hotels, everything imaginable.
And one of my favorite sponsors of the show there

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was an ice cream. Yeah, they were given away free
ice cream and well I'll tell you some more about that,
my favorite ice cream. Anyway. Now, the Salt Lake event
is a ticketed event and you can get all the
information at Utah Travel Expo dot com. Well, you know,
I just got back into town and into the United

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States this week. Catch this crazy schedule. You know, I'm
a travel junkie. Between June the ninth and September fifteenth,
which was just this past Monday, I have been home.
I have been in the United States a total of
twenty days over a three and a half month period.

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This has been a crazy summer. Catch what and it's
all been with travel show listener groups except one. I'll
tell you about that special one. But you know it's
like you hear me say, Hey, guys, I'm going here
who wants to come with me? Well, this last summer
in June, we had a couple days in rekuvic Iceland,

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and then boarded a beautiful Norwegian cruise line the Prima,
one of their new ships. It's just absolutely fabulous, and
we sailed Iceland, Norway, the Norwegian Fjords, then down to well,
i'll be Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Bruges, Belgium, one of
the most beautiful cities in all of Europe, and then

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onto jolly old England and spending a few days in London.
That was so much fun. Well, let's go to July.
We spent three days in London. I was home like
a week and a half. A three days in London
and then we boarded a cruise ship down at Southampton
in the south of England and we did a British

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Isles and France cruise. It was England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern
Ireland and France. The one stop we made in France
was at the port of Lejave over to Normandy and
the d Day Beaches. I'll talk a little bit about that.
What a moving, moving experience. Well that then on July,

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what was it July twentieth. I put this group of
travel show listeners back on the plane to the US
and I flew right to Africa for the Great Migration Safari.
There is nothing like it in the world. I've been
to safaris all over the continent and I love them all.

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But if you want to see a concentration of animals,
it is only the Great Migration, only in Kenya and Tanzania.
And for a lot of reasons, Kenya's your better choice,
and only in the months of July, August and September.
So I did Africa, then flew home. I was home
for just a little over a week and Kathy and

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I left for the Tattoo Festival. Now you remember I
talked about this has nothing to do with body art.
It goes back to the It's what it is is
the world's largest bagpipe and drum corps festival in the world.
Troops meaning bagpipe troops, military drum course from all over

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the world, including the United States, Asia, the South Pacific, Europe,
Africa all come and it's it's a celebration. There's nothing
like it in the world. It's viewed by over one
hundred million people worldwide. And I tell you it will
stir your soul. And the whole city of Edinburgh is
alive with activity. Drum corps and bagpipe troops are marching

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through the city all day long. It is. It is
a celebration. Now, why is it called tattoo. It goes
back to all the sixteen hundreds where the military would
send a drummer out, the town crier would go out
and at the closing, you know, at midnight or the

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late hour, they would yell out to the innkeeper, the
pub keeper, tattoo tattoo meaning turn off the taps, send
the men home to their wives, and the soldiers back
to the barracks. Well over four hundred years tattoo became
tattoo again. Nothing nothing having to do with Buddy. I

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got to tell you a funny story. When our marketing department,
which is fantastic, came out with the brochure it said
Tattoo Festival. We had no sales and I looked at
it and I said, you know, we got the wrong
marketing here. I said, take it off. People think they're
going to a body art tattoo, you know, get George

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Washington tattooed across their back or something. And I said
change it to Scotland, Wales and England World's largest bagpipe
and drum corep Festival BAM. It sold out. Ah kind
of a funny story. So and then that was in August.
And then we were home one day and flew to

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Alaska and then with a Denali National Park extension with
our travel show listeners, we flew home from Alaska on
September third. Kathy stayed home, but on September the fourth,
I flew to London. I was home again one day.
Now what this was We have a division of our

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company called Morris Meetings and where they put together conferences,
seminars for companies and incentive or reward travel. We had
one of our clients, a national insurance company, and they
would take their top salespeople, brokers, workers who hit performance

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levels and take him on this fantastic trip. And so
we had three hundred plus people there and Eye along
with staff members, we had four of us go. We
sailed well. We spent a couple of days in London.
You know, Samuel Johnson, the British greatest man of letters,
said when a man is tired of London, he is

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tired of life. That statement is often credited to Winston Churchill,
but it was Samuel Johnson, a poet, a man of letters,
a theologian who made that statement. And so we spent
a couple of days there, went down to the south
of England, Southampton and a one week Norwegian Fjords cruise.

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Oh my gosh, if I were to show you a
picture of Geyrenger, a UNESCO Heritage site Fjord, you would
instantly recognize it anyway. So then we came back, We
put the people on the plane back home, and what
did I do? I flew to Helsinki, Finland. You know,

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I've never been to Helsinki before, so I'm kind of
in the neighborhood. Why not give it a go? Well,
lots of things. I got some great stories for you,
and listen. Coming next, we have this strategic account manager
for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line here on the Travel show.

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You're listening to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks to
get Away Duru and just remind you about the fall Travel.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Expost Saturday, October eighteenth at the Davis Conflict Center in
late details at Utah Travel Expo dot com.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well, I have a real treat for you today. One
of my favorite people in the entire travel industry. Jenny
two Jay, strategic account manager with Royal Caribbean Cruise Line,
joins us here on the air. Jenny, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Thank you Larry for having me. It's always good to
be with you on a Saturday morning.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
I should say, welcome back to this show. I love
having you on. Hey, you know, I want to tell you,
I really and this is this is no height, this
is no BS. I love Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. I
was thinking about that and I thought, why do I
love Royal Caribbean so much? And there's many reasons, but

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I think there's three that quickly came to mind that
I think Royal Caribbean really shines on, in no particular order,
family travel. And you know, in the next segment, I'm
going to tell you about a Royal Caribbean cruise I'm
speaking to the listeners now that Kathy and I gave
our family over spring break next year. We gave all

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the kids and grandkids. I think Royal Caribbean does family
travel as good as anyone. I think you shine in
the dining options quite frankly, and there's a lot of
good cruises out there. Sometimes the buffet with some cruise
lines can get a little tired. I've never had that
experience with Royal Caribbean. And third is the entertainment. I

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think you just shine. Now, let me tell you something
else Royal Caribbean shines about. Is it true that we
have two ships sailing from Los Angeles?

