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Welcome to the Anglotopia podcast, the podcast for people who love British travel, history and culture. I'm your host, Jonathan Thomas. And today is a special bonus episode of the Anglotopia podcast outside of the regular numbered sequence, because we have a new book out and it was released last week. It is 101 Budget Travel Tips, third edition. This is the

galley. It's not the final version, but it's the version I have on hand to do this. And this is the third edition of this book that we have put out. We put out the first one in like 2012 or 2013, and then we put out a second edition just after the pandemic. And so much has changed just in five years of British travel that we decided to rip it apart and put out a third edition.

And so, so if you've bought the, our guidebook before, you're going to want to buy it again. And I'm not just saying that because I want to sell, sell you more books. now the brief origin story, I've been traveling to Britain for 25 years, ⁓ roughly 25 trips. And over those 25 years, I've, I, and we have made every expensive mistake in the book. And so this is the guide that

you wish someone had handed you before your first trip. And this will guide you on how not to get ripped off on your travels to Britain, how to save money and how to still have a good time even if you're traveling on a budget. ⁓ So this is not just a refresh, an update. I completely ripped this book apart. So like the previous edition of the guidebook, ⁓ like a third of the guidebook was a little

tips on free things to do in various places throughout Britain. I've taken all those out and made a big master list at the end of the book now that has all those free places to do and one big list divided by England, Scotland and Wales. And that allowed us to write 30 to 40 brand new tips for this book on how to save money on your travels in Britain. So it's not only.

have we updated almost every tip in this book, there's 30 to 40 new tips that have never been in the book before. So there's a ton of new content. And actually, if you look at the book, it's like twice as thick as it's a previous edition. Now, so my goal with this special podcast is I just want to guide you through the book and then I'll do a couple of readings from it.

mostly so we can have clips for social media about the new book. Cause this is a long-term play for Anglotopia This is one of our key titles that we stock. We sell this all the time. It sells well on Amazon. And so it was time to update it. And it complements well with our previously updated 101 London travel tips, which we released last year. And so, and I'll put a link in the show notes. We're actually selling these in a bundle. You can buy both of them and save. ⁓

but they complement each other well. And with these two, you can basically plan the perfect trip to Britain based on our 25 years of travel advice. like I said earlier, the travel landscape in Britain has changed substantially even in the last five years since the pandemic. Many things that were done before the pandemic have disappeared.

Um, Britain also went through Brexit, which changed travel a little bit for visitors, which we're gonna talk about. Um, and overall it's just. Travel in general has changed over 25 years. It's not the same as it was. mean, when my first trip to Britain was in 2001 before nine 11, that, that magical time when you could walk into the airport and not need a plane ticket to go to the gate and say goodbye to somebody. And, and so like,

things have changed so much in that small period of time. But one thing that hasn't changed is Britain. or at least the sites that Americans want to see and do in Britain, those places haven't changed much because many of them have been there for several hundred years. And so our goal with this book is to show you how to do it affordably because many people, and we've talked to thousands of people over the year, have been...

are often put off by travel to Britain thinking it's too expensive and that they can't do it and that they're going to spend a fortune. And that's not the case. You can do Britain affordably. Obviously you have a big sunk cost to get there with a plane ticket, but plane tickets, transatlantic plane tickets, but transatlantic plane tickets are super cheap right now. I mean, they're practically giving them away. You can get a ticket for $500 right now to Britain from Chicago or from New York.

and maybe even less if you're canny with your booking. And we haven't seen prices like that since our early days of travel to Britain. you know, getting there is not as expensive as you think, and having a good experience there is not as expensive as you think. But there's key things you need to know so that they don't end up being expensive, like, you know...

give you an example. If you want to visit many of Britain's stately homes, many of them are owned by the National Trust. If you've never heard of the National Trust, it's a major organization and charity in Britain that protects Britain's built heritage. It's been around for over 100 years. They do fantastic conservation work and they are a critical element of Britain's built landscape. And it's not free to visit National Trust properties. They're like museums. have to pay an admission charge.

