Here is my shocker , as a craft beer drinker.. lousy beer , sagres and super bock bahhh amateur hour. Portugal is way behind its European brethren when it comes to craft beer. Don’t tell me it’s a wine thing , as France Spain had tons of craft. Searched high and low for good craft beer, and while I found it in porto, Lisbon , Coimbra and tomar. But it was a search and a half!!

A suggestion for a future video - what do you do about cancellation insurance for your future trips? Any idea? I am 78, my wife is 72, and we fear purchasing trips abroad as we do not know what will happen to us in a few months.

Love ur info …..such a cute sweet couple.

A lot of great ideas here. Thank you so much!

Love your channel ! Your emigration story is great !

Great tips!!

Great video! Canadian here visited northern Portugal not the Algarve. North of Lisbon has gems , key = small towns and cities . Coimbra, tomar , obidos, guimaraes , nazare. List goes on and on. Best bang for the buck small cities and towns. Prices go up in Lisbon and porto . Don’t shy away from Trains and buses , and bus use should never be frowned upon , clean organized and on time. Tips: , Use apps like Rome2Rio and do download apps from the bus companies, national train for travel routes. Buy an e sim pre trip , skip the airport line. Use google maps for location and routing for train and buses.

Do you go Apple tours?

Hello from the Colorado Rockies! We love Grand Circle Travel. We have done four river cruises in Europe. They are great for seniors. We have enjoyed each one. Please check them out. Grand Circle is actually based out of Boston.

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Love your videos! Struggling with all the topics you mentioned re: retirement. Finally downsized and it feels amazing - so much more freedom! Wish I could rent, buying a much smaller place because I have lots of animals. Please keep making more context! My husband loves your Rock n roll tshirts Norm!

Thanks for all the travel tips! I see that Travel Zoo has an annual fee.

Great video guys .. I kept pausing it and google-searched the companies. Now I have several bookmarks to research! One tip that I have .. recently searching Air Canada for flights to Barcelona, return from Rome for fall .. omg the prices are ridiculous, and they keep going up every time I look… I always try to support Canadian companies! I went on to google flights and found KLM/Air France were so much cheaper.. fine you have to change in Amsterdam or Paris, but hey it’s a journey and will take the savings 😅

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Love your show !!!! Have you ever seen trips from the London Ont Chamber of Commerce ???

When travelling. Prior to going I will check out the website of the local library, tourism website and local govt to see if there are events to attend. I’ve found bogo theatre tickets, street festivals and free local tours. Helps to keep your daily spend down while having an adventure

We use Vacations to Go, it's a cruise clearing house, we've used them several times taking cruises on Celebrity and Norwegian cruises around the Mediterranean east and west and Greece all for around 1k$ for 10 day cruises with amenities and on board credit etc. Window rooms. Their agents are great. The even post river cruises. We've also used Gate One Travel for EU River cruise and other travel. They were great and alley us to extend our itinerary with car rental.

You are lucky you fly out of Toronto. None of these deals apply to the Maritimes. Add up to 30-50% to the major centre deals. Just spent a month looking :(😢

Great to hear about the seniors travel ideas.

We are a member of our Auto Club in Australia. There are many, many affiliated clubs all over the world and a lot of them provide accommodation in some of the best parts of the cities they are in. Worth considering.

Checked out Travelzoo per your suggestion, but found there is an annual fee of $40 to join, which automatically renews unless the member chooses to cancel. You may have forgotten to mention that…

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Do you have to pay a fee yearly for Travel Zoo??

Great information. Just added YMT, Travelzoo and Exotica. Thank you for the tips. Where are your cruising to next? Congratulations on 100k. Have a great weekend.

Hi guys.. I'm heading to Portugal for the month of March this year (after watching your video's last year). Regarding the ETIAS application, I've tried the website and the app, but either won't allow me to process an application. Can you let me know what website you used? Thanks! PS.. the website did say... "The ETIAS is officially scheduled to come online in 2025. Once initiated, there will be a 180 day period of grace".

Costco travel often has great deals, and they really take care of you if anything goes wrong.

Great info! Thx for your tips and tricks!

Congrats on 100K!! I know you've said your ages before I forgot but wondering have you noticed any slowing down or less interest in travel as you age? I'm just curious to see when the go go years typically turn into slow go? Also great info on the video thanks! Though that's a lot of emails to navigate!

Hi Norm and Tina: Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers. Stay warm! Cheers! Paul & Helen.

I’m now looking into a tour with Exotica in Portugal. It looks good and great price but there are some terrible reviews on Trustpilot. Also many very good ones. But do you have any firsthand knowledge of the quality or customer service that you’re going on? Things do go wrong from time to time but I value a company that tries to help you out.

As a security measure I’d create a separate “travel” email address when signing up for all of these emails and newsletters. If the travel mail lists are compromised or sold, my main email address isn’t at risk. Plus I can read about travel at my convenience, as a stand alone topic, instead of having it interspersed through my main email communications which I would find annoying.

Excellent resourses. A list of links would be helpful. Thanks.

Thanks for the tips! In the states we can use AAA for travel deals. They have email alerts and a magazine that highlights travel information and the ads are often showing deals too.

I enjoyed an Azores Getaway tour many years ago too. Also used to be a big fan of Travelzoo, but like you, keeping an eye on how they shape up for the rest of the year. I was pleased to get the tip on the Toronto Star Saturday newspaper - that is fantastic information and I signed up right away. A new subscriber to you guys but from the first video, I got a gem of a tip so I am well-pleased :)

Great travel tips guys!

Thought I would see 100k when I jumped on this weekend, but you already passed that! Congratulations 👏👍

All great ideas but I'd never be able to get my wife to do last minute travel. If she can't prepare for travel way ahead she's a nervous wreck. In fact she's not much a traveler in any case though once I can get her out the door she seems to enjoy it. Ah well, she has many other fine qualities 👍

Try CAA as well. We got a great deal on the Canadian VIA rail trip from Toronto to Vancouver last year. Congrats on 100,000👏😊

The other funny observation is, when friends say tell us when you find a smoking travel deal, they generally won't book anyway. To really appreciate a deal, you have to actively follow the pricing.

Some really good advise here. Our go to initial cruise search is cruiseplum on a big screen next to google flights. Forget agout using a phone, use big monitors to see the details. Shoulder season cruise deals can be as low as $500 for two including taxes on nice ships. Also, when folks say "I wouldn't go to Cuba or Mexico", that means there may be some great travel deals there.

hey i went to sign up for travel zoo and they want a dollar to so sign up is that normal

i'm going to quebec next month on the great canadian bus tours . 4 day trip to winter carnival

How to get cheaper deals in expensive countries, like European countries?

Great to see you both doing so much Travel. Good on you both 👏🏼. Have you had any health issues you’ve had to deal with and overcome? Maybe a good one for a vlog 👌🏻

I love this list; there are some great ideas here. Also, congrats on 100k! Yay! I often find that the email lists get a little overwhelming. What tricks do you use to keep them in line?

We have found that talking to other travellers at your hotel or on your tour is a great way to get recommendations on destinations and deals

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Thanks for sharing!

If there are travel expos around you, those might be a nice place to find discounts too. In our area, there is an expo show for EVERYTHING!😊