Speaker 3 (12:40):
We do. We are so excited too. We have the Navigator.
We all love the Navigator.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Of the Seas.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
I love that I do too. She sails out of
Los Angeles offering three four and seven night itineries on
October second. We are welcoming the quantum of the seas.
She arrives into Los Angeles on October second, offering the
same three four, five and six night itineries.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
You know, that's such a great option here in Salt
Lakes because we're syndicated on nineteen stations, but most of
them out here in the West. We can drive to
LA which is really the Port of La at San Pedro,
or we can fly down there. You know, there's so
many options for family travel. It's not a bad idea

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to pack the kids in the family van. You can
park right across from the ship. I mean literally get
out of your car and within three or four minutes
you're checking in. Now, don't you have some specials coming
up this fall?

Speaker 3 (13:45):
We do. Currently we have kids twelve and under sale
for free, which is an incredible offer. When you're talking
about a child or two sharing a stateroom with their parents,
they go for free. Have If you haven't booked your
holiday sailings or your holiday vacations, we are there for you.

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We have availability quantum of the seas. For example, if
you want a quick getaway. October twelfth Sailing is a
four night sailing out of Los Angeles. An interior room
for two guests is six twenty six.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
But if you excuse me, excuse me, the six twenty
six is not per person, it's for two people.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Is that in hunting all taxes and fees?

Speaker 1 (14:33):
I mean that's like three hundred and thirteen dollars including
all taxes and fees. What about a family of four,
two adults, two kids.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Fam two adults, two children, twelve and under sale for free?
I remember a balcony room Larry for that sailing with
one thousand and sixty seven dollars. You can't stay home
for that night. Four You can't feed your family.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Really CRUs about what I'd spend in one day at
Disneyland with a family of four, you know. And by
the way, you can stop there now you tell me
about this new soda package for the first two guests,
so with a balcony stateroom, which you can book that

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with Morris Columbus Travel. Tell me about that.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
So with Morris Columbus Travel, we have an exclusive offer
right now, book by September thirtieth, sale anytime from November
one through June of twenty twenty six. So it's a
great offer. Just book by the end of this month
and a book of balcony and it includes a soda package.

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So I did a pricing for example, November tenth, family
of four would be in a balcony room on a
three night cruise with eight hundred and fifty dollars and
it includes two soda packages for two of the guests
in the state room. So that's another incredible offer. So

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any sailing after November first in a balcony you can
get your soda package through Morris Columbus.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Well, you know, obviously the powers that be at Royal
Caribbean have completely lost their mind because I'm I'm looking
at a family for four people and this You know,
the rates vary by departure date, and all promotions and
prices are subject to change and availability at the time
of booking. But I want to look at this Jinny

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eight hundred and fifty bucks for four people. That's about
what two hundred and twelve dollars per person, including a
soda package for the first two all taxes and fees,
two hundred and twelve dollars per person, pure incentive. That
is on a four day, three night sailing includes a

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stop in Mexico. Now, while we always recommend passports, passports
are not required for this cruise, are they?

Speaker 4 (17:08):
No?

Speaker 3 (17:08):
No, as long as it's sailing round trip Los Angeles, right,
what we call in the industry like a closed loop sailing.
So you don't need a passport, you do need a certified.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
You do need a proof of citizenship. Well, we got
about thirty seconds left. I don't know where our segment goes. Listen.
In the next segment, I'll cover some Thanksgiving Week specials.
Final question, there's a lot of good cruise options out there, Jenny,
Why Royal Caribbean?

Speaker 3 (17:41):
Well, you mentioned a few, Larry already but Royal Privian
is a leader in the cruise industry. Are innovative ships
with all the fun activities. There's activities for all ages,
including ice skating, rock climbing, flow rider, bumper cars, just
to name a few, and those are all included in
the cruise price, which is incredible. And of course the

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award winning entertainment and dining and such.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
It's just good stuff. Hey, listen, we've been speaking with
Jenny too, Jay, Strategic account manager with the Royal Caribbean.
When we come back, I'll give you some Thanksgiving specials
and I'm gonna tell you all about the spring break
to our family.

Speaker 5 (18:23):
Thanks Jenny, Bye bye.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
You're listening to the travel show. I'm Larry Yelwicks the
Getaway at Google, your humble host for what is it now,
thirty five years I've been hosting this show and then
I just saying, we have a lot of fun, we
have a lot of jokes. I never forget how grateful
I am to all of you for sharing the weekend

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with us. I love travel, You love travel, and it's
good to dream. Travel does so many good things. I
got to tell you an interesting story and then I'll
get to those Thanksgiving specials with Royal Caribbean. I mentioned
that I went to Helsinki for a few days after
the Norwegian Fjorge crews. We have a great division Morris

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Meetings and Incentives that can put together programs, meetings, conferences, incentive, travel,
award travel for large or small. Put it together for
your organization or company anyway. So I really like the
hop on hop off pass. You know, they have a
route and you pay a fee and you can get

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on and off. The buses come every twenty to thirty minutes.
What I always recommend hop on hop Off is the
name of a company. There's other companies do the same thing.
They take you to all the major sites. They'll give
you a commentary with some headphones or head pieces, and
it's a really great way to see the area. If

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you do a hop on hop off, the first thing
that you do is always take the entire circuit without
getting off, get a lay of the land. They'll give
you a map and see the distances and everything like that.
So I'm in Helsinki and the cost of a hop
on hop off is in euros translated to dollars is

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about forty bucks. That's about usually what they cost. Well,
I'm looking at all the major sites of Helsinki and
they're all within a short walking distance. So I don't
buy the hop on, hop off pass. I buy buy
a one day and you can get it for multiple
days too. But I buy a one day city pass.

