On the Saturday, September 5th, 2015 edition of The Travel Guys… Do you own a time share? Are you thinking about buying one? Might you someday be susceptible to one of those fast-paced sales pitches while on vacation and find yourself the not-so-proud owner of one of those lovely time shares? What happens when you get older and the time share bills keep coming?
If you have pondered even one of those questions, you have come to the right travel show. This week, The Travel Guys focus on time shares. Tom and Mark, regretfully as you'll come to find out, each own one. Gwen Duncan, our Deal of the Week Gal, is also a time share owner (two in fact, she'll explain). In a spirited conversation, Mark, Tom and Gwen discussed the advantages and the disadvantages of time share ownership.
Then, at the bottom of the hour, we are joined by Jeff Weir. Jeff is a reporter, and regularly writes for a time share resale site,
www.redweek.com. Jeff offers you some terrific information to make you a smarter buyer (and seller) of a time share. He tells us all about the "secondary" market and explains how the value of some time share units has fallen to zero.
Mark has the Travel News, and as always, you'll find lots of links to things from the show below. Spend a few minutes looking around the home page here, and see if you don't find at least one or two items that will make you a smarter traveler and your next trip a little easier.
On the Sunday, August 30th, 2015 edition of The Travel Guys… This week on The Travel Guys, we take you live to Jamaica to the Sandals Resort, where Gwen Duncan will tell you all about all inclusive resorts. What are the advantages and disadvantages of all-inclusive packages? Are they really a good deal?
Next up is Ryan Quinn of Outdoorsy. It's a brand new company wanting to be part of the "sharing economy." Have an RV sitting in your driveway most of the year? Now you can rent it to someone who doesn't want to own one, just play in an RV from time to time. Outdoorsy is the company that brings RV owners and RV renters together.
Finally, we take you to Pacifica. An often missed bedroom community of San Francisco, Pacifica is a delightful spot on the ocean just minutes south of The City. Reasonably priced accommodations and restaurants make Pacifica a place you should put on your travel list.
Posted Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 The islands of Hawaii are a popular vacation destination for travelers from California. Recently, Mark made a trip to the islands of Kauai and Oahu, to plan an upcoming Sports Leisure Vacations trip. In the course of his travels, with staffer/Travel Guys Reporter Chris Galloway, they discovered a host of wonderful new and different attractions in the islands. Chris even made a side trip to the island of Molokai, to visit the former leper colony at Kalaupapa. If you are planning a trip to Hawaii anytime soon, you are bound to get some great ideas for things to do. Things a bit out of the ordinary.
Burning Man is an annual event in the Nevada desert. This year's event will be attended by 70,000 and when it's over, you won't know they were there. Hear the fascinating story of this unique gathering from someone who attends every year, and listen as she shares how Burning Man has made her life just a bit different.
In the Travel News we answer the question, will Air B-N-B be the death of hostels around the country/world? We've also got the updated fall promotions from Starwood Hotels and National Car Rental.
On the Saturday, August 15th, 2015 edition of The Travel Guys… When you needed a new passport, or to renew your current one, where did you go? Google "passports" and take it from there? Did you know you can apply for a passport at Sacramento's main library? And that you can do in on selected evenings and on Sundays? We have all the details.
In one of our entertainment segments, Tom and Steve LaRosa have an interview with Richie Furay, who will be appearing at Harlow's this Friday, August 21st. He was one of the founding members of Buffalo Springfield, the band that also included Stephen Stills and Neil Young. Richie then went on to form the seminal country rock band, Poco with Jim Messina. It's a fascinating bit of rock and roll history.
Cincinnati has one of the country's best Oktoberfest celebrations, and we talk a little about some of the crazy events that are part of the fun in our Saved The Best For Last segment. During the weekend of Oktoberfest, Downtown Cincinnati is transformed into a colorful Bavarian village as the event features more than 90 booths serving up authentic German food, beer, wine, soft drinks and souvenirs. Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati also features authentic German entertainment on eight stages and is home to the World Brat Eating Championship, the World’s Largest Chicken Dance, the Running of the Wieners, the Gemuetlichkeit Games, the Stein Hoist Championship, and the Tug of War Tournament.