Shloimie Litzman Traveling the World creates Harmony!!

okay good morning everybody i am my name is shlomi litzman i am one of the organizers and co-founders with of kashinovshi as a baker being lubavitch my whole life but uh what we call the jewish peace corps i traveled extensively throughout the world to help shlokham in activities there was a period when i was uh 22 to 24 i traveled non-stop almost globally for two years straight crisscrossing the globe and uh almost every other that came up to help shulham and as uh at 15 i already went 1985 already went to learn new shalin yeshiva i had that always that travel bug and always had an interest in seeing the world and what's out there and the curiosity and i've had a channel that i channeled it my energies to for positive things little did i know that uh davis there has uh you know your your expertise could come to use and uh future on in life so for those of you that are new to coming here for the shabbaton i want to personally welcome everyone it means a lot to us um a lot a lot of work goes into this thousands and thousands of hours of planning and um we appreciate people come and this is voluntary work no one no one takes a salary no one gets paid for anything and the countless people have just regular jobs that they work but it means so much to me to see parents come and get hezek which i know is so important because i'm a departure too with with two children the reason what travel sounds a little like travel what what does travel have anything to do with anything of kashanovshi or the shabbaton what's where does this come into play and very briefly because i have a slide one of the things that we learned is a regular person goes on vacation i mean it's not no one looks at you like you're crazy because you went to florida when you had time off from your work or whatever with your family without the bonding experience to travel with your child the struggling child is even more so very very powerful they open up to you they're relaxed just like when we go on vacation we're relaxed they have a lot going on just like we have a lot going on and i found tremendous tremendous healing with taking them away more on a one-on-one basis versus you know it's nice to go with a whole family but we're all busy mothers fathers we're busy in our lives and when we're just there one-on-one we have that attention for them and we're able to really focus with them and just let them speak and let them be themselves and non-judgmental chilled environment and they really kind of shed some of that exterior and you can learn tremendous amounts what you want to know and they'll open up to you and you know takes time to build a relationship nothing happens over a day but it's very very healing so i belong to a group of parents support group twisted parenting and we have hundreds of families that are in this group so i kind of got morphed into they call me a travel agent and disclaimer i'm not a travel agent i don't work for anyone i got paid for anything and i volunteer my services to help people plan trips you have people that have never been on an airplane that could be 40 years old plus you have they just have no clue now where do i go what do i do how do i travel just very basics and you have people more advanced that a lady called me up i want to go to puerto rico and um the hotel's like a few 400 a night i said do you by any chance have any points from credit cards uh i have no idea let me ask my husband he has 600 thousand points he can literally fly business class around the world maybe a couple times and she had no idea so i saved her thousands of dollars and helping her plan a trip i do this strictly for hessed i do this strictly for this purpose only i don't know you know people calling i want to go on a family vacation on column wide that's not what i'm here for you know but i'm i'm happy to help people and i literally spent hundreds of hours my daughters helped me she's been amazing i know she spoke at the shabbaton shop this afternoon so i just want to like give a quick overview of uh of some ideas of of what you can do so the first basic of uh covet covert guidelines now into the covet error traveling became a lot more um challenging [Music] so the guidelines vary by state by state and a lot of states are more liberal as florida arizona less than a masking there more so it's easier to actually travel there and go there um so make sure you have the most updated restrictions and requirements specifically when traveling outside the usa outside the usa is much more complicated and complex which will get there currently anyone traveling from outside the country into the us is required to take a pcr or an updated engine test the day before departure i was in costa rica not long ago it is stressful but you will want to know like for example only the hotel that i i mean only the hotel but the hotel i was in or the airport is um where you could get it you have to get it the day before not 24 hours before i didn't know that myself so if your flight's at 4 pm that doesn't mean that you freaked out at 4 pm that day you have to take this test there's no answer for bots vaccinated triple vaccinated boosters doesn't doesn't make a difference you have to have this test to get into the us [Music] now traveling overseas is rewarding because it's more you know people could say well my my son