You thought you were going to watch another boring video about how much Americans love fish and chips and the NHS, but little did you know....it's all about the bathtubs and package holidays. 😂😂😂😂
Hi Kaylin With the bus thing yes we do have busses in a lot of the UK but they are expensive and depending on where one lives busses are scarce if they come around at all. In rural areas the UK doesn't have a great bus service some villages never see a bus and if they do run it may be one a week or one a day. So a car is a necessity in rural UK. As for swimming in the water/ sea in the UK we do actually have sharks here. We have Mako, Porbeagle, blue and whale sharks all around UK waters aswell as many others the afforestationed sharks other than the whale sharks have been known to attack but it is rare. But we do have the greater and lesser weaver fish all around UK coasts and you definitely don't want to step on one they will put you in a world of pain as well as potentially kill due to anaphylactic shock due to toxins they inject into your foot. But this is rare most of the time they temporarily paralise people and cause a lot of pain. But swimming in the seas and rivers around UK ATM is a no no unless you want to catch E-coli or cholora due to the govt and environment agency not enforcing the law on water companies dumping raw sewage in our waterways and seas at the moment
@@britbazza3568 It doesn't have to be about small villages in very rural areas. I live in the UK, in a town of about 20,000 people. From the town centre, we have 7 trains and 10 buses _per hour_ running in various directions, including some buses that just run a loop around the residential areas of the town and others that connect to neighbouring towns and cities. That is pretty typical for the UK. Picking a similar sized town at random in the USA, I homed in on Griffin GA, which is about an hour's drive from Atlanta, so not exactly in the middle of nowhere ... and as far as I can see, it has *no* public transport at all. Another town nearby has an express bus to Atlanta that runs 5/6 commuter journeys only from a car park on the edge of town, and nothing else.
I second that on the heat. As an Englishman living in Florida, I miss the uks climate. When friends and family say I’m so lucky and ask what the weather is like I say “when your dish washer is just done washing, open it and stick your head in. That’s what the heat is like”
heat can kill me through dehydration. every summer i have the thermal blackout curtains shut during the day to keep heat out, and a fan at night blowing out hot air into the night through a window to try cool the place down quicker. but then i have had an operation to remove my large bowel so i cant reabsorb liquid from food and dehydrate much easier. during a heatwave i simply cant drink enough to stay hydrated, without causing another medical issue. i'm usually just hours away from A&E when temps get low enough to help again. this is why i get so angry at weather forecasters apologising for rain and calling 30 C and up good. or people flying off to countries like spain for the same temperatures like thats a good thing.
A wild ride for you on this channel where you’re now posting regularly whereas a year or two ago your heart wasn’t in it and you actually stopped for a while. Whatever your mindset or personal issues then, I’m glad that you’re back with a lighter, carefree attitude so you don’t feel under pressure to post ‘meaningful’ content; just go with the flow !
Post when you want and dont feel pressured into it like a professional youtuber would be. This channel is something you post to for fun so keep it that way. Just send something if you feel like posting. Your insights into culture are always interesting.
As a Brit, having visited Kentucky on a couple of occasions, to stay with friends, I think the thing I was not appreciative enough about until then, was walkable city/town centre shopping
Love this very original list! No-one should diss the 'Packge Holiday'. It comes in many forms, and many price brackets. It can be one where every moment of your day is scheduled, or one where they get you to your hotel, leave you alone for 2 weeks, and then pick you up to go to the airport at the end, or anything in between. You have the advantage of having a Rep of the travel company on hand to answer any questions or solve problems, or suggest activities you might want to do locally.
It's a shame there isn't a guide to package holidays. Only been on one, never again, nothing was included in the 'all inclusive' and the rep was nowhere to be seen until it was time to get back on the bus to the airport! Guess we just picked the wrong one, were complete noobs and ended up paying a lot more than we needed to.
My favourite package holiday I have taken was a trip to Cuba where TUI sorted out the visa arrangements for me and saved me an administrative nightmare, in fact I am more likely to take a package deal the more exotic location whereas going to France or Spain or whatever I'll just drive there myself and work it out.
Quality of Reps vary immensely some companies take great care in matching reps to the destination and traveler target market, Inghams particularly seem to be able to find the right people
I started a parkrun back in 2009, and thus far over 300,000 finishes have been recorded. And I still love it - watching parkrun improve people's health and lives never gets tired.
One aspect I don't like is when people claim they love their new country but seem utterly reluctant to fully commit by becoming a citizen of that country. As a Brit who lived in Switzerland for 8 years I was dismayed by expats the weird holding on to your old country in a patriotic way. It's a bit like entering a new relationship yet keep harking back to your ex. Yes before anyone leaps in and comments I know some people are just temps in the country and becoming a citizen can be a long complicated process. Iirc in Switzerland at the time you had to be resident for at least 12 years before you could apply and have to pass some citizenship test
I'm very much an independent traveller booking all my own travel and accommodation but just once me and my son decided to go bonkers and book a package holiday to Mexico. It was slightly cheaper if you let them choose the hotel for you so we went with that. It was amazing. The hotel was fantastic, it was all inclusive and we booked a few trips and had the time of our lives. Stress free.
A Nile cruise is a good one with lots of trips to all the places you'd expect. As far as the heat in Britain is concerned, as long as I can hang my washing out wearing just my dressing gown, I'm happy... not sure the neighbours are, but it makes my summer.
Longleat is a stately home about 4 miles (7 km) west of Warminster in Wiltshire, England. A leading and early example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, it is a Grade I listed building and the seat of the Marquesses of Bath. Longleat is set in 1,000 acres (400 ha) of parkland landscaped by Capability Brown, along with 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) of let farmland and 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) of woodland, it was the first stately home to open to the public, and the Longleat estate has the first safari park outside Africa and other attractions including a hedge maze.
My ex hubby was a package holiday snob, but I booked a holiday with Thompsons to a Greek island for teh cheap flights really. We also went on a coach trip round the island and a trip to the mainland to Olympia. We had self catering place away from the noisy hotels and we then booked a car, the coach trip had given us ideas of where we wanted to go back to. I think it worked well really.
