12. Let's Go Places with Guest Farrin Gustafson, Travel Advisor

This could take a lot off your plate to, um, and have a great experience and you know that everything's kind of taken care of and you have a mom in the background making sure you're all good.

I know that would put my mind at ease even, I mean, you hope you don't have to really use it, but if, you know, if your kid does somehow walk away or whatever the circumstances are, that would make me feel better just even knowing it's there.

Being able to be a small part of other people's memories, uh, It's a really special, it's a really special bond that I get to build with my clients, and I love getting to help them not only just with that initial vacation, but with vacation time after time and year after year.

We're Erika Radis and Marie Lifschultz, a San Antonio area realtor and lender, but most importantly, we're working moms.

The goal of this podcast is to provide support and a sense of community to San Antonio area working moms like us. So join us in trying to find a balance between career, family, and everything in between.

Welcome to this episode of the Working Moms of San Antonio podcast. We have a guest on with us, Faryn Gustafson, and she is a travel advisor. And so we're going to let her talk about all the fun stuff she does.

Hi, thanks for having me. Um, so hello. Um, yes, so I am a travel advisor. Um, I operate under the name Vacations Worth Melting For, so that's kind of just me, myself, and I. But I'm actually a part of a host agency called Magical Enchanted Vacations, and we are, um, the agency, you know, we call it MEV. MEV is actually a Platinum agency with Disney, Universal Studios, Sandals, and there's a couple of other great, you know, great, great suppliers out there that, that we are able to partner with and we sell destinations for quite often. So, but yeah, I specialize in Disney destinations and Universal Studios, and I love being able to take the stress away from, from my clients so that they can really just focus on making memories with their families.

I love it. So how long have you been doing this, Perrin?

I graduated the Disney College of Knowledge in the summer of 2018, and at the time we had just welcomed our, our second child, and I was a middle school theater teacher. And so that supplemental side gig, you know, kind of became a little bit more of a necessity. And so I wanted to, you know, find something that would make me feel as passionate and as excited as teaching theater did. And when I found out that you could, you know, work with people to customize and curate their Disney vacations, I was like, well, that seems like an obvious fit for me. So found a great host agency that I was able to work part-time through. A lot of host agencies don't really have the ability to kind of let their, their agents work part-time. Um, but my, uh, my age— wow, sorry, uh, my, my agency owner is, uh, a really wonderful person who, um, completely understood my, you know, predicament of like, I'm, I'm available full-time during the summer and like certain weeks throughout the year, but I've got this newborn and I have 3.5-year-old, and also I work like 12 to 14-hour days on the regular, you know, teaching theater and after-school rehearsals and stuff. So, um, but yeah, I, I, so I've, I've technically been doing this since 2018, um, but full-time I would say really for about the last year or so.

Awesome. So your side hustle became your full-time job. You got really good. Yeah. And it worked for you.

Yes. I, uh, I, I left teaching in August of 2020 thanks COVID, um, to be home with the kids and, um, make sure that they were, you know, we were trying to be as safe as possible. And so once everyone else kind of was like reintegrated into society, I was kind of sitting at home twiddling my thumbs like, okay, well, what about me? What do I do? Um, and, you know, I had gone through some trial and error jobs kind of out in the real world and finally just decided Well, I know what I like doing. I know, I know I'm good at it. Why am I, why am I out here trying to like make, make my square peg fit in all these round holes? And just decided that I was just gonna focus on what I wanted to do, and that was planning vacations.

Oh, I love it.

Yeah, that's awesome. I love when I see somebody's like side passion turn into their full-time job. I think that's amazing. It's fun. Yeah, yeah, it's— well, it sounds fun. And so when you are advising people, what does a typical workday look like for you?

So generally, I, you know, I go drop the kids off at school and get myself nice and caffeinated before I plant myself down at my desk. Big advocate for all the coffee. But I, you know, I generally start out by checking my inbox, seeing what quote requests I have waiting for potential clients. I am not generally the type of person that is— this is gonna sound really strange. I'm actually not a good salesperson.

