Untouristy Holiday Destinations, Overplanning & Duty Free Hacks
Passports Please!
Chelsea Dickenson
5.0 • 700 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today, Chelsea and James share their favourite under-the-radar European destinations to help you dodge the crowds. They also dive into the art of overplanning vs spontaneity on holiday, reveal duty-free hacks, and talk travel language faux pas!
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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. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello, James. Hello, Chelsea. |
| 0:55.2 | I've got a question for you this week. |
| 0:58.3 | Good. |
| 0:59.1 | How basic of a traveller do you think you are? |
| 1:04.3 | Basic in what sense? |
| 1:05.8 | Basic as in going to the same places that everybody else goes to. |
| 1:10.6 | I think I have become more adventurous. |
| 1:13.3 | Do you? Yes. Okay. Well, I thought that I would do a little Google and find the data. You know, |
| 1:19.8 | I love data. You do. Nerd. To find which European countries have been visited the most. |
| 1:28.0 | Okay. |
| 1:28.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.4 | Turns out nowhere has that bloody data. |
| 1:34.5 | It's a data-free zone. |
| 1:36.0 | Or at least it was not up today. |
| 1:40.3 | And they all kind of told me the top 10, but they didn't tell me what I wanted to know, |
| 1:43.5 | which was where are the least visitors countries in Europe. No one's done this. |
| 1:44.5 | Well, at least they haven't released it in an easy-to-access way for me to be able to talk about |
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