The beauty of package holidays is that there is a huge variety to choose from, including walking holidays, cycling holidays, painting holidays - whatever your interest there is a holiday to suit. Its ideal for single people too, and some go to places that woukd eextremely difficult / impossible to visit any other way. Several years ago went on a package holiday to Egypt - we travelled overland and visited sites which were opened up especially for us. In the group was a gentleman who spoke some egyptian and could read some hieroglyphs- but he was on the holiday because as a lone traveler he would not have been able to visit 2 of the sites we visited.
Yeah, the really quiet guy who is trying to listen to RUclips without annoying anyone, and not interacting with anyone.... Wait, did I just call myself out?
The description of the American bus experience really made me laugh - when I've been over there on holiday I've been on some buses and you do see some wild stuff!
I once visited TUI headquarters in Luton and got taken on a tour. It was fascinating, especially their air operations room which keeps track of their aircraft and crew internationally.
Package holidays are cheaper than sourcing your own stuff. And you don't need the extras. I did a package, used Cathay and Marriot. 4 hours from airport to hotel (and back) taken care of, breakfast taken of, welcome drink. The rest I sorted myself. I did use one hotel trip to the rainforest , for a small fee.
In my personal opinion, the perfect summers in the UK have been the ones where it’s warm and sunny with clear blue skies during the day but mild and rainy during the night. It helps our brick built homes to not gradually build up the heat over time to eventually become too uncomfortable to get a decent sleep and it helps to maintain and keep healthy our greenery and wild animals and prevents the need for hosepipe bans.
Cool video. What's good about package holidays it is the travel agency charters a whole aircraft for the flight and therefore you are not dabbling in dynamic pricing if you tried to book a scheduled flight yourself. They can therefore be reasonably priced for what you are getting.
In 🇨🇦, package holidays are generally referred to as "all-inclusive vacations". Thomas Cook was the first to come up with this idea in order to cater for the needs of upper-class Victorian women and their daughters for a safe way to do The Grand Tour of Europe. Tui, btw, is a German company.
We use package holidays, mostly, especially if it is a new place. Going back it is worth checking how much to book separately. We have saved money that way too. We don't book excursions prior to flying out because we want to relax first and often the local busses go to where we want to, or even local ferries. I want to go to monkey forest now! Enjoyed this, you're doing well to think outside of what the other content is
I do not like the heat! English summers from 30 years ago were too hot for me! A couple of years ago, I had a 6 hour layover in Miami and decided to leave the airport to get some 'fresh' air. OIMG. It was like walking into a sauna, the heat and humidity were incredible. How do people live there???
@@jaxcoss5790 i had never had a layover in the US before so I was very surprised we had to go through immigration, collect our bags and check in again. I've always stayed airside and had the airport handle all that!
I always go up market with TUI, premium cabin in the plane, airport lounge and private transfers etc. one doesn’t want to mix with the riff raff you know
I feel spoiled having a car now, but I still use my local metro fairly regularly, and buses when the car is in the garage. I have noticed that the public transport gives older people so much more freedom. In the US, when older people lose their driving license, they are pretty much stuck in the house unless someone can give them a lift. It is so sad. Even the most basic thing like decent pavements/ sidewalks give people so much more freedom here. I literally feel joyful watching older people zoom around on their scooters because it is safe to do so.
Don't forget UBER. Go where and when you want, all digital, with a personal driver that can answer some questions and help with bags. If you went exclusively by UBER it would still be cheaper than owning a car with taxes, maintenance, garage, gasoline, and insurance.
Not heard of a Park run in the UK but we do have plenty of Fun Runs which usually are collecting for a charity, in fact any runs are usually a chance to collect for charities through sponsorship, but you could put in a tenner from yourself or even less and still take part. Small entrance fee required to cover expenses like drink stations etc
I was in such a bad mood this morning, but your video really cheered me up, you made me laugh quite a few times, thanks. I drive past the monkey forest on my way to Trentham Gardens just up the road, but I’ve never actually visited
A package holiday is usually a good bet. Just be sure to chose a reputable company to go with. There is so much included that you almost don't have to think if you don't want to. Always love your take on things British
I've never used package holidays as I love planning my own. But I went to Ibiza last year on a package trip and it was really good to be able to concentrate on having fun and have everything else organised. This was perfect for me for a party holiday but think I'll still do them individually for the most part.
Package Holidays are aimed at a variety of groups- I.e. singles, young or older groups, families , sports orientated, resort based or excursion/sightseeing or some of these combined. City, beach, cultural, mountain all are offered under a, weekend or longer breaks package deal.
I love how sometimes your honesty makes you uncomfortable! I makes me appreciate your content even more! keep up this great work you are doing because it's good entertainment for me Lass!
I've never heard another YT'er say English bathtubs are better, but I remember reading an issue of the X-Men (iirc) where Nightcrawler gets in a bathtub and says how much better UK vs New York tubs are because you can fully lie down. That comic was written by Chris Claremont, an Englishman. Most Brits call it swimming in the sea because the surrounding water is either the North Sea, the Irish / Celtic sea (or the English Channel / La Manche if you're French). Scots and the Northern Irish might say differently as their coasts are actually on the Atlantic ocean.
I just got back from a road trip in the states. Happened to go to the Maclellanville (SC) shrimp festival. Sat on the pier, dangling feet in the water to cool off (no knotted hankie, to fit in better), then heard someone say something about crocs. Didn't react straight away, so as not to look soft but yeah, wasn't thinking about the wildlife.
From my 60th birthday I got my senior's bus pass. It means I can travel the length and breadth of Wales and even into Herefordshire without spending a penny to do so..
Parkrun is international! It started in the UK - and the UK still has more parkrun events than any other country, but it has spread to Australia, the USA, South Africa and several other countries across the world.
This is the most unexpected - but delightful - list imaginable. Love how your brain works! BTW the weather thing only works if you're in the south/south east. If you're in Glasgow the weather is bloody.
