With summer fast approaching, we asked Leeds locals about their initial plans and for any holiday booking tips.
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00:00Going on my first holiday for the first time in about 14 years to Slovenia with some friends,
00:07so really looking forward to that. I don't like it when it's too hot, so I'm hoping it won't be too
00:13hot. I'll be useless if it is, but otherwise, yeah, looking forward to that, looking forward
00:17to the summer. It's always welcome after a long winter. Being a student, it's quite difficult to
00:21organise with money, but I feel like we always end up organising something about two weeks before
00:26we go. We look on cheap flights and try and get something sorted, then it's just a quick rush,
00:30pack, and then, yeah, off to the airport before we know it.
00:33I've not really planned anything this year. I usually tend to go to Barcelona, Spain. I think
00:39there's a potential for me to go to South Africa at some point. Could be the next couple of
00:44months, few months, depending on my work situation. But I generally don't, I'm not a good planner.
00:50I don't like to plan ahead too, too far. The only thing I will do is book my ticket. Then
00:54everything else is more close to the day. I look at Airbnbs.
00:56Yeah, you're very filled with the flowy. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm a very chill guy,
01:02you know, I don't like to stress myself out beforehand.
01:04Packing maybe within the week, within the week we go. And I'd like to go...
01:09I want to go to South East Asia. Okay. Yeah. I want to go to Ibiza.
01:14My partner is in teaching, so she gets a long holiday off, which is nice. We were originally
01:20planning on going to Berlin. I think that plan has maybe gone out the window a little bit
01:24right now, but I'm not too sure. I'm hoping it's going to be a nice summer here anyway,
01:27if I don't go abroad. But yeah, obviously planning a holiday now versus planning a holiday sort
01:34of five, ten years ago is very different. Everything is now online. I think that's good,
01:39because it's convenient, but it's also I think that convenience is maybe taking a little bit
01:43of control out of it, you know, and we're seeing as well a lot of sort of travel agencies and
01:47things shut down, which is, you know, that's jobs people are losing. I think that move movement
01:52towards entirely digital is in some cases not been a positive, you know, in case you lose
01:58your ticket or anything like that. Currently, I'm looking for a job. If I got a job
02:01got an offer, definitely I will fly from Leeds to like, you know, Greece, maybe Italy, but
02:08it depends. But summer is great. Summer in the UK is great, but I also travel around.
02:13And maybe a lot of people will go like South, South France is also a good destination. Maybe
02:18I also go again. I'm not leaving the country this summer just because I've just finished
02:22my degree or I will have just finished my degree. And so my focus is more on finding a
02:27job before I start booking holidays. But how I tend to book holidays is normally on credit
02:34because I can't afford them outright. And I think that's kind of the case for a lot of
02:37people. A ticket that you may be looking at, maybe like a flight to I don't know, say Italy
02:43or something that you're looking at, you could go on three other different sites have the
02:46exact same ticket, the exact same like plane, and it's like 20 or 30, 40 pounds cheaper.
02:52So comparison. Yeah, yeah. Comparison sites do your due diligence so that you can get it
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