I had the pleasure of speaking at my 4th annual WITS (Women In Travel Summit) and I couldn’t be happier!
It’s also my first time in Milwaukee!
I had the pleasure of speaking at my 4th annual WITS (Women In Travel Summit) and I couldn’t be happier!
It’s also my first time in Milwaukee!
Just two months ago, I had the opportunity to visit a place I have wanted to travel to for quite some time- Toronto, Canada! Just a few hours in the air, Toronto was very easy to travel to and I couldn’t believe I hadn’t made the trip sooner.
During my 3 day trip, I got to visit the top of the CN Tower, stroll the downtown shopping mall, visit many unique restaurants, and eat tons of poutine fries! Yum!
Here is a breakdown of some of my activities:
1) If you are into unique dining experiences, you will LOVE eating at “Signs”, a deaf restaurant. Yes, you read that correctly! Everyone in the restaurant is deaf- the bartenders, the servers, and even the kitchen staff. There are menus with sign language on the table that show you how to properly order the meal of your choice. Not only was the atmosphere amazing, the food was good too!
2) I had to wait over an hour to visit the top of the CN Tower but the view did not disappoint. I would recommend going very early in the morning to avoid long lines. The entry ticket went for about $35 and was pretty worth it to me.
3) Try the Poutine fries and make sure you have a friend to share with!1 Before I visited Toronto, I kept hearing about the poutine fries so I knew I had to try them. They are essentially fries topped with cheese and gravy and they are oh so yummy.
4) If you are traveling solo or with just one other person, take the bus from the airport into the city, it will save you tons of money. I paid about $3 to take the bus into the city whereas if I would have taken a cab, it would have cost me about $45. It take about an hour to make the commute, but imagine what you could use the extra $40 on!
Have you visited Toronto, what were your thoughts?
Belize is one of those countries you just have to see for yourself. I first visited Belize last year and had the opportunity to visit again last week.
I want to help you out on your Belize excursion so I have jotted some useful notes to help you maneuver your trip to make sure you have the best trip ever.
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Last year I was of the few lucky one’s to catch a glitch fare to Abu Dhabi and I had a tremendous time! This year, for a friends birthday, a group of friends visited Dubai, which is only about 1.5 hours away from Abu Dhabi but in my opinion, was totally different. Abu Dhabi had an abundant of mosques, local restaurants, and museums and I couldn’t find as many cultural things to do in Dubai.
Now, don’t get me wrong, Dubai was a beautiful city! It was clean, modern, and the architecture was breathtaking!! I simply felt like instead of being in a foreign country a 15 hour flight away, that I was in New York, or Boston, or maybe even Miami.
While there, I visited the Gold Souks, the Burj Khalifia, the Desert, Jumeriah Beach and took a speed boat trip around the Dubai Marina- which were all fabulous activities! The one thing I wished I got more of in Dubai was the Arabic/ Emirati culture ! If you follow me closely, you know that when I travel, I love to experience the true culture, food, people of whichever country I am visiting but I found that difficult to do there.
I still encourage you to visit and when you do, let me know your thoughts! If you have traveled to Dubai, I want to hear from you too!
If you are anything like me on my first visit to Las Vegas, you only stayed on the strip and you gambled, partied and ate at the buffets. Now, while there is nothing wrong with that itinerary, there is so much more to Vegas and the surrounding areas!
I took my 2nd trip to Vegas recently and made sure to venture out and see new and exciting things- and boy am I glad I did!
Here are a few things I suggest on your next trip to Sin City:
Earlier this month I got the amazing opportunity to speak to women at the Women’s Travel Fest conference in New York City. This was my 3rd time attending the conference and my 2nd time speaking!
I spoke about budget traveling and gave all the women easy and helpful tips to help them secure the most fabulous budget travel trips!
If you have never attended this conference and you are a woman who loves to travel, make sure you put it on your agenda for 2017. The speakers give so much wealth of knowledge and the networking is amazing!
If you have any questions, let me know and I will be happy to help! In the meantime, make sure you follow me on Instagram: deidreworldwide
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By now, you all know how much I love to travel! For the past 10 years, I have taken at least 2 international trips and numerous domestic trips per year. I am by no means wealthy or rich, so finding deals is imperative to feed my travel bug.
The other day, I was really craving the sight and smell of an ocean. I just completed a vacation to Amsterdam and Paris and I needed some sun. I opened my computer, did some searching and saw that Southwest Airlines had round-trip flights from Houston To Miami for only $149! Such a great deal! Even better was I had a $300 travel voucher I could use for travel since I volunteered to give up my seat on a previous flight, so I cashed in $150 and only had to pay taxes on the flight which was about $20.
I am also a volunteer for Hostelling International and I do travel presentations, etc. promoting hostels and my travel experiences to people in the community of Houston. As a volunteer, I get a certain amount of free nights per year and I decided to cash in a few nights for my spontaneous Miami trip. This made my accommodation cost a big fat ZERO dollars!
So since my flight and housing were booked, all I needed now was money for fun! After thoroughly enjoying myself in Florida, I noticed I spent a whooping $150! Travel doesn’t get much better than that!
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