Holidays are already a stressful time in general. And if you’re traveling during the holidays, you’re likely to have some extra anxiety. From making sure flights are on time, re booking delayed or canceled flights, dealing with lost luggage or losing travel documents, sometimes the hassle doesn’t seem worth it.
Here are some ways to ensure an enjoyable travel experience so you can focus on what really matters this time of year.
-One great idea is to ship your gifts. With so many security regulations these days, you may have to unwrap your gifts to get through the security checkpoint. Plus, with many airlines having additional baggage fees, it may be cheaper to ship them to begin with. Many shoppers are turning to online stores and this time of year you can find a lot of free shipping deals. Rather than shipping gifts to your house, avoid the hassle altogether and ship them to your holiday destination.
-If you’re planning to fly, it might be a good idea to pack light and carry on your luggage. That way, you can avoid the possibility of losing your luggage, not have to bother with any additional baggage fees, save on check-in time and give yourself additional flexibility.
-So many travel problems occur when you miss your connection, get stuck in an unfamiliar city or have to rebook your flights. If you book a direct flight, you won’t have to worry about missing connecting flights and a good suggestion is to book the earliest departing flight possible.
-The day before and after a holiday are the most expensive times to travel. The reason for this is obviously because they are the busiest times as well. Allow for more flexibility with your travel dates so you can not only get a better deal, but also avoid the crowds.
- Rent a van and avoid the hassle of finding transportation around town. Just be sure to get a map of the city you are visiting so you’ll have a better idea of where you’re going. If possible, try to make car rental arrangements in advance.
-You’re always told to arrive at the airport early, but this statement is never more true than during holiday travel. With the added crowds, it’s important to arrive at least two hours before your departure time to allow for waiting at security checkpoints.
-Don’t forget to bring any important phone numbers that will help with your travel. For emergencies, it’s always important to bring the phone numbers of family members, but don’t forget the number for your travel agent, airline, rental car company or anyone else who may be able to help relieve headaches along the way.
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“It’s really complicated, sitting at your desk, discreetly trying to arrange to get the car towed into the dealer or trying to order a part,” he said in a recent phone interview. “Stepping out into a hallway or trying to find a conference room… kind of took all the fun out of it.”
Fuller, now 33, sold his Ferrari and in March 2003 pioneered (according to him) the business of exotic-car timeshares. As the president of Club Sportiva, which has six locations in the U.S. and Europe, he supervises more than 200 members, who save tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars each by sharing luxury cars, sports cars and exotic cars, rather than buying them.
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Demand is increasing for alternatives to traditional ownership of high-end cars. Membership clubs and organizations offering fractional luxury-car ownership are in their infancy, as are agencies that rent new-model supercars, but they are expanding.
More and more exotic-car drivers are finding they don’t spend enough time in their cars to justify owning them year-round and paying six-figure prices. If you’re a Manhattan executive with a Lamborghini, you probably don’t drive it to work each day. You might only use it on vacation. Or maybe you only bring out your Rolls-Royce. These are the kind of folks signing up.
Another advantage of membership clubs is that instead of having to choose which car to buy, you can get a variety of different vehicles delivered in the course of a year.
“It’s a bit of an addictive thing,” said Fuller. “Once you’ve driven a Ferrari and a Bentley and a Lamborghini and a Porsche, you ask, ‘What’s next on my hit list?’ ”
Ron Van Horssen, chairman of Phoenix’s Van Horssen Group membership club, agrees. In a recent phone interview, Van Horssen, 55, said, “The time is right for people to rethink how they’re enjoying the latest cars. The cars are depreciating assets, so there’s no reason to own them–fractionally or otherwise. But there are a lot of reasons to enjoy them and compare them.” (He did, however, state that “if you’re going to use it for more than 100 days, it’s going to be more cost-effective for you to buy the car.”)
Despite Van Horssen’s assertions of the superiority of membership clubs, George Kiebala, who says he pioneered fractional car ownership with Chicago-based Curvy Road, argues that fractional ownership offers a richer experience, in which you don’t have to worry about whether you have bought or accrued enough “membership points” to take advantage of all your club has to offer. Membership clubs often have different tiers you can buy into–buy a mid-level membership package, and you won’t have access to the club’s hottest vehicles.
Both membership clubs and fractional-ownership plans offer several advantages that traditional ownership does not. For traditional owners, exotic cars are expensive to own, store and maintain. And they depreciate, something that isn’t a big worry for sharers or fractional owners. With these alternatives, the parent companies change the shared vehicles’ oil, detail them, give them other maintenance and deliver them to you with full tanks of gas, so you’re always getting into cars that feel clean and new.
Membership clubs are also just that–clubs, with group activities. Club Sportiva recently took some members on a four-day tour of the Swiss Alps. They arranged hotels, airfare and dinners for its members and their spouses. On Nov. 17, several Club Sportiva members will travel to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where they will get to drive a million-dollar Formula 1 race car. This summer, Van Horssen Group members took a six-day tour of the best fly-fishing spots in the Rocky Mountains.
Fuller believes that membership clubs are superior to fractional-ownership plans, because they offer a variety of vehicles for you to drive, as opposed to partial ownership of one car. However, Curvy Road says that it should be able to arrange for its vehicle owners to swap cars as they wish.
The slide show should help you determine which alternative to ownership is right for you. Kiebala says Curvy Road is the only place offering fractional exotic-car ownership, but membership clubs are on the rise. Fuller says that in the last 12 months, around six competitors to Club Sportiva have appeared.
The slide show focuses on new-model cars. And an organization’s “location,” as listed there, usually indicates the center of a 50- to 100-mile area in which deliveries are available. For example,Image Rent-a-Car is based in Brooklyn, N.Y. and serves New York, New Jersey, Connecticut , Pennsylvania and Miami Orlando Ft Lauderdale West Palm Beach Florida.
Get to know your delivery people. Once you get used to having clean, detailed, new exotic models at your service, you’ll want to test all the models you possibly can.
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