CJ BDM Pleasant Holidays

26/07/2022

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25/07/2022

Pleasant Holidays is excited to share that the very popular Hilton Waikoloa Village Inclusive offer has been extended for new bookings confirmed through 7/31/22! The updated flyer can be found on PleasantAgent.com under "Downloadable Flyers" and can be customized with your agency details. Additional space was opened up so there are many dates available for travel through 5/31/2023. Visit PleasantAgent.com for information and reservations.

20/07/2022

28/08/2021

So Awesome!

Pleasant Holidays is excited to announce our new partnership with Travefy, making it even easier for you to import and create engaging custom itineraries for your clients. Contact Travefy directly for information on importing Pleasant Holidays itineraries or setting up a new account.

11/08/2021

SO happy to be boarding a ship on the wonderful and fun NCL Cruise Line for one of their test cruises! Boarding was smooth. Crew are so happy to have passengers again! I'm ecstatic to be on a ship again! All is good!

05/08/2021

Woohoo!

Pleasant Holidays is excited to announce we have launched a new call-back system on the Pleasant Holidays Reservations and Customer Service lines so that you no longer need to hold until a Reservation or CSD agent is available.

If hold times are longer than 30 minutes you'll immediately receive the option to leave your phone number and we will call you back when your call is next in queue.

We have also added additional CSD agents to assist with the high volume of air changes and will be adding more CSD agents in September after the two current new hire classes graduate into reservations.

Thank you for your support of Pleasant Holidays and don't hesitate to contact your local BDM with any questions.

27/07/2021

...and to be sitting right here with a good friend!

A beach and warm weather is all I really need :)

24/07/2021

05/07/2021

So beautiful!

04/07/2021

This is so great! Our team rocks!

If your clients are as ready as we are to visit Europe again, use this brand new Pleasant Holidays Europe infographic to start the planning.

Also visit PleasantAgent.com to see our newly expanded Europe portfolio, new hotels in Greece were added this week and we'll be launching additional new properties across Europe in July & August.

01/07/2021

Jamaican Curry, a tropical rum drink, and a lounge chair with my toes in the sand! My kind of day!

30/06/2021

I have been lucky enough to travel the world and experience the many different cultures, societies, and differences in everyday life in different countries. I've lived onboard cruise ships with people for over 70 countries and we all learned from each other. This article I came across is a great reminder of not assuming that Americans (US Citizens - there is a difference) are "normal." We are the exception to almost everything we know and live.

https://www.redbookmag.com/life/g4523/american-culture-customs-traditions/?slide=37

What's up with those bathroom stalls?

18/06/2021

Great News for inter-island travel in Hawaii! Please see the latest regulations!

18/06/2021

Today is National Flip-Flop Day! Make sure to book a trip to your favorite beach destination, and bring all of your fabulous flip-flops!

Flip flops may be extremely popular, but there is a lot of history behind the flip flop that you probably didn’t know.

16/06/2021

Oh so true!

14/06/2021

Woohoo!

10/06/2021

This will be me... if I can ever narrow down where I want to go! It's been SO long, that I don't know what to pick!!!! Hahaha!

10/06/2021

Are you signed up to receive our Top Deals of the Week? If you aren't please reach out to your local BDM to be added to their email list so that you can share these amazing offers with your clients.

If you aren't certain who your Pleasant Holidays BDM is visit https://www.pleasantholidays.com/Sales-Department or email [email protected] to connect with the BDM in your local area.

08/06/2021

I will always give a big shout out to Oceans.. Past & Present!

It's so let's give a special shout-out to oceans past—strap in for some stratigraphic schooling! 🤓

The famous hoodoos at Bryce Canyon National Park are carved of Claron Formation Limestone, the Pink Cliffs at the zenith of the Grand Staircase. (See the topmost layer at Bristlecone Point, in the attached photo). These are the youngest rocks in the park, which makes sense as they are higher stratigraphically (on top of other rock layers).

