Getting a companion for international travel– what a concept! Marvellous for your pleasure and convenience, but…. You should definitely consider these things before you hire a companion for international travel to or with you:
- it’s possible to calculate travel expenses exactly. But when things go wrong en route, your companion could run out of your money. While she is traveling to and from you, the problem of money becomes yours. Yes, while she’s traveling from you too, because if you didn’t call her out to you, she wouldn’t be traveling back from you! This is why you’re paying her round trip travel expense.
- Did you hire the companion for a certain hour in your packed schedule? A lot can go wrong during intercity, interstate, or international travel. It takes only one means of transport to have a delay by a few minutes and the whole chain of events could suffer. And what if something goes seriously wrong? What if there is a power cut to parts of a country involved in the journey?
- What’s your plan B for the worst case scenario? Will you shorten your time with the companion? Or will you pay her for her time which you didn’t enjoy with her, but for which she traveled to you? Or will you make yourself late for the next item on your schedule?
- Time is also a factor. You’ll be unrealistic if you think that you can hire a companion for international travel to or with you from day to day. Bear in mind that she needs to organize her schedule, transport, and pack. Every action takes time. What if the flight nearest to your chosen meeting time isn’t available? Account for that. Plan forward. I require at least 168 hours’ [7 days’]notice for national and international travel.
To be realistic…
Of course, I’ve presented the worst-case scenarios for the sake of making the point clear. Power cuts to parts of a country involved in your companion’s journey are not common. But saying that, the infrastructure in various countries will vary too. Is that another factor to take into account which could add to the complications of hiring a companion for international travel?
Or is getting a companion for international travel worth bothering with?
Hence is hiring a companion for international travel really worth the trouble if it could involve so many unpredictable factors? Or are these unpredictable factors exactly why most women out there only pretend to tour to make themselves look important and most men will happily opt for a nearby establishment? You, dear reader, will have your answer. I say that if we really want something, we’ll travel the world and the seven seas to get it. And our desire to get it will happily find a way to accommodate all the unpredictable factors that hiring a companion for international travel may involve. Tell me with you think!
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