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Last year, Microsoft veteran Dinesh Haridas and his wife traveled to Thailand expecting to spend a day sailing. Despite consulting travel guides and online sources, they were disappointed to learn when they arrived that the sailing season had ended a month earlier.
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Inspiration hit us when:  At the end of my last vacation, I was thinking how much simpler all my travel planning would have been if I d been able to just talk to somebody at the destination before I d gotten there.
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Would you rather have Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg or Bezos in your corner:   All three would be great. If it was just one, we d pick Bezos — Amazon has a track record for relentless customer focus and long-term thinking that we intend to uphold.
Our world domination strategy starts when:   It starts now. In 12 destinations across the US, at a very affordable price, we offer a travelers a relaxed travel planning experience, one that doesn t involve spending weekends sifting over guide books and browsing through tons of crowd-sourced data of varying quality.
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