Thank you for your video. I really appreciate how you give your own individual take that is so different to other USA/UK channels. It's good that you are creative and don't just comment on material made by others. ❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸
I love that you included the climate of the UK. My family immigrated to the US many years back and asked me to join them. One of the top reasons, of many, why I didn’t was climate. I love the weather in the UK. It’s never too much of anything. Yes, we adore moaning about it but then we go to Cape Verde and moan the entire time about the heat 😆
I remember as a kid in the 70s looking through all of the holiday brochures we'd brought home from the high street travel agents. I don't remember all the names of the brochures companies, except maybe 'Cosmos' and 'Thompsons'.
I have absolutely used TUI package deals for my 'trip of a lifetime' holidays. They used to do a package deal to Cube where they sorted out the visa arrangements for you which saved a ton of time and effort, and last year I spend a chunk of my redundancy money on an all inclusive trip to Mauritius and it was great not having to worry about anything other than how I was gonna get to Heathrow.
IIRC the first modern package holiday was designed by a holiday firm in London (maybe Upminster, and maybe to Portugal) in the 1970s...and boy, did it catch on (I am pleased to be corrected if I am wrong)
You are so right about heat. I lived in Australia for four years (without air conditioning), and on a hot day in the UK I remember why I wanted to come home. Just being outside in that heat was an ordeal in Australia and I would put on a sarong get in the cold shower get wet before going outside. OK when you are young, but now, no thanks.
I took a package holidays just for the flight, transfer and hotel but I was there to learn to scuba dive and the company that did this was near the package holiday hotel. We took the package but did not interact with the package in anyway until the return transfer. It is worth looking at packages that anticipate that you will buy extras (and this was one of them) because if you dont then you can get some great deals.
I never thought that UK bathtubs were bigger and better! Thanks for pointing this out and thanks to you, I'll appreciate our mild damp climate more and stop complaining about it.
We never do a package holiday I find they cost more than booking easyJet and airbnb…I’m in uk and travelling to Georgia US in September and everything is booked separately but rolled up into a flight with car package to get extra protection, I use Dialaflight for US trips they’re great.
Love your attitude and look forward to your next video. I don't go for package holidays normally but fully endorse the ski packages, definitely the least stressful way to hit the slopes
A friend of mine was working as a nanny in Florida and I went over for visit and one of the first things she said when I got there was "Remember, where we're from, nothing can eat you... here, everything wants to eat you!"
Ok I did not except the Monkey forest in Trentham to appear!!!! It’s wonderful there. My son was in monkey heaven! It’s hard going for those of us who are mobility challenged because it can be very steep. But it’s set on the Trentham Estate so there’s tons of forest type land and the monkeys just roam around. It was a great place to visit when we were up in Stoke on Trent (my mum is from there so practically grew up around there as a kid) Yay for Trentham and the monkeys!
Another thing about the heat is the humidity! We live in a temperate climate which is why everything is so green, but when the sun comes up, that moisture enters the air and it's HORRIBLE! I have colleagues from Africa and India and the Middle East (I work in a University) and they ALL struggle with our summers.
Package holidays was the usual way to book an overseas holiday(Thomas Cook was the first) before the internet came along. When you didn't have to phone call BA to see what times they flew to country x, when you didn't have to speak Greek to see if a hotel had rooms etc. Also you could get last minute deals if they had unsold rooms. Now we want to pick and choose every bit
Shop around for tickets . Plane ,train, bus.boat, etc. And if you can book in advance. And when the British youngsters are on Sumner vacations then prices from hotels to trains or planes go up .
Great video. The concept of package hols originated with Thomas Cook organising family holidays to places like Blackpool for factory workers on their annual week off. When young I hated the idea of being organised and packaged with a lot of strangers, used to book a flight and with back pack roam about not even necessarily staying in the original country and if money ran short sleep on a beach. Now in decrepit antiquity I appreciate the idea of a hotel organised for me beforehand! Have lived in these isles for all many a long year and you have introduced me to something I never knew existed! Monkey Forrest, never even heard of it, though there is a Monkey World in Dorset which is fascinating and a lot if not all monkeys and apes are rescued.
You can do some pretty crazy packages though, my friend's just back from hiking 3 weeks through Latin/Southern America, which him and his partner just booked as a package. It was pretty fairly priced - considering the air travel, guides and everything involved and they saw some amazing things + got 5x days (I think) at the end of it in a really nice hotel/resort.
We are kinda glad you do ! We may be quirky, even odd on occasions, but if we like you we’ll tease you mercilessly, if we don’t like you, you’ll soon know about it. And you have some redeeming features like you married a Brit. Besides, in general I quite like Americans. I’m Ex British Army and I came into contact with a number of American Service personnel and once we had educated them to our sense of humour they were a good bunch.
Just a comment about public transport in the US. I have used the bus in suburban Marin county in California, to get the ferry to San Francisco. The bus was fine, with plenty of middle class passengers. I also used the public bus from Sea-Tac airport to central Seattle with no problems. But many other places you definitely need a car or a taxi. You need to ask a local.
Some companies do packaged European river cruises that are nice and organised, relaxing yet interesting and often without even the irritation of tipping.
I lived in Salt Lake, Utah for a few months a few years ago & often got a bus to Provo & found it ok. The one bus I didn’t like was the Greyhound. The air con made it so cold. When my friend was travelling from Utah to Chicago a bloke died on hers & no one knew about it for a few hours. They just thought he was asleep. So scary. The loos on them were awful. A package holiday sounds great. I never go on holiday tho & have forgotten what one feels like.
Kaylin, I don’t think we are very adventurous, but when we are in the USA (2 or 3 times a year) we always use public transport. Recently this has meant Miami and Fort Lauderdale, but it’s what we do generally. We are not comfortable with hiring a car, but we will use Uber for short trips around town.
We normally book holidays ourselves, as the places we've wanted to visit don't usually have packages from the UK (Scotland in particular), but one time we wanted to do the Grand Circle, western USA, taking in the Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion etc - we found that we could buy a package from Virgin including flights, accommodation, and car hire, cheaper than we could buy just the flights on the same plane.
