Travel Wishes?

amandaeve

Say you are awarded $1100 USD plus airfare, per person, for you and your partner to travel anywhere you want for 12 days between now and the end of the year. Where do you go, and why?

km8907

Scotland, New Zealand or Greece. No reason, they're just beautiful.

Ironandwine69

Spain. And run with the bulls.

PS. I can't run but its a fun thought

SomebodyWakeUpHIcks

Any where that gets me out of Toronto!

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Motorsheen

Mars.

serenityfrye

I'd have us take a mini tour of Europe. I have anxiety and flying is terrifying for me so I've told my husband that when the kids move out we're flying to Europe, seeing as much of it as we can in two weeks, then I'm never getting on a plane again lol

Vikka_V

Any one of these would be fine:

- Antarctica, because of how remote and empty it is
- New Zealand, because of the interesting physical geography, and I imagine awesome coastlines
- Australia, because of the beaches and coastlines and the animals, and the Great Barrier Reef
- Alaska, because of the natural environment, and again coastline
- Iceland, because of the general physical geography especially volcanoes and hot springs, and the northern lights
- Hawaii, because of the coastlines, ocean access, volcanoes, and tropical environment

Riffraft1960

Already going to Rome in the Fall, so I would probably do a few other European cities, Paris, Venice, Athens, etc.

cwolfman13

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African safari for definite

Just because it would be amazing also I'd like a chance to get up really close to say a cheetah or tiger, tame ones that is.

We're going on safari in Tanzania for 10 days over Christmas...family of 4 is costing well over 1,100 per person...it will be amazing, and likely a once in a lifetime experience...unfortunately, it also means that we've basically had no vacation since last May and won't until Christmas other than long weekend type of stuff...gotta save the Benjamins.

amandaeve

@cwolfman13 I noticed many of the locations listed could not be done on less than $100 a day without extreme budgeting, or at all. I think I'm getting more of a list of dream vacations than I am a list of vacations at that budget, lol, but it's still fun to see people's responses.

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cwolfman13

amandaeve wrote: »

@cwolfman13 I noticed many of the locations listed could not be done on less than $100 a day without extreme budgeting, or at all. I think I'm getting more of a list of dream vacations than I am a list of vacations at that budget, lol, but it's still fun to see people's responses.

Oooh...and I thought it was $1,100 per person and airfare per person...$1,100 total doesn't leave too many options. I think my wife and I might have spent something close to that when we went to Utila, Honduras back in 2002.

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Vikka_V

amandaeve wrote: »

@cwolfman13 I noticed many of the locations listed could not be done on less than $100 a day without extreme budgeting, or at all. I think I'm getting more of a list of dream vacations than I am a list of vacations at that budget, lol, but it's still fun to see people's responses.

lol, so true.

I'd sleep outside, no hotel, except in Antarctica!

And I'd be going by myself so can I have the money allotted to the other person as well?

amandaeve

@Vikka_V cruises to Antarctica run $15-$35k per person depending on which area you visit. Sleeping outside makes sense for all the others, though. And you could have fantastic camping along the coastline of all those places. You actually listed my favorites, I've been to all, traveling alone as well, except Iceland. And Iceland is on the bucket list for sure!

Vikka_V

amandaeve wrote: »

@Vikka_V cruises to Antarctica run $15-$35k per person depending on which area you visit. Sleeping outside makes sense for all the others, though. And you could have fantastic camping along the coastline of all those places. You actually listed my favorites, I've been to all, traveling alone as well, except Iceland. And Iceland is on the bucket list for sure!

Awesome!

Yikes, who knew going to the south pole was so expensive!

I guess that would probably narrow it down to Alaska for me, probably in the off season due to air travel costs!

km8907

amandaeve wrote: »

@Vikka_V cruises to Antarctica run $15-$35k per person depending on which area you visit. Sleeping outside makes sense for all the others, though. And you could have fantastic camping along the coastline of all those places. You actually listed my favorites, I've been to all, traveling alone as well, except Iceland. And Iceland is on the bucket list for sure!

Which ship were you looking at? I found one for about 4k.

MlleKelly

Paris is always a good idea.

So is Ireland - Dublin is great, and Galway is fantastic. It's a great country to do an extended 10-12 day tour to hit all the little corners. It's small enough that traveling from place to place doesn't take up all of your time (the train from Dublin to Galway is three hours, and they're legit on OPPOSITE sides of the country), but there's enough diversity that you stay interested - pretty beaches, stunning cliffs, lovely mountains, small towns, big cities, rivers and lakes...

OR you could do bike tour of any of the wine regions in France if you're into biking and wine (and who isn't?!). Go in September/October and the weather will be nice but the tourists will all be back home. My personal favorite is the Loire Valley, though Burgundy is a CLOSE second.

amandaeve

@km8907 thanks for sharing. I have not shopped, I only know what others I know have paid.

TheRoadDog

$2200 is not a lot to spend on a vacation, but, I would take that money and use it for an All-Inclusive Resort in Mexico (since you are on the West Coast). Meals and drinks are all paid for and you can just relax by the pool.

WandaVaughn

Ireland
Alaska
Australia
Those are the top 3 places to see in this world for me!

NorthCascades

Greenland, to put up a couple of first ascents. I'll sleep in a tent. I've been wanting to go back to see Utah, Colorado, and Montana again. Or the Methow. I'm easy.

msiamjan

Look up the Adventure Bus. They have trips within your stated budget and are super fun.

zdyb23456

I would take my kids to San Diego. I lived there for 10 months while my husband was in the Navy training. I loved it there. We are on the east coast now and airfare for a family of five is crazy.

dale050467

anywhere in the Caribbean, well except Grand Turk.

KosmosKitten

Well, I already met my wish of seeing Japan (I got to live there, even!), so I'd choose a tour of the UK, probably. Possibly Germany, Greece or France. Kind of want to see Australia and S. Korea at some point, too.

LAWoman72

Great Britain.

Or the New Zealand Lord of the Rings tour.

ROBOTFOOD

Tahiti with a bud to surf

MarvinsAMartian

Thailand. On $1100 USD that can actually get you more than 12 days if you're being frugal.

I'm actually doing this trip soon, solo, and for more than 1100 USD. Why? Because I've earned the chance to experience something new and SEA happens to be a great place to stretch your dollar.