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I have my particular ways when traveling.

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I have my particular ways when traveling.

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I plan my travels like my organization style. 

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I plan my travels like my organization style. 

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I use Google Maps to help me refine my travel spots during the trip.

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I use Google Maps to help me refine my travel spots during the trip.

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I heavily rely on Google Maps during my traveling.

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I heavily rely on Google Maps during my traveling.

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I use Google Maps to save important travel spots.

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I use Google Maps to save important travel spots.

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I enjoy exploring options during the trip itself for something low stakes.

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I enjoy exploring options during the trip itself for something low stakes.

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I strive for efficiency during my traveling.

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I strive for efficiency during my traveling.

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I have specific destinations in mind when I travel.

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I have specific destinations in mind when I travel.

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I need to decide before starting to plan.

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I need to decide before starting to plan.

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I have no major preference for where we stay as long as they can meet my requirements.

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I have no major preference for where we stay as long as they can meet my requirements.

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I want to stay somewhere that accommodates my family.

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I want to stay somewhere that accommodates my family.

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I use what's available to me to plan my trip.

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I use what's available to me to plan my trip.

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I spend a lot of time researching for my trip.

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I spend a lot of time researching for my trip.

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I start my research using different media

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I start my research using different media

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"I don't want to waste time trying to figure out our day when we get there. If I don't plan it, it's not going to get done."

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"Our food is more spontaneous. We don't really know. Unless someone tells us there's a place to eat - that's the only time we make plans to eat at a certain place."

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"One time [my husband] had to turn on international minutes on his phone to receive a text message on our trip."

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"We rent a pocket wifi before we leave." So that they have connectivity to the internet during their trip to use Google Maps on her phone.

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"Google Maps is literally our compass, our lifeline."

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Because of the pins on her Google Map, it's easier for her to route her travel whether walking, by train, taxi, etc.

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"I google on my computer but I'm on my phone saving [pinning] the place on my Google Maps [app]."

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She tries to see if there's some kind of festival or event. Whatever day the event is, that dictates what area they're going that day.

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"We don't want to have to backtrack to the same place [on another day]."

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Depending on where they're going, everything in the same area will be done in a day. That's one of the reasons why she maps out her trip.

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To take it one step further. She makes a spreadsheet to plan out the days by general area of the city.

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"I never do this on a computer. I do this on my phone because we're going to use our phone later."

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She'll have Google Maps on her phone and save the spots of the places that they want to go to.

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"I just use google to start, honestly. Something will come up. I'll just dig around a website that pops up."

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"Usually when we go, we like to time it to some kind of event going on." Such as cherry blossom, wisteria, fall colors, etc. They plan a trip around something like that.

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"We usually use hotels.com but we have to book with free cancel [because of our standby flights]."

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Because it's standby, they're constantly checking to see if there's seats available for the flight. "We have a plan but also need a Plan B and Plan C."

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There's a special website to book their friends and family flight for Hawaiian Airlines.

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Since her husband Garrett works for Hawaiian Airlines, they figure out where does Hawaiian fly. Then which flights are open. Then check the dates and seat count (because they would fly standby).

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Directly reaches out to people if she sees that they are traveling to a place she has been before.

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Likes to archive her travel information and share it with others

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In case a plan doesn't go through, KV likes to look up what is nearby that area so that the commute time was not wasted.

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During the trip, KV spends a lot of time on her phone looking through Google Maps, including copying and pasting new locations she discovers during the trip

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Wants to optimize her time during trips

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During planning: "I think my favorite part is making it as efficient as possible."

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Planning ahead gives KV anxiety

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Spends on average a couple of weeks to plan her trips. Around an hour a day to look up things to do.

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KV compiles her own list with lists that her friends give her

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KV's friends give her nice list of recommendations usually

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"I will generally like go to my social media networks or mediums and then I will try to think about like okay, based off like the pictures that I seen recently... they've gotten to that place so then I'll reach out to them via like messenger or direct or DM"

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When traveling with friends, they divvy up responsibilities with travel planning

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Regarding finding lodging: "I just make it very generalized and just go with the best deal"

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Lodging is the last thing she researches

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"I check like the weather religiously, up until the day that I go, so I can get a better idea of like, okay, I have like these outdoor areas that I want to go to I should go on this day because it's most likely to be sunny"

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Books tickets through an app that compares prices

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Uses Excel sheet to log places she wants to eat, areas to stay, areas to stay away from

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"Last minute traveler" - plans at most 3 months in advance

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"I will definitely start hitting up friends that have been to the area before, and then I'll generate a list"

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Looks at pictures of the location to see if they offer what she is looking for.

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Sets address in Google Maps and looks around the map for something general

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"I grouped together weather and maps together because like I plan my trips according to the weather"

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"I always default going to Google Maps"

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Looks up Instagram or restaurant websites

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"I am a very organized person."

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Things to do again next time -- stored away in head.

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Schedule revolves around the things to do for that particular day

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Uses the research as an outline to tackle 1-2 things to do per day

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Research for about 4-5 hours per trip

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"I love planning for trips. It's one of my favorite parts."

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"I have a printed itinerary. We're all not tech savvy like others."

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"We want to just go with the flow. And not just wing it... but know what we want to do and just go."

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"You lose a day when going to Japan. So we plan for the next day. We plan to check in and eat for the first day when we get there. What's around the area? What can we do? How can we get there?"

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"I also do research by word of mouth; from family and friends who went to Japan. Of what to see, where to go, and what to do."

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"Wedding planners will tell you this, this, and this. But I want the same thing in a travel planner just for me."

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"We don't want to stay in the boonies or anywhere far away from everything."

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"I think we're thinking of staying at a BnB because there's so many of us going on this trip. Our family is big and we need to find something that can house all of us or at least have us all close by."

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I want to go to the Hello Kitty store and Don Quijote. I heard it's pretty big over there."

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"I google what hotel should we stay."

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'We do some research watching the TV shows, DokoGa TV and Ultimate Japan on OC16. It's local travel shows where they take a tour of different places in Japan. They show eating and shopping places, and castles."

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"We want to go to Tokyo Disney and Tokyo [Disney]Sea. And also shopping and food. We want to ride the bullet train, too."

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"I want to make an itinerary of things of what we want to see, where we want to go, and what we want to do."

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"I guess couple months or three months before May [the trip] to decide if going to Japan. It's a choice between NY/Boston or going to Japan."

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"We didn't even get our passports yet, though. If we go Japan, this would be our first international trip."

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"How do I know where to look to book day tours? Where am I supposed to look? Where can I find this stuff? How am I going to find that out?"

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"What I want is for people to tell me go here this day, go there that day, etc. Or go here on this day because it's less crowded. That would make my life/planning much easier and less headache for me."

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"When we decide, we figure out what are we going to do. What is there to do there?"

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"We decide as a family if we're going to go anywhere. The only time we travel is when AJ [son] has volleyball."

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"I don't know if we want to go with a tour company for our first time in Japan. I don't know where to start. Who do we contact?"

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"How can I get the most time and some place without using too much vacation time?"

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"Should I be driving, flying? Where should I stay?"

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"What are they known for so that I can also experience that during my trip?"

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"What would be relaxing and low stress?"

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Likes to read travel books - will go to the library to find travel books

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Likes to look up different media sources to find places to eat (i.e. top 10 blogs)