January 21st Meeting three....

Today we had another meeting, and everyone needed to bring in their passports, EHIC cards and EV4 forms most people have brought these in however some people still need to hand these in. These all needed to be photocopied. We also had to sign a roles and responsibilities form this shows us the allocated jobs which we must do in our groups. We all got a copy of these so nobody could forget what they were doing. We all then had to fill in a medical sheet, which had our emergency contact details down incase anything happened whilst we were in Prague!

 

We have now booked out hostel!! We had a choice of two hostels to stay in when we went to prague, we looked at the reviews of the hotel, locaion and the photos of the hotel. As a groups we all decided that wanted to stay in Sir Tobys!! (It has a cute dog!!)

The rooming arrangements are one dorm for 10 girls with shared shower facilities, 1 twin wirh private shower facilities this will be for Ross and Marcello and 1 single room for justine which also has private shower facilities. The total cost to stay in Sir Tobys is €837 which works out £713 we then got a 10% discount the price after this is €713 which works out as £642 and a price of £58.40 per person and £19.50 per night.

The hostel looks really nice and clean and also has a bar downstairs which is always good!! These are the pictures, so nice!! Sir Tobys also does breakfasts however there is a small charge from £1 - £4 this is for a buffet breakfast and we get to choose the style of breakfast we want. The hostel also offers transfers to and from the airport and this costs roughly £8 per person. This means we won't have to worry about finding out hostel!!

 

We booked the accommodation and were all excited about going to Prague, the next thing we need to decided on is the attractions which we want to see. That the next topic in our meeting! We are hopefully going to hold another fund raising event on 1st april and will be a cake sale!!

Thats all for now x

14th January 2011...

Today we did not have a meeting instead we had to put together a pre departure booklet for Prague, in our separate groups we had to find out different things to put into the booklet. Kaleigh is putting the booklet together and mine and Kristy’s role is to find what the climate is like in Prague using diagrams. Whilst we were researching the climate we found out that, Weather in Prague can change depending on the weather patterns. Prague has a continental weather climate with hot summers and cold winter. The best time to visit Prague is between May – September as this is usually when the weather is controllable, as its not too hot and not too cold, and the city is not overcrowded. During the summer period temperatures can usually reach 35C and in the winter can reach -15C. Spring and summer are usually he months to have the sunniest hours. Snow is rare in Prague during winter and rainfall is pretty much regular throughout the year, all seasons in Prague are beautiful, no matter what the weather is like.

As well as find out what the climate is like in Prague we also had to send Kaleigh the details of the flight details to add to the pre departure booklet the flight details are:

Flight Details

Flight 3065

London Standard to Prague 10^th May 2011 16:40

Dep:  10^th May 2011 1640

Arr: 10^th May 2011 19:30

Flight 3066

Prague to London Stansted 13^th May 2011 20:00

Dep:  13^th May2011 20:00

Arr:  13^th May 2011 20:55

Hand baggage

1 piece per passenger

Checked baggage

0 checked bags between all passengers combined up to a total combined weight of 0kg.

As we are travelling with hang luggage only we can pre-print our boarding pass before we go online and go straight to security at the airport.

Total cost of flights £759.56 being £69.05 per person.

Booking Reference: EHF1H9B

Booking the Flights!...

Monday 10^th January

On Monday Kristy and I booked the flights to Prague, this was because easyJet had a sale on a flights booked and this ended Tuesday. Me and Kristy booked the flights together as we are the Transport team and this is one of the jobs which we had to do. When you book the flights you must take everyone name down so we had do write everyone’s name making sure that they were spelt correctly. The flights were cheap compared to when we last looked at them. We have decided as a group that we would only be taking hand luggage which means that we will save time and check-in online and this saves us time at the airport. We are travelling to Prague on 10^th May 2011 – 13^th May 2011. We are flying from London Stansted airport, we have to be at the airport 2 hours before departure the flight is due to take off at 16:40 and land in Prague at 19:30. We fly back from Prague on 13^th May and out flight departure time is at 20:00 and we are due to land at London Stansted at 20:55. The total price for the flights was £759.56 and this is for 13 people to travel to Prague This works out as £69 per person.