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That's good on the trams. They have trams all over
the city, very popular in Europe. Good on the train,
good on the bus. Within a geographic area, it was
ten euros, which is about eleven bucks. And I could
walk a few I could walk between all the major sites,
and so rather than spend forty, I spent eleven, had

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a great time. So always look at those options of
hop on, hop off. For example, in my hometown San Francisco,
they have the MUNI passed a passport MUNI passport mu
NI for the municipal transportation system. And you know a
one day, a one way cable car is eight bucks.

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So you want to go from Fishermen's Wharf to Union Square, Chinatown,
You're going to be into it sixteen bucks round trip,
and that's just fine. There's no on and off privileges,
no transfer. But I say buy the all day pass
for thirteen dollars and you get all day on the

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cable cars, on the street cars which are different, and
on the municipal bus, so always look in those and
that's where an experienced and professional travel advisor can be
of immense help to you. We had Jenny two Jay,
strategic account manager with Royal Caribbean on the last segment.

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There's a great Christmas or excuse me, Thanksgiving special departing
LA which is San Pedro, closer to Long Beach Airport
than Lax. A seven night sailing round trip from LA,
so you don't need a passport, although we recommend it.
You do have to have proof of citizenship. To Cabo,

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Mazitlan and Porto Viarta. Rates start at just eleven forty
three for a holiday sailing with all taxes and fees included.
It's on the Navigator of the Seas and I love
that particular ship. Well, I told you that. For Christmas
last December December twenty twenty four, Kathy and I gave

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all of our children. We have five children, they're all married,
they're all doing well, and thirteen grandchildren. We gave them
for Christmas. A Spring Break twenty twenty six cruise with
Royal Caribbean on none other than the Navigator of the Seas. Now,
this itinerary is fantastic. Now for most of the Utah

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and Southern Idaho school districts, spring breaks always Monday through Friday.
And in next year, well I guess yeah, next year
twenty twenty six, it's Monday through Friday, April six to ten.
But of course you have the weekends also on that
and on Monday, we'll be sailing from the port of

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La have a day at sea. What's so much fun.
And by the way, the kids program, My grandchildren love
the Kids Broom. They have teen programs too. They have
my program, which is sitting in a lounge chair with
a diet coke. Then on Tuesday, we're at Catalina Island.
Have you ever been to Catalina? Oh my gosh. It's

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kind of a cross between Newport Beach, Long Beach, Santa Cruz,
San Diego all Rocone Island. A beautiful beach there and
a beach community. And there's other activities that you can do.
And that's on Tuesday, and then we'll have the late
afternoon evening wonderful days at sea. Wednesday's a full day

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cruising with all the activities on board. We stop in
Mexico on Thursday, and then Friday we're back in La.
You can drive down, break the trip in Saint Jordan's,
Las Vegas, or just through Enjoy Disneyland, Notsbury Farm, SeaWorld,
all of these Southern California, all of these options that

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you can have with this now. Rates are subject to
change and availability. I checked it last night and for
a family of four, that's two adults, two kids. Royal
defines kids as twelve an under four hundred and eleven bucks.

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It's a five day, four night cruise, five day, four
night cruise for four hundred eleven bucks, including all taxes
and fees. Okay, and excuse me, I want to emphasize
that cruise rates don't stay the same. Now, I'm gonna
make you jealous. I booked all of our family. What

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I did with the kids. Say, I'll give you an
inside cabin. I'll pay the taxes and fees. You get
yourself there, you pay the gratuities. If you want to upgrade,
that's on your own dime. When I booked this, oh gosh,
last spring, it was three hundred and twenty six dollars.
Now it's four eleven. Still a fantastic deal. But it's
gone up about ninety bucks. And that's what's true with

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airline tickets, hotel rates, cruise rates, as the ship, as
the hotel, as the airplane fills up. Prices go up,
but right now, and these prices will continue to rise.
Prices right now four hundred and eleven dollars. Now. Our
friend Robin and Mary just book their family on this

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and you know you know who I'm talking about. So
I'd love to have you join me April sixth to
the tenth. We're going to have so much fun with
this one. What a great gift, but you want to
do it now while there's still play space on the
ship and the prices start at four hundred and eleven dollars.

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So much fun. You know, Hawaii has gotten very expensive.
It has, although some prices are starting to come down
a wee bit and we search. So here's some insider
tips for booking Hawaii. Here's our questions that you need

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to ask and answer before you book your next Hawaii vacation,
and I hope you book it with Morris Columbus Travel. So,
first of all, are there really secret airfares? The answer
is yes to most any destination that would be a
good vacation. And I call it secret airfare because airlines

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know from historical data how many seats they're going to sell,
and once the door on that plane closes, any opportunity
to sell an empty seat is gone. So airlines come
to a handful of tour operators, Morris Columbus Travel being

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one of this very selective group. Most others do not
have their own contracts. We do our own contracts with
major airlines. But here's the deal. The airline with us
Morris Columbus Travel will discount deeply the airfare, but I
can't sell air only. It has to be bundled or

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packaged with something could be a car, rentle, a hotel.
And by the way, there are minimum nights or days
with the car, but you don't have to take the
car for the whole time. I have a friend who
they have a house in Hanna, Maui, and they always
book with Morris Columbus Travel and they'll book the cheapest

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car we can find. They never even pick it up.
They own this house over there, they have their own car.
But we always save a couple of hundred bucks off
the airfare by booking it with the car. Now again,
all rates are different, all rates are subject to change.
So I call it secret because if you talk to

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the airline, they don't even know about it. They don't
because they can't sell it. Morris Columbus Travel can do that.
So you want to ask about that. The next question
is one islander? Two. I recommend one island for stays
of a week or less. And if you're going to

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do ten days, maybe two islands. A great way to
see all of them is Norwegian Cruise Line on the
ship to Pride of America weekly sailings to the major
islands there in Hawaii. So you want to I say
one island you want to relax, don't overplan for that.