Yeah, I'm not really either, and that's what my job is.

So yeah, which is so weird.

Yeah.

Like, I hate that icky feeling of being— Right, same. Pressured, right? It's just, it's so uncomfortable and it's, yeah. Yeah. Like, so I, I try to live life by the golden rule. Like, I don't want someone treating me like, you know, with dollar signs in their eyes. So I, I refuse to, to do that to clients. So I make sure that I ask them what we call qualifying questions, cuz I really wanna get a, a firm grasp of what it is that people are looking for out of this vacation. Nobody, nobody needs to spend their entire life savings on a Disney vacation in order to make it be the most magical memory that you've ever had. Can you? 100%. Please call me. However, like, however, if we're working with like a fixed budget, I been there, done that. Like, I, I want people to be able to enjoy their time, get every experience possible, but not stress about the finances. So I'm very, I'm very cognizant of, you know, what it is that people are really in need of on the vacation instead of focusing on like upselling them all these, you know, different things. Usually I am working on you know, I customize travel packets for clients about 2 weeks, 10 days-ish before they travel. And that's just things like updating lists of like, hey, this ride is down for refurbishment, or there's going to be construction going on at this resort, making sure that all of their, you know, their transportation to and from the airport is finalized, making sure that we've got dining reservations, like good solid locked in, confirmation numbers are all neat and pretty in a row. You know, sometimes I have to call suppliers, which is a great way for people that do decide to utilize a travel advisor to really kind of see our value. At the very base level, you're not the one sitting on hold for who knows how long, you know?

Right.

Yeah, so I'll call Disney, Universal, Disney Cruise Line, whomever it is so that you don't have to worry about doing that. If I have a client that is within, we call it the 60-day window, and that means that we can start booking your Disney dining and experience reservations. So things like, you know, if you wanna go eat some Mickey Mouse waffles over at Chef Mickey, if you wanna go, do you have like a makeover with a fairy godmother in training at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique? We book all of those things 60 days out. The fun part is, and I say that like very air quotes filled, is that those reservations open between 4:45 and 5:00 AM our time.

Oh, wow.

So yeah, so I wake up and I take care of those for my clients so that they don't have to worry about it.

Yeah, well, it's a great— you know, I, I didn't— had no idea, honestly, kind of like what a travel agent did. I mean, as a kid, we didn't— I mean, we went to the coast and that's about it. So we've— I, you know, as an adult, we've done a few things, but I had never thought about using a travel agent. Honestly, we just kind of went and figured out as we go, you know, we went and booked a hotel and that's it. Um, yeah, but hearing all the stuff that you actually could benefit— so working moms could really benefit, hey, for planning a trip for the summer, this could take a lot off your plate to, yeah, and have a great experience. And you know that everything's kind of taken care of and you have a mom in the background making sure you're all good.

100%. And I, like, you know, like you said, we didn't travel when I was a kid. I grew up in Oklahoma. And so pretty much any and all time off of school was spent driving back and forth across the Red River. Seeing my grandparents on both sides, really. And I didn't realize until I started researching it that travel agents were even still a thing. It felt very like Mad Men, you know, Lucy and Desi kind of, kind of a job. But it— I honestly, like, if I had had the knowledge when I was planning my kids' first couple of Disney trips that I had now, there is no way I would have done it myself.

That's good to know.

Yeah. No, I'm— oh, go ahead.

Go ahead, Erika.

Oh, I was just going to say it sounds like there's a ton of benefits to using one. And so like in terms of like charges and things like that, how, like, how does that work? Is it like a pay-by-service type thing or how does it work for your clients?