my daughter i don't want to my uh why would i want to travel with my mother my daddy why would i do that now i always say come up with something that they can't say no to you know maybe they've been to disney world eight times as possible but i don't think most kids have been to hawaii and we've have a lot of people traveling to white has been some really cheap fears hotels are more expensive but the wow factor is always something that can work and again it's a relationship too it's you know it's it's having that relationship but it's extraordinarily rewarding and guess what that picture could be on their profile whatsapp they call their friends hey you know where i am it's so cool i'm on the beach in hawaii i'm here i'm there and it's like oh my my parents are so chill they're so cool and that takes work but you know what it's extremely rewarding and in a very positive vibe that they get i just wanted to bring out because it came up for example a country like italy while you could do research online you don't need to be vaccinated to get in there which many people aren't vaccinated that's everyone's choice that's not what this is about but if you want to go into a tourist attraction and you want to go to local restaurants you have to be vaccinated so if you're going to go to italy you might as well stay home because what's the point you can get into the country but you can't enjoy what the country has to offer so that's something to very that's something to really have in mind so i picked some destinations um where you don't need a passport now obviously it's very i say obviously it's important for those of you that are thinking possibly you might want to travel somewhere you could actually the opening up i believe or they opened it up to actually make a passport online i think that's to renew a passport so a lot of us might have passports that are just expired so you want to take a look at your passports or if you don't have a passport go make a passport because the time will come maybe sometimes there's there's a lot of really really attractive fears um guatemala out of fear for 156 bucks you could literally go around there's a circuit you could go with the houses have to be more adventurous type but could do it really cheap and there's more cancun is extremely popular because it has kosher people don't want to schlep crock pots are plugging pots and schlepping all their food and they just want to be pampered too the mama the dad wants to go away and they they want to have a vaca you know nothing wrong great they don't want to deal with the food factor but there are destinations in the u.s which are very attractive which you don't need a passport i'm stating obvious to me but it's not obvious to everyone puerto rico is a very popular destination you don't need a passport to go to puerto rico it's a u.s territory and it's actually just as beautiful as the caribbean in many ways it's very pretty the local schleich is a tremendous guy very nice to have a small israeli style restaurant his cabaret house is literally walking distance to many hotels very accessible if a husband's traveling or someone that wants a minion or even a mother wants a shabbos to join a meal he's very chilled and i just want to say being being a lubacher understanding that our kids walking to chabad house no problem now i can't say someone you know in the very odd of oddest times but it's not going to come from the shliyak has not come from anyone but if you go to puerto rico no jaime michigan with australia was living in puerto rico because why would you live there you'd live if you have business you travel there but so it's a very relaxed chilled environment and sometimes they might decide hey you know what i'm go friday night even if i don't go to davening you know wait there's a nice there's a nice meal it's a nice show i'm just gonna chill with them me people and people from all over the world and it's a very um beautiful experience and i've heard so many times of the positive experiences that our children come back from walking into the chabad house and not being judged and no one looking down on them and they dress how they dress and it's uh it's very beautiful and they know that they know that i learned something new i'm just going to share there's hundreds of our children the living crown heights i don't know people know that from all walks of life from litvish khasiddish a guy williamsburg kj you know why they live in crown heights because nobody nobody touches them they walk on the streets literally i'm not kidding hundreds of children i've spoken to so many what is it crown heights and they keep on hearing this so i just want to share that that goes the vision of lubavitch and the rebbe we see a jew for who they are from imam amish they're peace of hashem and we look at their neshama look at their panims not the kitsanyus so here are some places that you would need a passport to go to i've one i'm going to one have been there um there's a place called liberia costa rica which is if people have an appreciation for nature it's true in the florida subura i was there not long ago and i went to rain forest and i saw sloths which uh i wouldn't say it's a quality a very cute animal you could google if you want to have looks um we saw like very colorful frogs and we saw a snake that i thought was cute and the guy's like it's poisonous he