And so the admissions to these places can be pretty expensive. You can spend 15, 20 pounds per person to get into these places. But did you know that...

If you join an organization in the US called the Royal Oak Foundation, less than a hundred dollars a year for a membership for a single person, then you get free admission to every National Trust property in England and Wales, and I believe in the National Trust for Scotland as well. So that has saved us so much money on our travels over the years. So it's tips like that that we put in the book that ⁓ you wouldn't necessarily know in advance and you...

you know, let's say you show up to Chartwell or to Stourhead or to one of the other great houses and you're like, and you end up spending a hundred pounds for you and your family to get in. You didn't need to do that. ⁓ so it's, it's, it's tips like that that are in this book. And so I'm gonna, I'm gonna sort of talk to you about why this book, why now? And then I'm going to pick 10 of my favorite tips to kind of give you a taste of what's inside. don't.

I don't feel like it's giving too much away. There's 101 tips. So if I gave you 10, maybe 11 now, because I gave you the National Trust one. so, you know, a family of four could easily spend $10,000 on a one to two week trip to Britain without even trying. You could spend a lot more than that without even trying. ⁓ And our philosophy with this book is that it doesn't have to cost that much. ⁓ You could probably do it for half of that.

⁓ but also we, over the years of traveling, you know, we've, we've, when we first started traveling to Britain, we were college students. We were, you know, we didn't have much money. All we had was the, was the money we paid for the trips with from our school loans and grants that we had left over at the, end of the year. I consider that ankle to a piece of seed money. And so we didn't have much money to spend and travel in Britain. We, and we had a one trip where.

through poor planning and youthful stupidity when I was 21 years old, we ran out of money. I to make a panicked phone call to my parents from a London phone box, begging for them to deposit my paycheck early so that we could have money to finish our trip. know, looking back now from 42 to 22, things have changed and things changed over the years as we built the business based on Britain where...

you know, it became less about saving as much money as possible, but also comfort and having as fun of a trip as possible and not suffering while we're traveling. And, but we don't believe that if you're doing budget travel, right, that you have to suffer. It's just about being sensible and saving money when in the right places so that you can spend more on lodging so you're comfortable or that you can spend more on a rental car so you can show yourself around or.

You have more money to spend on souvenirs or go shopping in London on your last day. So it's things like that. Budget travel isn't about suffering. It's about spending money on the things that matter and refusing to waste money on the elements of your trip that you don't need to. And I don't want to sound negative about Britain, but it's almost like ⁓ there are, and British people might actually even agree with this, that

They get nickel and dime when it comes to travel and tourism in their own country. Everything costs something. And that's the same here in the U.S. Everything costs something. But there are all these little things that add up to make a day out really expensive, as the British call it. And there are ways, there are ways around that, you know, because it's it's it's it's little things like, you know, and I'll talk about this a little later with one of the tips, you know, like they charge you now to drop people off at the airport, like

It's just like everything costs something or you now have to pay to you have to pay to use the car park next to a heritage attraction in addition to paying admission to get in. So it's things like that. add up. But there are ways to avoid those things if you plan ahead. And so that's that's really the goal with with our books like this is so you have this information in advance so you know how to plan ahead and you can make the most of your trip and not waste money on things you don't need to. So it doesn't mean suffering. It means just being sensible.

⁓ So. ⁓

Let's see. Now our books are written from a particular perspective. We're Americans from the Midwest. We have a particular worldview and a particular way of looking at things. So this book is kind of geared towards that. but there, if you're British and you're listening to the podcast, or if you're Canadian or Australian or from New Zealand, 90 % of these tips will still apply to you and your travels in Britain. So we just, the way we write is the perspective of Americans. So that may put some people off, but

⁓ A lot of the information is still gold and will still be available no matter what country you're from. You know, there's we've learned so many mistakes the hard way and I'll get into that. But one of like one of my famous examples I like to use is we went on a business trip to England. ⁓ The first or second time with iPhones and international roaming was a new thing and.

