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.