I also love package holidays as sea, its called a cruise, and absolutely everything is taken care of by the cruise company. Almost every day I wake up in a new country and look forward to being a tourist, but when its over, I'm glad I'm coming back to the UK.
I travel a lot, but an obvious detriment to cruising is that you only go to port cities. You don't have to cruise very much before you run out of new places to go.
Never heard of Monkey Forest but have been to Monkey World in Dorset (as seen on TV). All the monkeys and apes are either rescued from other countries or bred in the park. It's a wonderful place and well worth a visit.
5:30 One of the slight drawbacks about outdoor swimming in the UK is that it will seldom be anything other than chilly. The solution is to suck/chew a toffee while you dry off as vigorously as you can. By the time you're done you'll be reasonably warm and your teeth will not be chattering.
Yes! Other British people really need to stop praying for the heat! Below 5° is definitely very unpleasant, but at least at home there's heating. Over 25° there's nothing you can do. 15-20 is my ideal range (although yesterday it was 18 and very humid which was nasty so maybe I need to reassess)
I can never understand why people want to reintroduce bears wolves and boars to the UK I like that when walking in woods all you have to fear is foxes and cows
THOSE IDIOTS ON COUNTRYFILE WANT TO TURN OUR FIELDS AND WOODLANDS BACK A THOUSAND PLUS YEARS, WHEN THE RICH AND POWERFUL HUNTED THOSE DANGEROUS CREATURES FOR FUN.
Wild boars can be very dangerous. Especially if you get too close to a female and her young - daddy (AKA the alpha male) is never too far away and he is scary.
We have a lot of bears in Slovakia, they are amazing but sometimes they chase people lol When I was working in a mountain resort, my friend called in saying that she can't get to work because there is a bear waiting at a train station so she couldn't get out of the train. I do miss our wildlife, bears, wolves, chamois, wild hamsters, lynx, fireflies etc, they are all cute but I do not miss mosquitos and ticks. You can easily get 10 mosquito bites in one evening and ticks will sometimes make you go to the hospital when you unsuccessfully remove the tick and accidently leave its head inside your skin, which can kill you. They like to hide and prefer soft skin, my friend had one on his D and ended up going to a hospital with it...I've had a few but I was able to remove them properly. There are some here in the UK, but nowhere near as much. The fact that I can sit in the park in the UK is amazing. You better avoid grass in Slovakia during the summer
Difference between sea and ocean. We tend to call it sea, especially as we have the North Sea and Irish Sea. Down in Cornwall we have the Atlantic Ocean but we still tend to call it seaside and paddle in the sea.
Package holidays are like a night out in the bowling club / week in Butlins. If you've never experienced it, it's a shock and a probably a disappointment. If you know what you're getting yourself into. You can have a ball.
The thing about package holidays is that they're buying in bulk - so they can get _much_ better prices (hotels, air fares, transfers, etc) than you as an individual.
You thought you were going to watch another boring video about how much Americans love fish and chips and the NHS, but little did you know....it's all about the bathtubs and package holidays. 😂😂😂😂
And the monkey forest that we never knew we had... 🙂
Hi Kaylin
With the bus thing yes we do have busses in a lot of the UK but they are expensive and depending on where one lives busses are scarce if they come around at all. In rural areas the UK doesn't have a great bus service some villages never see a bus and if they do run it may be one a week or one a day. So a car is a necessity in rural UK.
As for swimming in the water/ sea in the UK we do actually have sharks here. We have Mako, Porbeagle, blue and whale sharks all around UK waters aswell as many others the afforestationed sharks other than the whale sharks have been known to attack but it is rare. But we do have the greater and lesser weaver fish all around UK coasts and you definitely don't want to step on one they will put you in a world of pain as well as potentially kill due to anaphylactic shock due to toxins they inject into your foot. But this is rare most of the time they temporarily paralise people and cause a lot of pain.
But swimming in the seas and rivers around UK ATM is a no no unless you want to catch E-coli or cholora due to the govt and environment agency not enforcing the law on water companies dumping raw sewage in our waterways and seas at the moment
Great video Kalyn such a lovely woman,much love from rural Essex ❤
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@@britbazza3568 It doesn't have to be about small villages in very rural areas.
I live in the UK, in a town of about 20,000 people. From the town centre, we have 7 trains and 10 buses _per hour_ running in various directions, including some buses that just run a loop around the residential areas of the town and others that connect to neighbouring towns and cities. That is pretty typical for the UK.
Picking a similar sized town at random in the USA, I homed in on Griffin GA, which is about an hour's drive from Atlanta, so not exactly in the middle of nowhere ... and as far as I can see, it has *no* public transport at all. Another town nearby has an express bus to Atlanta that runs 5/6 commuter journeys only from a car park on the edge of town, and nothing else.
I second that on the heat. As an Englishman living in Florida, I miss the uks climate. When friends and family say I’m so lucky and ask what the weather is like I say “when your dish washer is just done washing, open it and stick your head in. That’s what the heat is like”
heat can kill me through dehydration. every summer i have the thermal blackout curtains shut during the day to keep heat out, and a fan at night blowing out hot air into the night through a window to try cool the place down quicker. but then i have had an operation to remove my large bowel so i cant reabsorb liquid from food and dehydrate much easier. during a heatwave i simply cant drink enough to stay hydrated, without causing another medical issue. i'm usually just hours away from A&E when temps get low enough to help again.
this is why i get so angry at weather forecasters apologising for rain and calling 30 C and up good. or people flying off to countries like spain for the same temperatures like thats a good thing.
My dishwasher, Joan, wouldn’t appreciate that!
A wild ride for you on this channel where you’re now posting regularly whereas a year or two ago your heart wasn’t in it and you actually stopped for a while.
Whatever your mindset or personal issues then, I’m glad that you’re back with a lighter, carefree attitude so you don’t feel under pressure to post ‘meaningful’ content; just go with the flow !
Really appreciate this comment, thank you!