didn't speak the best english and then he put in his phone he handed to me it said kiss of death that's what they call that snake so i had to back up a little bit we saw monkeys and um some people there's different kinds of vacation but some people really appreciate nature they love the nature and the mountains and the beauty and it's a volcano and it's very pretty the drawback is you have to bring your own kosher food so to speak um just a tip you can walk into any walmart or any store you can look online you get a plug and pot and you can little make anything and everything for 20 bucks today delivered to your house now you want to look at which countries um what you could bring or it's maybe hard to find and you just hope and pray but um the milks they let in the meat they didn't see or the deli they have meat so kind of it went through but um bear in mind even cancun there's certain places they'll open your luggage and if they see meat they'll throw it out now one tip is a lot of countries you can get away with you say you look for rabashkin or not to say what to buy or a more processed plant and it says usda like there's some silver sticker on it and their heads if it's usda it's good it's not you know if you're bringing like leftover you know meat from shabbos and it's in a foil wrapper or you made some steaks they could you know you want to bring packaged packaged product another very popular destination now tickets could go on you know there's sales there's deals i post them on our chats when we have them i found tickets to panama for 219 dollars non-stop the way the week before was eight hundred dollars now might be more but panama's an amazing country i didn't go there yet but i've spoken to many people have been there's about 12 kosher restaurants it's relatively a very cheap destination whether it's hotels ubers um that beautiful water and they have rain forest jungle and stuff like that so while it's a city if you go outside the city of course the panama canal again it depends what your child wants to do and just the tip is i want to go on a vacation i need a vacation i need a break i would love if you came with me i thought you know you look like you you know you could it's freezing here maybe you know it should come from you that you want to spend time with them and that's that's very uh that's a great thing so just to speed up a little cancun has played the calm and they have cozumel there's like chabad houses that have restaurants attached to them and again people ask me all the time and i do the same thing so i'm just sharing it it's not rocket science if you know what what to do just put in chabad of cancun where you're going and the tourist destinations will actually have tourist information what's available what's kosher food some of them out of their houses what you could order what shabbos is like which hotels are walking distance to where you're going so it's pretty easy to to find today and they put it up because that helps them saving getting all these phone calls asking the same questions over and over again another place which is very pretty i've been the number of years ago but i've sent i've i've sent people to go there's cabo st lucas cancun's a little busy more of the nightclub scene a little some downtown it's a little could be a little much for some people i mean there's nicer parts there's hotel zone it's a long you know miles long and there's you know along the beaches and the hotels but can uh kabul might be a little dolled back a little there's a bad house there's a kosher restaurant very nicely never met him personally but heard a lot about him caribbean islands if you type in out of caribbean islands a literally come up a list of all the caribbean islands now be very careful when you go to caribbea island i can't stress enough to know before you book a ticket before you make travel arrangements what the covert guidelines are if you're not vaccinated and it says you need to be vaccinated you're not getting in no matter what they're not you're not even getting in you're not going to get on the plane when you get to the airport today it basically works as the airlines are the gatekeepers for the travel for the government you know why because if they let somebody in that they're not supposed to it's on them to bring them back they have to pay for the ticket if someone gets rubber stamp gets thrown out of a country for whatever reason i mean thrown out not in a criminal aspect just don't have the right visas the right paper but whatever it is it's on them to bring it back so when you get there just know know what know what it is and and and check on it now a very good resource to find that out believe it or not is the airline because they're the gatekeepers so if i don't know someone's going somewhere i'll call up the united airlines for example say if you go to panama what are these strictures they have to be vaccinated not vaccinated and they could tell you their instruction okay so there's my daughter so she helped me [Music] another very uh beautiful thing you could google a very useful tool which i use is tripadvisor so people ask me i'm going to maui what is there to do in maui and just the simple trick i just put in maui top attractions trip advisor top 10 attractions and they'll put up and people give reviews and you can actually go through it and it gives you an idea of