Toy Travel Agency Will Take Your Teddy Bear on a Luxury Vacation

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed)
Feb 26th 2010 at 11:02AM

Inspired by the 2001 film Amelie, a new travel agency in the Czech Republic called Toy Traveling is offering a unique luxury vacation not for you, but for your toys. You send them your favorite stuffed animal and they'll take it on an escorted luxury trip all around Prague, taking photographs of it at sights like Prague Castle and the Charles Bridge. And if you'd like your fuzzy friend to really have a great time you can even pay extra for a massage, which includes incense and candles, or the 'dearest package' that comes with a cushion and duvet to make the journey home especially comfortable on his padded little behind.

Prices start at about $120 for the basic package and get up over $200 depending on options.

Tags: prague, stuffed animals, StuffedAnimals, toys, travel, travel agency, TravelAgency

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Children

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steve Feb 26th 2010 2:23PM

You know what they say about a fool and his money.....

Leon Stark Feb 27th 2010 2:18PM

If the vacation were, "For you and your toy", I might understand it. What would the toy bring back as far as memories and "life-changing" events. Inanimate objects may bring back scents (like hanging out at the tavern or rock [herbal-smoked] concert), but what else.

Animal vacations may have some value (animals may need a break from their owners/ trained-slaves) to learn what they may be missing. They may come home from the vacation either loving their owners even more, or wanting to go on vacation again, as the the vacation may be more satisfying than their home life.

Meagan Feb 27th 2010 2:51PM

I first heard about this years ago when a little girl who was terminally ill couldn't travel herself so she sent her stuffed bear out. It had a little notebook inside it's pouch so the person with it could write down the adventures the bear went on, then that person would pass it on to someone else, then eventually when the notebook was full (I believe), they sent it back. A P.O box address was in the notebook so it could be sent there.
It may sound a little ridiculous in the article but with circumstances like ill children unable to go themselves I think it's really awesome.

sharoncasinalbo Feb 27th 2010 4:34PM

How sad...the world is falling apart and people send their teddy bear on vacation?? Very sad.

pbihomes Feb 27th 2010 3:48PM

is this stupid or what?

Leon Stark Feb 27th 2010 4:05PM

That may be a very slender possibility. I would rather send the toy on with a good friend and get the kind of observations someone else my age might have.

I am thinking of the letters that Watson sent to Holmes in "The Hound of the Baskervilles". Holmes lived in a cave in the Grimpen Moor and intercepted the posted letters as Watson sent them. Holmes could not be immediately on site, but had Watson play his eyes and ears, giving information from years of watching what Holmes might himself observe.

If it were my daughter as the ill one, there are three or four proxies who would write thoughtful and insightful notes on their travels within her reading grade level.