Post when you want and dont feel pressured into it like a professional youtuber would be. This channel is something you post to for fun so keep it that way. Just send something if you feel like posting. Your insights into culture are always interesting.
At the end of the day, this is what guide books don't tell you. So glad you enjoy the little things too.
As a Brit, having visited Kentucky on a couple of occasions, to stay with friends, I think the thing I was not appreciative enough about until then, was walkable city/town centre shopping
Love this very original list!
No-one should diss the 'Packge Holiday'. It comes in many forms, and many price brackets. It can be one where every moment of your day is scheduled, or one where they get you to your hotel, leave you alone for 2 weeks, and then pick you up to go to the airport at the end, or anything in between. You have the advantage of having a Rep of the travel company on hand to answer any questions or solve problems, or suggest activities you might want to do locally.
It's a shame there isn't a guide to package holidays. Only been on one, never again, nothing was included in the 'all inclusive' and the rep was nowhere to be seen until it was time to get back on the bus to the airport! Guess we just picked the wrong one, were complete noobs and ended up paying a lot more than we needed to.
My favourite package holiday I have taken was a trip to Cuba where TUI sorted out the visa arrangements for me and saved me an administrative nightmare, in fact I am more likely to take a package deal the more exotic location whereas going to France or Spain or whatever I'll just drive there myself and work it out.
Quality of Reps vary immensely some companies take great care in matching reps to the destination and traveler target market, Inghams particularly seem to be able to find the right people
I started a parkrun back in 2009, and thus far over 300,000 finishes have been recorded. And I still love it - watching parkrun improve people's health and lives never gets tired.
@@bryansmith1920 I think the person means 300,000 people completed the run.
So you started it in 2009 and still haven't finished ?
I love the title things you love about the UK. I have lived in 4 different countries & each one has it's magic. One has to enjoy where one is.
GlAd to see you again.. sorry been in hospitL but released on bail..please stay u know u want to,?!!!🎉❤
One aspect I don't like is when people claim they love their new country but seem utterly reluctant to fully commit by becoming a citizen of that country. As a Brit who lived in Switzerland for 8 years I was dismayed by expats the weird holding on to your old country in a patriotic way. It's a bit like entering a new relationship yet keep harking back to your ex. Yes before anyone leaps in and comments I know some people are just temps in the country and becoming a citizen can be a long complicated process. Iirc in Switzerland at the time you had to be resident for at least 12 years before you could apply and have to pass some citizenship test
I'm very much an independent traveller booking all my own travel and accommodation but just once me and my son decided to go bonkers and book a package holiday to Mexico. It was slightly cheaper if you let them choose the hotel for you so we went with that. It was amazing. The hotel was fantastic, it was all inclusive and we booked a few trips and had the time of our lives. Stress free.
We like you here Kaylin, please stay!👍😎
You've also got extra legal protection with a package holiday compared to a separately booked trip
A Nile cruise is a good one with lots of trips to all the places you'd expect. As far as the heat in Britain is concerned, as long as I can hang my washing out wearing just my dressing gown, I'm happy... not sure the neighbours are, but it makes my summer.
Longleat is a stately home about 4 miles (7 km) west of Warminster in Wiltshire, England. A leading and early example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, it is a Grade I listed building and the seat of the Marquesses of Bath.
Longleat is set in 1,000 acres (400 ha) of parkland landscaped by Capability Brown, along with 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) of let farmland and 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) of woodland, it was the first stately home to open to the public, and the Longleat estate has the first safari park outside Africa and other attractions including a hedge maze.
My ex hubby was a package holiday snob, but I booked a holiday with Thompsons to a Greek island for teh cheap flights really. We also went on a coach trip round the island and a trip to the mainland to Olympia. We had self catering place away from the noisy hotels and we then booked a car, the coach trip had given us ideas of where we wanted to go back to. I think it worked well really.
The beauty of package holidays is that there is a huge variety to choose from, including walking holidays, cycling holidays, painting holidays - whatever your interest there is a holiday to suit. Its ideal for single people too, and some go to places that woukd eextremely difficult / impossible to visit any other way. Several years ago went on a package holiday to Egypt - we travelled overland and visited sites which were opened up especially for us. In the group was a gentleman who spoke some egyptian and could read some hieroglyphs- but he was on the holiday because as a lone traveler he would not have been able to visit 2 of the sites we visited.
"maybe the occasional town weirdo' is a very concise summing up of the British experience in general :)
We got rid of a lot of the "Town weirdo's and village idiots" and stuck them in a place called Parliament.
Learn to love your town weirdo, they add character, and one day people may think you are the town weirdo.
Yeah, the really quiet guy who is trying to listen to RUclips without annoying anyone, and not interacting with anyone.... Wait, did I just call myself out?
It's called 'the nutter on the bus'. I had one the other day swearing out loud because the bus was in a minor traffic jam.
The description of the American bus experience really made me laugh - when I've been over there on holiday I've been on some buses and you do see some wild stuff!
I once visited TUI headquarters in Luton and got taken on a tour. It was fascinating, especially their air operations room which keeps track of their aircraft and crew internationally.
Package holidays are cheaper than sourcing your own stuff.
And you don't need the extras.
I did a package, used Cathay and Marriot. 4 hours from airport to hotel (and back) taken care of, breakfast taken of, welcome drink.
The rest I sorted myself.
I did use one hotel trip to the rainforest , for a small fee.
Catching the train from Brighton to London unchaperoned was a breeze. UK public transport even for distance travelling is brilliant.
In my personal opinion, the perfect summers in the UK have been the ones where it’s warm and sunny with clear blue skies during the day but mild and rainy during the night. It helps our brick built homes to not gradually build up the heat over time to eventually become too uncomfortable to get a decent sleep and it helps to maintain and keep healthy our greenery and wild animals and prevents the need for hosepipe bans.
Cool video. What's good about package holidays it is the travel agency charters a whole aircraft for the flight and therefore you are not dabbling in dynamic pricing if you tried to book a scheduled flight yourself. They can therefore be reasonably priced for what you are getting.
