Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: –Tour Operators
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Imagine walking up to a hotel registration desk and being told that you will get a discount because you’re only one person in a double room. Ha! Yes, imagine it, because you won’t often experience it. But… In researching a travel story on single supplements for the Kansas City Star, I learned about places that…
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It’s easy to get Sacha Lodge, located in the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. All you have to do is take a small plane from Quito, the capital, to a little airport in Coca. Then, you hop a boat for a two-hour trip down the Napo River, a tributary of the Amazon. Then you hike for…
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I may be sooo 20th century, but sometimes I prefer to pick up a magazine instead of heading for the Internet for trip ideas. I’m looking, as we speak, at a section I ripped out of my National Geographic Adventure from November 2007. It’s called Best Outfitters on Earth. When you don’t exactly know where…
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Tour operators increasingly are targeting solo travelers with "singles-only itineraries," a story in Friday’s USA Today says. "The move is designed to tap into a growing lucrative market." Yup, that would be the baby boomers. Like the elephant in the boa in "The Little Prince," it’s always obvious what stage of life the boomers are…
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Not all travel has to be about vacationing, in the sense of wining, dining and sightseeing. You could choose, instead, to wade into a culture or a community by serving as a volunteer. It’s almost a guarantee that lots of people will arrive solo. Imagine trying to convince a travel buddy to catch, color-band and…
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I used to think Mr. Right might show up on one of the biking trips I was booking. Or at the Club Med. Or on the river where I was rafting. I’ve heard many stories of people meeting on active vacations and falling in love. Sure, love could strike somewhere between biking a butte and…
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Boss out of town? The beach beckons? Got vacation days? Okay, then. Jump on a plane and get out of town. Or country. When it’s just you, you don’t have to coordinate with anyone. You don’t have to wonder if both of you can get the time off. I subscribe to a site catering to…
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I’m in shock. Two things. One, hotels and tour operators are recognizing that lots of people travel solo. Two, they’re actually giving deals and discounts to solo travelers. Scrape me off the floor. One of the biggest complaints I hear from solo travelers is that they get rooked by the travel industry. Either they have…
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I used to think that package tours were for retired people, the elderly and the infirm. That buses took them right up to, say, the rim of the Grand Canyon. Then they could peer out the window and ooh and aah without ever having to leave their seats. Then I discovered active tours. The biking,…
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USA Today yesterday wrote about "10 quick, affordable U.S. vacations for women." From hiking and kayaking in the Blue Ridge Mountains to five days of golfing in coastal California. See if there’s anything you like.
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