1 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,559 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Fear and Greed summer series, brought to 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,159 Speaker 1: you by Luxury Escapes. I'm Michael Thompson and we are 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,399 Speaker 1: here at the new Luxury Escapes boutique at Bondi Junction 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: in Sydney, and today we are looking at the best 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 1: family holidays. I'm joined by Luke Humphreys from the Luxury 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: Escapes team. Luke, good morning, Good morning. 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 2: How are you doing today? 8 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 1: I'm going okay, thank you. We are talking about something 9 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: that is very close to my heart, family holidays. I 10 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: have two young kids, so I'm always on the lookout 11 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 1: for an escape with them. I should clarify that I'm 12 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: not trying to escape from the kids. Where's popular? Where 13 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: are people going? And let's start perhaps with domestic trips 14 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: without going too far traveling overseas with young kids. 15 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 2: Well, for sure, family holidays are probably one of the 16 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 2: favorite things that I saw in the store because you 17 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 2: get the whole family to come in and sit down 18 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 2: with them, and it's a nice easy thing to talk about. 19 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 2: In terms of domestic trips, I'd say at the moment, 20 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 2: we are just running through the Gold Coast. At the moment, 21 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 2: there's a fantastic deal on the SeaWorld resort. Best thing 22 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 2: about this the kids love it. They get unlimited entry 23 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 2: to all the theme parks within the SeaWorld. I think 24 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 2: that's five of them locked in there, and it's just 25 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 2: a nice, easy one for the families to go out. 26 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: All right, we need to talk about SeaWorld because I 27 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: went on that trip last year and it was fantastic. 28 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 1: So over the last few years we have taken the 29 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: kids to Fiji twice and SeaWorld once. The trip that 30 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: they talk about most was SeaWorld, which is extraordiny because 31 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: it shows that you do not need to spend a 32 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: fortune in order to have a really, really good time. 33 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: And I mean it is a kid's paradise. Like the 34 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: breakfast buffet is just out of this world, but the 35 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: access to the theme parks and things, you can have 36 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: an absolute ripper of a family holiday. And it doesn't 37 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: cost that much. 38 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 2: One hundred percent. And you touched on breakfast. The kids 39 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 2: get that for free as well, which is incredible. You 40 00:01:58,320 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 2: don't need to worry about that when you get there, 41 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 2: and if you go, I think it's a minimum of 42 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,559 Speaker 2: five nights. You have a theme park for every single 43 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 2: day that you can go and enjoy a completely separate day. 44 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a good option for most families that come. 45 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 1: In and the fact that you can kind of just 46 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: go in and out as you want, so that which 47 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,119 Speaker 1: is great if you got young kids. You don't need 48 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: to kind of spend the entire day there and drag 49 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: them around it and come in, go home, have a rest, 50 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: and go back and do it all again. 51 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,679 Speaker 2: The kids don't enjoy a fantastic expensive beach holiday in 52 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 2: a few years much as you think they would. They 53 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 2: like to be on roller coasters and water slides. 54 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: If someone had told me that though before we'd tried 55 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: Fiji twice, that would have been a great idea. But 56 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: what about if we do want to go over seas. 57 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: Maybe if the kids are a little bit older and 58 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: you want to go somewhere else and have a family holiday, 59 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: that's a little bit different. Yeah, where would you be recommending? 60 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 2: I think what I'm talking about most of course, Barley's 61 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:49,239 Speaker 2: nice and close to us, so it's easy. It's still 62 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: on the cheaper line for us, so a lot of 63 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 2: families find that really accessible. The results tend to do 64 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 2: a lot of all inclusive work and they're big results, 65 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 2: so you can eat for free, the adults can drink 66 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 2: for free, really close proximity to the beach, and it 67 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 2: feels very safe and then big results. So it's a 68 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 2: big push for families that are coming in there. 69 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: What are families really prioritizing here when you're looking perhaps overseas, 70 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: is it flight time? Because you don't want to be 71 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,919 Speaker 1: traveling twenty four hours to get to the other side 72 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: of the world. You're looking for something that's a little 73 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: bit more accessible, and that's why kind of Bali is 74 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: coming up so much. 75 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 2: I think a big one is direct flights. A lot 76 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 2: of families don't want to be getting off a flight, 77 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 2: waiting a few hours in another airport and moving on 78 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 2: to another place. Oh so Puquat's also coming in quite 79 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 2: a lot because there's a lovely direct flight that will 80 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 2: take you straight into Pouquet certainly I think eight or 81 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 2: nine hours now, which isn't too far away even in 82 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 2: comparison to Bali. So the world's getting more accessible, especially 83 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 2: for families. 84 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think you mentioned this when we're talking 85 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: about SeaWorld, but the fact that you have kind of 86 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: meals breakfast included, it gets really important when you are 87 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: on a family holiday to try and get as many 88 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: of those things included as you can, because it just 89 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: helps keep the cost down because it just balloons when 90 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: you're timing everything by three or four or five. 91 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 2: I think, especially for the adults, it tends to always 92 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 2: be free for the adults. The kids, they don't always 93 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 2: want to have lunch, dinner, breakfast every day, so it 94 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 2: doesn't matter too much. But as long as the adults 95 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 2: getting fed, then everyone's happy. 96 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, indeed, what about if you wanted something 97 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: that was a little bit different. We've talked about the 98 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: theme park kind of holiday, we talk about the beach 99 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 1: holiday perhaps with BALI, what about something else? Is there 100 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 1: anything that's kind of perhaps a little bit left field. 101 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 2: I think something's been popping up a lot lately, and 102 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 2: it's been Vietnam. Surprisingly, it's not too hard to get there. 103 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 2: It's very cheap for families, and they've got a lot 104 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 2: of results there down the coast at the moment, which 105 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 2: are just huge results with a lot of stuff going on, 106 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 2: so big swimming pools for the kids, mini theme parks, 107 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 2: and it's super cheap. So it's a good affordable family 108 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:53,919 Speaker 2: holiday for people that most people haven't really been to 109 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 2: before as well. 110 00:04:54,600 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 1: All right, so the priorities really are direct access, cost inclusions, yeah, 111 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: and just being able to get away. 112 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 2: Right and something memorable for the family. Of course, you 113 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 2: want to be going somewhere that you've you've never done before, 114 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 2: something to talk about. The kids can go back to 115 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 2: school and they can they can tell they mat it's 116 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,359 Speaker 2: about this amazing family holiday they've been on and I 117 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 2: think you're at Luxury Escapes we can we can offer 118 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 2: a lot of that for them. 119 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: Luke, thank you for your time, no worries, Thank you 120 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: very much for having me. That was Luke Humphreys from 121 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,239 Speaker 1: Luxury Escapes. Do not forget to follow on the podcast. 122 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: There are new episodes every day. I'm Michael Thompson and 123 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: this is the Fear and Great Summer Series, brought to 124 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: you by Luxury Escapes.