 |
Travel Planning is a place to meet and interact with other travelers, learn the 'Art of Travel' and Trip Builder functionality as well as other travel related topics. |
Session topics are designed to educate on how to use our travel tools to research, organize, plan, and create a trip. In fact, you can start planning and building a trip a year or more in advance with our Trip Builder. Create your trip's basic framework and as you discover new places and activities, add them in. Watch your trip take shape as you build the perfect trip that works for you. All this can be done before making a single booking, so you are free to change anything you like and as often as you like.
You have probably heard the expression: "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." Meaning: True help is about giving people skills and tools to take care of themselves, rather than just giving short-term aid.
Travel Talk
Travel Planning Sessions are personal sessions between you and one of our travel professionals designed to help you plan and create your trip.
Travel Planning Sessions use the same Travel Talk Framework
 |
Read more on Travel Talk sessions. |
Once you understand the process, planning a trip can be stress free and fun. We have seen Travel Planners post that you have better things to do with your time than plan a trip. We totally disagree. Planning a trip is half the fun!
Eddie, the founder and CEO of eTripCafe will be the session host for the Travel Talk Sessions.
Sessions cover a broad range of topics including but not limited to the following
| Trip Builder | Mobile Trip Profile | The Art of Travel | Travel Related |
| How to use the Trip Builder to create and manage your trip. | Accessing and using the features of the Mobile Trip Profile during your trip. |
Travel Skills - Tips & Tricks helping you Travel Light & Travel Smart. |
Various travel related topics including destination discussions from past and future trips. |
General Sessions
These sessions are not intended to answer the question: I'm going to Paris, what should I see and do, but rather help you understand how to plan and organize a trip to any location or multiple locations you are interested in.
An example of what may be covered in a Travel Talk Session is finding and booking a hotel in Paris France. Initially you may be looking for an hotel that looks nice and is affordable, but in Paris and other cities for that matter, there are more things to consider. For starters, you should think about transportation to your hotel. Is it easily accessible from the Metro, can you walk from a train station or will you need a taxi? If you take the metro, do you know how to purchase a ticket and what kind of ticket? Is the hotel central to your planned activities? If you plan to leave for another destination, will it be easy to reach your departure point from the hotel? Does the hotel offer an included breakfast, does your room have a onsuite bathroom or is it shared? Is the room air conditioned? What are the check-in and check-out times and do they provide luggage storage. The topic is designed to educate you on what to look for and think about when selecting a hotel at any destination on your itinerary.
| Things to consider when selecting a hotel | |
| 1) | Price - Is it a good deal for the money on within your budget? |
| 2) | Location to arrival/departure points - Is it convenient to your arrival/departure points? Do you know how to get there? |
| 3) | Location to attractions - Is it convenient to the attractions you plan to visit as well as other activities? |
| 4) | Bathroom - Does it come with a private in room bathroom or does it have a shared bathroom? |
| 5) | AC - Is your room air conditioned? |
| 6) | Breakfast - Is it included? |
| 7) | Check In/Out Times - What are the check-in and check-out times? |
| 8) | Luggage - Do they provide luggage storage for early arrival or late departure? |
Private Group Sessions
Different from our General Sessions, Private Group Sessions must be requested using the Contact Page. Once requested, a session will be created and associated to the requestor's account. The session will only display for the requester on their 'My Account / Shop' page for purchase. Once purchased, the requester is responsible for sharing the meeting link with others, up to a total of 20 participants (dial-in connections).
Private Group Sessions are $400.00 and are limited to 20 dial-in connections ($20/Person).
We will do our best to accommodate the requested date/time and reply to your account email once the session has been created for purchase. If it is not possible to schedule the session on the request date/time due to other conflicts, we will contact the requestor for alternative dates and times.
Travel Planning
Different from our General Sessions, Private Group Sessions must be requested using the Contact Page. Once requested, a session will be created and associated to the requestor's account. The session will only display for the requester on their 'My Account / Shop' page for purchase. Once purchased, the requester is responsible for sharing the meeting link with others, up to a total of 20 participants (dial-in connections).
Private Group Sessions are $400.00 and are limited to 20 dial-in connections ($20/Person).
We will do our best to accommodate the requested date/time and reply to your account email once the session has been created for purchase. If it is not possible to schedule the session on the request date/time due to other conflicts, we will contact the requestor for alternative dates and times.
Purchasing Sessions
From your 'My Account / Shop' page, select the session or sessions you are interested in. Select 'Update Total' and then 'Purchase'. Once purchased, the sessions will display on your 'My Account/Travel Talk Sessions/My Sessions' page. Just prior to the meeting start time, click the Zoom Meeting link where you will be placed in the Waiting Room until the meeting host admits you to the meeting.
Sessions may be purchased until two days prior to the start date.
Occasionally there can be issues with online meetings such as the video not working, audio not working, people cannot connect, slow response, audio static, etc. If for any reason technical difficulties interfere with a meeting to a point where it is not possible to host the meeting, we will work with you to rescheduled the meeting to another acceptable time.
Additional Information
Depending on the meeting, the host may only be sharing their screen while talking through the subject. In some meetings, other attendees may also be sharing their screens. Meetings are intended to be interactive, so having a good audio and video connection is important.
Most sessions will be limited to smaller groups to provide more personal interaction between attendees and the host.
Requirements for attending a session
-Laptop or personal computer
-High-speed internet connection
-Speakers or headset
-Microphone is required to participate in interactive meetings
-A love of travel!