Five Reasons Why You Should Plan Your Next Trip Immediately After Your Last
Think back to your last vacation. You've just gotten off the plane, you feel great, and you're ready to go again. This is the best time to plan your next vacation. Here’s why you should start planning now.
The Best Trips Takes Planning and Coordination
Most people love the idea of just relaxing while they are on vacation. They may want to do some excursions, explore where they are, or even try new things. However, those things often require advance planning and coordination. Typically when you engage in those last-minute spontaneous things it ends up costing you time and money causing some stress on your vacation. This is not to say that those things don't end up being fun or worth it, but, for those who are looking to stretch their dollar the best they can, they may opt out of the fun if it’s not a part of the original plan, or worse, feel regret for last-minute decisions.
This is exactly why you would plan your next vacation immediately after your last. It would be during this time you remember not only the good that happened but the not so great and it gives you the ability to attempt to avoid and plan better in the future. It helps you to save money, try new things, and also, begin new excitement for new adventures.
There are also more benefits for planning your next vacation after your last. This blog post will highlight those additional benefits.
Book When You’re Feeling Confident
Sometimes when time has passed between your vacations you often lose confidence in your choices. This is because you're not used to leaving and traveling in the way that you would like. This is often expressed as anxiety around going to new places or even just experiencing travel such as going through airports, going through customs, and packing for a different place or climate that you haven't experienced in some time.
Once you've done it and experienced it for the first time in a while, you gain the sense of how this could be done. You recognize how you could replicate it, or even make it better. Oh, booking right away gives you the opportunity to beat the anxieties that grow with time.
Save Money
The further ahead you can plan a trip, especially a big trip like a Caribbean trip, the more money you will save. This is because some places will give you a discount, an early bird discount, that will help you save on your next trip. Even some places that you visit frequently will give you points or some kind of return guests discounts. Not only does this help you save money, but you could potentially book these trips with a deposit and pay it over time. This makes the idea of something really big possible because you now have the ability to pay it over time.
Explore Add ons
This is the perfect time to explore add-ons and excursions. Add-ons would be things like private transfers or the luxury amenities or even just different packages that you would like to have while on your trip.
When you have an add-on prior to a trip you typically spend less money. You also are able to plan it in a way that doesn't feel rushed. Many times when you're adding things after the fact you have to squeeze it in someplace, rather than if you were planning ahead of time, you know that you have a certain amount of time to get things done and you can put those add-ons in the best place possible for you and other travelers.
Keeps the Excitement Going
There's something about having a trip planned that just helps you remain excited. You have something to look forward to. It keeps you motivated and it keeps you going towards that thing. It can help elongate those feelings that you had when you were on vacation because again you have something to look forward to.
Helps you to Set Goals
And once you have the trip planned you have a way of reaching new goals. If you know that this trip is going to cost a certain amount you can add this to your yearly budgets or add this to your expectations / resolutions. And it also helps you create new family goals, relationship goals, or even just personal goals by being able to have some thing where you know you were going to have new discoveries, enjoyment, and excitement.
How Do You Plan Your Next Vacation So Soon
After your next trip, give yourself about a week to get settled. Think about what you enjoyed about this trip and what you would like to repeat as well as what you would like to change. Then when you ready, contact your local neighborhood friendly travel agent, me, and let's talk about how you can plan your next vacation. I find when you plant that seed with someone they are more open because of course they want to have more of that great feeling so be sure to broach the subject early on and then we can to more about when you’d like to explore.
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