Ultimate Travel Guide - How We Plan and Book Travel
The Ikonns
Alex & Mimi Ikonn
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Have you wondered on how we plan and book our travel? Find amazing places to stay around the world? In this episode, we reveal our secrets on how we do this.
In this episode we share 10+ years of their travel lifestyle and give you insights from their very best curated experiences.
We all know that feeling of getting off a plane for the first time, arriving at our destination, being so hungry and tired, we literally blow a bunch of our trips budget in a tourist trap restaurant in the cities main square, just to fuel our desperation.
The No.1 tip any traveller should hold to, is prior planning. Alex researches the heck out of every detail before he even book the flights. Infact, the flights aren’t the first thing he looks for.
It’s essential to find the right place in the right location, that is at the heart of your interests.
Are you looking for a beach holiday, a city break or something in nature. All of these options come with their own unique requirements, and planning is the only way to maximise your experience whatever your interests are.
“Travel is the way to self discovery, each time you do it, you know more about what you like, what suits you and what your tastes are” - Alex Ikonn [11:00]
Alex and Mimi share all the tools and secrets they use to make every trip like a dream experience. And you can do it too.
You’ll hear this and much more:
- How exploring your own city for new experiences that you didn’t know were there, can be just as fun, rewarding and cheaper than travel
- Why you should set your expectations before you go? Be realistic.
- Budget Vs Luxury, when is it time to drop the lower quality option?
- From maps to flights, hotels and restaurants, Google should be your first choice tool for travel.
- Get a clear idea of the location before you choose by pinning your findings to Maps and Pinterest
- Visualise your surroundings in advance with street view.
- Prepackaged vacations are fine if you want a lazy, no pressure vacation, but they don’t maximise your possibilities.
- How staying with a host can be much more rewarding than getting your own place
- It can be cheaper than an hotel if you split the cost and rent a villa
- Find the worst reviews, don’t only read the good ones. Check if there is going to be issues you don’t want to deal with
- Never trust Trip Advisor, find your own curated referrals. Blogs are your friend.
- Use a business account to collect fly points
- Price matching and cross check every option
- Check airlines directly, some of the cheapest flights aren’t on comparison sites, same with hotels
- The last minute myth.
Where to stay tools:
Our top 3 Luxury curated stays:
Flight finder tools:
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my beautiful friends and welcome to the icons podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | It's Mimi here today and as always I'm here with Alex and today's podcast episode is |
| 0:12.8 | a highly anticipated episode which is focused on how Alex and I book travel and this is |
| 0:21.8 | the first time Alex actually has notes and prepared for a podcast episode so I'm really |
| 0:26.8 | excited to actually hear what you're gonna say because truthfully Alex is quite responsible |
| 0:33.6 | for booking most of the travel. |
| 0:35.0 | I would say I come in the picture when I have to make a decision on certain flight times |
| 0:41.7 | or airlines. |
| 0:43.5 | I'm quite lucky like that or let's say we're picking through three four or five sometimes |
| 0:49.3 | you know Alex and I'm in prison. |
| 0:50.5 | He would tend different properties that we might rent but at the end of the day Alex does |
| 0:55.1 | the initial search for the places and the travel and the times of the travel and etc. |
| 1:01.5 | So I'm the decision maker but Alex does a lot of the research so I'm really excited to |
| 1:07.0 | also learn a lot from what you're gonna present today. |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah hey guys it's so good to be here we just literally got back to London from Paris |
| 1:15.3 | and as we're thinking about what podcasts are required you know whenever we land to a |
| 1:22.6 | different city and we show you guys a little around on our Instagram or on YouTube one |
| 1:28.6 | of the most requested and biggest questions I get in my team and mine is like right |
| 1:33.4 | away is like how did you book this place? |
| 1:35.4 | Yeah where is the department where is this? |
| 1:37.4 | AirBP semi-link or whatever but I think this episode is gonna be not just about booking |
| 1:43.0 | a place because throughout the years you know you guys will follow us on Instagram a lot |
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