What’s your go to ‘treat’ to yourself when traveling for work (that isn’t breaking any rules)?

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For a few years now, I’ve adopted the habit of staying one more night whenever I’ve traveled to. Even if it’s on my own dime. I get a cheap AirBnB or try to crash with a friend.

It sounds small, but you you can squeeze a micro vacation into those 24 hrs. I have done things like:

Spent an entire day at Disney World.
Went to Niagara Falls.
Relaxed on a beach in Malibu.
Partied in Miami.
Ferried over to Granville Island.

It’s probably less viable for people with families. But if you can manage it, I can’t recommend it enough.

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The first night I always hang in the hotel room and eat takeout on the bed in the robe while watching awful tv.

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Home alone style

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Cocaine.

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- warm bath if there’s a tub in the hotel room
- am fitness classes at new studios if you’re in a city (not on shoot days but like the morning of tech scout or the PPM or something)
- candidly telling my team i need alone time and reading or like calling my mom or something

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+1 always a bath, also a requirement of the hotel I choose. Must have a bath.

Finding the most-expensive restaurant and ordering whatever I want.

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Sadly it’s mostly ‘most expensive within the holding company per diem’ but agree that food is the main win.

Flaneuring, reading alone at a bar.

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Get stoned and walk around to some main touristic spot nearby to people watch a bit :)

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If it’s at the 4seasons (oil money) I’ll fall asleep in the bathtub jacuzzi, eating room service, while watching the tv that’s secretly inside the bathroom mirror.

:)

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First stop - eat the Pringles in the mini bar

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A fancy hotel bath, ordering in and not going out with coworkers

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Broadway plays if in NYC and I am not cramming the night before.

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Go to nudist beaches with my clients

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Try on all the robes

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Run on the beach

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Admire the optimism that there’s going to be a beach nearby and you’re not staying at a business park in Minneapolis.

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Botox stopover in Seoul on the way to the airport

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Two soft boiled eggs and an avocado

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rules?

I meant travel policies mainly. But federal laws too, I guess.

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Dispensary

Once I bought gum at the airport and I had to reimburse the holding company $6.

Nose nachos

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