calypso726
Escaping reality one Disney vacation at a time
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I was crushed when DCL cancelled the Faroes for our cruise with you guys. That was my #1 bucket list place and I was so excited. I was able to get there a few years later, and it was fabulous. The vistas are incredible. LOL on EBC--it's not on many people's lists, but seeing Everest from the top of Kala Patthar at 18,519 (only 10.5k feet lower) ... priceless. Definitely a one and done though. I'm a Peninsula hotel girl nowadays and roughing it was a challenge. I suspect I'll do Kilimanjaro for one of my next hikes and get Africa that way. I'm with you on that, BTW.
I am even more interested now in hearing our perspective on the Sharm part of the trip as we are of like mind. And I totally get that calculus. I'm right there with you on BA taxes and fees. I buy an obscene number of RT Club or First tickets a year and I feel the same way--paying for economy or premium economy and flying business or first on miles.
Can't wait to hear more and a big hug/hello to plane princess from us!
I gave Planeprincess your message and he said to send hugs to you and the fam! Hugs to all from me too.
Oh no. I hadn't ever justified it like that, but let me tell you, that's GOOD. I'm pretty good at squinting and turning my head just right to make travel hacking math work out, in favor of the thing I want to do. This is going to be a dangerous new justification!!
Honestly, I don’t know enough about Egypt to plan a good trip. I figured ABD would have a better idea than I would on what the highlights to hit should be. Just got to Sharm this evening and I am looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow, relaxing and having nothing at all planned while everyone else goes snorkeling at 10 am.
I didn't know that ABD was still doing the white elephant gift exchange. While we have always enjoyed it, we had a bad experience on our Peru trip. One of the moms that we had spent the trip with took dd's item, which she LOVED. Since the mom was one of the last to pick dd had no opportunity to get it back. She was almost in tears and I thought that that violated "mom code", but obv couldn't say anything (I did see her in a whole different light though). Mind you when her dd's were STARVING the next morning and the guides had run out of snacks, I gave each of them granola bars from my personal stash -- that I brought with me on the trip, but I did hesitate because I seriously doubt she would have done the same. I mean her dd's and my dd had been best buds the entire trip and we got on very well. But to show how good the guides are, they saw how distraught dd was and somehow were able to purchase the item (even though the stores were closed the morning we flew from Cusco back to Lima). Huge kudos to them.
We are on an adults only this trip and the guides repeatedly told everyone not to get attached to anything. They did switch up the rules from when we did it in China. Back then, stealing was endless. This time they said once a gift had been stolen twice, it was locked from being stolen again except by whoever went first when they get a chance to keep or steal after the last person in the group.