I use the internet to find routes and pricing, then go the actual airline or train to actually buy a ticket. That Ninja in the UK is total ripoff.
In 🇨🇦, package holidays are generally referred to as "all-inclusive vacations". Thomas Cook was the first to come up with this idea in order to cater for the needs of upper-class Victorian women and their daughters for a safe way to do The Grand Tour of Europe. Tui, btw, is a German company.
TUI actually took Thomas Cook over after they went bust!
TUI took Thomas Cook over after their bankruptcy. Some TUI stores in Germany are still called Thomas Cook (Friedrichshafen is an example).
@@Jamie_D Wrong, all-inclusive includes meals and, frequently, drinks.
Jet2 is the best IMO
I think you're delightful. Your videos hold a useful and warming mirror up on the UK. Subscribed!
OMG nice to hear something good about stoke! Thank you
Love the UK 🇬🇧 it has so many great places to explore & and there are shops here that you'll never see over in America like Marks & Spencer!
We use package holidays, mostly, especially if it is a new place. Going back it is worth checking how much to book separately. We have saved money that way too.
We don't book excursions prior to flying out because we want to relax first and often the local busses go to where we want to, or even local ferries.
I want to go to monkey forest now!
Enjoyed this, you're doing well to think outside of what the other content is
I do not like the heat! English summers from 30 years ago were too hot for me!
A couple of years ago, I had a 6 hour layover in Miami and decided to leave the airport to get some 'fresh' air. OIMG. It was like walking into a sauna, the heat and humidity were incredible. How do people live there???
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Miami is the worst international airport that I have ever used (and I travel quite a bit).
@@jaxcoss5790 I didn't think much of Chicago ORD.
@@jaxcoss5790 i had never had a layover in the US before so I was very surprised we had to go through immigration, collect our bags and check in again. I've always stayed airside and had the airport handle all that!
I love the heat. There's no such thing as too hot in my vocabulary 🌞
I always go up market with TUI, premium cabin in the plane, airport lounge and private transfers etc. one doesn’t want to mix with the riff raff you know
I feel spoiled having a car now, but I still use my local metro fairly regularly, and buses when the car is in the garage. I have noticed that the public transport gives older people so much more freedom. In the US, when older people lose their driving license, they are pretty much stuck in the house unless someone can give them a lift. It is so sad. Even the most basic thing like decent pavements/ sidewalks give people so much more freedom here. I literally feel joyful watching older people zoom around on their scooters because it is safe to do so.
Elderly people in UK are entitled to a free bus pass which allows travel anywhere on buses during the day. It does cover long distance coach journeys.
Don't forget UBER. Go where and when you want, all digital, with a personal driver that can answer some questions and help with bags. If you went exclusively by UBER it would still be cheaper than owning a car with taxes, maintenance, garage, gasoline, and insurance.
Tropical beaches try Dorset, Devon and Cornwall on a good day of course😉😉😊
Not heard of a Park run in the UK but we do have plenty of Fun Runs which usually are collecting for a charity, in fact any runs are usually a chance to collect for charities through sponsorship, but you could put in a tenner from yourself or even less and still take part. Small entrance fee required to cover expenses like drink stations etc
It actually gets really hot in the UK, I can remember my snowman melting in the barmy summer of 1974! 😂
I was in such a bad mood this morning, but your video really cheered me up, you made me laugh quite a few times, thanks. I drive past the monkey forest on my way to Trentham Gardens just up the road, but I’ve never actually visited
This makes me so happy to hear! Thanks for watching!
A package holiday is usually a good bet. Just be sure to chose a reputable company to go with. There is so much included that you almost don't have to think if you don't want to. Always love your take on things British
I've never used package holidays as I love planning my own. But I went to Ibiza last year on a package trip and it was really good to be able to concentrate on having fun and have everything else organised. This was perfect for me for a party holiday but think I'll still do them individually for the most part.
Package Holidays are aimed at a variety of groups- I.e. singles, young or older groups, families , sports orientated, resort based or excursion/sightseeing or some of these combined. City, beach, cultural, mountain all are offered under a, weekend or longer breaks package deal.
I love how sometimes your honesty makes you uncomfortable! I makes me appreciate your content even more! keep up this great work you are doing because it's good entertainment for me Lass!
A must visit is the Eden Project here in Cornwall? Not sure if you've been or heard of it but worth checking out.
It's excellent.
The cost always put me off. Plus it looks like it’d be very warm inside those domes!
I've never heard another YT'er say English bathtubs are better, but I remember reading an issue of the X-Men (iirc) where Nightcrawler gets in a bathtub and says how much better UK vs New York tubs are because you can fully lie down. That comic was written by Chris Claremont, an Englishman.
Most Brits call it swimming in the sea because the surrounding water is either the North Sea, the Irish / Celtic sea (or the English Channel / La Manche if you're French). Scots and the Northern Irish might say differently as their coasts are actually on the Atlantic ocean.
Monkey Forest is amazing, then get on the paddle steamer down the lake and go to Trentham Gardens! The whole place is excellent.
Love this video, it feels very off the cuff.
I love doing these types when I can just sit down and spill everything in my mind. Thanks for watching. 😂
I just got back from a road trip in the states. Happened to go to the Maclellanville (SC) shrimp festival. Sat on the pier, dangling feet in the water to cool off (no knotted hankie, to fit in better), then heard someone say something about crocs. Didn't react straight away, so as not to look soft but yeah, wasn't thinking about the wildlife.
Alligators. Crocs are those rubber shoes unless you're in Florida.
From my 60th birthday I got my senior's bus pass. It means I can travel the length and breadth of Wales and even into Herefordshire without spending a penny to do so..
Parkrun is international! It started in the UK - and the UK still has more parkrun events than any other country, but it has spread to Australia, the USA, South Africa and several other countries across the world.
This is the most unexpected - but delightful - list imaginable. Love how your brain works!
BTW the weather thing only works if you're in the south/south east. If you're in Glasgow the weather is bloody.
