Going away for Christmas, is it weird?

[ttaskmaster]

Don’t you get bored going to the same place? Genuine question, as I understand the logic of wanting to get away as a change but going to the same place sort of invalidates the argument of not wanting to see the same scenery every year.

That wasn't the argument, though... The argument was that the scenery did not look like he expected for Christmas, so he goes somewhere he knows will look like it. Kinda like how people go abroad for Summer holidays because the UK Summer isn't what they want...
If we could afford a Canadian Christmas, we'd probably do it too!

 

[Quartz]

Goodwood are offering a Christmas stay package.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Yup

We stay at the same lodge every time, its a stand alone lodge in the forest just east of Banff. So we're the only 2 people in it. Brilliant. I mean its not like we stay inside the lodge the whole time, it simply acts as our basepoint, there's the whole of Alberta and the neighbouring provinces of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Northwest Territories to explore. The superb thing about Canada is that its something like the 4th largest country in the world, is 40 times the size of the UK but has only half the population of the UK. Which means vast amounts of incredible scenery and all in beautiful Christmas-esque snowiness, far nicer than a wet September-Christmas Day in crappy old Britain

EDIT : ah, actually Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world, even bigger than I realised.

Ah, now you're making me envious.

 

[Alice In Wonderland]

I dated a guy a few years ago who went with his mum, to the same place in Spain, every year.

They even stayed in the same room etc etc!

He was an only child and when his father passed neither of them wanted to be in their family home but it became their new tradition.

I couldn't be anywhere but at home with my 2 mini sausages.

I have stupid mental health issues and various chronic ill health issues, which makes it hard to go anywhere.

 

[Jean-F]

I imagine NYC at Christmas / new year is incredibly expensive?

Sounds nice though!

I’m guessing that you mean hotel prices etc are jacked up, maybe they are, if you have to pay employees a premium to work at Christmas and/or New Year, you’d have to expect it.
In my very late thirties, early forties, I had an American girlfriend who lived in Astoria, Queens, NYC and I spent two or three Christmases there, I don’t recall the flights being super expensive.
I’d take a cab from JFK to her place, but we’d always go to her mother’s house in Bayside, Queens on Christmas Eve.
The family had come over from Sicily originally, and maintained Italian traditions by having fish for dinner on Christmas Eve.
There’d be a ginormous salmon in the centre of the table, lobster and/or crab bisque for an appetiser, scallops with pancetta and lots of other stuff, and more wine than you could shake a stick at.
Christmas Day her sister and brother-in-law would come to Astoria and there’d be more fish but with the addition of veal this time, never once saw a turkey though, they would be on the table at Thanksgiving in November.
Once we all went skating at World Ice Arena, Flushing Meadows in Queens, but I couldn’t stay upright and gave up, no doubt getting labelled as the limey wimp!
Only once did we get a dusting of snow, but it was very cold there, nowhere near as cold as Montréal at New Year, now that was pure bone chilling as I recall.

 

[tenofspades]

I guess going abroad makes sense. Just domestically it doesn't make so much sense, it's like dark at 6pm, so you got to linger in a hotel room from 6pm and miss going out. Essentially you get less value for your money holidaying this time of year.(domestically) Unless you like pubbing in new areas.