Holidays 2022

bris said:
In a war with the wife just now over the summer holiday.

She wants booked up for July, I'm saying too risky as threat of flight cancellations are very real.

We are not in a great place just now.
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Exactly the same situation for me. She wanted to book a holiday, i did not, so we compromised by booking a holiday.

We (hopefully) fly next week, but i made sure to load up on the insurance.
 
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bingham67 said:
Anyone been to Brazil? it it as dangerous as quite a lot of reports make it out what was the best parts for you.
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Yep, in February 2020. We flew into Rio de Janeiro, then drove to Paraty, then drove to Sao Paulo before flying to Foz do Iguacu, then back to Sao Paulo and then home.

We were in Rio for Carnival and it was epic. Absolutely epic. We didn't feel unsafe in the slightest, we were warned by no end of people about being in Rio for Carnival but it was fine. Like any place there's people that are up to go good but we didn't have any problems.

It's hard to pick a favourite place. Sao Paulo was definitely the least favourite. it was nice enough I guess but felt a bit soul less. I fell in love with Rio, it's such a vibrant place. Paraty was very chilled out.

We're hoping to go back next year.
 
Hi guys,

Any advice driving from Calais to (roughly) Disneyland Paris?

I am then leaving Disneyland Paris to hit a place called Gien.

I am then leaving Gien to hit Champagne-sur-Oise, before hitting Calais again the next day.

My plan so far is to enter the address into Waze and then point and shoot, but I'd love to be educated on any nicer routes. I have a 2 year old in the car so least faff is preferred, although at some point on trip 1 she will need to eat and let it settle for an hour or two I guess otherwise she'll vom.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
Exactly the same situation for me. She wanted to book a holiday, i did not, so we compromised by booking a holiday.

We (hopefully) fly next week, but i made sure to load up on the insurance.
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Yes good luck

I had a miracle, after explaing the risk to the wife and making her watch a bit on the news about she actually agreed with me.

Not for one minute believing what I had just heard I made her repeat it whilst secretly recording it so she cant deny it later.

If I can hold her off to early september then we save a fortune as the holidays are about half the price or less.
 
dLockers said:
My plan so far is to enter the address into Waze and then point and shoot, but I'd love to be educated on any nicer routes. I have a 2 year old in the car so least faff is preferred, although at some point on trip 1 she will need to eat and let it settle for an hour or two I guess otherwise she'll vom.
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I'd do your plan. Having driven with 2yr olds on long ass trips, whatever you do they'll vom at some point. Just prep for it, waze and add 2hrs to every expected journey for fuel and "leg stretching".

Just got back from the UK for a long weekend, which is kinda a holiday I suppose. Was a nice trip. Went 5 of us with kids and just took backpacks, which I have to say made the whole thing so much less stressful.

Heading to Croatia this Sat morning, driving there for a week. It's about 8.5hrs drive, but it's always shocking around St Gothard so no doubt it'll be 12 like it was last time. It's an interesting drive though, takes you through France, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia and then Croatia.

It's been a pretty good year for trips, since it was all the things planned pre-covid finally happening, but ad-hoc additions. Already done a ski trip in Feb, Bordeaux in May, which was really a lovely start to the summer. 3 weeks in Thailand in April. Did Vegas for a week for a mix of business and pleasure (made work pay) in May. I am off to the UK for a week in Aug to see family. Vegas again in Sept with old work mates and thinking of squeezing a long weekend to Greece in in November.

I have decided my work life balance needed addressing, so will be spending as much time as possible in as many places as possible! haha
 
bris said:
Yes good luck

I had a miracle, after explaing the risk to the wife and making her watch a bit on the news about she actually agreed with me.

Not for one minute believing what I had just heard I made her repeat it whilst secretly recording it so she cant deny it later.

If I can hold her off to early september then we save a fortune as the holidays are about half the price or less.
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Well I have to eat my own words - we're here!

30min delay, but arrived 15mins early - pilot must have put his foot down.




 
Should have landed in Milan this morning, but I tested positive yesterday so had to cancel last minute. Means we will miss our friend's wedding but think we are going to re-book for a couple weeks, although we will be in Finland in 4 weeks so will have to see. Pretty bummed today.
 
