So to help feed our NEED to travel, this weekend we visited the Destinations Holiday & Travel Show in London. Having prepared ourselves to come back with pockets stuffed with rolled up brochures from the show we set off on our way Saturday morning! This is our first travel show we have been to and had been given complimentary tickets from Titan Travel (cheers guys!) – we wasn’t 100% sure what we would gain if anything, but we were in for a treat…
If any of you haven’t yet visited a travel show before then from our experiences it’s definitely worth your time. Not only will you be tempted to just book any flight and see where you would end up, but you’ll have gained inspiration from hundreds of travel agents and tour guides. We have learnt a lot about where we want to go and how we go about making that become reality. After filling out dozens upon dozens of competition forms, even we are starting to feel lucky we’ll hopefully win one of them right? 😉
We found there was so much to see and do along with a great amount of variety. We even managed to find ourselves sponsoring a tree that’ll be planted in our honour, thanks to the Woodland Trust – How awesome is that?!
A visit to the travel show wouldn’t be complete without experiencing the ‘Taste the World’ stands where we were able to try out some of the World’s incredible flavours and sensations. This included us trying for the first time: Reindeer Sausages, Thai Curry Crickets, Giant Toasted Leafcutter Ants and more! There were a few moments were we looked down to see what we would be eating and hesitated, but mind over matter and we did it! 😀 – can I just say, the reindeer sausages were just incredible!
One important thing we have learnt from the travel show is that the majority of stands have reduced prices. Now whether you are looking for a simple holiday or a once in a life time experience, this is definitely a major plus in anyones book. We will be going back to this show next year as it was so good to us, and hopefully it’ll be just as good to you!
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We’ve never been to a travel show before…is that bad?! Sounds like a great way to spend a day. I love the sounds of reindeer sausage too 🙂
Cheers!
It’s never a bad thing! We’ve not yet been round the world (fully) 🙂 It gave a huge amount of inspiration on top of what we already have! It’s a great way to spend the day (especially in typical British weather)
The reindeer sausage.. so tasty, I feel bad for Santa 😉
I’ve never been to a travel show before, didn’t really know they existed to be honest, do they have many of them in the UK?
Sounds like you had a great day – apart from eating crickets and ants!
Hi Catherine,
If you are living in the UK you should be able to find quite a few throughout the year. (I’m sure other countries must offer the same)
The next show we were looking at going to was the TNT Travel Show in London. They are great places to get massive reductions off the brochure prices, experts giving seminars and most importantly everyone there have the same interests as you do… travel! 😀
Awesome review of the show. The food looks interesting at best though 😛
Amazing post 🙂 its good to spend some time traveling to world’s best destinations and i really enjoy reading views on travel trips just like i did while reading yours 🙂 keep up the good work!