10/14/2025
POV: When your Travel Advisor turns into a Magician and Magically makes 18 suitcases Disappear!
Background to Story (Long Rant):
You curated an amazing city experience in Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪. The last night in the city, the group of clients are watching the Philadelphia Eagles 🦅, in Club lounge, around midnight, deliver a nail biting victory. Around 2AM, the last of your clients awake, goes back to their room and you, the Travel Advisor, does the same.
When you get to your room to prepare for the Safari flight in 5 hours, you realize that you have to figure out how to get 18 suitcases 😳 (plus 8 duffle bags), that 8 clients brought from Philly to East Africa, to Arusha and onwards to Zanzibar, Tanzania 🇹🇿. The word STRESS on 💯 is an Understatement. You know the next plane ✈️ you are about to board is small, but honestly have no idea how Really Small it is. You must come up with a solution in the Pinch. Literally a 2:00 minutes on the clock, 4th quarter situation.
At 3AM, clients comfortably sleeping 😴, you begin to text/call your supplier in Nairobi and supplier in Tanzania, all the while knowing they're probably well asleep. That Light 💡 Bulb moment kicks in! Maybe we can ship all the bags to Zanzibar, which is our final destination. Welp you find out that's not option.... 😩. Then you come up with the idea of transporting the luggage, via bus, from Nairobi to the border of Arusha for a handoff from one supplier to the next. All the while praying 🙏🏾 that border control doesn't interfere with the handoff.
Problem Solved. On to resolving the Next Issue. 8 Declined Tanzania 🇹🇿 Visas with an hour layover in Arusha before the next flight to Serengeti. Things you Don't see on Social Media..... LOL 😂 🤣 😂 🤣
