The Vacation Club Myth: Outdoor Activities Can Save You Thousands of Dollars Each Year!

Let's look at what John got wrong about a holiday club. John was sure that a vacation club only sold packages to hotels or resorts in different places, like trips to Las Vegas, cruises in the Caribbean, and so on. Some of John's experiences that broke this outdoor adventure blog club stereotype for good were a bear hunt in Saskatchewan, wilderness fishing in Alaska, and fly-in fishing in Ontario.

Don't you think it's more like an outdoor activity club?

Surprised? Never happen. The Best Vacation Club is even better than you thought it would be. It fits in with groups that go on outdoor adventures. Think about how a holiday club is more than just a collection of four- and five-star hotel and resort packages in the U.S. and other countries.

You'll find out that the best vacation club has fun outdoor activities like beautiful places to fish and great places to hunt. And you can find big discounts everywhere you look. Let's move on to travel in the outdoors. Here are three illustrations:

At Alaska's Boardwalk Lodge, you can fish in the woods for 5 days and 4 nights and everything is included.

The Boardwalk Lodge in Southeast Alaska, which is in the rain forest of Prince of Wales Island and 35 minutes from Ketchikan, has been chosen twice as "Alaska Lodge of the Year." You can fish in both saltwater and freshwater from a plane. Check out the 23 lakes, rivers, and streams where you can fish for steelhead, Dolly Varden, cutthroat trout, and other types of fish.

Sportsmen, don't stop there. Be ready to catch the ones that live in salt water. Salmon comes in many different kinds, including Chinook, Silver, Pink, Alaska Halibut, and Rockfish.

One important thing to know about this amazing escape plan is that it comes with both saltwater and freshwater gear, as well as guides who have been trained. Beer, wine, and five-course gourmet meals are also part of the trip.

Compared to the cheapest price on the Internet, each tourist SAVES $1,880.

7 days and 6 nights of shooting birds and Canada bears on private land

This shooting area, which is in between the Saskatchewan plains and the forested Canadian Shield, is the best place for big whitetail deer to live and for big black bears to be born.

The Mississippi flyway brings hundreds to thousands of lesser and greater Canadian geese, snow geese at all times of life, and many types of ducks to the hunting area. Hunters can also track the many birds that live in the uplands. Depending on the time of year, different kinds of games are available.

The tour operator will give you knowledgeable guides to show you around, and the trip plan will include all of your daily home-cooked meals. The LOWEST online price for a couple is $2,900.

Trophy whitetail deer hunt with a shooting bow in Harveyville, Kansas: 8 days and 7 nights

The best place to shoot bucks between 140 and 160 inches tall is on 20,000 acres of private land that is spread out and has small grain fields, creeks with thick woods, and prairie pastures. The guide checks out the area ahead of time to find the best deer. The outfitter also says that leaving the scene without a prize is much better than getting a trophy.

The downtown area of Harveyville, which is about 30 minutes from the shooting grounds, has some old-style homes. The kitchen and the bunk room next to it give you a lot of room to move around. The trip includes all transportation to the shooting areas and three home-cooked meals every day. Also, you SAVE $1,900 OFF the LOWEST cost per person for internet.

Jim Kirkpatrick is a member of a holiday club. He took a three-day trip and spent all of his daily allowance. He went to South Dakota to hunt pheasants. Jim says, "We got our limit from what I would call "swarms of pheasants."

Just north of Mitchell, South Dakota, Jim stayed at the Pheasant Phun hotel. He wants to go shooting for pheasants again soon. He says the trip only cost him $479, even though the average price had gone up to more than $1,000 per person.

So maybe I surprised you just as much as John did. You might want to join a holiday club like the ones I told you about in Alaska, Canada, and even Kansas. Bring your dream to life.

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