Detailed planners: Have you ever regretted booking in advance?
My folks are the go-with-the-flow type. They went to Europe for a year without a clue what to do and just winged every step. But the spontaneity gene seems to have skipped a generation.
My first few trips overseas I planned everything down to a T and followed those plans pretty religiously unless I got sick (not hour-by-hour, but I knew which cities I was going to be in, for how long, and the general things I wanted to see). For subsequent trips, I've tried to be a bit more spontaneous by booking the first week and winging the rest. I've normally found that I don't do nearly as much as when I pre-plan and sometimes feel bored or frustrated when I need to spend evenings figuring out what to do the next day, where to go next, what hostel/hotel to stay at etc.
I'm now planning a 2 month trip around Europe and I feel pre-booking 2 months in advance is extreme, but I still want to get the most out of this trip. It's also often significantly cheaper to book in advance and some activities need to be pre-booked (like the Villa Borghese in Rome, or seeing Da Vinci's Last Supper in Milan).
So a question for the detailed planners among us - have you ever regretted booking all your stops in advance? Have you wanted to spend more time somewhere, less in others but felt you couldn't because you'd be wasting a lot of money or miss out on something else you have planned?
Submitted January 08, 2019 at 02:24AM by geek-in-training http://bit.ly/2LVdACs
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