I use these apps when I travel in England and beyond.
How I Plan and Book Travel
For instance, the upcoming trip to England:
1. Because I use American Airlines, exclusively, and because I have quite a number of earned miles still, I first book a RT flight to Heathrow London on the dates I prefer. I use the AA mobile app.
2. Next I choose and book accomodations in the towns I am visiting, using the Booking dot com app. In this case - Windsor, Winchester, Weymouth, & London ... in that order. London is last because of easy accessibility to Heathrow and scheduled flight on the return trip to US.
NOTE: Book only rooms that say FREE CANCELATION and PAY AT PROPERTY. You'll save a lot of possible frustration if you change your mind down the line. I know this to be true!
3. The choices of transportation around England are taxi, bus, and train. There are short flights available to farther regions, however. But for this particular trip I will use taxis and trains.
From Heathrow to Windsor - a prebooked taxi driver, holding a placard, will meet me at the airport and take me to my hotel in Windsor, which is only a 17-minute drive.
From Windsor to Winchester - first I take a taxi to the Woking train station (12 miles) to board a train to Winchester. That guarantees I dont have to change trains and deal with other platforms and schedules, for it's a straight shot from Woking to Winchester. I do not like changing trains.
From Winchester to Weymouth, I do have one train change, however, in Southampton. No getting around it. So I'll make sure I'll travel with one roller bag only. I've come a long way from 4 bags to 1. Oh yes!!!
Now on the return trip from Weymouth, I'll do a reverse train journey to Woking, and preorder a taxi from Woking to my hotel in the London Heathrow area. Taxi next day to airport.
So thats the basics and how I plan travel anywhere in the world.
ADDED WINDSOR TO 2022 TRIP
YES! I’ve booked a hotel in Windsor before my stay in Winchester and Weymouth, England, next year. Need to be closer to Heathrow on departure for home, so I added a night in London after Weymouth. I am thrilled to be going back to Windsor! This time I will be staying in a gorgeous period hotel I saw up the lane from where I was last time, still across from the castle, but nearer Prince Harry’s Pub. ❤️
So it’s WINDSOR for 2 nights, WINCHESTER for 2 nights, WEYMOUTH for 7 nights, London Heathrow 1 night.
And while I’m in Winchester I’ll take the train a short distance to have lunch with my 7th husband, Philip. The only one still living, of the eight. We’ve remained friends, so that will be a pleasant visit. We’ll have to send up a toast to the others. YES!
So! That’s the latest on my late Spring of 2022 holiday. Of course I’ll be doing more research for GUESTHOUSE ROW while I’m there.
More later ....
LATEST TRAVEL UPDATE
YES, NEW TRAVEL PLANS AND SCHEDULE:
2021 ** May 14-17. PHOENIX AZ
2022 ** Apr 23-25 WINCHESTER, ENGLAND
2022 ** Apr 25 - May 2 WEYMOUTH, ENGLAND
2022 ** Sep 14-28. PARIS, FRANCE
I’ve made the changes in my schedule to accommodate my ongoing writing projects. So I won’t be doing the pleasure trip to Wales just yet. possibly will in 2023, a week in Wales and a week in Scotland. Have put that off for now. But first I must go to England to work on GUESTHOUSE ROW.. Also am going to visit husband #7 now that he’s he’s getting up in age, and lives near Winchester where I’ll stay a couple days. Then am going to Paris for my birthday next fall. Yahoo!
Hopefully this will work out wiser and better for me. And sometime THIS fall I want to visit my daughter in southern AZ. Will visit my son Micheal and Elaine in Phoenix next month.
And I just learned today that one of my dear childhood chums from the 1940s, Patsy Mitchell Kuntz, is coming to Las Vegas from Tennessee next month. I haven’t seen her in decades. We’ve recently reconnected on Facebook. Wow!
Okay. That’s it for now ... as more things unfold I’ll write about it all.
❤️❤️❤️❤️ Bye for now.
Hugs from Rebecca Becky
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