where to start what to do now just to share from personal experiences unless your son or daughter is that less than a 0.0001 that gets up every day at 8 o'clock in the morning is ready to take on the world don't make any plans that you can't cancel don't make that torrent 8 00 a.m coming back you know 4 p.m because they might just get up at 3 p.m so that won't work um kind of like leave let them also be um let them be involved in the process say hey you want to go in you know once you get to that i'm planning the trip let them give input just because you want to go to that specific attraction that really is something you would love to do doesn't mean that they want to do it either and kind of like being a relaxed mode and something that works for me very well is hey i'm going out i'm going wherever shopping souvenirs going to this museum whatever i'm doing and whenever you're ready just give me a call and give me a 30 minute heads up you know to get up the show get ready whatever and it works great so there's no pressure because there'll be an hotel room like i'm itching to go you know i'm the type that wants to get you know get out there and go see what what uh what day wish they're what there is to offer out there i want to see it and um i was on the same page so that really works very well but traditionally plan things for the latter part of the day versus early unless like i said you have that uh that you know that's like a clock that you know it's reliable now a very beautiful part of the floyd cebar which we have we're blessed to have and the national park system is created you know north of over 100 years ago while people think that you have to get oversea you know of course it has that lure the language the architecture the flare international travel always intrigued me to see how people live and how different people lived in the u.s and walking around just soaking up the atmosphere and walking sometimes getting lost in venice or getting lost in the streets and just taking it all in it's it's tremendous i always enjoy that that still never never left me but in the u.s we're blessed with truly beautiful nature and literally you don't have to leave the us to really encompass what the world has to offer because we have alaska which is tremendous beauty i was there in the summer with a couple of my children we did a family trip which was absolutely beautiful and we got to see wildlife and grizzly beers and and moose and elk we actually had a moose just walk right through our place and my daughter loves moose my eight-year-old and she was like she had moose stuffed animal and for her to see a moose with a baby calf we're just sitting watching that 10 15 20 minutes and i walked through a stream and we were following it it it words can't describe the the magnificent beauty and believe it or not there was a non-stop flight and we were able to get tickets for 400 bucks and we were able to go to anchorage where shabbos ends at 2 36 in the morning so i've been there like five times i didn't want to deal with that shabbos uh you know when you go to sleep and make a dull in the morning it's so we literally got on a non-stop i mean it was available to take a non-stop flight it's seasonal so you can do it in the summer you leave 240 newark you land 740 alaska time which is four hours behind and i left thursday night i was back in new york friday morning and everyone had the time of their lives and um i try now when i go away really some people could only go the weekends they could but as a man so to speak there wants to be an irish scholar it it could get more complicated it's not you don't have the same freedom as when you're going away in a weekday if you want to be access to minion so just the tip for the men here you know yes you can find it but if you could go away during the week and i'll see enough to deal with the shabbos we won't get into detail but it could get more complex not deal with it but it's it's harder it's harder let's leave it at that and it's more just easier and today a lot of times you could take a sunday you take a red eye back and boom you're back in new york and if you could do that again but a shabbos experience is also very very beautiful like i said houses to see so it's kind of flip side but i kind of now kind of to the ladder i try to be home for sure and for all the kids and the family it's just easier if like a easier from home and more they miss more of it when when i'm not there so i try to plan it around that but it's very very possible to do that so again i'm not going to get into it i'm just going to put up the slides [Music] in length but anchorage is gateway to denali national park and that's a very very beautiful magical place now just bear in mind you need to plan trips a bit in advance at least plan them they didn't say on the ground but at least when you have destinations that two months out of the year is their peak season they're going to book up co i mean the height of heidelkova no but last year yes and you know i nicked i was able to get like a cabin it was very very beautiful and it was my favorite spot where my kids like to like to they enjoyed it very very much but you want to plan advance car rentals were a problem they sold off 100 thousand cars because of covet as a corporate company they're looking at the bottom line now now what's in the future things let up a bit