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Volunteering for Travel Vouchers, Is It Worth It?

We were recently in Montreal visiting our families and heading back to Miami when the ticket counter started calling out for volunteers since the flight was overbooked. Over the intercom we heard: “We need five volunteers because the flight is oversold! $500 is being offered.” A few minutes later it was $700 and as the […]

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Travel Tips

Don’t Use the Hotel App to Checkout Unless You Really Mean It!

On a recent trip out of Montreal we had a super early flight at 6 am and as we left the hotel around 4 am I used the convenient hotel app to check out

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Cruise Tips

Cruising on a Mega Ship—Our Review

Well, we’d heard from others that they didn’t like the large ships as much as the smaller or traditionally sized ones, but being travel bloggers we had to go and see for ourselves. We headed out on the Norwegian Escape on a modified Western Caribbean itinerary to explore the ship and enjoy a 7-day cruise.

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Cruise Tips Travel Tips

Recheck Your Shore Excursions Descriptions upon Boarding

If you read the fine print on your cruise documents, all excursions are subject to change and of course you do not have much say in the matter. Whether this is due to weather, lack of sufficient booking or perhaps equipment issues with the provider—we’ve experienced all of the above and been forced to scramble […]

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Cruise Tips

Making Lemonade out of Lemons – When Life Throws You a Curve Ball

Sometimes life throws you a curve ball and unexpected situations arise and you just have to go with the flow. Accept. Adapt. Make a new plan and make the most of it. Life is short and meant to be enjoyed! This is exactly what happened to us, we had finally taken the plunge and booked our […]

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Cruise Tips

Why Prepay for Shore Excursions if You Don’t Have too?

Cruise lines seem to be getting more and more greedy. They want you to prepay months in advance for dining, gratuities, and even shore excursions… why?

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Travel Tips

Roatan Dive Trip: The Trip that Almost Wasn’t!

I can’t believe that we are finally on our way to Roatan for our dream dive vacation. It almost didn’t happen. It all started with a crab that I found in our parking garage—he looked scared and was obviously lost. I recruited my husband to help in our catch and release project. The mission was 

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Scuba Diving Travel Tech

Rounding Your Nitrox Values

While diving the Vandenberg, we were setup for two 100-feet+ dives running 30.2 and 30.8 percent nitrox mixes. For those that are not familiar with nitrox gas or diving, it is a mixture that contains more oxygen but has inherent hazards in that going below the prescribed depth can lead to oxygen toxicity and death. Divers […]

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South Florida Day Trips Travel Tips

South Florida Beach Guide

South Florida has a multitude of well-equipped beaches all along its coastline making it a pleasure for locals and visitors to partake in oceanfront beach activities. As we learned ourselves, the beaches are not always easy to find, and it’s not always obvious where to park or what facilities exist. It is our hope to […]

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Layovers | Stopovers

How to Spend a One-day Stopover in Iceland

Being intrigued about Iceland with all the ‘Hoopla’ it’s been getting lately, we opted to take advantage of the opportunity to have a one-day stopover in Iceland while traveling to Ireland. We are happy we did as we enjoyed our time in this remote and wild but beautiful country.