Finally back to civilisation. My 2 weeks of cruising around the Med was supposed to be about having a break and relaxing. It was a good holiday but for the money it cost it disappointed in so many ways. Just enough to say that “the cruise for people who don’t do cruises” is in fact nothing more than just another “cruise for people who do cruises”. I’ve never seen so many walking sticks and wheelchairs in my life, not to mention a lack of sport or activity of any type! I went away expecting fun days out and nights at the bar and got a boat full of geriatrics and non stop lounge music. Not only that but we came home to a flooded kitchen and the need to pay for plumbers, electricians, decorators and a new toilet, never again! Amongst all this doom and gloom (and throwing good money after bad) there was some good news though, content – and plenty of it.
No matter where we travel to in the world there always seems to be a lack of real information online. I’m not talking about holiday reviews, there are thousands of them. I’m talking about real factual information and maps, exactly the sort of thing that you pick up once you are there. This makes it very hard to make a plan in advance.
Thousands of people are searching for this type of information daily during the summer. Because of this I always make a point of picking up as many leaflets as I can. Even something as simple as a map of a town when posted online can become a great piece of link bait – I always do this after every holiday and it usually goes down a treat. What’s even better is if you’re travelling on a package holiday they tend to give you free flyers about the most popular sites around – all free of any sort of copyright. With a minimal amount of tweaking you have oodles of free unique content just waiting to be published online. During our cruise we stopped at 10 different ports so as you can imagine I’ve got piles of the stuff.
So that’s what I’ll be busy with for the next couple of weeks at least, with any luck I’ll be able to get back some of the money we’ve just spent.
3 Responses to “Holidays – Not Worth The Trouble But A Great Source Of Content”
Deneil Merritt
June 20, 2009
Welcome back, good to see you are already in entrepreneur mode. Keep us updated on how it goes with making some of the money back you spent on your trip.
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|Thai
June 21, 2009
Good to have you back. Was the food on the cruise at least good?
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|Paul B
June 22, 2009
The food was brilliant, as were the staff – absolutely faultless. Even the boat itself was very nice, it was just our fellow guests that put a dampner on it for us (and anybody else under the age of 70!) I’ve managed to put on 10 pounds in 2 weeks so that says it all really!
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