much much better but i actually rented a car from an israeli guy who um use slash rental and uh we put them on to phil and it was very beautiful my son went up to my son and he said hey you want to put on phil i said sure so it was very nice but do your research excuse me do your research i'm just going to jump into when you rent a car don't put don't rent cars that say you could save ten dollars you know use it to lose it kind of thing car rentals are one of the last things that you actually don't have to put the money until until you actually rent the car while a ticket you do you can't say hold my ticket for two months but car rentals you could rent and advance a lot of hotels you could book and find out getting out of myself but find out what the hotel what their cancellation policy is because many hotels could be 6 p.m hotel time but two days some could be two weeks before things change but when you book whatever you book even an airline now we're covered a lot of time easier to switch someone's i'm feeling good whatever and most of all i'll get to it but buy insurance there's cheap insurance out there um and i have it on my slide so this presentation will be available in our cash and option thing okay arizona like i said is a very very popular destination i don't think i have a brother in phoenix but i've been many many times to phoenix for various reasons maybe five six times recently within a year um in the phoenix area there's maybe two pizza shops flake chicks and and and it it checks the boxes for even the the i'm not the see the shaolin i see people eating their people going even if rep is going to scottsdale now it became a very uh very popular spot and as beautiful everyone knows the grand canyon one of the most visited i think it's it's definitely up there from those visited national parks um in the u.s and it's probably around the world so it's very beautiful i could get into detail you could do it in a day it's a long trip you could stay overnight near there but it's truly very magnificent very beautiful and arizona is just very beautiful as a phoenix just and the weather almost always is really really nice you don't want to go then the summer when i was there when i was 114 but uh i'm talking more in the winter months or and again check the weather you don't want you want to plan a trip you want to know what the weather is going to be like you could buy an average average weather for january wherever you want to go and you'll see kind of like a pike chart of where it is so well you think it might be great idea to go to myrtle beach it could be 50 degrees now 50 degrees you know it's not really the you're not getting the wow fact that a warmth you know what what you really want it's not beach weather what you call soda speaker to enjoy that so you want to check that in advance too colorado is uh also another very good destination in denver you have a pizza shop you have a flagship place i'm not rava maksha but it's an acceptable you know place so to speak to eat everyone has their own standards um there's a lot of beautiful things to do there rocky mountain national park that's more in the summer um in boulder you have uh garden of the gods and denver is a great gateway to there now i'm not in a skier but there's definitely skiing in vail aspen this chabad you could go and sign up for shabbos meals and it's just a great destination all to think of it as an all-around year now hey personally when i go away in the winter i want to go with some i want to go away somewhere where i'm going to bake it's going to be warm i don't want to go we have our winters i'm looking but but people love skiing snowboarding you know the um you know the the snow machines are just i've done it a couple of times there oh man everyone knows about jet skis but there's something very magical about going through forest trails with you know state parks with with with a guided tours with these uh snow machines it's it's undescribable the beauty of of just that so that's something that uh colorado i i classified in arizona as an all year round destination hey you have to worry where your passports are you don't have to worry about that kind of stuff but again check the regulations check what's open check what's closed now that you know things are warm things are heating up again things could change very rapidly another very uh what i would call a hidden gem is uh well everyone knows miami because they might see their mother this figure the brother-in-law and the see half the block maybe during yeshiva week or vacation which that might not be the best idea for some of us here and they just want to get away from that the high misha crowd so to speak is key west key west is about a three hour drive from miami and it's truly the most one of the most beautiful sceneries i've seen around the world you have a seven mile bridge where you go over and you have ocean from both sides as far as the eye could see and it has that wow fact of the caribbean waters of that turquoise colors and it's a truly beautiful place now you could either go to miami and drive to key west or you could go to key west and kind of drive the highway the other way maybe an hour hour and a half in and turn around but key west does have a kosher israeli style restaurant uh shikaka's given by chabad and the there is a personal friend of mine the couple my wife the very