So there are, you know, just like every business out there has different business models. Travel agents and travel advisors are no different. So I currently don't charge any fees to my clients as long as they're, they're booking a 3-day, so like a 3-night package with 3 days worth of park tickets. Anything under that, I, you know, I do charge a service fee for that. Strictly because we don't get paid until it's a 3-day, 3-day, you know, a 3-night stay and a 3-day park ticket. So if I, as long as I'm getting, you know, a commission and can pay my bills with that, I'm fine with that for now. That's not to say that my services will always be free. There are a lot of agents and there's actually a really big movement in the industry right now to go ahead and charge those service fees. So my advice, I think, as far as that would go, would be if, if you come across a travel advisor, whether you decide that I'm the greatest fit for you or not, if you find a travel advisor who is looking to charge a service fee, it doesn't mean that they're scamming you or that they're breaking some sort of rule or anything. There are various laws depending on which state, which state your, your client lives in, and which state you live in, and all kinds of great stuff like that. But there's, there is a big movement in the industry right now to go ahead and charge those fees so that you are getting paid for your time and your knowledge. Like I said, I'm okay with getting just a commission right now, but that's not to say that I wouldn't charge those fees in the future. But generally, you know, generally our suppliers make sure that we're— if we're sending them business, they make sure that we get compensated for that.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I understand that.

We know how that works. Oh my gosh. Yeah, no, I totally don't think that's unreasonable. I mean, you're doing work and you should be paid for your work. I mean, in our industry, in real estate, people ask us to cut commissions and stuff all the time. I mean, that's just part of our— just our industry specifically. And so you have to navigate that, you know, have you worked with this person before? Have you never worked with them? Does it seem like it's going to be a difficult situation? You know, I mean, you just—

you—

it's got to be kind of a case-by-case thing. And so I don't think, um, it's unreasonable for you guys and your travel advocate or advisor industry to think that you should charge fees for that. It's a service just like anything else.

Yeah, and thank you for saying that. Like, a lot of the— a lot of the times the example that we give is real estate agents. Or, um, you know, actually one of our— somehow one of our biggest competitors lately has been like, uh, the big box stores like Costco and Sam's. Um, and they are— they're able to offer things that, that the little guys like myself just flat out can't offer.

Right.

Um, you know, are you going to be able to save some money going through them? There's really decent chance that the answer to that is yeah, absolutely. Um, I can't match the onboard credit that Costco and Sam's are going to offer you. Like, I can't offer you $800 worth of onboard credit strictly because that's probably like 90 to 95% of my commission. Like, just on, you know, just on the cruise. However, our value in this industry really is our knowledge and our availability. So let's say that you're in Miami and you're getting ready to board onto a DCL, which is Disney Cruise Line, and something happened and they can't confirm your confirmation number, or they're saying that your travel documents are invalid. I guess you're gonna have to call Costco and hope that that person on the other end has been on a Disney cruise and is, you know, available to help you get on that ship before it sails off. You know, I make myself available to my clients pretty much 24/7 when they travel. Everything from, hey, I forgot baby wipes. Like, can I— where do I buy those in the park? To, hey, the transportation that we set up to get us back to the airport for our return flight, like, they're not here. What do we do? So, you know, I'm a phone call or a text message away. And my favorite little visual is there's like this episode of The Office where two of the characters are going in and they're selling, they're trying to convince this guy to like not take their contract over to like Office Depot or something. And Dwight takes out his phone, puts it on speaker and calls the customer service line. At Office Depot. And the entire time that he's telling him how important you are to us as a client, like Office Depot hasn't even picked up yet.

Right?

Yeah.

So it's, it's really that personalized one-on-one service. Like, I care about your vacation. I want you to have these amazing memories that like I didn't really get to have as a kid. Like, I know the importance and the struggle of, of getting to the point where you can say, I can take my kids to go do this, or I can finally surprise my best friend with the bachelorette party of her dreams, or, you know, all kinds of stuff. Like, I, I get so invested in my clients' vacations. I get so excited when they get checked in and I'm like, oops, I'm going to go to the park tomorrow. Like, that's to me, that's really the biggest difference is I'm available and I'm here for you and I want to help you and I'm not just sitting in some call center, you know?

Right. No, I love it. No, I mean that, I, like I said, we, I, I have never had a travel agent and never worked with them, didn't know what they did, so it wasn't really sure how you would utilize one. So if I was someone who's thinking of a vacation that I want to take with my kids and my family, uh, what would a typical, like, if I wanted to give you a call, what would it, would it, what information would you need, like for us to be prepared in order to have that conversation with you?