We thought it was great that our smartphone worked while we were traveling. could use the map app and get where we wanted to go. And we could make phone calls and check our emails and all that stuff. Well, we didn't know that international roaming had an extra cost. And when we got home and got our phone bill the next month, we had a $1,200 phone bill from all of our adventures in Britain. And we didn't know, this is 2008, 2009, we just

didn't know, you know, and these are things that you learn. And so from these lessons, these painful financial lessons that we've had, we're giving you this information so these things don't happen to you. And international roaming again has changed substantially in 20 years. It's much different now than it was 20 years ago. And so I'll talk about that. I actually think that I'll use that as one of the tips when I do a reading later. So.

Quick overview of the book sections before I go into and deep dive into the individual tips. there's the before you go section, which talks about the new ETA requirements, not a visa, but it costs money. And if you don't have it, it'll cost you even more money. How to find airfare deals, the freight travel credit cards, packing,

your bags to avoid baggage fees. The next section is getting around. ⁓ We talk about Britain's rail system, how you use it, how Brit rail passes work, how they can save travelers money, ⁓ how the fare caps work and tips for saving money on car rentals. We talk about where to stay, affordable combinations that aren't depressing, aren't soulless and budget hotels that are scary to be in. We talk about eating and drinking.

how you can, one of your biggest costs when you travel is gonna be food and eating three meals a day. Well, we give you the tips on how to save with that. We talk about how to cite C Smart, to, know, which organizations to join, which ones have heritage passes and all that. ⁓ We talk about the mechanics of just using your credit card or your debit card abroad and how that will cost you money and what you can expect to pay.

And then we talk about safety and practical things. What happens if you lose your passport or you need to access UK emergency services or you get sick or you break a bone and you got to go to the hospital and how to avoid pickpockets. So we talk about all those, all those things. and, ⁓ it's just, it's an overall good guide, best practices for traveling, not just to save your pocketbook, but also to have a good trip. ⁓

So the... ⁓

All right, so I'm going to pick 10 tips from the book and read through them and give you an idea of what you can expect from the book. So.

The first one we're gonna talk about is the new ETA requirement. And you're like, what is that? What is the ETA requirement?

So the first thing I wanna talk about is actually tip number 45, and it is understanding electronic travel authorization. we actually have a whole podcast about this, so I won't go into great detail on this, but there's a new rule for visiting Britain and many Americans still don't know about it. So you need to get an electronic travel authorization before you depart for Britain. What is that? Well, it's not a visa. That's what everyone calls it a visa.

It's not a visa. Americans can still travel visa free to the United Kingdom for up to six months. We do not need a visa to visit. The ETA is a separate thing. All it says is that you have been authorized electronically to travel to Britain. And it's a process you go through. You can do it any time before your travel. But if you don't do it and you show up at the airport, you're not going. ⁓

from I think actually today, February 24th, when I'm recording this is the hard deadline where they will be strictly enforcing the ETA. If you do not have it when you are at your ⁓ port of departure, you are not getting on the plane and coming to Britain. So what is it? Well, all it does is it says you are authorized to travel to Britain and the whole like America's had a similar system for years called the ESTA.

And so the rest of the world's like, well, what are you complaining about? You make us do it. We're not going to get into that. The, but what I will say is like the ESTA, there's a whole like ecosystem of businesses that have popped up to try and, and, and help you get your ETA when you actually don't need to use a third party to get it. You do not, you do this yourself, use the official app and you pay the fee directly to the British government.

and you will save money because the services are gonna charge like 60, 70, 80 pounds to do it on your behalf when you didn't need to do that. so ⁓ applying is really easy. Just use the official app. Go on the app store ⁓ for iOS or Android and you download the official ETA UK app. Now, when you do the search for the app,

which you're gonna see is you're gonna see ads for the third party services trying to sell you. So make sure you download the official app from the British government. ⁓ It's really easy to spot. It's a really simple app. You download the app and then you go through the process in the app to apply for ETA and pay for it in the app. And then you submit it and then within minutes, usually you're approved. If you're not approved, that's a whole nother problem because there's not an appeal process. So, but once you're approved,

