– I know what I’m coming to and they know who’s coming. The welcome is warm. They say I’m the favorite guest, says Jan Ole Vesterlid. When the family went on holiday in 2008, they were recommended Hotel Sunrise Village Hotell på Crete by the local travel agency in Ålesund. Every year since then, Jan Ole has chosen the same hotel. This year will be the 17th time. Jan Ole Vesterlid from Ålesund travels to this hotel year after year. Photo: Jan Ole Vesterlid – I’m traveling on 31 August. On the same day that Märtha marries he Durek in Geiranger, he decides. He, who was the hotel director the first time Vesterlid traveled, has now retired, but his son has taken over and Jan Ole is like part of the family. Jan Ole Vesterlid and the hotel manager Alexandros Kolinos at Sunrise Village Hotel. Photo: Private – I have been to both christenings and weddings at the people who own the hotel. I will remember the Greek wedding for a long time. It was a small wedding with only 400 guests. In a large Greek wedding, there are probably over 2,000, he says. Do you often travel on holiday to the same city? Share your favorite travel destination at the bottom of the article. – Repetition is the norm Professor emeritus at the University of Bergen, Svein Larsen, believes that there is nothing sensational about Jan Ole Vesterlid doing the same thing every holiday. It would have been more sensational if he did something completely new, he believes. – Repetition, preferably with a dispute, is the most common. Not that one seeks new, foreign or unknown destinations. Svein Larsen is professor emeritus at the University of Bergen. Photo: Silje Katrine Robinson / Khrono The psychology professor has researched tourists, and it emerges that people tend to believe about themselves that they are looking for new and exciting destinations, and new and challenging experiences. – But what turns out to be interesting for people is experiencing something familiar in a new way. A new hotel in the “South”, a new country in the “South” or a new cruise ship, for example. Svein Larsen thinks we can undoubtedly relax better on a trip when we travel to something familiar. – We would prefer not to expose ourselves to very unknown situations. Simply because it causes uncertainty and worries. And the psychology professor is himself a good example of a tourist who seeks out the familiar. – I am traveling to Germany. There I found a hotel with a great view over the Rhine, he says. Could you do like Jan Ole and travel to the same hotel year after year? Yes, it looks very relaxing😎 No, I want to travel to new places 🏄♂️ Yes, I do everything like Jan Ole ☀ Show result 22 years to the same hotel in London Jan Ole Vesterlid has one pallet left to deliver on today’s mail route in Ørsta. He will work all summer, before the trip goes to Greece again. – It’s great to drive post in the summer, he says. Jan Ole Vesterlid delivers today’s last podium in Ørsta. Photo: Olaug Bjørneset / news But Vesterlid is very happy to go on holiday, and it is not just Crete and his other family there that are on the plan. – Every year around Black Friday I travel to London. I have stayed there in the same hotel, in room number 16, 22 times. It’s so easy when I know where to go and where everything is, he says. – But isn’t it tempting to experience something new? – No, I can do that when I retire. When people ask me this question, I usually answer that I will do something else when I get bored, he smiles. CORAL COMMENT FIELD Published 20.06.2024, at 21.19
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Jan Ole Vesterlid has traveled to the same hotel in Crete 17 years in a row – news Møre og Romsdal – Local news, TV and radio
