Hi, everyone, and welcome to our first Women Who Travel episode of 2022.

I'm Meredith Carey and with me, as always, is my co-host, Lale Eric Gogh, hi.

We are so excited to be back with a new season and have some amazing episodes in store for you.

But for today, we figured it's our first episode back.

We've got some major back-to-school vibes going on.

So we're checking in with podcast regular senior editor Jessica Puckett

and Connie Nass Traveler Middle East's editor-in-chief, Sarka Khan,

to talk about all of the travel goals we're setting in 2022.

Think of it as like a part two to our last episode of 2021,

which was all about where we wanted to go this year. This is like how we're actually making that

happen. So to kick things off with, I'd say, a large or broad question looking ahead to the

year, even though we're in March, Looking ahead to the rest of this year,

how does everyone hope to prioritize themselves in their travels this year and make them a little

bit about them? What I've been like craving lately is like a super nice hotel. The cushy hotel

where you can be a little bit weighted on all my trips this year

I'm trying to figure out like how can I stay there and kind of like treat myself to that

after like two years which is like pretty much being at home wow love an upgrade in every

destination out of interest are there any sort of like luxurious hotel

perks that you're craving? I love the mini bar. I just love a great mini bar. That's like

pure luxury to me. So, you know, maybe like a nice turndown to you. I know a couple hotels will give you like a turn

down amenity where there's like a little macaron or something. So I'm real, that's what I'm aiming

for. It's funny that you say minibar because I saw a tweet a couple of months ago from someone saying

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