Towel Hacks, Virtual Cards, and James’ India Diaries

Passports Please!

Chelsea Dickenson

Leisure, Travel, Places & Travel, Food & Drink, Tourism, Alcohol, Society & Culture

5 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

After a £200 ski challenge leaves Chelsea slightly regretting a new towel related holiday hack James regales us with excerpts from his India travel diary. There’s also tips and advice on virtual debit cards and when you should choose to pay in the local currency.

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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 cheap holiday experts, or you've just stumbled across this for the very first time. Welcome on in because we're going to be chatting about holiday hacks for everything from overnight buses to first class flights.
0:31.7	Yes. So if you need of advice, travel tips or even have some of your own, then'd love to hear from you please send them in by
0:39.3	sliding into our DMs on socials at passports please pod or at hello passport please pod.com
0:47.1	and we'll help you up your holiday game by doing all the hard work for you all right james
0:54.0	hello so this week yes i have been finishing up by doing all the hard work for you. All right, James.
0:54.6	Hello.
1:02.5	So this week, I have been finishing up the YouTube video for another holiday for the 200 pound ski trip challenge that I did, which was three days ski trip.
1:08.5	Yeah.
1:08.9	For under 200 quid.
1:10.1	Bargain. I wasn't on it.
1:11.8	No.
1:12.4	Funnily enough, you did not opt for the cheap ski trip.
1:15.8	Couldn't find the time to get there, no.
1:18.5	So that had to include the flights.
1:20.8	Yeah.
1:21.1	The transfers to the resort.
1:23.1	Yes.
1:23.7	Three nights accommodation.
1:25.5	Good.
1:25.9	Ski hire, lift pass and then any additional activities.
1:30.2	Okay.
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