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21. Tétel - Travelling in Hungary and abroad - Kül- és belföldi utazás

• preparations
• favourite destinations
• types of trips (holiday, official, business, study, conferences)
• package tour (advantages, disadvantages)

If you travel to a foreign country, you’ll need a valid passport. If you are travelling to certain
countries, you have to apply for visas and you may also need certificates of vaccination. In
some countries you have to be able to prove that you have either enough cash or an embossed
bank card. Besides thinking about personal documents, you have many other arrangements.
For example, it advisable to book your ticket well in advance. You can book your tickets at
travel agencies, at airline offices or online. Lastly, it is advisable to either change money or
take credit cards.

Most people prefer package holidays at popular holiday resorts, which means that everything
is arranged for you and the price you pay includes transport, food and accommodation.

In Hungary, tourists can stay at

hotels, motels, pensions, guest
houses, youth hostels and in
campsites.
In Great Britain there are hotels,
inns, boarding houses, bed and
breakfasts, youth hostels and
campsites.
In the United States, instead of inns,
boarding houses and bed and
breakfasts, there are motels.

Hotels are classified according to the services they offer. Inns are pubs where people can stay
the night. Boarding houses are private houses where you pay to sleep and eat. Bed and
breakfasts are small hotels or private houses where you pay for a room and a meal in the
morning. You can find motels along roads and motorways. They are cheap hotels for people
travelling by car. Youth hostels provide cheap accommodation especially for students for a
short period of time.
I think the most popular holiday places are in exotic countries, for example, Tunesia in Africa,
India, Thailand, Canary-islands, Hawaii, Mauritius, Egypt, and so on. Lots of people go to
Italy, Croatia and Greece too.

Holidays are more than relaxation because you can spend your time in an active way. You can
walk long distances to get to know towns, visit museums, exhibitions and galleries, and even
do some sports, like cycling, sailing or bungee jumping and parachuting. 
Once I was parachuted with my husband by a motorboat above the Mediterranean Sea in
Tunesia, and it was wonderful.

There are several ways of traveling: holiday, formal travelling, business travel, study journey
and conference. Both of them are very useful, but you can relax and you can go sightseeing on
your holiday.

I prefer package
holidays because I like
it when I don’t have to
bother with organising
anything. I just go to
the travel agency and
ask them to arrange the
journey, the
accommodation and all
the programmes. We
went to our
honeymoon in this way
to Tunesia, and it was
wonderful. We were
waited at the airport, the assistants told everything, a flight was beautiful, our travel guide
waited for us at the airport in Tunesia and saw in us to the hotel, asked for our key, organised
the programmes and we could ask for her with everything.

On the other hand, some people prefer independent travel because package holidays are not
always cheap and extra costs can emerge. For example, my friends like to organise their
holidays themselves because they got disappointed by some travel agencies. They search for
addresses, call the places and book their accommodation.

Knowledge of foreign language is very important, and it facilitates our situation everywhere,
for example, at travelling, in restaurants, at shopping and so on.