![]() The travel agency offered a 20% discount for one parking lot. Okay, first issue with the travel agent arose the night before when we were pre-booking the parking lot. Why? Because there were no cars on the road at 3:30 am on a Monday morning. We drove to the Philly airport in record time. Marc and I went to bed early, as we needed to be up and on the road to the Philadelphia Airport by 3:30 am, and we laid there and tossed and turned – like little kids anxious to go to Disney World. ![]() Jeff also wanted to care for the horses so he could start learning what kind of work goes into that, as well. The manual contained one page of phone numbers for emergencies. It detailed out each pet, what they eat, what kind of behaviors could be expected from them on a daily basis. So I carefully started documenting the daily routines for the zoo care and I wrote him a seven page manual for living in the zoo. I knew, already, that he traveled a lot for his work and was pretty sure he would probably be working out of town, but I put it out there to him. Tentatively, I put out a feeler to him about whether he would be available AND whether he’d even want to deal with the mob of critters that live at my house. We almost cancelled the trip when I thought of my riding buddy, Jeff. Now I’m at a loss what to do for animal care and house sitting. He knows the routine, he is comfortable being here with the animal mob, and he is very dependable. This was a huge problem! Terry always takes care of my zoo while we go away for a day or two. When we booked this trip, my fourth child Terry, and his girlfriend Sarah, already had plans to be out of town the same week we’re to go away. Okay, so add an additional $116 for a total of $1100.00. They could not prepay this for us because if we didn’t go for some reason it would not be refunded. The travel agent did tell me there would be a resort fee to pay directly to the resort at the end of our stay, $29 per night (x 4 nights). Let’s talk costs, and we’ll add it up throughout the story. Fortunately, the resort must be used to this kind of thing and problems were resolved very quickly through the resort management. When we got to Las Vegas and found some discrepancies in our reservations we sent her a text … and she never bothered to answer us or help us out. When we found a couple issues in reservations and contacted her via email, we were answered in terse, one sentence replies. When we asked questions about reservations, we were answered in terse, one sentence replies. We had to figure out everything on our own. After booking everything for us, we felt totally abandoned by our travel agent. Throughout the process of planning this trip, we had very poor communication. ***NOTE TO SELF*** Do not use this travel agent again. We looked at each other and were like, “YES!!!!!”Īnd so we contacted a travel agent, told her what we were looking for budget wise, and thus began our plans for vacationing away from Pennsylvania. We were sitting around one evening watching some television, which is pretty rare for us, when a commercial came on. So many things that we came up with were either “not interesting” to one of us or “too much time” or “too much money”. We thought about a trip to New York City and see some shows (WAY TOO EXPENSIVE) We thought about a train trip across the United States (minimum time necessary was 10 days – too long for us to be away from the business) ![]() We thought about a cruise (Marc has motion sickness). The things I like to do involve horses, outdoors and dirt … three things that Marc seriously is not into.Īnd the things he likes to do is read in a quiet room, sleep in and role playing games. We spent agonizing amounts of time trying to decide what to do. It is also our 25th year of marriage so we decided we would splurge and go away. This is the first year that we are free of kids and his mother. We simply have not had the time (due to kids, then having his mother living with us for 16 years of our marriage) nor have we really had “throw away funds”. Marc and I did not have a honeymoon vacation, nor have we had a traveling vacation that did not involve just going to my family in North Carolina. I have to premise this story with a FACT. HOW TO VACATION AN ENTIRE WEEK FOR UNDER $2,000
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