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Number three, be aware of resort and parking fees. Do
you really need a car in Waikiki? I don't think so.
If you you do want to do something on the
island of o Wahu, don't have a car. They're going
to charge you fifty bucks a day for parking and

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pick it up in Waikiki that morning. Do whatever you want,
go out to the Polynesian Cultural Center, Pearl Harbor, Hanama
Bay or whatever, but then drop it off that night
and you can avoid the parking fee. Resort fees are
flat out evil, evil, evil, because it's an extra fee
on top of the taxies, on top of the fees,

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on top of the hotel rental rate usually thirty to
sixty dollars a day per room. Why do they do it?
Because they can get away. It's a perfectly legal, legal,
but I think it's awful. Book your activities number four
before you go and number six. Check the resort prices,

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alternative dining. Are you going to use public transportation? How
close is it? So all of those things. When we
come back, I've got some great Hawaii and Mexico air
and hotel baggages using the secret.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Airframe right here on the Travel Show.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Yelwicks to
get Away Duru, and thank you for joining us. We
were talking about Hawaii. Couple of fun facts. Did you
know that there are one hundred and thirty two assholes
in the state of Hawaii with eight major islands. Can
you name them? Can you name the major islands? Let's

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start Oahu, Maui, Kawaii and the Big Island. Then we
have Linaii, Molokaii, the forbidden Island of Nihihou and Koho Lave.
Nobody lives in Coho Lave. It's used to be a
bombing island, practice bombing, and now it's the state park,

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but you can't go there because there's unexploded ordinances. It
just takes one bomb to ruin your whole day. All right,
couple some of those specials for Waikiki. Now, keep in
mind Hawaii has gotten very expensive. It's starting to come down,
but it's still not your not your least expensive option Mexico.
Well Cruises is your best travel value in Mexico All

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inclusives number two. But I love Hawaii. The Romer House Waikiki,
which is a four to four and a half star hotel,
lovely hotel on Kuhiu just off Coohio Avenue. There's two
main streets cutting through Waikiki, Kalakawa and Kuhiu, and the
Roamer House Waikiki. I looked at dates November sixth to

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the eleventh. You know winter is coming. It's a nice
time to get out of town and for per person,
including all all taxes and fees except the resort fee,
which you have to pay in person on site, one
thousand ninety nine. That's air six days, five nights. You
can certainly extend it and the price is adjusted all

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taxes and fees. It's now for as far as location,
you guys know where the International Marketplace is. If you
went to the backside of the International Marketplace, it's about
a half a block on the ali Y side, not
the Waikiki side is in front of it, the backside. Again,
that's an big entrance. Have two entrances. You're about a

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half a block from the International Marketplace on the Aliwy side.
One thousand and ninety nine. But I think Mexico all inclusive.
That's your air, your transfers, your resort, all your meals,
your drinks, many many activities, even your tips and gratuities.
You could literally go without a peso in your pocket.

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I'm looking at can Kun. I looked at the days
I want to go there during the winter time. How
about February nineteenth to the twenty fourth against six days,
five nights, nine hundred and eighty five dollars at the
Crystal Grand cancuon it's a first class all inclusive property, guys,

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nine hundred and ninety five bucks for everything, meals, drinks, activities, taxes, fees, everything, airfare.
How about Porto Weayar You know I love Porto Yarte
at the Riu Jalisco Resort. Rio is one of the
best chains of hotels in Mexico, all inclusive. I looked

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at April twenty third for six days, five nights for
one thousand and eighty one. Now these all use the
secret airfare and you can get that at Morris Columbus Travel.
Contact your favorite travel professional at Morris Columbus if you
don't have one one eight hundred Triple nine forty six
forty six. One eight hundred Triple nine forty six forty six.

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And by the way, if you're looking at any of
the Morris Columbus Escorted group tours, go to the homepage
online Morriscolumbus dot com. Then scroll down about three items
still on the homepage to Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours. That's
the brand name for the Morris Escorted tour programs. And

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then and then you choose is it a cruise Click
on chooses Cruises. If you're looking for a land tour,
click on Europe holy Land. By the way, we have
holy Land tours going there. Later this year in the fall, Asia, Africa,
South Pacific, and you'll see a wonderful option of tours.

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Now do you just hate do you just hate the
delays at airports? Well, the worst offender for on time
departure from major airports across the United States. By the way,
a delay, according to the Department of Transportation is more
than fifteen minutes. If they leave fourteen minutes late, they're

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still on time. I don't get that, but anyway, is
the Dallas Fort Worth DFW, which had an on time
rate of just seventy one percent. That means three out
of every ten flights from January through May. That's the
latest statistics we have for this year, and dfwsa repeat offender.

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It ranked as the worst major airport for on time
departures during the same period last year. Well, other airports
that didn't fare much better. DFW was seventy one percent
of flights were late. By the way, did you know
that Salt Lake City has the highest on time departure

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rate with more than eighty four percent of all flights
departing on schedule. It's the number one in the United States. Lax. Now,
this actually surprised me. Is number two at eighty three
point nine, so right behind Salt Lake City. Minneapolis took
third place with eighty two point four percent. Excuse me,

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yeah with that anyway. The average for across the United
States is seventy eight percent of flights leave on time,
So that means one out of five plus is going
to be late somewhere in the United States. What's interesting

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is in these statistics.