special people in the chabados is very chill israeli guys that so it's somewhere to have a mind they have a meal their shabbos like a community meal and it's just haimish in the sense of non-judgmental and i've i've guarded people to go there and they had a great time hotels could be very expensive again um if you have points we'll get into it in a few minutes that's always the way to go try to go not to pay but some of us have to pay whatever but you could figure it out montana somewhere i went in the summer the gateway to glacier national park my daughter says top i saw a ticket to kalispell montana i've always wanted to i've been there driven there and i was a bucker in my heyday camping out and running around thousands of miles seeing the beauty with a friend it was 200 to go non-stop five hours with jetblue which blew my mind because i don't know how they're making money on the flight but while people are fixated on tickets how much they cost and how much they are hotels could by far and car rentals outweigh when the supply chain is so uh hampered so actually i never did this before i actually did um i did toro with a car and it worked out the guy put me he put the key by the muffler he had some sort of a locking mechanism like in the back of the car with a code it sounded crazy i walked from there small airport five minutes and i got this big suv and um toro the difference is it's like coming here to the hotel and coming for a shop is no one wants to make their bed and clean up their room you know they just want to leave and say let them sell but but with toro is um you have to clean the car so that wasn't funny i mean not fun but whatever it is what it is and they stayed uh uh airbnb first uh experience for that and it worked out very positive okay i gotta move faster okay i listed here again this slide is going to be available five national parks utah is a great has tremendous tremendous beauty um and there's five national parks the more famous ones are bryce and zion truly magnificent flying to salt lake you're flying to vegas um kosher very minimal but again anyone that goes or is able to you can bring your food you have no issues so just to make clear hawaii porter certain places that are like islands they don't want foreign object foreign uh cree insects in there so they can be very strict some islands extremely strict but if you're going within the continent out the u.s no one's opening your bag and asking you uh this meat and that meat and where it's from and what it is no problem a very quick easy good tip is got a cooler bag insulated put it in i even saw it on a big trip one milk hooks one flake six check it under and and it stays cold it works well okay wyoming yellowstone national park these old trips that i've gone myself uh you have jacksonville wyoming there's been some very good deals going there but again hotels could be challenging or thing outdoor activities you know some people love nature a lot of kids they love hiking camping you could do white water rafting atving rope coursing mountain sliding skiing that's the outdoor activities water activities surfing water waterskiing banana boats you know they attach the back of the boats rowing um parks park city utah just the tip for skiing there's some people that love that love that snow like like snowboarding they like that thrill they like the skiing parts i they have a kosher restaurant hopefully it's open um you have a cabarrus unveil walking distance also and aspen fed that way too i listed here a lot of stuff something i never did which is still on my bucket list is dog sledding but it is available in colder climates it's got to be really cool to go with a bunch of alaskan huskies and going through the wilderness in a sled again some people might like it some people might say not for me man-made attractions which we all know just obvious disney park sea world universal studios but i just want to say i used to joke i need a vacation from my vacation when you go to these parks it'll wipe you out standing a line in the heat wherever it is even if it's not hot it can get frustrating for people it's long lines you're gonna have to unofficial guide to disney world there's all this hazbenders to start from the back to the front because everyone runs to the first attraction the guy spends his whole time with a team writing down how quick every ride is for 20 bucks when you spend 500 bucks or 100 bucks a ticket today on disney world it's a good book to get and literally you're running around with a map with like catching your breath and trying to see everything and anything and it's utterly exhausting but i guess it's rewarding too but don't do this like three days in a row so as i said trip advisor is a great place that i use top and top attractions got some ideas this is complex i don't have a lot of time but basically um be careful when you book tickets know what you're booking now i can't stress this enough if there's one thing you could come out of here to understand when you book tickets try to book with the airline directly don't book through third party use third party as a guidance if it says united airlines fear to miami is a 100 round trip and you go to united.com if it's 110 105 whatever 100 whatever a little bit why because so many things could come up well guess what if something comes up or someone's not whatever it is the third