Thanks for the UK love 🇬🇧 can also confirm the Monkey Forest is great!
Thank you for your video. I really appreciate how you give your own individual take that is so different to other USA/UK channels. It's good that you are creative and don't just comment on material made by others. ❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸
I'm south UK and i totally agree with everything you just said 👋👋
Package holiday. We do it in Denmark to and Germany does to.
So does France.
I love that you included the climate of the UK. My family immigrated to the US many years back and asked me to join them. One of the top reasons, of many, why I didn’t was climate. I love the weather in the UK. It’s never too much of anything. Yes, we adore moaning about it but then we go to Cape Verde and moan the entire time about the heat 😆
Well, I have just learnt about two things in the UK I didn't know about. Park Runs and Monkey Forest. Never too old to learn. Thanks. 😊😊
there you go, what a day! Enjoy the rest of it!
But is there a Park Run IN Monkey Forest???🐵🐒🦍🦧
BEST IDEA EVER
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial Doesn't begin with a Z (IYKYK) ☺
@@jamesbeeching6138Yes, when the monkeys come running after you!!
I remember as a kid in the 70s looking through all of the holiday brochures we'd brought home from the high street travel agents. I don't remember all the names of the brochures companies, except maybe 'Cosmos' and 'Thompsons'.
I have absolutely used TUI package deals for my 'trip of a lifetime' holidays. They used to do a package deal to Cube where they sorted out the visa arrangements for you which saved a ton of time and effort, and last year I spend a chunk of my redundancy money on an all inclusive trip to Mauritius and it was great not having to worry about anything other than how I was gonna get to Heathrow.
IIRC the first modern package holiday was designed by a holiday firm in London (maybe Upminster, and maybe to Portugal) in the 1970s...and boy, did it catch on (I am pleased to be corrected if I am wrong)
I loved swimming in Florida! Lifeguards at every beach, and after 40 mins playing in the water no one had turned blue with cold.
You are so witty and eloquent. Loved this unscripted video. xx
You are so right about heat. I lived in Australia for four years (without air conditioning), and on a hot day in the UK I remember why I wanted to come home. Just being outside in that heat was an ordeal in Australia and I would put on a sarong get in the cold shower get wet before going outside. OK when you are young, but now, no thanks.
I took a package holidays just for the flight, transfer and hotel but I was there to learn to scuba dive and the company that did this was near the package holiday hotel. We took the package but did not interact with the package in anyway until the return transfer. It is worth looking at packages that anticipate that you will buy extras (and this was one of them) because if you dont then you can get some great deals.
I never thought that UK bathtubs were bigger and better! Thanks for pointing this out and thanks to you, I'll appreciate our mild damp climate more and stop complaining about it.
Not been to Monkey Forest but I have been to Trentham Gardens and the outlet mall there, as I live about an hour away from Stoke.
Choosing a package holiday is the most stressful thing ever, but yeay i do it every year
We never do a package holiday I find they cost more than booking easyJet and airbnb…I’m in uk and travelling to Georgia US in September and everything is booked separately but rolled up into a flight with car package to get extra protection, I use Dialaflight for US trips they’re great.
Love your attitude and look forward to your next video. I don't go for package holidays normally but fully endorse the ski packages, definitely the least stressful way to hit the slopes
A friend of mine was working as a nanny in Florida and I went over for visit and one of the first things she said when I got there was "Remember, where we're from, nothing can eat you... here, everything wants to eat you!"
It is very informative video. American people are very honest. You are from America
Thomas Cook invented the package holiday.
Ok I did not except the Monkey forest in Trentham to appear!!!! It’s wonderful there. My son was in monkey heaven! It’s hard going for those of us who are mobility challenged because it can be very steep. But it’s set on the Trentham Estate so there’s tons of forest type land and the monkeys just roam around. It was a great place to visit when we were up in Stoke on Trent (my mum is from there so practically grew up around there as a kid)
Yay for Trentham and the monkeys!
This sure was eye-opening 😮 🤯
But how can anyone not love London Girl?? 😵💫 🤔 ❤
Another big parkrun fan here which I've loved ever since dong my first one back in 2012.
Another thing about the heat is the humidity! We live in a temperate climate which is why everything is so green, but when the sun comes up, that moisture enters the air and it's HORRIBLE! I have colleagues from Africa and India and the Middle East (I work in a University) and they ALL struggle with our summers.
I've lived in Stoke-on-Trent all my life, and I have yet to visit the monkey forest. Got to make sure we go soon.
Well worth a visit! Then you can go shopping at Trentham Gardens!
Package holidays was the usual way to book an overseas holiday(Thomas Cook was the first) before the internet came along. When you didn't have to phone call BA to see what times they flew to country x, when you didn't have to speak Greek to see if a hotel had rooms etc. Also you could get last minute deals if they had unsold rooms. Now we want to pick and choose every bit
Not sure that it's safe to swim in the sea or lakes anymore thanks to our water supply/sewerage companies,good to see you back ❤❤.
There are some few places where it's considered not safe to Swim around the UK, but it is monitored and those places are heavily signposted.
Come to Scotland then...water and sewage is no issue here.
I ❤ UK bath tubs merch incoming, 😂.
you guys let me be so insane, I love it 😂
Nah ....I ❤ British Cardboard merch!!
Shop around for tickets . Plane ,train, bus.boat, etc. And if you can book in advance. And when the British youngsters are on Sumner vacations then prices from hotels to trains or planes go up .
Great video. The concept of package hols originated with Thomas Cook organising family holidays to places like Blackpool for factory workers on their annual week off. When young I hated the idea of being organised and packaged with a lot of strangers, used to book a flight and with back pack roam about not even necessarily staying in the original country and if money ran short sleep on a beach. Now in decrepit antiquity I appreciate the idea of a hotel organised for me beforehand!
Have lived in these isles for all many a long year and you have introduced me to something I never knew existed! Monkey Forrest, never even heard of it, though there is a Monkey World in Dorset which is fascinating and a lot if not all monkeys and apes are rescued.
