Discount
Holidays
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Discount Holidays?
We all like to save money and the word "discount" is sure a nice
attention grabber. My dear parents were what you might call a bit
special. I am not saying that they were bad parents, but they were
often a little bit arbitrary and excentric with some of the
choices that they would make. Nowhere was this more true than in
the summer vacation packages that they would take us on. Both
my father and my mother were absolute fanatics for
discount holidays.
They just loved discount travel of any kind. It seems like it did
not matter where the trip took them or for how long as a matter of
fact– as long as they could get there for real cheap, it was fine
by them. We had nothing to say about their choices.
When I think about my childhood, there is not a single
discount
holiday that stands out. Rather, there are a few high points
from the various trips. There is one time where my mother purchased
discount tickets to Bangladesh – during the monsoon season. I
remember vividly on the flight over there, asking my mom if I was
going to get to swim. Being a kid, that was my favorite part of
discount holidays.
When I was standing shin deep in water, wishing I was home, I
thought back to that innocent question and wondered if I would ever
want to go swimming again.
Discount
Holidays to Exotic Places?
Of course, not all of the
discount
holidays were miserable, bizarre failures, far
from it. Some of them actually turned out quite nicely to my
amazement. There was one time where, all of the sudden, my dad came
home with tickets to Alaska that he had apparently gotten at the
office. Many of the discountholidays were to exotic
places, but none of them seemed quite as bizarre to me as
Alaska. I still remember seeing the northern lights and wondering
if they were ghosts. That trip still evokes nice memories to
me.
Some of the places we stayed on those discount holidays
were memorable, but not always in a good way. We really had more
than our fair share of rat infested discount hotels.
Every once in a while, however, we would have a discount holiday
trip where almost everything would go perfectly. I remember one
year in particular, for example, we got to stay at the nicest
bed and breakfast hotel that you have ever seen! Not only was the
place adorable, but the food was good, the bed was pretty
comfortable, and the host and hostess were very polite. It was
memories like that that kept me going through some of the less
pleasant moments of our discountholidays. Still, they have
given me plenty of stories to tell. So if you are looking to save a
bit of money or you are on a tight budget why not try the discount
holidays and be ready for some adventures?
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