A survey: what’s your pain in planning a vacation?
I made phone calls like crazy yesterday afternoon, trying to book hotel rooms for my coming vacation to Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan, China.
I have spent quite some time research what to do in our destinations during the weekend and was frustrated — since I got a lot of repeated but either useless or out-of-date (You know, everything changes so fast in China) information about the destinaion from search engine (google or baidu). Anyway, I finally set our itinerary and am ready to book hotel rooms. I found our most desired hotel was fully booked. Of course, I can still find a place, a nice place to stay if i am willing to pay RMB 600/night when I can get one for RMB 180 just 2 days’ ago.
In the whole planning process, I spent way too much time deciding where to go and what to do. I want to see the fall foliage, but people have different opinions about where and when. I hope I have a super computer or a super data mining machine to dig all relavant data out for me. Unfortunately, I don’t.
I would like to do a light survey about: what’s your most difficult part in planning a vacation? How do you solve it?
For me, it is to decide which few attraction points to see the most beautiful natural scences in limited time. I will:
1) search google and baidu (in Chinese),
2) go to forum and ask questions (but got almost 0 repsonds),
3) search for travel blogs in either English or Chinese (which need a lot of time to read and filter the information).
Tags: Blog & Blogger, Travel, vacation planning
Grigo
My difficulty would be taking time off to travel.When the passion to travel becomes strong enough to discount excuses, everything falls into place for me.
Mala Mukunda
http://www.traveling-stories-magazine.com/
my most difficult part is that I too spend way too many hours researching all the options. Since there is so much information available, I feel it necessary to view it all before making a decision. By the time we go on the vacation, I totally need a vacation!
Trying to determine the best Yalong bay hotel has been difficult. That is how I came here.