✈️ It's time, do yourself this travel favor

Good morning ☀️ from Booked It On Points: Friday Edition where I give an actionable tip to make your travel dreams a reality.

Here’s what’s we have today—

✈︎ First Class Travel Tip:

Set your trackers→ Find the best flight deals, every time

Take my advice on this one. Carve out some time this weekend and put some thought into what trips you’re hoping to take this year, and into next. It can be a bucket list trip or still a far off dream.

• No matter the trip, now is the time to jump over to Googleflights.com and set the “ track prices” alert.

After you’ve entered your search criteria, including the filters, toggle on “Track prices” to receive an email every time the price goes up or down.

Pro tips:

• You can select specific dates OR if you have flexibility, you can toggle “any date”.

• Using the Google Feature at the bottom helps you gauge if the price is cheaper, typical or more expensive than average prices.

It’s never too early to start tracking prices. At any given time I have 2-5 tracked trips going so I know I’m monitoring for the cheapest flight.

✈︎ The Informed Traveler

To plan or not to plan

I took my first international trip when I was in middle school. It was a trip to London. I still remember desperately fighting jet lag in the Westminster Abby on the first day, trying to keep my eyes open.

Perhaps it’s because I was exposed to travel on the younger side, or perhaps it’s personality, but I’m definitely someone who plans less ahead of time, and figures it out after arriving to a destination.

My all time favorite thing to do when I travel is wander the streets, aimlessly and without purpose.

I recently read a New York Times article that reminisced about a time when we had less access to information, preventing us from always being in this hyper-prepared state that we’re accustomed to now. To go back to this state would “revive a long-lost spirit of romance and adventure” in what we do. How dreamy.

I love the notion of taking travel back to when we walked around with our Lonely Planet Guide, found an internet cafe to contact home when we arrived and used to snag a hotel/hostel address card to put in our pocket so as not to get lost after a day of exploring.

But what I find to be the truest travel style for me is slow travel. This embrace of extended time in any particular destination allows you to understand and experience a place so differently than if you have just a typical week somewhere.

But if you have just a week?

I say→ pack in the itinerary, you don’t want to come home feeling you didn’t make the most of your time.

What type of traveler are you?

I think most of us can agree, whether we over plan or under plan, we have made arrangements for where we’ll be sleeping. Leave it to these guys to give you some inspiring accommodation ⬇️

✈︎ Poll results

From Tuesday’s poll:

One incredibly brave reader wrote:

“Choosing to sell it all! Live in Thailand. I am 70 and single. Let the adventure begin”

Gayle S.

🎉 Go Gayle, I’m cheering you on more than you know!

And with that, I am thoroughly inspired. Thank you for your support in reading today’s edition. As always, I appreciate you for being here today,

-Allie