GTKY: Your Best Vacation

[emilyz320]

My favorite was our honeymoon to San Juan. We slept and ate a lot, lounged on the beach and at the pool, explored old San Juan, took a food tour of the city, and went on a tour and hike of the rainforest. I would love to go back!

[misshart00]

Yep. Honeymoon. We went to Disney world. I loved it so much.

[taberbtb]

Our honeymoon as well. We went to Sandals in the Bahamas and splurged for the butler package. DH and I have been to about a dozen all inclusives but this way above and beyond any others we have been to. Without a doubt, Best. Trip. Ever.

[mrsclark731]

Ohhh...this is hard one. It is a toss up between two.

Our 'honeymoon' in St. Thomas (St. John, and some of the BVI)--we stayed at the Ritz and did nothing but get pampered and spend ridiculous amounts of money. We also got great facials and a sunrise couples massage on the beach...and drank all the fancy cucumber water. I really loved exploring all of the other islands close by, too.

Mexico for my birthday 3 years ago--H proposed to me the night before we left. We stayed at a 5 star no children allowed resort which was awesome.

[mrsclark731]

I'm wanting a vacation so bad right now.

I'm supposed to be doing work but this thread got me side tracked into looking up St. Barth's on Home Away.

[mmarie]

A roadtrip we took from Wisconsin to florida a few summers ago. We stopped along the way a few places but my favorite stop was in Tennessee called rock city. It has this huge waterfall and all these little trails and stuff. It was so pretty!

Another one of my favorites was a roadtrip to Colorado from Wisconsin with my dad when I was like 10 or 11. Stopped at Mt Rushmore and camped in the badlands, and did a train ride through the rocky mountains. Then on the way home, went down and stopped at where you can be in four states at once and went to Mesa Verde. At the time, I didn't realize how cool those things really were and really want to go back.

[kartish]

This is hard, all my vacations are awesome. But I guess I will say the last one, last May.

We went to Orlando with my three best friends and their families. The whole trip was planned in less than two months, it was so crazy that it actually happened. We all got condos together and had so much fun visiting the parks together. Plus DH and I got to visit some family that we haven't seen in a long time. And then we got a really awesome souvenir from the trip too!

[kartish]

Yep! Best souvenir ever.

[miniwheat]

Before I was married was my friends wedding in Mexico. After I was married was our honeymoon to Disney World. And we haven't taken a vacation since! BOO!

[mrsclark731]

This might be a UO -- but you'd have to pay me to go on a cruise.

Maybe if it was some fabulous Mediterranean cruise you could convince me...I really enjoy being a beach bum. I was a D1 swimmer and I love anything to do with water. Give me gorgeous beaches, water, and someone serving me drinks. I don't want a small room trapped on a boat with a million people and a limited time at multiple destinations.

mumomma13, the Virgin Islands are my favorite. St. John is the most stunningly preserved (non-third world) destination I've ever been. Same with some of the BVIs.

[dmorgendorffer]

I think it would have to be the trip we took right after we got engaged. We went to Istanbul, Athens, Venice and Paris. I loved all the cities and all the food! I knew Paris would be great but I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed Athens. Such friendly people and I could eat a gyro every meal. We were taking the other day how we want to take DD there some day to experience the history in that city.

[dmorgendorffer]

mrsclark731 totally agree about cruises. I don't see the appeal, but we aren't really beach vacation people.

[mmarie]

One of the reasons we haven't gone on a honeymoon yet is because we can't agree where to go. DH wants to go on a cruise and I refuse. That and we have no money!

[cougarette]

Aw, I love cruising! But they definitely aren't for everyone.

[cougarette]

I'm having a hard time deciding.

1. Our honeymoon, which was an 11 night cruise.

2. Our trip to California where we went to Napa, Sonoma, Paso Robles, and drove down the 1 to San Diego. It was 9 days total, 3 of which were in wine country, 2 days for driving, and the rest of the time with my sister who was living out there at the time.

3. Our trip to North Georgia, which was this time last year. We stayed at a B&B for the first 2 nights then in a cabin in Helen for a few nights. This was the week after we told my parents about my pregnancy, so we kept joking about how I was the DD for our wine stops. But we only went to 1 or 2 a day and it was just so relaxing.

[WittyLittle]

Mine is a toss up
1) family vacation to St Thomas when i was 5. We stayed 2 weeks, i remember having so much fun at the kids club and us renting a jeep and going on this big boat at sunset and the steeldrum players and huuuuuuge fish in the clean sea

2) 2007 i went backpacking in borneo for a month with my bff. It was amazing being away from civilisation and trekking through the rainforest (along with some volunteer work on conservation projects)

Now i too need an awesome holiday!!!

[lilyelayne]

Soooo hard to choose. As a kid- Every summer from before I can remember until I was ~22, we went to Ft Walton Beach, FL with my mom's sisters and their families. All the kids (6 of us + various friends & SOs as we got older) stayed in the living room. I have so many memories of playing in the surf, and walking on the beach at night to kick down sand castles, and staying up all night laughing.
The last couple summers the cousins have discussed re-starting the tradition for our kids; hopefully next summer it'll happen.

As an unmarried adult- after my study abroad in Paris, I spent a week in Nice with my BFF who had been studying in Senegal. We made so many friends, spent all day swimming or laying out and all evening drinking and partying in bars.

Married- yeah I'll go with honeymoon. Sandals in Antigua, my goodness it was perfect. Except DH and I had the plague. But the staff started double stocking our Kleenex haha. Every amenity!
taberbtb we hope to get back to Sandals; would you recommend the butler package? We did concierge last time.

[missys]

Our honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. All inclusive, 8 nights just me and him. It was amazing to finally relax (we had a huge wedding for family and I just wanted to be married to my best friend) and be us.

