Why I Created Travel, Your Way

When it comes to planning a holiday, I think there are two types of travellers.

Some people prefer handing over the planning and letting someone else take care of every detail. Then there are those of us who genuinely enjoy planning our trips, researching, comparing hotels, reading reviews and building itineraries before we travel.

If you like booking everything yourself and experience that rush of excitement when you've got all of your tabs open whilst deciding what you'd like to book, you're going to love it here.

For me, planning a trip has always been part of the adventure. I look forward to figuring out where the ideal place to stay is, depending on the type of experience I'm after. If I just want somewhere hot where I can swim, I already know I'm looking for the best beachside hotel with great facilities. Or if I want to visit somewhere new, I know I'll be exploring the city, so I'll look for somewhere to stay with great transport links that fits my itinerary.

One of the reasons I wanted to start a travel blog was to have somewhere I could properly document the places I've visited, share my experiences and hopefully help someone else plan a trip of their own. That's the reason I created Travel, Your Way.

Travel, Your Way is where I'll be sharing the hotels I've loved, the places that surprised me, destination guides, hotel reviews, restaurant recommendations, travel photography, itineraries that worked (and those that definitely didn't), practical travel tips and the recommendations I'd happily give a friend.

If somewhere genuinely impressed me, I'll tell you why. If I don't think somewhere quite lives up to the hype, I'll tell you that too.

Every recommendation here comes from places I've personally visited, stayed or experienced myself.

That means you won't find generic or endless lists of places to stay or things to do, only places I'd genuinely recommend to a friend.

I want this travel blog to become somewhere people return to because they trust the recommendations, enjoy the stories and discover somewhere they might never have found otherwise.

Whether you're planning a weekend city break, a honeymoon or your next big adventure, I hope something here helps make the journey a little more exciting, or a little less stressful.

If one of my posts inspires you to book somewhere you've never considered before, or gives you the confidence to book one of my recommendations, then Travel, Your Way will have done exactly what I hoped it would.

Thanks for reading, and as always, book better travel 💚

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