Speaker 6 (37:50):
If it's a mechanical delay, they don't count it.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
Paint more in our number two when we come back.
Welcome back to the Travel Show, our number two in
the best two hours in radio. I'm Larry Gelwicks, the
get Away Guru, and just got back from three and

(38:17):
a half months of traveling the world. I told you
the first hour between June and I can't even talk
June ninth and September fifteenth. I was here in the
United States a total of twenty days while I traversed
all around the world. Yes, I'm the hopeless travel junkie.
The Travel Show is sponsored by Morris Columbus Travel, where

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you always travel more and pay less. Do check out
their website Morriscolumbus dot Commorriscolumbus dot com. And again, if
you're looking for any group travel. Morris has some wonderful
escorted programs. I take some of them. I would love
to have you joined me. I'll talk about some that

(39:02):
I will be taking. Just go to Morriscolumbus dot com
on the homepage, scroll down, click on Morris Murdoch Escorted
Tours the brand name for the Morris Columbus tours. And
then if it's a cruise, click on cruise. If it's
a land tour, click on the geographic destination. You know, Asia,

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holy Land, Africa, Europe, whatever, LDS, Church history tours. Just
check out all those anyway, lots of fun. Want to
remind you about the Fall Travel Expo, one day event,
free admission at the Davis Conference Center in Leyton on Saturday,

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October eighteenth. It'll bring together fifty to sixty travel providers, airlines,
cruise lines, safari companies, all of this. It's going to
be a great event. And you know what's really cool
about it. There'll be exclusive expo discounts and every hour
there'll be a drawing for free airline tickets, free cruises,

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free hotel stays, all of these things. Now, somebody's going
to win these prizes and it may as well be you.
You just come, it's free admission, You register for the drawing,
and then Morris will contact you if you have one. Again,
somebody's going to do this. It's going to be fun.
You know. I love river cruises. My wife Kathy tells

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me that that's her favorite, her absolute favorite. The easy
on and off. You can do things in the dining
room and with entertainment for one hundred and fifty sixty.
The largest ones will hold up one hundred and eighty,
maybe two hundred. They can do so much more in

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the dining room and in most cases you've got your
drinks at lunch and dinner, beer, wine, soft drinks, all
included in one very affordable price. Now, I love the itineraries.
You can go to some very exotic places. Let me

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give you an example what Morris Columbus does, and I'll
be hosting this program. You know how much I love
Southeast Asia, Thailand, Lao, Vietnam, Cambodia. I mean, if it
weren't for my kids and grandkids, Kathy and I would
live in Thailand. So here's what we did at Morris

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Columbus Travel. We chartered, we bought half of the Cabins
on a Maykong River cruise with Cambodia and Vietnam with
a pre cruise option to Thailand for three or four days.

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I'll be your personal host and tour guide. But the
dates are next year November ninth to the sixteenth. Now
let me give you this debrief. We'll leave near c
n Reap or Anchor Watt. It's a drive down there
and we'll board the ship. These ships hold about seventy

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eighty guests, so it's a smaller ship getting in some
of these backwater places. A couple of my favorites is
experiencing PanAm Pen, the capital of Cambodi, on a tuktuuk
ride through the enchanted city's French colonial architecture. You think
you're in France with tree lined boulevards monuments, but Anchor

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Anchorian or Kimmer architecture also. Now it's really fun and
we take in a tuktuk. Sometimes we've used a device
called a cyclo. Now a cyclo is almost like a rickshaw,
but it has two wheels in the back, one wheel
in the front, and then a man sitting behind you pedaling.

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So we were there some years ago in PanAm Pen,
and I had the group there, a travel show radio
listeners group. And so we get to where we're going
to see the old city, the French architecture. It is
absolutely magnificent. And I look at the cyclo and then
I say to the man in charge, one or two

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persons per cyclo, and he looks at me, looks at
the group, looks at the cyclothes, looks at the group,
looks at the cyclothes and says to me, one Cambodian
to an excuse me, says two Cambodians, one American. I

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guess anyway, lets you figure out the connection there. But
it's one of the things we'll do. I love visiting Tanchow.
It's a small Makong rivertown, completely unspoiled by tourism. You
can only really get there on the river, and we'll
be treated to a very authentic experience on a traditional

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trishaw right that's like the cyclo around town making stops.
They're famous for silk making and ratan mat workshops. Then
in Sadek, we'll go ashore and we will visit a
monastery and temple and have a session with the priests

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I mean, and a blessing from them. It just goes
on and on and on. Now the dates again of
the cruise are November ninth, the sixteenth. Why don't you
come with me. I'd love to show you this.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
Now.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
What we did is we bought half the cabins and
so we got prices that you can't even come close to.
Let me give you an example. Rate start, and by
the way, all your tours are included, all your excuse me,
all your short excursions are included. Rate start for this
eight day, seven night cruise with Alma Waterways eight Ultra

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Deluxe cruise line. Rate start with US at twenty nine
ninety nine. If you can buy the exact same cabin
from Almah Waterways or any other travel agency company in
the country, the best price is thirty eight forty nine.

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The same cabin, the same date, the same cruise, the
same ship thirty eight forty nine. Buying it elsewhere or
directly from Armored Waterways buy it from US twenty nine
ninety nine. That's the savings of eight hundred and fifty
dollars per person. Times too, if there's two people traveling,
seventeen hundred dollars and everything's the same. By the way,

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we have some great rates for singles too. Now we
have a couple of options that we will be adding
to this. You can book the cruise right now. These
options will be coming very very shortly, and again it's
next year in November. One is Anchor WoT. You can
do the cruise only, but you won't see Anchor Wat,
one of the most famous archaeological and UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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Did you know that the construction started in the ninth century,
but from twelve to fourteen, Anchor Watt, which had an
immediate population of over a million people in the Kehmer Kingdom,
was the most enlightened, educated community anywhere in the world,

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anywhere in the world, and it has stayed. It's never
gone into ruins in that area. They're over eight hundred
Khmera temples, maybe twenty percent have been uncovered from the jungle,
but Anchor Watt was never covered because it's been a
working temple, working temple to this day. It is the

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largest religious complex anywhere in the world, and it's magnificent.
And I'll also have a pre cruise option. Join me
for four days three nights in Bangkok. I'll show you
Thailand like nobody else. After the cruise. You can go
straight to the airport or spend a couple of days

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in Saigon with me. We'll see it anyway. A lot
of information there the cruise dates or November ninth to
the sixteenth. Now I want to emphasize that all rates
are subject to availability and change at the time of booking.
The twenty nine to ninety nine. If it's not available

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when you call, has to be put on the wait list,
book another cabin, something else. I like the French balcony
cabins myself. Anyway, Love to have you November nine to
the sixteenth, twenty twenty six. Go to morriscolumbus dot com,
scroll down to Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours and then click

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on cruises. Go to twenty twenty six and there I
am in November. Love to have you with me. I
want to show you Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. You know
how much I love that. Well, listen when we come
back here on the Travel Show. We got some exciting
things to talk about. And did you know that TSA has.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
Started in a program at the airport just their family.

