Travel Planner Reveals You Wreck Vacations by Booking Cheap Parking Lot Views

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•Kari Becker of Marvelous Mouse Travels specializes in booking all-inclusive vacations and spots common booking errors.
•She advises against booking the cheapest room with minimal views and suggests considering resorts in non-tropical places like Canada and Japan.
•Her recommendations include avoiding trips during hurricane season without insurance, not taking kids every time, and researching food quality before booking.

Kari Becker, professional vacation mastermind and all-inclusive trip wizard at Marvelous Mouse Travels, warns you against the classic mistakes that turn pricey tropical dreams into ‘what did I sign up for’ nightmares. Ditch the cheapest room, especially if you're eyeing that 'partial ocean view' that’s just a teasing sliver of blue, essentially blue-photooptosis by the trees. She advises considering $5000+ week-long splurges carefully — maybe skip a couple of days instead of enduring a parking lot panorama or a musty ground-floor swamp smell. Also, surprise, Canada and Japan have resorts too, not just palm trees! Don’t always take the kids (gasp!) — because adults-only is apparently a vacation for adults, really! Don’t just trust your friend’s rave about that poolside 'electric margarita', because maybe you want dinner that doesn’t taste like sadness. Oh, and $0 downpayment during hurricane season might get you cheap rates, but pack your patience along with travel insurance. Kari’s motto is: you can avoid these rookie mistakes, or you can cry into your fruit punch while staring at scaffolding.

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Booking a cheap ocean-view room but ending up with a parking lot vista is money's final joke on you. We're all terrible life drivers, but at least some of us crash with style.

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