Baros - Maldives hotel video - Kuoni Holidays Travel

There is something so surreal about Kuoni holidays in a place like the Maldives. You just have to see a video to know that this place is so different from our day to day life. And that is probably why most of us dream of Kuoni holidays, or a cruise, or Hawaii. We long for surreal and our lives are so not surreal. And the fact that Kuoni holidays makes it so darn easy to just pay the money and show up somewhere that is like a western-travelers dream world fantasy is just so appealing. It's beautiful, it's demand free, and it can be within our reach if we can just save up the money and take off the time. Who doesn't want that?
As if the beautiful beaches and trees and sky and water weren't a tempting enough for Kuoni holidays, we see the rooms we would stay in, the beds, the couches, the porches, the walls, the doors, the windows; it's like every detail of the Kuoni holidays is designed for us, for our pleasure, for our fantasy, for our pleasure. And don't we all want to be in a place that caters to our every whim, that is completely designed to make us feel happy, even if it is only for a week or a month? Isn't that what we think of paradise, that it is like Kuoni holidays?

Not really, actually. I think of paradise as being less like Kuoni holidays and more like reality. More like reality like reality was meant to be. So I think of the ideal vacation as being less like Kuoni holidays and more like moving (only on a much smaller and more temporary scale). I like being able to make the decisions for myself about where I will stay, what size room, for how many days, with how many amenities, etc. My ideal holidays are not Kuoni holidays where I pick one of their itineraries, but where I make my own, quite possibly on a day by day basis. I tend to live day by day. In my ideal vacation I can change my mind halfway through without feeling like I'm losing out on money I'd invested. I can switch hotels, go home, rent a cabin, go stay with a friend then come back again, skip out on my planned activities or add more activities, and it won't matter.

And even if Kuoni holidays let me do all of these things, there is just an independent streak in me that would much rather do all of that myself anyway. Sometimes even when I have absolutely no money or anything to save by doing it myself. Occasionally even when I would actually lose money by being so freakishly, stubbornly independent and not taking Kuoni holidays instead.

Thailand videos - Overview of Thailand holidays - Kuoni Holidays Travel

Nothing says exotic like southeast asia, and Kuoni holidays Thailand vacation is one of those that truly screams adventure and exotic getaway. Most of us, though, spend our lives wishing we had the money to take Kuoni holidays. However, if you are smart and creative and willing to put a little more elbow grease, you can get a vacation almost as good as Kuoni holidays, but for a much more manageable price. In fact, if you are an earth-friendly, culture-friendly, blue-collar traveler like me, a self-planned vacation, while it may be more of a hassle than Kuoni holidays, can be much more worth it and more interesting and exciting in the long run. You may not have a detailed itinerary for every day, but you can then make your own (if you are the itinerary person, which I'm not really). You may not be in expensive, fancy western resort-style hotels, but staying in the out-of-the-way and low-key places owned by locals can give you a more authentic experience than the Kuoni holidays can afford you. Why fly halfway around the world to stay someplace that looks just like America?

There are lots of places to visit on Kuoni holidays, and Thailand is no exception. But you don't need Kuoni holidays to visit temples or see festivals; assuming these places are not free to get into, assuming they are not even easy to get into, we are Americans with American determination which can do us a big favor if we use it to our advantage (instead of just using our big bucks to get Kuoni holidays). No, we shouldn't just assume we can get into anything or do anything with enough money. But perhaps with enough tact, persistence, and money...well, it's worth a try.

Don't forget to enjoy the beauty of the place too. It is not worth going anywhere, Kuoni holidays or no, if we do not remember to appreciate the real and natural beauty of the place. Beaches, mountains, forests, lakes, rivers, plains, gardens, whatever there is, if you are around it do not forget to appreciate it. It would be a shameful, horrid waste to get home from vacation only to realize that in a few weeks or months you can barely remember what the best vacation of your life looked like (aside from the pictures that hopefully you were wise enough to take; when it comes to camera use, it is worth looking like a foolish American tourist to get a billion and nine pictures).

And, if at all possible, your trip will be mightily enriched if you actually learn something while there. You may not be able to learn the language (and thankfully there are interpreters for that) and you may not know the place's entire history, but you can learn wherever you are. You may not learn what you think you will, and perhaps what you learn may seem rather commonplace compared to the exotic location. But sometimes the most ordinary epiphanies can bring the most extraordinary changes. Perhaps just discovering that you can plan your own vacation without Kuoni holidays or anyone else will help empower you to try more in your life.