A Room For Two

We're off for a vacation sometime soon. It's surprising to realise but the hubs and I take vacations twice a year. We didn't take any vacations together last year as the hubs was country bound so he's been itching to take a break, dust off the camera and visit a place we haven't been to.

Suffice to say, between the both of us, there are very little places we haven't been to, either together or with someone else; me after having worked in the travel industry for so many years, getting heaps of opportunity to visit various destinations for educational purposes and him being sent to various destinations for business purposes.

This time we picked a destination out of a 'hat', so to speak, not owning a spinning globe. By the way, I chanced upon a spinning globe while shopping last weekend, about waist high with the stand and everything for a mere $4.5K. Who would spend that amount of money on a spinning globe? I could go on an indulgence vacation for that amount of money.

Anyways, speaking of money, we are on a budget for this vacation, as it's only going to be a week long vacation. But our choices of destinations didn't factor in the budget. After our destination was fished out of the 'hat', we realised that it was going to take a lot of research to fit our budget into the vacation because the air portion itself will more than likely take up 3/4 of the budget!

But all is not lost, scouring the internet for the cheapest air ticket was interesting. If there was a budget carrier who flew somewhere near, we would've taken it and found another way to our destination. We didn't even question the safety issue of carriers from the middle east as they had the most competitive rates. At the end, with the carrier that we booked with, I found that the airport taxes which included a huge chunk of insurance tax was more than the cost of the ticket itself. I never realised how much the taxes have ballooned up from the last time we travelled to that part of the world.

Now the quest for accommodation is up. We only need a place to rest at night, seeing that we'll be walking around aimlessly the rest of the day. A place that has clean sheets and no pet moss in their bathroom. It doesn't have to be a hotel, sometimes hotels are overrated. Where we're headed to, bed and breakfast establishments will do just fine.