You'll get an email that says you're approved and then that's it. You don't even need to, you don't need to have the app with you. You don't need to carry a certificate. You don't need to do, bring anything with you to the airport. All it says is that you've done this. I would keep the record that you've done this in your email bin box or keep it on your phone, screenshot it that you've done it. But the government knows you're coming now. You have been electronically authorized to travel. And so the airline will know that we'll check now before you board your plane. And then when you get to Britain,

You use the e-gates, you scan your palm of your hand, they take a picture of you and they let you right in. They don't even stamp your passport anymore. So like I said, the key tip here is though, don't use third party services. You do this yourself. It's 16 pounds as I'm recording this. It used to be 10 pounds, but they raised it. ⁓ It's 16 pounds. so anyone charging you a fee more than 16 pounds to do this is ripping you off.

So that's a key one. ⁓ Another one that we discovered actually fairly recently is ⁓ airport drop-off fees. ⁓ this was a sneaky one. ⁓ I had heard that there were airport drop-off fees, but it never really applied to me because we'd either take the train to the airport or we'd have somebody drop us at the airport anyway.

And so we, but Heathrow added it fairly recently. And so this hit us on our last trip. Now, so Heathrow charges, I think it's a $5 drop-off fee. I believe they're raising it to seven. And it's basically a fee you get, the person driving you to the airport is being charged to drop you off.

And this applies to whether if you're using a car service to not just people who random people who are dropping you off. And so the way we got hit by this was I wanted Mrs. Ingle Topia and I were finishing our trip. I wanted to drop her with the bags off at the airport at the terminal. And then I would be the one stuck taking the free bus from the car rental return place back to the airport because we didn't want to do it with our bags and all that. So

I did that, dropped her off, turned the car, came back, didn't think anything of it. I saw the sign that said, oh, there's a drop-off fee. I'm like, okay, I'll just have to remember to pay that. Well, as travel goes, I forgot to pay it because once you get into travel mode and getting home mode, it's easy to just forget something like that.

So what stung me was that I forgot about it until I got home. Well, what happens is the system is based on your number plate. And so there's cameras scanning your number plate. And if you have a rental car, they scan the number plate and they sent the bill to the rental car company. so, but because I forgot to pay within 24 hours, the rental car company, the fee was a hundred pounds. ⁓

as a penalty fee for forgetting to do it. And then the rental car company charged me 40 pounds to process and manage the transaction. So.

making it easier to drop my wife off with the bags at the terminal and they're costing us 140 pounds. Like that was not, we were not amused. When I got home, after that happened, I was not amused. And you you want to keep a good relationship with the rental car company. You don't want to be blacklisted. So you pay the fee, that's, so you got to watch out for those airport drop off fees. And if, and if you're well aware of the airport drop off fees, don't forget to pay them because if you do.

you will be screwed. next is supermarket meal deals. So.

⁓ we have actually several tips in the book about this, about, about going to the grocery store. So if you, one of the first things we do when we get to Britain is we go to the grocery store and we go buy a bunch of snacky things. buy stuff for charcuterie, buy stuff for sandwiches and, or, and they, and then we've got, and we buy stuff for breakfast. That's the key thing. Buy stuff for breakfast.

You start off with a good breakfast in the day, even if you're staying in a hotel, then you're going to have a light lunch and save your money for a more expensive higher dollar dinner. And so ⁓ we are big advocates of, of going to the supermarket. But if you're also self catering, you can get the supermarket meal deal. Like ⁓ for lunch, they'll have a sandwich and a drink and a bag of chips for like three or four pounds. Like you can't beat that. And the British are

like they do sandwiches completely differently than we do where you can, you have dozens of different options to choose from, from different kinds of sandwiches and it's cheap. And then you just pick it up and go and you've had, there you have lunch. But also they have dinner meal deals too, where it depends on the chain, but like you can get your main, your side, your dessert and a bottle of wine for like 10 to 15 pounds.

