Last weekend, my mother and I went to Philadelphia. I’ll probably spend the next few weeks raving about the assorted aspects of that trip, but today I want to talk about the travel agency that sent us there.
You see, we didn’t actually know where we were going until the day we left. We used this cool agency called Pack Up + Go to decide that for us. You fill out a survey – where you’ve been recently, where you’re headed in the near future, hotel vs B&B, what days you’d like to book the trip for, what sort of stuff you like, car or bus/train/plane.
Pack Up + Go arranges your flights and accommodations, sends you a list of what to pack and the weather forecast for where you’re headed, checks you in for your flights once check-in opens and emails you your boarding passes. They also send you an envelope that you don’t open until the day of departure with where you are headed, lists of places you might want to go in that place, and a map of the city.
As if this wasn’t enough, they also provided us with a dinner reservation and tickets to the Academy of Natural Sciences (which I will refrain from speaking about until a later post), most likely because we specified our interest in science and history on our survey.