Sure.

So I just usually need to know how many people are going to be traveling, if any of them are under the age of 18. I need to know their ages when you're going to travel. And a lot of that has to do with, you know, fire marshal regulations and resorts and things like that. But also because Sometimes if your little one is little enough, they are a guest of Mickey and they don't have to have a park ticket. And so that will save you a pretty penny or lots and lots and lots of pretty pennies depending on how many, you know, how long you're looking to go. But, you know, so yeah, so I need to know number of travelers, ages if they're under 18. Do you have a time of year that you're looking to travel? Like, do you have a very set, a very specific set of dates, or are you kind of like, I just know that we wanna go at some point in the next, like, 8 months? You know, just tell me those kinds of things. And I can usually, usually look around at some different options and find out, you know, what's gonna be the best option for you. If you have a budget, it's great to let me know what your ideal budget would be. My little asterisk with that though, I think would be just know that Mickey is magic. I'm not. The cost is the cost. You know what I mean? Like, I'm able to keep track of current promotions and apply those to your trip. Like if you've already booked, as long as you're not paid in full, excuse me, I can go in and apply those promotions to your trip. I've saved, you know, I love making that phone call like, hey, I found a promo. Oh, guess what? We just saved like, you know, $800 or what have you. But, you know, a lot of people actually know exactly what resort they want to stay at. Like, my best friend is obsessed with Port Orleans, Wow. French Quarter. Sorry, we just stayed at Riverside last week and there's two Port Orleans and I can't ever remember where was— where did I stay and what's her favorite. She loves Port Orleans French Quarter. I'm a Grand Floridian girl, but I also have a friend that's a teacher that they just stayed at All-Star Music and it's— she was completely jazzed about it and kind of deep dive slightly, like there's those, those resorts that I just named are all different levels of resorts at Disney. So you've got your value resort, your moderate resort, and your deluxe level resort. And so those are gonna have different, different amenities, different locations around the property, different room sizes, different theming, different decor, different price points.

Got it.

So, you know, when you're looking to travel, like if you have a preferred resort or like a resort level that you'd like to stay at, that would be great for me to know. And I want to know if you're celebrating anything. Like, are we celebrating a graduation? Or maybe you're planning on popping the question while you're there. Or maybe we've got a birthday, you know, or maybe we're just celebrating life, like just the fact that we can all, you know, be together again and all these like fantastic things. Um, you know, let me, let me know what we're celebrating. Uh, and usually from there I can, uh, I can take it and build us like a skeleton quote with a couple of options. And then from there I generally like to schedule some sort of consultation, right? So like either a phone call, a Zoom meeting, um, just something so that we can kind of go over the finer details of, of the quote. I don't like to send over quote that's more than like maybe 4 or 5 pages. Because honestly, like, that's, I think that's really overwhelming. Like, maybe that might be my, like, my ADD, you know, I can't focus on anything longer than that without feeling super overwhelmed. So, you know, I like to try to walk my clients or potential clients through their quote so that I can answer questions as they go and make sure that we've got the right fit as far as like a resort is concerned. We've got enough park tickets. To satisfy what their goals for the vacation are. And then usually after that, we place the $200 deposit. And then from there, we kind of plan out the finer details of the vacation. So dining options. I help my clients look at flights, but I don't book flights. But I love to find a deal. So I'm more than happy to send you that text message. It's like, I found a $40 flight out of Austin.

Book it now.

But yeah, so really until that 60-day mark where we can start booking dining and experiences, and then again at the 30-day mark, which is when the final balance is due, you know, it's kind of, kind of, I'm here to answer your questions and make sure that we're happy and ready to go.

Got it. So typically, so from my understanding, you need at least, it sounds like, 90 to 60 days prior to you want to leave in order to kind of get those experiences booked and set, right? Is that what I'm understanding?

Preferably, yeah.

Okay. Yeah.

