2017 Holiday Thread

neil_g;30479864 said:
Hopefully a 2 week cruise in the Caribbean. Get the yes/no in May.

I consulted your profile and you are 35. Genuine question, aren't Caribbean cruises full of pensioners? Every person I've known to go on a cruise has been 50s or 60s. Will this be your first one?

There was a pretty sweet cruise deal on HUKD the other day which included stop offs in New York and a few other places - 14 days and only 700 quid if I recall correctly.
 
In Cambodia now.

Beach holiday somewhere hot with the gf in July.

A few weekend breaks too, probably within the UK but fancy eastern Europe.
 
TS7;30479909 said:
I consulted you're profile and you are 35. Genuine question, aren't Caribbean cruises full of pensioners? Every person I've known to go on a cruise has been 50s or 60s. Will this be your first one?

There was a pretty sweet cruise deal on HUKD the other day which included stop offs in New York and a few other places - 14 days and only 700 quid if I recall correctly.

ha.. i thought the same to be honest. had my first cruise last year to norways fjords on one of the smaller ships and it was actually pretty good.

yes the clientele can be a little older, especially the ones that go from the UK (older lot don't like long haul flights apparently) but there were also a fair few younger people on board. you don't have to socialise with the older people if you don't want to. when in port you generally go and have a wander on shore anyway.

essentially it was a floating hotel with loads of bars, restaurants, sports, spa, casino, theatre etc etc where there was always someone waiting to top up your drink or asking if you wanted more food. can't really fault it.
 
neil_g;30479937 said:
ha.. i thought the same to be honest. had my first cruise last year to norways fjords on one of the smaller ships and it was actually pretty good.

yes the clientele can be a little older, especially the ones that go from the UK (older lot don't like long haul flights apparently) but there were also a fair few younger people on board. you don't have to socialise with the older people if you don't want to.

essentially it was a floating hotel with loads of bars, restaurants, sports, spa, casino, theatre etc etc where there was always someone waiting to top up your drink or asking if you wanted more food. can't really fault it.

Ah interesting. Report back if you do end up going! Hopefully this thread will take off and remain active.
 
TS7;30479946 said:
Ah interesting. Report back if you do end up going! Hopefully this thread will take off and remain active.

yeah definitely.

one other thing, it's great opening the curtains* each day to find a new place..

Rosendal
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Eidfjord
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*assuming outer cabin with windows/balcony
 
Was just about to book a week in Spain but eldest as just told me her mocks start the same week.

Will probably just take a long weekend with GF to Spain (Have house there) in March.

Family (we have 3 between us) holiday in Spain April/May

Hopefully, Nurburgring July/August if I have a suitable car by that point

Another long weekend with GF in September.

Ukraine for me in October - weekend in Kiev and week in Chernobyl/Pripyat (Will be 4th visit)


I want to do Le Mans but probably won't be till next year. I want to do Japan for 2 weeks with Japanese GP on the last weekend but GF not keen and not brave enough to ask her to have my kids while I go :D
 
TS7;30479946 said:
Ah interesting. Report back if you do end up going! Hopefully this thread will take off and remain active.

I will probably get flamed for this suggestion but I have always thought this forum could do with a Travel sub forum. We have Home and Garden and Cuisine forums and they are always busy and active I would imagine a travel forum would be too. Pretty much every week there are threads on travel. Whether it be abroad or a quick day out in UK somewhere.

Anyway I was just looking at cruises on Thomson holidays and they have a fair few good ones and what I would imagine for a 14 day cruise, at reasonable prices too.
 
Back to Vietnam end of April (Ho Chi Minh, Hoi An, Da Nang, Hanoi, Halong Bay, Ninh Binh,) 22 day adventure cant wait :D

Then looking at going to Prague in July and also want to fit in Budapest before the year over. :)
 
Cosimo;30479775 said:
We'll be heading to Portugal in the summer.

Come and say hello :) - I'll buy you a SuperBock!

We have planned, so far...