So if you're self catering and you don't wanna eat out that night, go to the supermarket, get the meal deal. You'll get a dinner for two for 10 to 15 pounds. You cannot beat that. So don't sleep on going to the supermarket. It's one of our favorite budget hacks. ⁓

Next is the Oyster card. So for years we advocated, you must get the Oyster card to use London's transport system. gives you the cheapest fare when you travel the network. You basically tap in, tap out, and no matter how many times you tap in and tap out during the day, it calculates how much you owe and how much fare is used. And you never charged above the maximum daily fare cap. Well, ⁓

you can still use Oyster cards and you can still buy Oyster cards, but you don't need to use them. You don't need them anymore. They now have contactless fares where you tap. you're, if you have a tap credit card or debit card, all you do is tap that and then it all the same rules and everything applies. So when we went on October, 2022, it was the first time we tapped with our credit cards. I use a wise card, which I should probably get into that, but it's a, it's an international travel card.

and you just tap in and out and it lets you in. And at the end of the day, it settles up and takes the maximum fair amount of the network that you use, which is no more than like seven or eight pounds a day. you don't need to buy the Oyster card in advance. You don't need to buy it when you get there. Just use your credit card as long as you have tap on it and make sure again, if you're going to use your credit card like this several times a day, make sure you have a good international travel credit card. doesn't charge you a ton of fees. ⁓

for international transactions. That's why I recommend the Wise Card because they don't charge any fees like that. ⁓

Booking train fares. This is another key thing. ⁓ We talk, there are several tips related to trains because I love trains. I love traveling by train. ⁓ You know, the biggest way you can save money on train travel in Britain is to buy the Brit Rail Pass. ⁓ This is something that's not available to British people. This is only available to people coming to the UK. And it's basically you choose how many days you wanna use the rail line.

how long you expect to be there, what class you want to be in, what kind of accommodation you want. And then you can basically get unlimited train travel for the period of that pass. And they can cost a lot of money depending on the length of your trip, but in the aggregate, you'll save a lot of money by paying for this pass in advance than buying individual train fares to travel all the way around Britain. ⁓ If you are only gonna use the train in unlimited capacity or once or twice or two or three times,

If you don't need a Britrail pass, you can just buy the train tickets ⁓ from the train operators individually. ⁓ There are multiple apps to help you book train tickets. There are multiple services online to help you book train tickets. You can book directly with each train operator because each region has its own train operator. This may be changing in the coming years, which I'm going to have to rip apart all the tips and write a new one when Great British Railways comes into full fruition and they finished nationalizing all the railways again. But for now,

You can book train tickets up to 12 weeks out from your travel, which I actually think isn't enough, but British people think I'm weird for thinking that. And it's usually cheaper to book further in advance than it is closer in advance. So, you know, a same day journey can cost four to five times more than if you'd have bought it a month earlier or two months earlier.

As you get to the 12 week mark before travel, start looking up your train ticket prices for the journeys you want to make. And if it makes financial sense, buy them in advance. If it doesn't make financial sense, buy them on the day, whatever. I always recommend getting open tickets though, so that you can take any train going to the destination where you want to go. That way you're not stuck taking a specific train to a specific place because trains are late, trains get canceled and it just...

causes more headaches. So get open train tickets. ⁓ So that's trains. ⁓ The next thing I wanna talk about is a tip that's actually been in the book from the first edition. And that's one of the biggest boring currency scams that I just hate. It drives me crazy. ⁓ When you go shopping in Britain and you use an American credit card, more often than not, the cash register will give you the option.

