Question about travelling...

[Mavrick]

When you plan a trip, what exactly do you do (and for which kind of trip)?

I.e.: do you look up on the Internet for hotels , get information about the region you're visiting from the state tourism office, get information on the region by reading people's adventures and anectodes on the Internet, get information on the region by talking to people from that region on ATOT?

Also, do you usally travel the "rich way" (by plane, comfortable hotel in downtown all booked up, seeing main tourist attractions and doing the main tourist activities (city tour, photo escapade...)) or do you travel the "alternative way" (train, busses or car, using municipal public transportation, sleeping in campings or low quality hotels, roam around in the city trying to find some nice places that are definitely not intented for tourists, talk to a lot of "ordinairy" people in the region you're visiting to make contact with new people...)?

Anyway, I'm more of the ATOT type that travels the "alternative way", and most people I know seems to be more of the "tourism agency" type travelling less often, but more in the "rich way". I just wanted to know if I'm the only one like I am

 

[amnesiac]

wtf

You don't have to be "Rich" to have a vacation that doesn't involve sleeping in your car and raiding dumpsters for food.

Hotwire for hotel + discount coupon for dinner

 

[Mavrick]

I know you don't have to be rich to travel comfortably.

I'm just saying that I sincerely prefer to travel the "alternative way" instead of the "usual way". I'd like to know if other people around here are like that.