Owen Rascovitch

anyone that's been can relate but it's uh it's pretty much organized chaos people flying through red lights anyhow that's a topic for next time um so after you design i guess where you want to go the kind of things you want to be doing how did you work out your costs you said you know you had all these things uh like passport expiring flights etc how did you work it out you just

So your variable costs are things that you can tinker with.

Yeah.

So, yeah, I think we come back to this analogy a lot, right?

Like put the big things in the jar first and then all the little things falling around it.

So we know flights are a big thing.

That's pretty easy.

You can go on Skyscanner, Webjet.

booking.com you know any of these sites and you can get pretty you know accurate flight estimates our flight costs so and even google now you can you can search for flights um another thing you mentioned airbnb there are other sites that you can use you know there's a litany of sites that compare hotels um you can even join like rewards programs and things like that where you can

use points like you did, or you can get member discounts and those types of things.

Some of them are pretty much a scam, but some of them are, and some of them actually fulfill or live up to expectations.

One thing you can do if you have a credit card, not that we are endorsing credit cards on this show, hopefully they've all been cut up, but if you are a frequent traveler, you can use your business card to book things and you might get things cheaper.

Another thing to do, just a quick one while we're here, is when you book into a hotel, if you're part of a couple, remember to tell them it's your honeymoon or your anniversary.

No matter what, it is your honeymoon or your anniversary.

Even if it's not, just tell them that.

So when you get up to your room, there should be a complimentary bottle of wine or some flowers or something nice.

So remember...

always always always it's your it's your anniversary or your honeymoon another thing which we found really useful is just speaking to travel agents obviously it's just you know it seems a bit old-fashioned you know you can book your flights online but it's actually free to go down to most travel agents get a quote if they're competitive yeah maybe you take them up on their offer but if they're not then you just just disregard the quote altogether but you take some of the

the ideas that they give you so they can you know that chances are they're a wealth of knowledge they've been to these places so some things you might um you might do in fact include you know asking them for like apps for like to get around that particular city because there might be you know maybe google maps isn't the best option or maybe there's an app to um you know explore the nightlife in that city and things like that so we did that exact same thing for vietnam you know the quote that we got back from the travel agent was just outrageous and

So we just decided, well, we're just going to do it our own.