What restrictions are there when booking a gay and lesbian vacation?

What restrictions are there when booking a gay and lesbian vacation?

Charlie Rounds (Board Advisor, Gaytravel.com) gives expert video advice on: Where can I get information about gay and lesbian destinations?; Where can I find gay and lesbian destinations online?; What services can help me find gay and lesbian destinations? and more...

It's going to be specific to the type of vacation you're looking at, whether it be a cruise, whether it be a land vacation. Again, if you're looking at using frequent flyer tickets and you're thinking of Europe, just forget the summer; from May 1st through September. You're not going on frequent flyer points, and if you are, you had better book it 330 days in advance if they actually allow you, and you had better be the first one online to do it. Your number one restrictions are those holiday periods, if you can avoid them. If you're going on a gay and lesbian destination, for example Palm Springs, and there's a big circuit party there, you're probably going to need to avoid that. The other thing is citywide conventions. People don't often realize - Oh, lets go to L.A. for the week or let's go to San Francisco - when you find out there's 75,000 Schriners there which could be kind of fun in itself, but they've got all the hotel rooms. It's about finding out, by going to a city's website, if there are any citywide conventions. It's going to make it more difficult and your hotel to prices are going to be much higher.