⁓ to convert or to pay in dollars rather than convert your purchase into pounds. And ⁓ it's basically a legal scam because what happens is you're paying the conversion rates set by the merchant's credit card processor and their bank. So they're skimming money off of that transaction ⁓ if you're converting it to dollars at.

the checkout because it creates a layer between you and your credit card back home. There's fees, they take a cut. And so don't pay in dollars if you're given the option at the cash register in Britain. Do not, you're overpaying. I've seen this time and time again. Always pay in pounds because what happens when you pay in pounds, your credit card,

Automatically converts it to dollars anyway at the day's intermarket exchange rate. So the rate that you see on all the currency Tickers it gets it at that day's rate Granted your credit card may charge your bank may charge you a transaction fee for that It's still going to be less than if you pay in US dollars in the UK Do not pay in US dollars never pay in US dollars. You're overpaying pay in pounds so

If one of our lodging opinions have changed over the years as we've sought more comfort in our travel, you know, when I was a 22 year old college student and I was just happy to be in London, I loved the easy hotel chain, which still exists. These hotels are these impersonal hotels often spread out a little further from the tourist areas.

where you can pay 25, 30 pounds a night for your hotel room and that's it. The catch is that they charge for everything, including a remote to watch the TV. Some of the rooms have no windows. There's been a whole proliferation of hotels like this since. There's now pod hotels and like at the Trocadero has been turned into a pod hotel where you're basically in a hermetically sealed pod with no windows. But hey, you're paying 25, 30 pounds a night and that like...

can't do it. I have to at least have a window. When I was younger, I was fine, but I'm claustrophobic now and you cannot trap me in a windowless room and expect me to enjoy my trip, even if it's in Piccadilly Circus. So I don't recommend these pot hotels, but if you're not claustrophobic and you don't care if there's no sunlight, you can save a ton of money staying in hotels like this, but not part of my travel goals anymore.

However, if I do still want to save money, never will not recommend Premier Ends, one of the major budget hotel chains in Britain. Consistent quality, you get breakfast included, and advanced rates can be 35 pounds a night near or around most major British cities or tourist attractions. Granted, you're not gonna be in the best location, you might be next to the motorway.

you might be a little further out than you want to be, but you can count on a breakfast and a cheap room, clean and the standards of Premier and are actually really good. So don't sleep pun intended on Premier Inn. It's the hotel chain every budget traveler in Britain needs to know about. And so there's hundreds of them spread around Britain. So if you want to go somewhere, see if there's a Premier Inn, it'll save money.

Afternoon tea. Now, this is one of the, this could be one of your most expensive trip costs. Like, no joke, ⁓ back in 2022, we did London for a business trip and a conference and we had a few extra days. So we wanted to have a luxurious high tea experience. So we did the Fortnum & Mason high tea ⁓ and it was 85 pounds per person, which is absurd.

Like I hated, I hated paying that much for it, but I did it for, know, to review it and do social media. So like it's a business write off, right? But I didn't think it was really worth 85 pounds per person personally, even though the service was good, the food was good. That's just a lot, but you can get an afternoon high tea for half that or a third of that and many other places. So we talk about that in the book and also do some research in advance.

If you want to have a nice high tea experience, are plenty of places to have high tea that don't cost 85 pounds per person. So.

This is one of my transatlantic travel hacks. ⁓ Pack snacks for your flight and don't count on buying those snacks at the airport before you leave. ⁓ Transatlantic airline food, it's not controversial to say that airline food is generally terrible unless you're in business class or above. I mean, it's a tray of...

reconstituted food made in a manufacturing facility where you beef or chicken or fish or chicken and and and you don't really like it's just hot and it's tasteless or tastes awful and like however When a tragic landing flight is long so you have to eat and my general philosophy with business trips and travel in general is if there's food eat it because you don't know when you're gonna eat next

And so, you know, if you don't eat that meal on the plane, well, think, think ahead. You have to land yet. You have to get your bags from the, if you didn't check it or if you didn't do carry on only, you have to get through immigration. You have to get through customs. You have to get to where you're staying. If it's too early to check in, you have to leave your bag. Like it's going to be, it could be several hours before you eat.