Speaker 5 (48:43):
All that gore on the Travel Show.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
Welcome back to the Travel show. I'm Larry Gelwick's the
Getaway Goomer. The travel show is sponsored by Morris's Travel
Where You're Oh, Let's travel more and pay us check
out their website Morriscombus dot com. Hey. I mentioned earlier
in the show, just briefly that the Salt Lake City
International Airport has been named as the number one best

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airport not only on on time performance, but a lot
of other factors, the architecture of the cleanliness, options, dining, shopping,
all of that. In the annual Airhelps report, it rated
over two hundred airports around the world with a variety
of metrics, but thanks to punctuality and a shiny new temple,

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we have here terminal, not temple, the punctuality and shiny
new terminal. Salt Lake City International Airport scored the top
spot in the twenty twenty five report of the World's
Best Airports as the number one in the US and
number eight worldwide, and they rated two hundred airports around

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the country. Some of the factors that went into it
was based on flight records, government statistics, over thirteen thousand
reviews focusing on airport staff, wait times, cleanliness, all of that.
So Salt Lake is number one. Now it's kind of interesting.

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Best airports around the world again, on time performance is
one factor, but cleanliness, architecture, options, dining. The Salt Lake
came in at number eight. The number one airport according
to Airhelp was Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town International.

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Number two was in Doha, and number three is a
tough place to get to the King Khalid International Airport
in Riod, Saudi Arabia. But amongst the top ten, the
only one in the worldwide list that made it was
Salt Lake City. No other pair ofport. Congratulations and kudus

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to our Salt Lake City International staff right there now,
I alluded as we closed out the last segment that TSA,
which is the security transportation at the airport, you know,
the metal detectors and showing your ID. On September tenth,
so about ten days ago, TSA launched a Families on

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the Fly program at Salt Lake City International Airport. The
program offers dedicated lanes and modified screening for families with children.
Salt Lake was one of eleven airports chosen due to
the high number of children passengers. A couple examples, the

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Davis family, Michael and Tiffany Davis. It was reported they're
in a big hurry at Salt Lake. They got to
security pulling their two children in a wagon. Well when
they got directed by TSA to move to a specific
lane towards the building's windows, and there they have this
dedicated line. Agents are looking for families going through the

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main checkpoint and direct them to lane's fourteen and fifteen.
So if you're going out there with kids, particularly young kids,
look for lanes fourteen and fifteen and you can all
go through the security process together. Now, one thing you
can do if you have the TSA pre check and

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you have kids with you. This is not Lane's fourteen
and fifteen, but TSA is a separate one. If you
have kids seventeen and under, they can go with you
through the pre check and that's a very very fast thing. Anyway,
it's a great thing for families, and Salt Lake is
a great thing Salt Lake Airport. Now, the question is,

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you know you always have to show an ID one
of the things at many airports. They now have a
separate line if you have TSA pre check, which you
can buy that just by itself, I say, for a
few dollars more. Get it with Global Entry, which will
zip you through customs and border and immigration when you're

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returning to the United States. But the facial recognition you
don't show an ID, they recognizes your face, pull up
all your biometrics, and off you go. But arriving at
the airport and discovering that you have lost or forgotten
your ID is kind of like a travelers worst nightmare. Well,

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here's how to handle it and possibly still make your
flight without the ID. So in this scenario, don't start
screaming or having a meltdown. Remain calm. All hope may
not be lost if you can't find your ID. But
the TSA Transportation Security Administration isn't going to just let
you through the checkpoint because you have an honest face.

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But the good news is you still may be allowed
to travel even if you lose or forget your ID.
The TSA officer may ask you to complete an identity
verification process to confirm your identity and then allow you
through the screening area. Well, what is this identity verification process?

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You're going to have to provide additional information that confirms
your identity. It's a good idea. There's public databases they
can go to but it's a good idea if you
have some credit cards, something with your face on it
to confirm who you are. So what do you do?
Notify a TSA officer as soon as you discover you

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don't have your ID. And that's one good reason to
always arrive at the airport early. Now, is it guaranteed
that they will let you? No, so that'd be polite,
don't be argumentative and have something with you that shows

(55:34):
your ID. They can look up on databases. You know
what I do on my cell phone. I have a
copy of my passport. It's in you know, you have
to access it through a code. But I can show
them both my driver's license and my passport. That's a

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good one. I also have the Global entry card in
my wallet that has as my photograph on it. So
a lot of things. It doesn't mean that you can't
be flying. Listen, we got a lot more here on
the Travel Show. And what I want you to focus

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on next is I want to take you to Polynesia
with free air forever. Yes, you're art me right free air.

Speaker 4 (56:22):
Fort Thank you for joining me here on.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
The Travel Show.

