REWIND Episode 91: Choosing Where to Stay in that Destination (Outside the Obvious)

But where I think I've seen even more of a struggle is not finding a hotel or a flight or choosing what to do or even choosing the destination itself, right? What I think is even more of a struggle is choosing where to go and stay in that destination.

Like, okay, you know in your soul that you want to go to France, but are you spending your whole time in Paris? Or are you splitting time between Paris and the south of France? Are you spending some time in the lower valley? Or do you want to take in the military history up on the beaches of Normandy? That's actually really far from Paris.

So where specifically are you going in France? That's the hard part.

And this is especially hard in those countries that are like the true gems, like where the entire country is amazing, like France or Italy.

I'm actually about to start working with a woman to plan a two-month European trip and And she wants to stay in Italy for one of the months.

And even though that's longer than the average person typically has for an Italy vacation, it's still super hard to narrow down where specifically she wants to stay as her home base to make sure she gets to do and see the things she wants to do.

And it's so funny because she was reading her list of places off to me on our free consultation call.

And she was like, and I have Rome on my list, but I don't know, I guess it's just one of those places I need to go, but I don't really know why I need to go there.

And that is mainly why this conversation is so important, because as we approach a vacation to somewhere like Italy, where everywhere is fabulous and it's not a small country and it's overwhelming to choose a handful of places to concentrate our time, as we approach a vacation to a destination like that, we're like, Well, I guess I have to stay in Rome because it's the capital city.

It has the Colosseum.

I have to go and see the sites.

And I could already hear in her voice that she was not really looking forward to Rome.

Rome itself was not what was drawing her to taking a vacation to Italy.

So I will be the first to give her permission to not go to Rome or at least not stay in Rome for an entire leg of her trip.

Like in all likelihood, we're going to find a way for her to do some of the main Rome sightseeing.

but we're probably gonna find other places in Italy that make her like, oh my gosh, that's where I wanna stay.

Like, that's why I wanna go to Italy.

That's the experience I'm looking for.

And that's the goal, right? This totally reminds me of the conversation I had with the man who was full on arguing with me about when you go to certain places, you have to do those certain sightseeing things.

You have to do it if you go there.

And it still fires me up a little bit because I don't want you to think that.

I don't want you to think that if you decide to go to France, you have to spend your entire vacation in Paris.

Some people don't go to Paris at all.

And even if it's your first trip, you don't have to go to Paris.

So when we have decided...