In 2023 The Joy of Travel agents are taking 120+ customers on private, personally escorted tours of Ireland. 88 just returned, and rave reviews are pouring in.
“What’s so special about Ireland?” you ask.
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I’ve been in business since 2005 and have always had my fair share of romance travel bookings. Honeymoons, anniversaries, even a few destinations weddings here and there.
Looking at my statistics, I have never booked as many anniversary/honeymoon trips as I have in 2023. I see the same thing is happening across the board, will all of my agents.
Love is in the air.
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A hundred years ago, when I opened The Joy of Travel, you could travel to Mexico and the Caribbean with just a valid drivers license and your birth certificate. Remember those days?
We had charter flights from both TUL and OKC and when those weren’t full, boy oh boy, the last-minute deals really were a steal. Almost every trip I booked from 2005-2008 was traveling in 60 days or less.
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My oldest grandson graduated from High School. Has there ever been a better excuse for everyone to get together and celebrate? Especially on a fabulous beach attached to a gorgeous all-inclusive resort, right?
We had ages 11, 12, 18, two in their 30’s, one in his 40’s, one in his 50’s, three in their 60’s and one 70-year-old. 11 total. All coming to the experience with a different set of needs and expectations.
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Did you know The Joy of Travel began in a beautiful little two traffic light town in Eastern Oklahoma? That’s right. My hometown of
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Did you know there are incredible opportunities on European Rivers for as few as 3 nights?
I know all you hear about are the 7-10-14 night cruise options, but in an effort to be more accessible to more people, our favorite river cruise companies now offer shorter itineraries at some really enticing price points.
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Leopard, Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Rhino, Lion. Originally, they were the five most dangerous to hunt on foot. They tell us now that these are the five most endangered. (fyi the Maasai men are no longer required to kill a lion in order to prove their entrance into adulthood).
By February 15 we had seen hundreds if not thousands of four of the big five. Only the leopard had eluded us.
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We entered the Serengeti in one of the driest, most inhospitable areas we’d seen yet. Only Amboseli was dryer. Very little wildlife, a few Thompson and Grant gazelle’s. Very sparse vegetation. Not a tree in sight. If we had to slow down for a particularly rough spot the dust we were kicking up enveloped us. Our eyes and teeth were gritty.
But then, the magic. . .
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That’s what we said, and that’s what we did last week in Budapest. I hope you were following our social media pages and got to share in the adventure.
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Every single day we woke up, loaded up, and said “surely today is the day we will be disappointed” and at no time, on no day, did that prediction ever come true. Every single day was amazing and exciting in a new and unique way. The Ngorongoro Crater was no exception.
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On February 14th we left Lake Manyara an headed toward the Ngorongoro Crater. On the way, we stopped at the Tloma Primary School. This is a public, not a private, institution.
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As you know, we had already spent most of our tour on very rough dirt roads. But as we were leaving Amboseli, our driver/guides let us know we’d be crossing a dry lake bed this morning on our way to Tanzania, and then it was going to be the roughest road of the trip.
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