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William’s Family

You and your spouse are excited about your long overdue vacation to the heart of Europe to visit Germany. You will fly first class from Cincinnati to Frankfurt, Germany. You will fly out of Cincinnati on a Sunday and arrive in Frankfurt on Monday. Upon arrival in Frankfurt, you are to take a train to Heidelberg, Germany. You will be spending Monday and ‍‍‍Tuesday in Heidelberg. You need to pick a four star hotel and one four star restaurant to dine at. Make sure you include a positive review of the hotel and the restaurant. You are to arrange a visit to the Heidelberg Castle and plan a dinner Rhine River cruise. Wednesday morning you are to take a train to Munich Germany. You are to find lodging at the #1 hotel ranked by Trip Advisor for two nights. While in ‍ Munich arrange an afternoon at the Munich Zoo and arrange a day ski trip up in the mountains. Friday morning rent a car in Munich and head to Dachau Concentration Camp. Give yourself a few hours at the camp. Find lodging nearby. Make sure you MapQuest the route and keep track of gas expenditure. Saturday morning you are to head back to Frankfurt and set up a night at the theater. Sunday morning you will return the rental car at Frankfurt Airport and take a return trip to Cincinnati, Ohio. You have plenty of money but would like to keep your total cost of the trip below $20,000.

Directions:

You are a family and will be responsible for planning and creating a vacation within a specified budget. You will receive your destination and amount of money that is available to you for this trip. You will organize your itinerary on a wiki that your group will create.

You will be responsible for all travel arrangements including airline tickets, rental car, hotel reservations, entertainment, dining, MapQuest directions, and a budget. The budget spreadsheet must includes all estimated expenses for the trip and not exceed the allotted amount of money given to your family.

Good resources to use for travel arrangements are Expedia, Travelocity, Mobissimo, and Mapquest. Trip Advisor is an excellent site for finding reviews of hotels and b and b’s.

Arrange your wiki day by day. Everyone is gone for seven days so you should have seven sections for the actual trip. In addition, I would like you to have an introduction page as well which should include several pictures, and an abbreviated day by day itinerary. You should also have a spread sheet that itemizes all of the expenses that you accrue. Each day section should have pics and links to the places you will be visiting. You should also have the day itinerary listed at the top of each page.

Everyone should contribute to the work. I will be checking to make sure everyone equally participates in this assignment. Divide up the work. The only way your group will be successful is if everyone does their part. This will be an in school project so no one is to go home and do all of the work on their own. Everyone needs to contribute.

Of course this is a simulation. You are not actually ordering tickets and making reservations. Do not put any personal information on any site you visit. You shouldn’t need to give your name in order to find the cost of tickets, etc…If a site is asking for personal information (including an email address) do not give it and let me know.

A portion of your grade will be your presentation that you make to the rest of the class. There will be more information to come about that as we get closer. We will also have guests who will visit our wikis and give constructive feedback. Practice sharing your wiki with an audience. Make it look professional and inviting.

Most importantly, happy vacationing!!!

Sunday: - we will be flying to Frankfurt, Germany Monday: <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">-we will arrive in Frankfurt <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">-taking train to Heidelberg <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">-dine at four star resturaunt <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">-visiting Heidelberg castle <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Tuesday: <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">-free exploring day <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Wednesday: <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">-take train to Munich <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">-visit the Munich Zoo <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Thursday: <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">-ski trip to mountains <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Friday: <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">-pick up rental car <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">-visit Dachau Concentration Camp <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Saturday: <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">-travel back to Frankfurt, Germany <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">-night at the theatre <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Sunday: <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">-return rental car at Frankfurt airport <span style="color: #0100ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">-end our trip and fly back to Cincinnati