party website expedia kayak whoever they are they own the ticket you call the airline they'll tell you unless you're at the airport your fights the later canceled call expedia call priceline you can wait on hold it does always go with the airline within seconds they could help you and change your ticket so just a tip always use that as a guidance try to go direct it makes life a lot easier i can't stress it enough same thing with car rentals i mean car rental is a little different but whatever if it works okay so just a couple listings here where you could go for car rentals it was it's easing up it's not what he what it was but for example in hawaii it was a time that car rentals were six hundred dollars a day people taking new old trucks and they're begging people not to do it because people could have moved it was complete chaos things are getting a little better but they're still tied out there if you know you're planning a trip one of the first things i would say is go look for a cheap car rental without paying and check it periodically it could go down but get that don't wait till day before to say oh gee whiz i i forgot to book that car that could be very costly and there's no real way out of it so costco.com torah.com is an airbnb for cars some people love it some people actually come with a cool car a kid he likes a certain car you want to spend a little more you want to do the wow factor you want to get a sports car they'll meet some of them they actually meet at the airport for the most part i've heard very positive experiences from it but again when insurance purposes check how that works and all that stuff you have priceline you have autoslash.com you fill out a form totally legit website within 15 minutes they say they're gonna send you back uh a thing again you don't you don't have to it's not a user to lose a website it's something new that i've seen on in travel blogs and stuff like that i've used it works it's an airbnb for cars you're going through toro they are the company like airbnb airbnb is taking responsibility for like who's the mediator if something goes wrong and the guy says i have a three-bedroom apartment and you get in there and it's a one bedroom loch on the wall now where's your who who's fighting for you so toro actually i don't know the whole process but it's also kind of like a rating system like uber the guy doesn't want to get oh i had this car and was filthy is hard that car was immaculate like i said the only drawback for me is being on a vacation i don't want to have to worry that he he says return in the condition you got it so having kids in the car and eating snacks and stuff that can be a little challenging but you know hey everything worked out fine and he said could you give me a good rating and he's very pleasant and just with airbnb also the owners they want to please their interest is to please like and much more than an uber driver it's a lot more at stake for them and they're flexible and they'll work with you and if you have a request then they're some of them actually you need bear spray look when you go montana we you know we actually saw grizzly bears pretty close that was just unbelievable experience but i'm saying those solid add-ons you know they try to be helpful not in nothing pushy way but if you need this you need that okay booking options airbnb hotel.com priceline hotwire tripadvisor trivago.com different again if you want to know different places where to book just say i do this all the time top top websites to book travel tickets like i said but get the idea from somewhere else and then go in there and go with the airline directly for airlines to me that's target me c night if you could really avoid it now if it's if it's a 500 if it's a huge difference then obviously not sometimes they have the fear that you go online and the fear just jumped and they happen to have it don't think twice just do it if it makes sense okay this could be a partnership if nayatsuma about credit cards disclaimer i'm going to make this very clear do not sign up for credit card bonuses if you plan on carrying a balance very bad idea if you're not going to pay the card in full these credit cards credit cards what we call affinity credit cards have a much higher penalty on interest rates than other cards so don't do this unless you know sometimes it's you have to spend a thousand three thousand five thousand ten thousand they have all these offers if you could do it fine you have a certain time to do it within um it's a great way i i don't have time to get into it um but it's a great way to uh and you there's certain websites that you could look in that it's a whole melaka i do this all day trying to help people it's it's you have to be on top of the game one very quick thing i'll mention which is a real sweet spot is if you have chase points and it goes into hyatt sign up for hyatt itself call them look online they have the best point ratio in the in the street today when that'll tell the lady come from puerto rico is 12 and a half thousand points for hotel that cost four hundred dollars a night 450 which to give an idea on the conceptual and domestic ticket could be starting at 25 000 points so it's it's a very good thing to do and you put it in so far that's like if it was a different hilton marriott these hotels could be 80 000 points just to give an idea of the difference