April - 9 days in Dahab, Egypt to catch up with friends, some diving
June - 2 weeks in Africa, inc 4 days Safari in Kenya then 9ish days in Zanzibar for some relaxing and diving
July - Not sure, possibly Italy for my birthday.

We're looking into...

Some long European weekends - I really want to spend some time in Norway after watching lots of Vikings recently :p - I really want to get there for some landscape photography and have a bit of a photography/exploration trip.
 
14 night cruise around the med in May
Looking at a 10 night cruise around the Canaries in October, flying up my sister and her kids from South Africa.
 
neil_g;30479986 said:
yeah definitely.

one other thing, it's great opening the curtains* each day to find a new place..

Rosendal
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Eidfjord
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*assuming outer cabin with windows/balcony

Nice, I did the fjords May last year, was awesome, even with all the oldies on board :D
 
Summer

-Five weeks in Orlando
-One week in NYC
-Three days in Philly
-Two weeks in the UK (mainly seeing friends and family)

Autumn

-Two weeks in Dubai
 
TS7;30479793 said:
All wonderful places.

Krakow = one of the biggest (if not biggest) town square in Europe. It has a great atmosphere, especially at night and there's a pretty cool water feature. It's probably most inexpensive European city I've been to so make the most of it as. Be aware that you will be propositioned during the day, I mean morning and afternoon, by attractive ladies to come with them to a 'great club', the men are more upfront and simply say *the crude word for nipple* club? It goes without saying, avoid these people :p

Vienna = amazing city. It reminded me of London in a lot of respects, busy cosmopolitan city but with an abundance of beautiful and grand palaces. The scale of these places is ludicrous, I needed a wide angled lense to fit most of these palaces in. As you're only there for 3 days, pick and choose which museums / palaces you'd like to go in to, there's no way you can do all or even half. I personally enjoyed the photography aspect of the architecture so didn't go inside most of them. Take time out to go to Belvedere, it's a bit out there if I recall correctly, but there's train which goes directly to it. It is amazing with beautiful grounds.

There's also a theme park called Prater which has one of the oldest functioning ferris wheels in the world (1897 I believe). It's pretty cool to take some photographs of Vienna's skyline. I wouldn't go out of my way for it but if you're nearby I would definitely recommend. Link

If you like nice cafes and cake definitely visit:



Prague = just walked lots and lots and lots, you can't get bored or run out of things to do. There's the old town across the bridge which has the Castle. It's a trek getting there if you walk but it's well worth it once you get to the top. The doughnutty cup things with ice cream called trdlnks are awesome (they are everywhere) definitely give them a go :p

Thanks! :) all very helpful, much appreciated. I can't wait!

I'm flabbergasted by the amount of holidays some of you are having, I'm quite jelly.

There's so many places I want to go, starting to build up a list now. Hopefully next year I can do a nice long bike tour to cover Scandinavia and more of Europe.
 
Rossi~;30480192 said:
I'm flabbergasted by the amount of holidays some of you are having, I'm quite jelly.

Lots of people blow their money on going out drinking and partying all the time. Our money goes on travels :) (mostly)
 
Barcelona end of this month with the wife
Hamburg for stag party end of March
Somewhere in UK in June
Taiwan in November

I also like holidays !
 
5 nights all inc. in Fuerteventura at the end of March, never bothered with an all inc. beach holiday before but fancied a bit of sun.

Then hopefully 3 weeks traveling through Vietnam in Nov kind of time, might do a couple weekend trips to Barcelona or similar throughout the year but nothing planned.
 
Will be spending 9 days in Acre, Israel. With a couple of days spent at Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee, and a couple more exploring around Meggido.

Hopefully, will also be spending a week mooching about Tuscany too.
 
Just got back from 14 days in Oz. 2 days Sydney, 7 days coastal drive to Melbourne, 5 days Melbourne. Epic trip was epic. Will post up some photos at some point.
 
Restricted to where the wife and I can holiday because she doesn't wish to be on a plane for more than 4 hours. Thinking of 2 weeks somewhere around the med, not really sure where to go at the moment...
 
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