Booking Travel for Your Volleyball Team

If you are involved in youth volleyball as a coach or team parent, you know how stressful it can be to make group travel arrangements for your volleyball team’s tournament travel. Certainly going to the most competitive tournaments possible and testing your girls’ skills against the best teams is exciting and worth every minute. This article suggests a few ways you can make your team travel a little easier, both on your team’s pocket books and on everybody’s nerves.

If you make travel arrangements for your volleyball team and their families, you may need 5 to 10 hotel rooms or more, depending on the size of your team. Your team might easily qualify as a group booking, which may entitle you to group hotel rates, group amenities, and other services. This is important to keep in mind. If you book with a group travel professional, he or she can secure these group benefits on your behalf. Most hotels will also Pre Key your rooms for you so that once you arrive at the hotel all your room keys are already ready to go. This makes checking in with your group much easier and helps cut down on delays at the front desk.

Another easy way to ensure a successful team trip is by the hotel you choose. The first hotel important hotel consideration is a hotel with interior corridors (hotel room doors that do not face the parking lot or outside). This makes your job as a coach or a chaperone much easier because, as you know supervising teenagers is part of the job when you take a team traveling.

The second consideration is to choose a hotel that offers free breakfast. This is a great way to conveniently and quickly have your first meal of the day as a team, all in one place, and without leaving your hotel. Everyone gets to eat, and then you can quickly load up and make it to your games on time.

Do not forget about location when choosing your hotel. If you can book a hotel within walking distance of the sports venue for your tournament, that is a very convenient option. However, if your tournament is in a big city, hotels in and around downtown can be quite expensive. You may be able to save a bit by booking a hotel slightly further out, but if you can stay within ten miles where you are playing you should be in good shape. Sometimes you can run into city-wide hotel sell-outs for large tournaments in smaller markets. Some volleyball teams and other sports teams have ended up staying 50 miles or more from the stadium or sports arena. The best way to avoid this is to book as early as possible, especially if you know well in advance that you are going to a particular tournament.

Patrick Soch, Senior Marketing Manager, Groople.com

There are many free services out there to help you with group travel arrangements for your sports team. That includes Groople.com, which offers the ability to book online for all your sports team travel.

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Grooming The Cavalier King Charles

The Cavalier King Charles has a coat of soft, gently-waving, never curly longish hair that is silky. There should be a profuse mane extending down in the front of the chest. There should also be thick feathering on the ears and feet, and well up the back of the legs. There should be plenty of feathering in the coat of a Cavalier King Charles. The coat should not be trimmed for the show ring.

Its red and white color type is called Blenheim after the Duke of Marlboroughs estate. Other colors include ruby, black and white and tricolor, which is a combination of black and white with russet brown accents.

Although the Cavalier King Charles claims origin in seventeenth-century England, the roots of most if not all true spaniels are found in Spain. The Cavalier King Charles probably also has some of the ancient Oriental toy breeds among its progenitors as well. Spaniels were and are sporting dogs, designed to flush and retrieve game birds. The Cavalier King Charles of the 1600s may have served a similar function, but the primary purpose was to provide pleasure for its English royalty owners. The Cavalier King Charles boasts a long history filled with royal favor.

You will need a slicker brush and comb. Many pet owners like the feet to be trimmed of feathering especially in the winter. Some pet owners prefer that all feathering be removed.

Grooming procedure:

1. Brush the Cavalier King Charles with the slicker brush.

2. Comb through the coat to remove all tangles. Use an untangle spray if necessary.

3. Check the Cavalier King Charles nails, ears and teeth.

4. Some pet owners like the thicker-coated dogs to be thinned out. You can use thinning scissors and thin with the growth of the coat. Comb the coat thoroughly. Assess whether more thinning is necessary.

5. The excess hair between food pads should always be cleaned out with scissors, but not on top of the feet. The show dog Cavalier King Charles will require a little extra attention.

Now your Cavalier King Charles is ready for his bath. Try bathing him with a pH-balanced shampoo. What may be useful for your Cavalier King Charles is a purifying shampoo and mask conditioner to enhance the coat and skin. Use this about every 4 months.

When you blow dry your Cavalier King Charles be sure you go along with the hair growth, rather than against it. You can also cage-dry your Cavalier King Charles after combing through the coat with a balsam conditioner.

Pet or show dog, the Cavalier King Charles is a delightful creature. He is especially good with children, but all ages can enjoy the companionship of a Cavalier King Charles. He loves to please his family and should do very well with grooming sessions if introduced properly and maintained on a routine basis.

The Cavalier King Charles does require a fair amount of frequent brushing and combing to keep him in shape. Nothing real complicated or anymore than the dog grooming basics of brushing, bathing, blow drying ear cleaning and nail trimming. Beyond these basics, there is a small amount of trimming.

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