You can do some pretty crazy packages though, my friend's just back from hiking 3 weeks through Latin/Southern America, which him and his partner just booked as a package. It was pretty fairly priced - considering the air travel, guides and everything involved and they saw some amazing things + got 5x days (I think) at the end of it in a really nice hotel/resort.
We are kinda glad you do ! We may be quirky, even odd on occasions, but if we like you we’ll tease you mercilessly, if we don’t like you, you’ll soon know about it. And you have some redeeming features like you married a Brit.
Besides, in general I quite like Americans. I’m Ex British Army and I came into contact with a number of American Service personnel and once we had educated them to our sense of humour they were a good bunch.
Just a comment about public transport in the US. I have used the bus in suburban Marin county in California, to get the ferry to San Francisco. The bus was fine, with plenty of middle class passengers. I also used the public bus from Sea-Tac airport to central Seattle with no problems.
But many other places you definitely need a car or a taxi. You need to ask a local.
Some companies do packaged European river cruises that are nice and organised, relaxing yet interesting and often without even the irritation of tipping.
I lived in Salt Lake, Utah for a few months a few years ago & often got a bus to Provo & found it ok.
The one bus I didn’t like was the Greyhound. The air con made it so cold.
When my friend was travelling from Utah to Chicago a bloke died on hers & no one knew about it for a few hours. They just thought he was asleep. So scary.
The loos on them were awful.
A package holiday sounds great. I never go on holiday tho & have forgotten what one feels like.
Kaylin, I don’t think we are very adventurous, but when we are in the USA (2 or 3 times a year) we always use public transport. Recently this has meant Miami and Fort Lauderdale, but it’s what we do generally. We are not comfortable with hiring a car, but we will use Uber for short trips around town.
That was fantastic and funny, great video.
We normally book holidays ourselves, as the places we've wanted to visit don't usually have packages from the UK (Scotland in particular), but one time we wanted to do the Grand Circle, western USA, taking in the Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion etc - we found that we could buy a package from Virgin including flights, accommodation, and car hire, cheaper than we could buy just the flights on the same plane.
I also love package holidays as sea, its called a cruise, and absolutely everything is taken care of by the cruise company. Almost every day I wake up in a new country and look forward to being a tourist, but when its over, I'm glad I'm coming back to the UK.
I travel a lot, but an obvious detriment to cruising is that you only go to port cities. You don't have to cruise very much before you run out of new places to go.
If you want good beaches, check out Suffolk or Norfolk (very different.) If you pick the right place you feel like you have a private beach.
Never heard of Monkey Forest but have been to Monkey World in Dorset (as seen on TV). All the monkeys and apes are either rescued from other countries or bred in the park. It's a wonderful place and well worth a visit.
5:30 One of the slight drawbacks about outdoor swimming in the UK is that it will seldom be anything other than chilly. The solution is to suck/chew a toffee while you dry off as vigorously as you can. By the time you're done you'll be reasonably warm and your teeth will not be chattering.
Yes! Other British people really need to stop praying for the heat! Below 5° is definitely very unpleasant, but at least at home there's heating. Over 25° there's nothing you can do. 15-20 is my ideal range (although yesterday it was 18 and very humid which was nasty so maybe I need to reassess)
Is that The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, on the bookshelf behind you? One of my favourite books!
I can never understand why people want to reintroduce bears wolves and boars to the UK
I like that when walking in woods all you have to fear is foxes and cows
There are loads 9f wild boars in the British forests!!🐗🐗🐗🐗
We already have bears on the floor of the stock exchange, Wolves in the form of the football club, and the house of commons is stuffed with 'bores'!
THOSE IDIOTS ON COUNTRYFILE WANT TO TURN OUR FIELDS AND WOODLANDS BACK A THOUSAND PLUS YEARS, WHEN THE RICH AND POWERFUL HUNTED THOSE DANGEROUS CREATURES FOR FUN.
Wild boars can be very dangerous. Especially if you get too close to a female and her young - daddy (AKA the alpha male) is never too far away and he is scary.
We have a lot of bears in Slovakia, they are amazing but sometimes they chase people lol
When I was working in a mountain resort, my friend called in saying that she can't get to work because there is a bear waiting at a train station so she couldn't get out of the train.
I do miss our wildlife, bears, wolves, chamois, wild hamsters, lynx, fireflies etc, they are all cute but I do not miss mosquitos and ticks.
You can easily get 10 mosquito bites in one evening and ticks will sometimes make you go to the hospital when you unsuccessfully remove the tick and accidently leave its head inside your skin, which can kill you. They like to hide and prefer soft skin, my friend had one on his D and ended up going to a hospital with it...I've had a few but I was able to remove them properly.
There are some here in the UK, but nowhere near as much. The fact that I can sit in the park in the UK is amazing. You better avoid grass in Slovakia during the summer
Difference between sea and ocean. We tend to call it sea, especially as we have the North Sea and Irish Sea. Down in Cornwall we have the Atlantic Ocean but we still tend to call it seaside and paddle in the sea.
Package holidays cover the full spectrum check out some of the packages that cover the northern Italian Lake particularly Lake Garda❤
What a super vlog ...never heard of monkey forest though...have to check it out now as Stoke isn't quite the place I'd of thought of going! 🙈🤣🤣
Package holidays are like a night out in the bowling club / week in Butlins. If you've never experienced it, it's a shock and a probably a disappointment. If you know what you're getting yourself into. You can have a ball.
Monkey forest, trentham is a good for a couple of hours (140 Barbary macaques,) a pleasant break from visiting the nearby potteries.
In the UK we tend to call it "The Sea". We dont really use the word Ocean unless we are talking about the Atlantic or Pacific ocean
In rough terms a sea is a small area off an ocean. There are just a few oceans around the world. Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern and Artic.
@@Brian3989 Yes I know but in the UK we call it the sea even if we are looking straight out at the Atlantic Ocean
The thing about package holidays is that they're buying in bulk - so they can get _much_ better prices (hotels, air fares, transfers, etc) than you as an individual.
Parkruns are all over the world. It is big in Australia too.