Great. So with Disney, they used to give us, we used to be able to start looking at pricing and booking like 499 days in advance. Now they've kind of gone to this model where they release all of the room and package pricing in June at some point. It's kind of a surprise when they're actually going to release them. They usually tell us a couple of days in advance, and it's always funny watching myself and everyone else kind of go, "Oh, it's happening. It's happening. They're going to release it in like 2 days." But so, so like right now we could book anything for 2023 come June at some point. They'll drop the 2024 packages for Disney World and generally Disneyland as well. And we can start getting those booked. But we can always get a ballpark rough estimate for that 2024 timeframe too. So, but I mean, if you wanna travel, if you think like, you know, I think I wanna go to Disney World next weekend. I mean, we're, we may not get all of the like the preferred dining, but that's not to say it won't open up. In between now. So, you know, it's, it's kind of— it's your call.

I—

there's never a bad time to take a Disney or Universal vacation, honestly. Like, a bad day at Disney is still better than any day in the real world.

I love that, right?

I want to go to Disney.

Yeah, no, yeah, now I do too. Um, so since you obviously have traveled with your kids and you help people travel with their kids. I want to know if you have any kind of like traveling tips for our working moms, um, when they are traveling with kids, because I know it can be a little bit, uh, stressful at times. I know it has been for me.

So, girl, how much time do we have? Um, uh, had to chug the coffee just at the thought of like trying to keep all the kittens in the basket going through an airport.

Right.

My biggest advice is take the stroller. My oldest is 8 and she's, she's petite. She is very small. But we have never not used the stroller for her. She is, you know, like I said, she's 8. She's, she's a third grader. And by the end of the day, her legs are just spaghetti, like they're exhausted. And, you know, if you're going to Disneyland, that property is like, it's actually fairly small. But the Walt Disney World property is twice the size of Manhattan. Wow.

So, yeah.

Oh, I had no idea.

Me neither.

That's insane.

That's insane. Isn't it?

Isn't it? Yeah, it's— yeah, there's like millions of people that live in Manhattan. And then you look at Disney World and you're like, and let's multiply it. You know, it's— but you also have to think like it's home to 4 theme parks, more than 30 Disney-owned and operated resorts. Plus there are several other resorts that are, that are on the Disney World property. So we're— I'm going to say like 50-ish hotels. So close to 50,000 hotel rooms. There's also an open-air shopping area there's, uh, 2 water parks and there are 2 golf courses, 2 miniature golf courses. You know, I mean, it, it, it takes up a chunk of land. It's, it's, it's very spread out, but the property as a whole is twice the size of Manhattan, which to think of it in San Antonio terms, it's a 10th the size of our city.

Oh, wow.

So, um, take the stroller. Yeah, like, yeah. But if you do—

I'm going to need one, I think, for myself.

I'm going to get on the railing and pull it for myself.

So we were there. We were actually at Walt Disney World last week. And during the fireworks show at Magic Kingdom, my kids were standing up and like looking around and I was like, ooh, they're not sitting in it. I went and sat in the stroller. I mean, I'm not going to say that the frame didn't creak a little, but like it was worth it.

Oh, I love that. That's so funny.

I love it.

Yeah. And the thing too, specifically about strollers, is if you don't wanna travel with your stroller, you know, you can always rent them at the parks, like at the front of each park. I have also got some great connections where we can rent strollers that where they'll bring it to you, to your resort so that you don't have to worry about leaving the stroller at the parks each night because you can't really take the park strollers back to your resort. But if we rented through a third-party vendor, you know, they're going to bring it to you. You know, it's taken care of because a lot of the vendors that I prefer to use are also mom-owned and operated. You know, they're taking care of them and they're not just like tossing them in the, you know, dusty old garage, blowing off the cobwebs when you contact them. You know, so if you don't want to take your own stroller, we can, we can source one for you. Um, my personal favorite is the, uh, GB Pocket Stroller, and it looks like a super unimpressive, like, little umbrella stroller. It folds up to fit in a backpack. It, like, it weighs like less than 5 pounds. We bought 2 of them, and I— that is I live and die by that thing. Like, they're, they're perfect. We just fold them up when we get back to the resort room each night and put them in one of the drawers. And I love not losing a pinky toe to kicking a giant stroller in my room at night.