So if you don't eat that little breakfast they give you on the plane, because it was unappetizing, it's gonna be a while until you can eat. So pack snacks and don't buy them at the airport because the airport is designed to take as much money out of your pocket as possible on both ends, not just in Britain, but in the US. Things in the airport, Hudson News cost three or four times what you would expect them to cost outside the airport. And that's just the convenience tax.

And as long as you know that, you know, whatever, that they're just the supply and demand, but there's nothing stopping you from bringing your favorite snacks with you to the airport. so like we, ⁓ Thomas family is going on vacation in a few weeks. And so I'm already planning the snacks we're going to bring in our bags because everybody's going to have their particular snack and we're not going to rely on the airport or to pay at the airport. just bring them with us. And so.

Bring those snacks. My favorite thing is ⁓ to pack. They're called Perfect Bars. They're protein bars and they're pretty widely available everywhere. And it's a peanut butter protein bar that's like 400 calories. And so if the plain food was so bad that I'm hungry, I'll just eat one of those. I'll be fine for a few hours. ⁓

and you're flying, you're traveling, pack yourself a little treat. And I already gave away the National Trust tip ⁓ by joining the Royal Oak Foundation. ⁓ But also there's not just the Royal Oak Foundation. ⁓ English Heritage has an overseas members pass. You can get that. It's good for the usually the duration of your trip and you get ⁓ free admission to English Heritage properties. ⁓

There's not as many as the National Trust, but there are some key sites there. You can also join the Historic Houses Association. And if you're a member of that association, you can get free entry to about 300 or 400 privately owned stately homes like Highclair Castle, where they filmed down to Nebbe. And you don't need to prebook those tickets. You can show up on the day and get in with that pass. So, highly recommend.

looking into the places you wanna go, seeing which organizations they're a part of, and getting those membership passes in advance because you'll save so much money on admission. And then you can have more money to spend in the National Trust Gift Shop, buying a puzzle or buying tea and what have you. ⁓ So yeah, that's just 10 of the 101 tips in this book to save you money on your travels to Britain.

⁓ If you have a trip planned in the next year, highly recommend getting the book. Read it once, take it with you because it's compact. It will fit in your bag and you can have it with you. Give you live advice while you're traveling. ⁓ I'll put a link in the show notes to the product page and you'll see the whole table of content. I'm not going to read off all 101 tips, but I'll link to the list so you can see.

What's in this book well worth the money I think I wish this book had been available when I first started traveling probably would have saved me a lot of money, but My loss is your gain because now I've written the book So it's available now directly from us from the Angle Topia store The the regular retail price is $19.99 during launch week

It's $16.99, but most people won't hear this podcast during launch week. So sorry.

It's also available for booksellers everywhere. If you give them the ISBN number, they can order it for you. But of course, it's also available on Amazon. ⁓ Amazon's actually our publisher, so all of our books are on Amazon. You can order directly from Amazon. ⁓ If you're a Prime member, they can have it to you in two days. And so not only is it available in paperback, you can also get the ebook. It's available on Kindle.

But we also sell a digital rights management free ebook pack on the website, which also has launch week pricing where you buy the digital version, you get the an EPUB, which can you can put on your Kindle or any reader. You get a PDF, which you can read on any tablet, any computer, and you get an HTML file that a browsable HTML file that you can just read on your computer or anywhere.

can use the files however you want and view them whatever device you want. We've just tried to make it easy for you. ⁓ So that's in the Engeltopia store if you don't have a Kindle. And then also there's an audiobook version available through Audible ⁓ using their new ⁓ AI voice program. ⁓ don't... We're trying to make all of our books available by audiobook for those who want it. If you want it, you can have an audiobook. ⁓

⁓ This isn't really something I would buy an audiobook for, but that's my opinion. ⁓ If you're planning a trip to Britain in this year or next year or in 10 years, this book will pay for itself many times over. ⁓ Like I said, there's launch week pricing, which ends on Friday. So I'm gonna release this ⁓ probably today or tomorrow. So you still have a few days left to get that launch week pricing. And... ⁓

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