Hello, an annual trip or convention for this group would b e grand! Do we have any travel agents in the forum?

Hosting a convention is mucho mucho work and you need sponsors & volunteers to make it run smooth. Providing plenty activities and vendors too boot.

Coordinating a trip is time consuming even when you have an established network. For the London trip, we rent flats (apartments) and provide Underground passes to each person for two weeks, prepurchase at least 4 popular theatre performance tickets for each person and arrange all air/ground transportation to/from airports.

For Jamaica, everything is easier because you book an all-inclusive resort with plenty of entertainment, you usually request a block of rooms in one building. The resorts send a minibus to collect you from the airport but you still have to arrange air tranportation and provide checklists so no body has trouble with customs. It helps if you can plan "events" that your group can get into and possibly something that other guests may want to join as well. We plan for something every day such as toga night, Red Hat fashion show, beach body art, champagne beach celebration, photo contest (costume), we sometimes get pretty crazy, hence the SEXY Ol Bats...

I will offer to help the Boomers arrange an event/outing/trip. If a travel agent is part of the group that is a huge head start.