First Fundraiser....

We did our first Fundraiser on Friday 17^th December, and we raised money for NSPCC this is a charity for children, and the event went really well and some of the money raised went towards our trip to Prague! We went round our college for about an hour to see if we can raise any money. We split up in groups to go around the college and these were Hayley, Steph D-C and Lorna, Ross, Steph B, Kristy and Gemma and Blaise, Kaleigh and me. As it was Christmas we all made an effort to look Christmassy and dressed as Elf’s or tried to wear something Christmassy. As it was the last day of term there weren’t many people at college, however we still raised £69.78 which was really good!! And it means that some of the money will go towards our Prague trip which means a little bit of the trip has been paid.

After we had raised the money Kaleigh and Lorna had to go to the finance department in the college to bank the money as they are the finance team. We are now planning our second fund raising event which will be sorted out by Blaise, Steph B and Hayley which means we will be able to raise more money!

I will keep you updated with everything which is happening! See ya later.

First Meeting....

We had our first meeting on Friday 10^th December, we had a list of things which we needed to do and as part of being on the transport team Kristy and I had to look at the prices of flights. As a group we all decided that we wanted to go to Prague on Monday 9^th to Thursday 12^th May we then all started to look at prices for the flights, we wanted to fly with easyJet and parents would drive us to and from the airport which means we wouldn’t have to pay for parking only petrol money.  We found out the flight roughly cost around £80 which means when we first looked at the prices they haven’t changed in price they have stayed the same which is good!!

As well as finding out prices for flights as a group we also looked at hotel prices, and attractions, however the meeting didn’t go that well as some people didn’t research the information which was needed.

We are trying to organise a fundraising event for on Friday 17^th December, so come back to this page and see what happened!!

First Stage...

We all had our first lesson on Prague on 26th November, during this lesson we all had to do 'A Self Perception Inventory' Test  from Doctor Meredith Belbin. We had seven questions which we had to complete to find out if we were an Implementor, Co-ordinator, Shaper, Plant, Resource Investigator, Monitor Evaluator, Team Worker and Completer Finisher. I found out that i scored the highest on Implementor which means conservative, dutiful, predictable, organising ability, practical common-sense, hard working and self discipline. This helped us to be put into teams, and i am on the Transport team and working with Kristy.


Job Title= Transport
Responsibility to- The group and the tutors
Working with- Kristy
Duties and Responsibilities-  Arrange bookings and transfers in the UK and Prague, check everyone in, leading departure date, arrange meeting points, decide to have baggage or not.


The first thing which we had to do as part of being on the transport team was to find out the cost of flights to Prague, for the dates which we wanted to go. Everyone was set a task depending on which group they were in the groups were Fundraising, Accommodation, Attractions and entertainment and Admin and communications and health and safety co-ordinators. 

Thats all for now but i will keep you all updated with whats happening!!  

Introduction...

Heyya my names Megan :D I’m 17 years old, I live in Essex! I’m a very short person (Which isn’t good) I love going out with my friends and love to have a laugh!! So now for the boring stuff! I’m currently studying Travel & Tourism at Colchester Institute, I want to go university after but not to sure!! I really want to take part in Camp America and go travelling! Don’t mind where!!

The main reason which I'm writing this blog is because as part of my assignment for Travel & Tourism we have to organise and plan an overseas trip. Part of this was to present our own destination and then as a group we would vote to choose which destination appealed to us the most. We eliminated it down to two these were Rome and Prague! We then had to choose which ones were the best and Prague won the vote which means that we shall be going to Prague next May as our overseas Trip :D

I will be posting my findings and keeping everyone up to date, with what has been happening whilst planning this trip.

See ya later!!