What is your favorite vacation spot?

austin552 · austin552's Garage

Trying to get some ideas for a family thing. So far the majority is for an Alaskan cruise.

cairns · 03-13-2008, 04:26 AM

Mine is Australia. Don't know if you're up for that but if you have children they'll be amazed and you and the missus will be too.

Paul K · Paul K's Garage

English Lake District.

Zef · Zef's Garage

Cuba beaches...

austin552 · austin552's Garage

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Originally Posted by cairns

Mine is Australia. Don't know if you're up for that but if you have children they'll be amazed and you and the missus will be too.

I would love to go to Australia but others dont. This will be all adults... I hope.

Dan in Pasadena · Dan in Pasadena's Garage

Kauai

Rick Lee · Rick Lee's Garage

Do you want adventure or touristy stuff? For adventure I'd head out to the countryside in western China, maybe Tibet or Xinjiang. I will never ever again step foot on any kind of cruise ship. Those were some of the worst four days of my life, watching fat bodies gorge themselves on 24 hr. buffet bars.

Tishabet · 03-13-2008, 05:18 AM

Thailand.

berettafan · 03-13-2008, 05:39 AM

Haven't been many places but Grand Cayman is on my list of places to go back to.

Enjoyed the heck out of the cruise we took several years back. Dinner with 8 or 10 strangers every night is just fun to me. As a note not 1 person at our table was really overweight. Heck i LOST weight on the cruise yet ate 4 or 5 meals a day.

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

Don't really have one (I'm not a big vacation person) but lately I've been thinking a lot about going back up to Yellowstone for a week. It's been over 10 years since I was last there and I still look back on it as a sort of mystical, surreal experience. It was great.

Maybe something to do when the 911 is all done. Road trip.

John_AZ · 03-13-2008, 05:46 AM

Alaska Cruise is a good idea, especially if you want to escape the heat of AZ. By adults I guess it means a generational vacation with adult children and grandparents? My 2c-stay away from the cheapest cruise like Carnival. Read reviews from many sites before you deposit. Pay more for pleasant memories. A cruise offers places to escape from family as well and then get together for dinner.

Have a great time.

John_AZ

JeremyD · JeremyD's Garage

Sanibel Island - Plenty to explore - nice beaches - shelling - family activities - we try and go once a year.

berettafan · 03-13-2008, 05:52 AM

Oooh, ditto on John_AZ's comment on Carnival. We talked with many 'cruisophiles' on our trip and almost to a man/woman the ones that had been on Carnival weren't going back. It was a college beer party which, depending on your goal, might not right for you. Wouldn't have been for me.

Noah930 · Noah930's Garage

Unless you're an albino, how can you go wrong with Hawaii?

vash · vash's Garage

hawaii is expensive. also feels generic to me. not exotic enough.

i agree with the above. south east asia. thailand is my fav. you hand over several hundred american $$, and they hand you back this huge WAD in exchange. instant thousand BOTanaire! working out a trip to explore the northern half as we speak.

BRPORSCHE · 03-13-2008, 06:57 AM

Wind River Range, Wyoming.
Specifically Big Sandy Lake. Beautiful.

scottmandue · 03-13-2008, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena

Kauai

Hanalei bay Kauai

I would like to do the Alaska cruise thing... but for kicking back on the beach Kauai doesn't suck.

sprio · 03-13-2008, 07:34 AM

The one place I've been that I'd go back to is Chile/Easter Island. The island is well worth the trip. It was absolutely thrilling to see the statues in person, and the climate (we went late December/early January) was outstanding.

Gogar · 07:47 AM

If you're up for a cruise, I'd highly recommend something like a Windjammer Boat in the British Virgin Islands, or Nevis/St. Barths, Grenadines, Barbados . . . etc.

Cruise ships offer a lot, but they'll nickle and dime you. And, when you dock, you'll just have ONE MORE opportunity to by those stupid keychains, t-shirts, and touristy things that you don't want.

Small 'tall ships' in the virgin islands can dock in smaller ports, and you can get a much better 'local' experience than a standard cruise ship.

And, I feel that The Virgin Islands kind of bridges that gap between a "really expensive, really safe" Hawaii and a "economical, perhaps a little too adventurous Southeast Asia". Especially with kids.

www.windjammer.com
www.bhtmcruise.com
www.starclippers.com

The prices seem high, but remember; they are ALL INCLUSIVE; four meals a day. Some offer free drink programs, and ALL extracurriculars, like snorkeling, water ski, kayak, boogie boards, surfboards, tubing, is FREE. If your kid wants to boogie board for . . say, 8 minutes, like a kid does, you're not out 10 bucks for that 8 minutes. Wanna go water skiing for 20 minutes, do it. I think it's great.

Seahawk · 03-13-2008, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by sprio

The one place I've been that I'd go back to is Chile/Easter Island. The island is well worth the trip. It was absolutely thrilling to see the statues in person, and the climate (we went late December/early January) was outstanding.

How many days on Easter Island? Accomodations? This sounds like something I'd like to do. Any other details on Chile, etc.?

Thanks.