there is a higher car too chase card the points go instantaneously into hyatt instantly so i'm on the phone and i'm saying i want to go to puerto rico i'm waddle tells you look they have a great app i'm not the best would take it out with the apps i love their app you can type import then call them up confirm it if you have two phones you could say hold on a minute i want to call chase to transfer the points as you're speaking the woman on the line or the guy in line looks and boom i need 12 let's say it's thousand increments i need 20 000 points it pops right in there and you could save a tremendous amount of money and gorgeous hotels they're the most they have is forty thousand we have hotels there for thirty thousand points i've seen hotels that go for three thousand dollars a night double tell them big sur california that's like three grand a night and it's like 25 000 points it's for the most beautiful places in the world it's it's uh highway one in uh in california hugs the ocean you know it's like an hour before san francisco like south it's really really pretty so look you could play around with the app i tell people go the hyatt to me is hi it's worldwide we had a we i'm gonna we had a conference and we had a kashanovshi mezebush i came a day early i wanted to go to baltania's cave or whatever long story short i stayed in the key of hyatt that cost 300 euro a night with taxes will be 400 bucks it was 15 000 points gorgeous hotel absolutely magnificent so yes they are worlds they're worldwide no no it's available not available i i didn't see no black updates no i know hilton i went away from hilton a long time the ratio from hilton to hyatt is like night and day it's it's like 10 20 of what you're going to have with high they were going to change it they didn't change it this is the only the only golden egg like the only the only the only stuff left because they mario devalue the point system three times i only have it because they got a free knight with amex i don't even use amex anymore to me the right chase points to me are great they have united have jet blue they transfer right away um they have this higher thing like i said everyone's fixated on getting free tickets remember hotels can get very very very expensive and you could stay in hotel and your kid feels like a million bucks because it's a top-rate hotel for like walking out the door and hyatt doesn't charge resort fees some hotels could be 80 bucks resort you get a hilton they're going to try they're going to nail you resort fee high it has in their roles they don't charge resort fee how does it feel to walk out what's my balance zero yeah transfers yeah there's a lot of preferred there's many different chases like 60 credit cards but right and another thing that also chase sapphire is one five chase preferred is is is is 1.25 and you could go online to book it but if you would like take that hotel with chase direct you would pay much more points you want to sign up a hyatt account and then throw the miles into hyatt and you could do it as you go you don't have to load up and wait it's it's i'm just sharing this it's it's i 19 stays with the hyatt this year you you call chase and you give them the higher number and they transfer it instantaneously bam done okay i went through the soft-sided cooler with all that um walmart you know you don't want to schlep you're in arizona you need a plug-in pot you could walk into any walmart you could buy like the hot plate the skittle whatever you call them you could buy two of them milk explain shicks 20 25 bucks you know when you schlep at home you could throw it in the garbage you still by the time you go out to eat and spend all that money and you have a depends how many people you are you can bring it back a great a great thing that we always do another very quick thing local attractions you're out there's a great place my son likes to go outside of phoenix to have a beautiful animals and and uh it's a very pretty of like african animal from africa and all different kinds of animals groupon could save you sometimes 40 50 bucks a ticket to have deals so uh living social just look online and see what what's out there go davin.com is a great website to see where local minion is for those that need it a great travel to get tips well millie model secrets is done with but dan's deals which we all know about um he only does uh telegram but you sign up uh and the points guy there's a website called the points guy you just play around and look at it you know he has different things credit cards and then you want to start learning about it that's a good resource okay any quick questions so i asked my wife to add this so if you guys have a pen um i'll give you my cell number again i do this for her said near mind they do work as a full-time job but if it's for traveling with your children that need that fun need somehow well one sec um i'm giving you my phone number text or whatsapp is the best i'll just say who you are what it's about it was at the keshianovshi on my name it's 646.641.6004 i'll try to get back to you try to give you some ideas try to help you out 646-641-6004 my name is shlomi litzman right and just say you know my name is such and such and i'd like to plan a trip with my son my daughter whatever and then we'll get we'll get into what they like how old they are and what you think that might work