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Conor Pope

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
985 total appearances

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Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And of course, you're sweating into this ridiculous coat.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And then, of course, you forget which pocket you put your passport in.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And it's like just so stressful.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

I never actually tried it out in an airport because I do have some degree of shame.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Yeah.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Again, this is something I'm really good at.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

I am not so good.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Most people... There's something called a golden hour in airport speak.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And the golden hour is the 60 minutes after you go through security and before you have to head for your plane.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And airports are incredibly good at exploiting this golden hour because they know that you're bored.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Yeah.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

They know that you've time on your hands and they know that you probably have a few bob in your pocket because you're going on holiday.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

So it's like, yeah, I will buy those extra pair of sunglasses.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Or I'll buy that dumb pair of shorts in the shop or whatever it might be.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And they know that and they relentlessly exploit it.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

So I always think that you should almost go through the shopping halls in any airport like a horse with blinkers.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

It's like, I am not going to look left or right.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And I know people think, oh, that's really miserable.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

But there is no point in spending 150 quid in the airport on stuff that you don't need and is inevitably bad value for money.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

I mean, people think, oh, my God, the perfume, the cosmetics.