Speaker 6 (56:41):
I'm Larry Yelwicks. They get away at Anna roomy and
we are having so much fun. You know, people ask
me all the time, Larry, You've been everywhere one hundred
and eighteen countries, most of them many many times over.
What is your favorite destination? Well, there's no right or
wrong answer. Everybody has, you know, a different likes and dislikes.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
But for me, if I'm looking for my favorite place
for sheer, absolute physical beauty that overloads the senses, well
that's an easy one. French Polynesia, Tahiti, Bora, Bora, Nukuhevahiva
or right Yetaya. It's Polynesia the South Seas for something exotic, exciting,

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life changing, wonderful people, great adventures, everything from the most
pristine beaches in the world to great shopping and the
foothills of the himalayas well, that's Thailand. You know how
much I love Thailand and I love to live there. Actually,
for history, it's really tough to beat Europe in the

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Middle East. But for an adventure, nothing is comparable to
a great migration safari. We kind of talked about that
in theur only in the countries of Kenya and Tanzania.
That's only where it is. The Great migration, the largest
land animal migration on Earth. Nothing compares to it, and

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only in the months of July, August, and September. And
by the way, one month is not necessarily better than
the other. I love, just love these areas. So let's
talk about Polynesia. What is it that we have so
much romance with Polynesia? Such a love. I think it's

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it is romantic. It's warm, tropical weather, the sunrise and
sunsets are absolutely stunning. Some of the friendliest native people
on Earth, who love to sing, dance, play with fire
and the scenery that explodes the senses. You know what
I tell people, You'll take photos with like your HD

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camera and you take them home and people say, oh,
that is so beautiful. I'm saying, no, you don't get it.
It doesn't capture the depth of colors, the depths, as
particularly the blues and the greens, the hues. You have
to see. It's an unspoiled, uncrowded part of the world

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and it absolutely stands apart. Well. The South Pacific frankly
is expensive, but I've got a deal, and of course
I'll be your personal host and tour guide showing you
the South Seas. I've spent so much of my life
in the South Pacific. I mean so much of my

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life with friends that live there. Now I can get
by in some languages there, you know, conversational with some
of the native language. Anyway, I've got a deal next spring.
It is in May, which is a lovely, lovely time
to go to the South Pacific. And the dates are

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May fifteenth to the twenty seven. Now those are the
actual cruise dates. And we sail from Tahiti and we
visit right Eetaya, which those who are members of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. A temple
was announced there and you can see the indigenous temple

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and the location of the new El s temple. I mean,
that's up to you. It's but anyway, so bora bora
morea right yetaa Tahiti, then sailing north past the Tuomotu
Archipelago of islands, crossing the equator, and then visiting the
islands of Hawaii, the Big Island and Kawaii and Oahu,

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and finishing our cruise in Honolulu. And by the way,
they have a free airfare offer with Morris Columbus Travel.
Norwegian Cruise Lines does and in this offer it's really
a bogo buy one, get one. The first person pays
a heavily discounted airfare that would be from your home

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city to Tahiti and home from Hawaii, and the second
person flies absolutely free, including all the taxes. It is
a free airfare offer as in a buy one, get one,
and it's absolutely fabulous. Now, the one thing you have
to understand about that is you don't get to pick
the airline NCL PIT Norwegian cruise Line. They picked the

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airline they're going to put you on. A major airline,
of course, could be United, could be Delta, it could
be Air France, could be whatever. But they're gonna get
you to Tahiti and they're gonna get you back from
Honolulu and you get you get the discount. They pick
the airline, and that's just something you need to understand

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with it. But a free airfare and it's gonna be
a lot of fun. We're doing our own private shore excursions,
we're doing our own seminars at sea. These are exclusive.
We do some things that even the cruise line does
not do. Perfectly safe of course, but to some areas
that they just don't go. But we do love to

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have you with me. You can check out the details
of the South Seas, Polynesia and Hawaii May fifteen to
twenty seven, Extend your stay a couple of days if
you'd like, and then sign up for it. You ready
to sign up, go to Morriscolumbus dot com, scroll down

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to Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours and you can look that over.
You can talk to your favorite Morris Columbus travel advisor
or talk to our group department. They'll get you the
same wonderful, wonderful service with that. Hey, I talked earlier
about Thailand. Now every year I do a just culturally

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intensive tour to Thailand with an option to Anchor Watt
and Cambodia. I told you a bit about Anchor Watt.
It's built starting in the ninth century, from the twelfth
to the fourteenth the most enlightened. It is a life
changing experience. I got to tell you a funny story
about Anchor Watt and Cambodia. So I used the same

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guy to have for years, Boutin. I got to tell
you about his story. You know, in seventy five to
seventy nine, the kimur Rous and Paul Pott, I mean
they made the Nazis look like choir boys. They really
just brutal. They killed almost a third of the entire population.

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They want to take it back to the stone age agrarian.
Anyone with education or profession was shot. Bou Tin was
twelve years old when the Kimmerooge came to his village
and executed his parents. A gun was literally put to
his head twelve years old and said, you become a
gorilla with us, or we'll kill you. We'll shoot you.

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Uh and well that was an easy decision. Needn't want
to die, and they had just seen his parents killed.
He was a captive gorilla for the next four years
and the things he had to endure. I asked him
was how many firefights that means gun battles were you
in And he said, I don't know, at least fifty

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or more. He's twelve, thirteen fourteen. He and a friend
had to place land miise anti personnel land miise on
the border so that people could not escape. Well, and
he would. And by the way, if you tried to
esc gape and were captured, you were put to death,
but not quickly. It was a slow literally torture may

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take a week and you're tied up and tortured in
front of everything. It was horrible. But at age sixteen,
he and a friend knew they were near the Cambodian
border and they decided to make a run for it.
They had to go through land mines. They didn't set
these minds, but they had set them, and they knew

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things to look for, risking their lives, and they made
it to Thailand. They're put in a refugee camp. In
seventy nine, when Polepot and the Kimerous were ousted, he
was returned to Cambodi met his future wife at a
refugee camp. So, all of these things and he doesn't

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talk about it except with my groups. And I always
tell him privately. I said, if you feel up to it,
let me know. They'd love to hear it, but it's
up to you. But he and I said, good friends.
He always talks to him, and he weeps, literally weeps
when he talks about what he went through. And Kathy,

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my wife, asked him once Bhutin, how is it that
you have such a calm and serenity about you and
you can feel it, and he simply said, it's a choice.
He put it all behind. I've been right there to
his house. It's about the size of a Sunday school classroom,

