{"podcast":{"title":"Gary Bembridge's Tips For Travellers","slug":"gary-bembridge-s-tips-for-travellers-1061978","podcast_index_feed_id":1061978,"rss_url":"https://tips4travellers.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://tips4travellers.libsyn.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/0/7/d/d/07dd605fa222d2a916c3140a3186d450/Tips_For_Travellers_Podcast_July_2025.png","author":"Gary Bembridge","episode_count":561,"summary":"Want to make more of your precious travel time and money? Then the Tips For Travellers podcast is likely the podcast for you! Every week your host (Gary Bembridge, a published travel author, writer, video maker, blogger and YouTuber - his channel has over 29 million video views!) shares travel inspiration, advice, tips and money saving ideas based on his first-hand experiences of travelling every month of every year for over 25 years. Each episode features one of these (1) destinations reviews and tips, (2) answers to listener travel questions, (3) live travel reports or (4) cruise line reviews and advice on getting the most from them. Visit http://www.TipsForTravellers.com to follow Tips For Travellers on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Twitter and to sign up for the monthly newsletter.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gary-bembridge-s-tips-for-travellers-1061978"},"episode":{"title":"What I Wish I'd Known BEFORE Doing A Machu Picchu Excursion Off A Cruise! (Podcast #570)","slug":"what-i-wish-i-d-known-before-doing-a-machu-picchu-excursion-off-a-cruise-podcast-570","published_at":"2026-05-18T05:05:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gary-bembridge-s-tips-for-travellers-1061978/what-i-wish-i-d-known-before-doing-a-machu-picchu-excursion-off-a-cruise-podcast-570","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gary-bembridge-s-tips-for-travellers-1061978","url":"https://tips4travellers.libsyn.com/what-i-wish-id-known-before-doing-a-machu-picchu-excursion-off-a-cruise-podcast-570","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tips4travellers/570_TFT_Machu_Picchu_Excursion_TFT.mp3?dest-id=114478","summary":"I abandoned my ship mid-cruise for three days to see one of the most iconic sights in the world: Machu Picchu. But after booking an eye-wateringly expensive $5,000 excursion with Holland America, I started to realise just how much could go wrong. Machu Picchu is not a simple shore excursion. It's over 300 miles inland, deep in the Andes, and getting there requires a tightly choreographed chain of flights, buses, trains, and timed entry tickets. One delay, one missed connection, or a bout of altitude sickness, and the whole costly trip could unravel. In this video, I take you along on my journey from the MS Oosterdam in Lima to the \"Lost City of the Incas.\" Join me as I discover if this was an incredible, never-to-forget adventure or a stressful, $5,000 mistake. Become a Tips For Travellers Patron: https://www.patreon.com/tipsfortravellers and get exclusive Patron-only content, downloads and livestreams Visit my Tips For Travellers YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tipsfortravellers Offers: Get 10% any order of The Cruise Maps who you visit the site using this link: https://www.TheCruiseMaps.com/TFT • • Get up to 30% off collectible tokens of place you've visited using the link: https://www.TheWanderClub.com/TFT","meta_description":"I abandoned my ship mid-cruise for three days to see one of the most iconic sights in the world: Machu Picchu. But after booking an eye-wateringly expensi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":777,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gary-bembridge-s-tips-for-travellers-1061978/episodes/what-i-wish-i-d-known-before-doing-a-machu-picchu-excursion-off-a-cruise-podcast-570/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gary-bembridge-s-tips-for-travellers-1061978/what-i-wish-i-d-known-before-doing-a-machu-picchu-excursion-off-a-cruise-podcast-570.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}