"Planning a trip in advance, long before your suitcase ever leaves the cupboard, offers up a very particular and potent type of dopamine hit. The moment you confirm a flight or secure a coveted reservation delivers its own quiet thrill (the traveller's version of quiet luxury, perhaps?), a reminder that the joy of travel lives not only in the trip itself, but in the anticipation that precedes it."
"Booking early has myriad practical advantages, too: It can protect you from soaring prices, guarantee access to peak-season experiences, and ensure a smorgasbord of accommodation options that often fill up months before departure. The extra planning room also allows you to seek out lesser-known routes and time your visit to seasonal spectacles. Plus, it offers the underrated delight of months filled with small frissons of excitement every time you think about what is to come."
Planning a trip well in advance delivers a potent anticipatory dopamine hit when flights or coveted reservations are secured. Early booking protects travelers from soaring prices, guarantees access to peak-season experiences, and preserves a wide range of accommodation options that often fill months ahead. Additional lead time enables discovering lesser-known routes and timing visits to seasonal spectacles. Long-term planning produces repeated small bursts of excitement in the months before departure. Ambitious itineraries such as tracking wildlife in East Africa or touring the Peloponnese in Greece particularly benefit from being planned a full year ahead.
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