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But The closer to home you stay,
the better control you have over transportation and you will be able to keep
the destination a secret until you are THERE.
That has its advantages! Here are some things to consider as you plan the
trip: Ø
If you are
making travel arrangements, try to have confirmations come to your office and
phone calls coming to your cell phone or to your office phone, so you don’t
spoil the surprise. Ø
If you need
them, be sure you have passports because if you don’t, then you will have to
spoil at least that much of the surprise to get your partner to renew or get
their passport for your trip out of the country. Ø
Check the
weather and the ‘high season’ for other countries and tourist resorts to be
sure that your low priced vacation is not low priced because you are going
during the rainy or snowy season! Ø
Be sure your
partner is free to go during the time you are booking the trip. Make certain they don’t have a big project
coming up or that the trip doesn’t fall during school when they cannot
leave. You
can call a co-worker or their boss and get them in on the secret so that you
may not even have to tell your partner they are taking vacation time. You will just whisk them away! Ø
If you are
planning to tell your partner about the trip, you can still keep much of the
trip secret and not reveal all of your special plans. Tell them as little as possible and they will
really appreciate the trip. They
will be telling friends and family about just how it happened for weeks and
months after the trip is finished. Ø
Be sure you plan
to accommodate travelers cheques, clothes (if you are packing for your partner)
and other things you’ll need on the trip. Ø
Take along your
‘tools of the trade’, or know where you can buy them. Things like candles, lingerie, massage oil, a
CD of love songs and a portable CD player, fancy clothes for that dinner
dancing you plan to do in
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