Well, Erika, did you know you could rent strollers? I had no idea. No, I mean, out of being— my, my kids are now teenagers, so it's been a little while since I've had a stroller, but I didn't know it was a thing.

Yeah, me neither. I guess you can rent everything now.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm like, uh, you know, and even here in San Antonio, I've got, I've got a friend that does, um, uh, like baby equipment rentals and stuff so that you can— yeah, so that you don't have to like bring your pack and play with you. Um, she does strollers, she's got like little like toys, like you can, you literally can rent anything.

Wow.

Um, the other advice that I would give to parents that are traveling is, um, Apple AirTag. So, oh yeah, like it's, it's, it was shocking to me how accurate they are. My, my 4-year-old son is very go, go, go. And there is no tired like Disney tired. And sometimes, you know, you're standing there helping one kid and the other kid's like, ooh, shiny, and just walks off. And the Apple AirTag, you can buy these little attachments on, you know, I, I bought them on Amazon, um, but you can get like a little attachment piece and you can clip it like inside their shorts. Um, we wove his through the laces on his tennis shoe. Um, and then that the, the AirTag fell out at one point when, when we traveled last, and, uh, it, it popped up on my phone and said like, oh hey, your kid is, is no longer with you, or like this Apple AirTag that you named after your child is no longer with you. And I looked and I was like, I'm holding his hand though.

Where?

Oh, we lost the AirTag. It was in the gift shop at the resort. It tracked it down to within 12 inches of where the AirTag was sitting though.

Oh, wow.

It had been sitting there for like 2 hours.

Yeah.

So it like, if you, at Disney they call it like that your grownup got lost. So if your grownup gets lost, that AirTag is gonna be like a huge lifesaver just for like being able to kind of like reconnect families. And I know that, you know, when you're traveling, like pop that thing in your suitcase and that way if you're standing there at the luggage carousel waiting for your bag and it never shows up, you can at least see where it's at.

Wow. Yeah, no, that's, that's a good tip. It's kind of amazing that now we have technology for that kind of stuff. Yeah, but I know, I mean, I know that would put my mind at ease even. I mean, you hope you don't have to really use it, but if you know, if your kid does somehow walk away or whatever the circumstances are, that would make me feel better just even knowing it's there.

Yeah.

Yes. Yeah, 100%.

Okay, I have a question. I actually very, very soon will be traveling with my, my youngest, who's, uh, 13, with his class. We're actually doing a trip with his class, and it's where they, they actually have the— some of the students staying in one room and parents are going to stay in a different room. So this is the first time we won't be in the same hotel room, but on this obviously next to each other. Um, any tips on how not to lose stuff? Like, I, I'm trying to figure out, like, oh my God, there's going to be 3 or 4 boys in a room and all their stuff mixed together.

My, my middle school teacher brain is like going, ah. Um, so I— we love a checklist, right? Like, I, uh, I make checklists for everything. I have like color-coded Post-it notes and highlighters and all that stuff. However, I know that if I tried to give any of that to my kids, they're gonna color with the highlighters all over my checklists, and they're not gonna get utilized for what I intended them for. I think my best advice there would be download an app, or— and actually, you can even use the Notes app if you, if you have an Apple device. Yeah. You know, and you can go in and make like a little checklist. I make checklists for every single person that I'm traveling with. I like to print them out because I'm, you know, yeah, I am technically a millennial, but like I'm an elder millennial and I'm not a good one. I prefer pen and paper. And so I usually make everyone their own individual checklist when I take something out and like I'm packing, it gets a, like, a single line next to it. When we're coming back, or sorry, it gets a single line next to it. When it actually gets put into the suitcase, it gets highlighted. And then when we're coming back, you finish off that X on that checklist.

So you've accounted for it then.