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no air conditioning in a very humid, hot environment. He
can't afford it. I asked him once, Bhutin, what countries
have you been to? Only Thailand, Cambodia, And that was
the refugee camp in Thailand, and that's all he's ever known.
And I said, and we were there in January, and

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I said, well, back home, I showed him pictures of
our house and Utah and all the snow had several
feet of snow. And I said, you've never seen snow,
it said, only on a picture. And so the next
time I visited Cambodia, I went to the one of
the local stores and bought a snow globe. You know,

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you shake it and the snow is falling and all
of that. Well, I took it back and now to
this day, I said, now you've seen snow. To this day,
he every time I go there and he says, well,
we it is snowing at my house. Now. The funny

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thing is when we go to Anchor watch Boutin is
with us and we have to get a pass and
you have to get it in person because it has
your picture on it to avoid fraud, and so we
get the passes and one time he says to me,
he says, well we because they can't pronounce the L
you passed them out. You all look the same to me.

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You know, you all look the same to me, And
so every year I pass them out because to him,
we all look the same. You may say that about
the Cambodians to us also, I'd love to have you
join me. So every year I do a Thailand Cambodia trip.
It usually sells out in a week. January twenty twenty

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six sold out in one week. I will do one
in twenty twenty seven. But Wendy Fraki, our group department manager,
does have a Thailand tour with Cambody as an option
leaving January the third very similar tour. I am not
scheduled to be on it, but Wendy will take you there.
I will have one in twenty twenty seven if that

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doesn't work out for you. So lots of fun, fun things. Hey,
I want you to remember that if you use the
Salt Lake City Airport parking, jet will get It's the
only locally owned large off airport parking lot locally own.
Go to Morriscolumbus dot com. Click on resources and get

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a twenty percent discount. When we come back, I'm going
to tell you about my daring venture into North Korea.

(01:09:30):
Welcome back to the Travel Show. Thank you for joining
me this weekend. I look forward to it every weekend.
I get so excited coming down to the studio. And
I told you I have a routine. I go to
McDonald's on the way down and have an egg McMuffin
and a diet coke with a free refilm. My daughter

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Emily once told me. She says, Dad, I can tell
on the air when you have had or have not
had your diet coke. And I said, well, how you
can do that? This is her exact response. She says, well,
after you've had your diet coke, which I know is
actually two diet cokes, you get the free refail. After
you've had your diet coke, you're on the air, you're

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all and these are her where it's always more peppy.
So if I sound peppy to you, I've had my
diet coke with that my daring visit to North Korea.
Well maybe it wasn't that daring years ago. You can't
do it anymore. You can go up to Pen Moon

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John and the DMC, the Demilitarized Zone, and there's a
building there still there, and in the middle there's a
big table and a line right down the middle, and
you can go in. On one side is South Korea,
on another side is North Korea, and you can walk

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over on the North Korea inside. Now you can't go up,
you know, deep into the country, but you can cross
over that line and wander around a little bit then
come back. Well that's what I did, so, yes, I
have been to North Korea. But you can't do that anymore.
It's a little tense there right now. I want to
remind you about the Utah Travel Expo, the Fall Utah

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Travel Expo, which is a one day event bringing together
fifty to sixty travel providers airlines, cruise lines, hotels, resorts,
tour companies, safari companies, everything that you can possibly imagine.
And one of my favorite vendors that usually shows up

(01:11:43):
is sub zero ice Cream. You're a bed sub zero
ice cream where they make it right in front of you.
It is absolutely favorite. My favorite is the raspberry Oh
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Do you know one of the highlights for me when
I travel is eating the food, the dining. And you know,

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when I go to Thailand, I have a number of
thailand favorite foods. Pad Thai, which is a noodle dish.
I don't see a lot of restaurants around here that
do it right. They simply cook the rice noodles and
dump some sauce on it. I am looking for something different,

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and they're curries. Now. They're curries. You can get mild, medium, hot,
and don't go native hot. It will light you up.
But the very very different from japan curry or India curry.
These are coconut curries and you can get them mild.

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Kathy likes mild food. I like spicy food, so I
get it and I say we order mild, but I
ask for the chilis and things that spice it up
on the side. Then I just doctor mine up. A
favorite dish of mine is kapal and it's usually minced
chicken or minced pork and uh stir fried with a

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sweet hot basil, and it can be spicy, it can
be toned down and with a rice, usually in a cup.
They have the form fitted, you know, if it's authentic,
and I ask local restaurants is there a fried egg
on top? If they say yes, and it's pretty authentic.
One more KALSOI it's a northern Thailand chicken dish. It's

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kind of a soup based with a very mile curry.
It is so good, but you mostly see it in
the north. The other thing that I really enjoy there
is mango and sticky rice. The mango seem always in season.
Some of my other favorite foods around the world is

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Fah spelled PhOH. It's not pooh, it's fa which is
that Vietnamese soup consisting of broth, rice, noodles, herbs, meat,
sometimes chicken, sometimes beef. It's a very popular food in Vietnam.
It's a household food street stalls and restaurants. It's probably

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Vietnam's national dish. And I get that you can get
it outside of Vietnam, even get here in the United States.
By the way, do any of you know a great
Thai restaurant in Utah? I mean a really good one.
There was one I used to go to, but she

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passed away and others kept it going and it wasn't
the same. Had an inter experience two days ago. Took
some of my grandkids to a fine Scottish restaurant for
lunch McDonald's, and you know, the happy meals and the cheeseburgers,
the fries and milkshakes, all of that stuff. So I'm

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sitting there in this I have a three year old
grandson and another family came in Asian and the boy
said his name was Ben and he's four years old.
So Ben and George, my three year old three and
a half, started playing together. So I'm talking to the
mom and I asked, where are you from? She said Thailand?

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And I said, where can I get really good food
Thai food here in Utah? She said, my kitchen. I'll
see you next week right here on the Travel Show.
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