Hadn't seen this thread before, but this year I've travelled more than any other year in my life! March was a long weekend in Mallorca. We went Easyjet a week or two before it all went pretty bad. In fact our flight back did get cancelled, but just booked onto a different flight the same day,

Then, drove to Le Bourg-d'Oisans the week before the Tour de France went through. The Alps are soooooooo pretty!

Then... just got back from my first ever work trip abroad (working... mainly) to Porto. Flew with RyanAir and on the whole it was all quick and easy... well, our flight out was an hour late taking off, but no other issues.

Booked with RyanAir for a trip to Girona in September. Did I see they're stiking? I fly Thursday and Monday, which I think I heard is when they're striking. Will all flights go? Should I try and rebook with someone else now?
 
Did a cruise (marmite I know) in July and have Antigua in Sept....we've done a few cruises in the past but these were gradually replaced by land based long haul....only did the cruise as we live down the road from Southampton and the offer was exceptional but have decided its no longer for us...
 
Stockholm is nice, plenty happening and you could spend a long time just wandering about on a summers day.

Depends what you're after obviously, but if as simple as "never visited" then it's well worth going
 
Back from 2.5 weeks in USA - Staying with sister in law in upstate New York.

Lovely family time, some tourist time, some shopping etc- Really nice to get away properly again.

Downside - 5 hours delay on the way out of Edinburgh to JFK and 4 hours delay on the way back. Delta flights booked via Virgin. Flights themselves were excellent, nice plane, decent leg room for economy.

Submitted my claims to Virgin for the delays and will see what happens.... I suspect they will palm me off to Delta but will see - was booked via Virgin.

Great time - Love NYC - great city - been so many times. Love it.

First time doing the One Observatory - (Done Empire states a few times and rockafella as well) - One Observatory was superb - fantastic views, loads of room over 3 floors to wander around and take in the views. Way better than Empire States which is horribly cramped at the top.
 
bingham67 said:
Stockholm a good city to visit?
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Yep, one of my favourite cities in Europe and I've done every Scandi capital (and a few other towns) bar Helsinki.

The Swedes just know how to do life well.

Did Bucharest and Morzine earlier in the year, doing Edinburgh this month and got Riga booked for September. Hoping to plan a trip to Jordan early next year and then a could have bigger ones will be Tanzania/Zanzibar in spring and wild camping in Sweden in the summer.
 
Russinating said:
Yep, one of my favourite cities in Europe and I've done every Scandi capital (and a few other towns) bar Helsinki.

The Swedes just know how to do life well.

Did Bucharest and Morzine earlier in the year, doing Edinburgh this month and got Riga booked for September. Hoping to plan a trip to Jordan early next year and then a could have bigger ones will be Tanzania/Zanzibar in spring and wild camping in Sweden in the summer.
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Riga's nice. There's some stuff from communist Russia days - such as the brutal architecture. One example is the Museum of Occupation of Latvia.
 
I’m booked to go to Morocco in November. I’m going as the flights are super cheap and flying into Marrakech and out of Agadir. The 4 nights in Marrakech are sorted but I have three in Agadir. She wants to stay somewhere with no kids and would pick a B&B type place. I fancy more of a resort kind of place but also don’t really want kids running around. But in November this shouldn’t be a problem I wouldn’t think…

I can just about afford the Fairmont Taghazout Bay, but she reckons it’ll be full of kids and family. I think it’ll be fine as it’s out with school holidays and there are cheaper, more family places to stay…

Has anyone been to either Agadir/Taghazout and can suggest any potential places to stay. Munga guest house also looks good. As does Road Villa Blanche in Agadir.
 
I just had to cancel my holiday with the kids due to covid :mad:... however, I have to say, the insurance I took was great, emailed them my PCR test positive , had the money refunded to my account about 4 hours later.
 
thebandit said:
I just had to cancel my holiday with the kids due to covid :mad:... however, I have to say, the insurance I took was great, emailed them my PCR test positive , had the money refunded to my account about 4 hours later.
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oooh, which insurance company is that?
 
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