Exactly. So that you can, you can visually identify, I know I brought this item. And I don't know about you, but sometimes I, I make all my packing piles with the intention of taking it all, but then it doesn't all go in the suitcase. So that, that extra step of like highlighting it once it's in the suitcase, like I can see, okay, I know that I grabbed it because I put the hash mark next to it. I know it got put into the suitcase at one point because it's highlighted.. And now I'm bringing it home with me and it's back in the suitcase. And now I can finish off that X. So each item has 3 steps to make sure that it gets taken from the house, utilized for transportation, and now we're taking it back home.

Got it. Well, I hadn't thought about the notes thing since he has an Apple phone as well. I could share the, the checklist so he can, when he's re— you know, when we're ready to leave, to make sure he has the items in the bag that we pack. 'Cause it's Yeah, it's a very long, it's gonna be a long 5 days.

We're really working on responsibility and personal accountability. And so what I did was I made her her checklist on my phone, like in the Notes app. I took a screenshot and texted it to her, and then I showed her how to do like the edit photo so that she could go in and like fill in the little bubble or draw a line through it and do those things. So that she could see what she had, you know, what she had pulled, what she had packed, and then what she needed to bring back. Um, but then that way she wasn't like accidentally deleting stuff and saying like, well, I don't know, I don't know where it went, I don't even know if it got taken to Florida.

Well, no, it's a great tip. Yeah, I was like, how am I gonna do this? Like, oh my goodness, because it's just, it's too much. First time being in a room without mom and dad, you know, trying to figure out how to make sure not to mix all their stuff up in the suitcases.

Exactly. Or can't— not being able to figure out, like, why do you have one shoe? Where is the other shoe?

Where's your shoe?

Yeah. Well, we always ask our guests on here what their favorite thing is about what they do. So now we wanna know what your favorite thing is.

My favorite thing is getting to work with my clients to make sure that they, that they get to make those memories. I think over the last several years, we as a society have really kind of refocused our priorities and we realize that, you know, time is precious and it's a gift. And, you know, sometimes you've just got to like eat the cookie, buy the shoes, take the vacation. And I like— I love being a part of that with, with as many different people as possible, whether it's, you know, one person looking to just have like a little weekend magical escape for themselves or a family of, you know, 15 all looking to kind of reconnect after some time apart. It's being able to be a small part of other people's memories. It's a really special it's a really special bond that I get to build with my clients, and I love getting to help them not only just with that initial vacation but with vacation time after time and year after year.

That's awesome. I love that. Yeah, so nice. Um, and then lastly, uh, if you just want to tell people how they can get in touch with you, um, for your services, and then we can put some of that information in our episode description as well.

Yeah, absolutely. So I am on social media. I'm on Facebook and Instagram, and I have a TikTok, but I don't know. I don't know what to do with it. So I'm on Instagram. I'm @vacationsworthmeltingfor. Facebook, you can, you can search for Vacations Worth Melting For or Magical Enchanted Vacation.

And—

yeah, sorry, Magical Enchanted Vacations with Farin. Um, my website is vacationsworthmeltingfor.com, and, uh, there's a, a link there that says, uh, like, let's work together, and that'll take you to like a little questionnaire so you can tell me kind of what, what your vacation goals are and really, you know, really what you're looking for. And you also have the option there of signing up for a, like, a consultation. Like, if you don't know what you're looking for and you don't know, like, what a reasonable budget might be, or, like, how many people can I even fit in a room, um, is, you know, what's the best time to go, those kinds of things. If you want to have a consultation, you can set that up, um, you know, through that link as well. And I've also got, uh, I've got a blog there. I've got, you know, some basic Q&A kind of things and all kinds of fun stuff.

Okay, yeah, perfect. So yeah, I mean, it sounds like you've got a number of ways for people to reach you, and that's awesome. Yeah, no, I know, believe me, I know how that goes. Um, yeah, okay, well, thank you so much for being a guest. I learned a lot of information about, um, travel advisors that I really never knew at all.

Yeah, thank you so much for having me. I really enjoyed it.

Yeah, definitely. And, and thank you to our listeners um, for tuning in to this episode. And I guess we'll just see all of you next week.

Next week, guys.

Bye!

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