Cheaper Christmas Travel, Time vs Money, and SIMs for Skiing
Passports Please!
Chelsea Dickenson
5.0 • 700 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
It's a Christmassy episode this week, with Chelsea and James swapping the best tips on how to do holiday travel at less busy and expensive times. Plus, an update on the 'Is Chesney Hawkes a Google Reviewer?' question, a very painful holiday nightmare, and James has a confession to make about the listener postcards…
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Passports Please. This is the podcast that helps you hack your holidays whether you are the packer or the slacker. I'm Chelsea and every week I'll be joined by my travel companion, James. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello. Chelsea is a holiday expert, whereas I just love a holiday. Yeah, you do. And whether you already know and follow what I do online as holiday expert, or you've just stumbled across this for the first time, welcome on in because we're going to be chatting about holiday hacks for everything from overnight buses to first class flights. |
| 0:31.8 | Yes. So if you need of advice, travel tips, or even have some of your own, then we'd love to hear from you. |
| 0:38.1 | Please send them in by sliding into our DMs on socials at Passports Please Pod or at hellopassport pleasepod.com. |
| 0:47.3 | And we'll help you up your holiday game by doing all the hard work for you. |
| 0:52.9 | Hello, James. Hello. |
| 0:54.9 | We are in the Christmas countdown. |
| 0:57.6 | Yes, we are. |
| 0:58.7 | It is nearly upon us. |
| 1:00.4 | And whether you celebrate it or not, the travel, the roads, the trains, the cars, everything's about to get a little bit crazy. |
| 1:08.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.1 | So I thought that's what we would run through today is the busiest days for Christmas |
| 1:14.0 | travel. |
| 1:14.8 | The most Christmassy roads. |
| 1:16.6 | Oh, that would be good, wouldn't it? |
| 1:18.0 | If they were all decked out and have like Christmas songs playing out. |
| 1:21.9 | Snow. |
| 1:22.7 | Unfortunately not. |
| 1:24.0 | No. |
| 1:24.4 | The most Christmassy roads are the busiest roads where people are trying to get back to their families for Christmas. |
| 1:30.6 | So. What can you tell me? Well, let's first talk about when Christmas lands this year. |
| 1:36.8 | This year, it's on the 25th. Correct. And Boxing Day is the 20. Check my notes, the 20, 26. You bring so much to this podcast. And after Boxing Day? Yeah. New Year. Well done. Straight into it. Huge. Do you know what day, Christmas Day is like that? Is that good enough for the, are we done with the episode now? You may or may not cut this out. Yeah. I stay in. |
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