When it comes to sedimentary rocks, geologists tend to start from the bottom up, since the older rocks layers lay beneath the younger rocks. 🧱 The oldest bedrocks exposed within the park are known collectively as the Gray Cliffs of the Grand Staircase and, except for the slightly younger Wahweap Formation, all were deposited in the early Cretaceous when much of the continent was covered by an inland sea known as the Western Interior Seaway. 🌊

From the base of the Gray Cliffs in Bryce Canyon National Park, the Naturita Formation (also commonly known as the Dakota Sandstone for its similarity to rocks found on the other side of the seaway, in Nebraska) formed from coastal plains and offshore deposits as the seaway first began to dominate the region. 🏖️ These sandy layers tend to be capped by a thin layer of shell debris 🐚 that spread through the region as the seaway encroached further onto land; this fossiliferous transition marks the lower extent of the rock formation directly above it, the Tropic Shale.

Named in 1931 for the town of Tropic, UT (where this photo was taken 📸), the Tropic Shale was deposited as very fine-grained ocean sediments when this area was submerged fully beneath the inland sea. 🌅 Beneath the pink Claron cliffs, the smooth gray hills in the foreground of this photo are made up of the Tropic Shale. This formation is rich with ammonite fossils , and 🦪 oysters, 🐌 gastropods, 🦈 shark teeth, 🐢 turtles, 🦎 marine reptiles, and 🦖 dinosaurs have all been found within it throughout its extent. (If you're familiar with geology a little further to the northeast, you may also know it as the Tununk Member of the Mancos Shale.)

As a rock, shale is one of the least durable and tends to erode into slopes beneath the more resistant cliffs above. Though clay has the potential to absorb large amounts of water, the orientation of the fine, flat clay flakes means that rain 🌧️ tends to roll over the soil without being absorbed. Coupled with the relative lack of organic material, this tends to make it inhospitable to plants (note how sparse the vegetation is on the slopes below the treeline). In the average year, seeds lay dormant in the dust; however, these shale barrens can erupt into brilliant superblooms following wet winters (so, not this year 😞) when enough water soaks into the soil. Something to watch for! 🌻

Up above the shaley gray slopes and below the pink cliffs there are some more resilient yellowish sandstone outcrops, the Straight Cliffs Formation. Deposited above the Tropic Shale in a delta as the Western Seaway withdrew, the Straight Cliffs show up in larger outcrops throughout the park and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, but faulting in this location makes the formation appear thinner than it actually is.

From about 100 million to 70 million years ago, much of the continent was covered by a shallow ocean and we see that today by the layers of sediments and fossils preserved therein. Though situated on a high plateau that is marked by erosion today, Bryce Canyon's watery beginnings are told in the rocks deposited here long ago. 🌎

Photo NPS/Cass Hennings
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08/06/2021

Do you think it's about time for this? How important has food become when in a destination. So much of history and culture is experienced through food!

20/05/2021

Contributing to "Throwback Thursday" - People always ask me if I have a favorite destination... I can honestly say that I don't. The more you travel, the more you realize that every place is special for how it makes you feel. I can also honestly say that Bermuda is one of my happy places. I took these back in 2011! Feels like another lifetime ago...

20/05/2021

Travel to Europe is in our sights! Join Nancy Logan, Director of Sales, for an update on everything Pleasant Holidays has to offer your clients in Europe including 5* resorts, European River Cruising, the Greek islands, train travel, and more – Pleasant Holidays is your passport to exploring Europe in style.

Use this link to register for 7:00am PT
https://www.bigmarker.com/Pleasant-Holidays/pleasant--journesetraining1728575

Use this link to register for 9:30am PT
https://www.bigmarker.com/Pleasant-Holidays/pleasant--journesetraining1728578

19/05/2021

There is always so much to see under the water.... Alaska has SO much to see just below the surface. I actually had the pleasure of snorkeling in Alaska, if you can believe that!

18/05/2021

Absolutely true! Thanks to a wonderful and talented travel advisor for sharing! :-)

05/05/2021

The value of a travel advisor is worth more than most travelers will ever realize! Here's to all of the travel advisors working hard to make dreams come true!

13/04/2021

I took this picture well over a year ago... flying over the Caribbean. Oh how I long for this view again!!!

09/04/2021

Mayan Ruins always amaze me!

29/03/2021

https://fb.watch/4xTWaNFHTF/
Aruba truly is "One Happy Island!"