[junebugjam]

I have to say our honeymoon too. It was awesome, but it's also the only real vacation we've taken in the 6.5 years we've been together.

We went to Sandals Montego Bay in Jamaica. We had a room with a view of the ocean, fancy dinners every night (once right on the beach), lots of relaxing and beach/pool time. We climbed a waterfall and swam with dolphins. Also visited an old rum place and rode ATVs (this was my husband's excursion choice). It was so fantastic and I would love to go back.

[allonsy221b]

This is hard, we honeymooned at Disneyworld which was amazing. We just did a whole family trip there with my brother's family, it was the first time all the kids got together....so much fun...

I think I'm going to go with Hawaii with my family at Aulani. I miss it, I want to go back so bad.

[junebugjam]

lilyelayne we did the butler package for or sandals honeymoon. It was nice and I'm glad we had it for our honeymoon, but I don't know if I would spend the money for it again just because I don't think we used it to its full capacity. They gave us a cell phone with their numbers programmed into it and we could have called from the beach and had them deliver drinks to our chairs, but I felt uncomfortable doing that when I could easily get my own drink.

That being said, they left towels outside our door every morning and dessert in our room every night. They booked all of our dinners for us in advance and drew us a bubble bath one night when they knew we were out at dinner. We got a personal tour around the resort when we arrived and they handled all of the planning for the excursions that we did. They really were awesome.

[aggiebug]

Our trip to New Zealand and Australia. It was 16 days of awesome.

[aggiebug]

mrsclark731 we aren't cruise people either. We did an Alaskan cruise for our honeymoon which was awesome, but I think the whale watching and the amazing views helped. Traveling across open water to island hop has no appeal.

I would consider a Russia river cruise only because Russia is H's dream vacation and the country intimidates me. Lol!

[cloe111479]

This is a hard one.

Our honeymoon was in Disney world. I've been a million times but it was the first time back for DH since he was like 8. I clearly remember him on the first day running up to the castle going come on! I said we have 9 days -- calm down as I giggled at him.

We've been back 3 times since with different people. I'm already vaguely planning dd's first trip (dec 2017). ?

We also did Italy just the two of us. It was an amazing trip. Only thing I would change is we didn't do anything at night. DH has literally graduated nursing school on Sunday, we left for Italy Monday. We were just tired in general so
Crashed early A LOT. Next time we go overseas -- nighttime stuff.

[misshart00]

I love cruises. DH has never been on one so we may go next year.

[hollydfromtn]

I'm also picking our honeymoon. We spent a week on Tybee Island right outside of Savannah. It was such a neat little island. We also took an on/off bus tour of Savannah, where we were able to get off at any stop and catch the next bus so we had time to get out and look around. I loved it! We plan on going again soon but stay in Savannah this time.

[hollydfromtn]

Jul 18, 2015 10:19:31 GMT -5 mmarie said:

A roadtrip we took from Wisconsin to florida a few summers ago. We stopped along the way a few places but my favorite stop was in Tennessee called rock city. It has this huge waterfall and all these little trails and stuff. It was so pretty!

Another one of my favorites was a roadtrip to Colorado from Wisconsin with my dad when I was like 10 or 11. Stopped at Mt Rushmore and camped in the badlands, and did a train ride through the rocky mountains. Then on the way home, went down and stopped at where you can be in four states at once and went to Mesa Verde. At the time, I didn't realize how cool those things really were and really want to go back.

Woohoo for TN! I never would have guessed someone would say something about TN lol. Rock City is a really neat place to go. Did you go up to the lookout and see all the different states?

[mmarie]

Jul 18, 2015 16:58:00 GMT -5 hollydfromtn said:

Jul 18, 2015 10:19:31 GMT -5 mmarie said:

A roadtrip we took from Wisconsin to florida a few summers ago. We stopped along the way a few places but my favorite stop was in Tennessee called rock city. It has this huge waterfall and all these little trails and stuff. It was so pretty!

Another one of my favorites was a roadtrip to Colorado from Wisconsin with my dad when I was like 10 or 11. Stopped at Mt Rushmore and camped in the badlands, and did a train ride through the rocky mountains. Then on the way home, went down and stopped at where you can be in four states at once and went to Mesa Verde. At the time, I didn't realize how cool those things really were and really want to go back.

Woohoo for TN! I never would have guessed someone would say something about TN lol. Rock City is a really neat place to go. Did you go up to the lookout and see all the different states?

yes! And it was such a nice day out we could see all of it! I definitely want to go back and take DD! My nephews were with and we took their senior pictures there in some of trails and by the water fall and stuff. It was neat.

[FlutterOfYoshis]

+1 for honeymoon! We went to Venice, Florence, and Rome (and an impromptu side trip to Capri). It was the first time either of us discovered we liked wine, we had gelato every day, and the pizza there is not even comparable to what we have here. Add the fact that we saw some beautiful scenery and art and the people there LOVED treating us since we were newlyweds...I'd never been to Europe, and it was wonderfully romantic!

I also really enjoyed the family vacation with DH's family to Orlando. I thought it'd be crazy with so many of us there at once, but it was way more fun to play at the pool, go into Disney, and enjoy Lego Land with the nephews who were in awe with it all. Also, Harry Potter World. And butterbeer! ;-)

[krispy83]

Our honeymoon, which was 2 1/2 weeks in Hawaii. We spent 5 days in Waikiki, then did a 7 day cruise around the islands, then another 5 days in Kona.

A close second is a cruise we took to Mexico - it was a week long and we went with my parents, brothers and now ex-SIL (then future SIL). DH and I were engaged at that point. We all get along incredibly well and have a lot of fun together so that week was pretty much a nonstop drunken laugh riot.