My dream vacation is to spend 10 days at the St. Regis in Bora Bora.
We spent three weeks in Maui for our "babymoon" and that was pretty amazing but much more attainable than Bora Bora.
What's yours?
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Today someone talked about South Africa and that sounded really cool and something DH would be into as well.
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Oh man, I have a lot of dreams!
Safari trip to Africa (not exactly sure which country yet)
Transatlantic trip via the Queen Mary 2 from NY to Southhampton (or vice versa)
Dalmation coast
Egypt
Bali -
I would love to go to Europe (kid-free) for like a month and hit a bunch of cities. I've never been and there are so many different places I'd like to see...
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A kid free trip to Europe. Which we plan on doing within the next year. I wish we could go for a month but it will be more like 2 weeks
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New Zealand! But we'd need at least 3 weeks to make it worthwhile and not sure when we would ever find the time away from work...
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I have a number of trips in mind.
A safari in Kenya/Tanzania. We have been talking about this for awhile, but we'll wait until our youngest is at least 8.
A few weeks (months?) sailing/island hopping around French Polynesia, but I've got to get over my seasickness first, and find a huge pile of cash.
Egypt to see the pyramids and go on a Nile cruise. We went a few years ago, but only to a resort.
I've never been to South America, but I would love to go to Buenos Aires and then tour the wine region.
We went to Indonesia last year, but I would definitely go back and explore other islands.
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I want to go and stay in an ice hotel. What's weird is that I absolutely hate the cold, but I am so curious as to what it's like to literally be surrounded by ice.
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Most of my dream trips are not very well suited to do with kids... cycling across Burma, caving in Vietnam, multi-day ultra run in the Himalayas, kayaking in Alaska...
I better stay in good shape and good health - and convince my husband to do the same - so we can have some adventures like this in retirement!
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@looch: I've eaten dinner in an ice hotel... not exactly the same as actually staying there but it was interesting!
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@periwinklebee: Alaska is amazing... that would be a great place for a babymoon
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@mrskansas: I would love to go there! We've been married for three years and have yet to do a honeymoon... We've gone on some pretty amazing long-weekend type trips, but between using leave time for family obligations (DH has had several relatives who were quite sick the past few years) and just having trouble aligning our schedules, we've not managed anything longer than like four days....
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So many trips come to mind...
-Month in Europe hoping around
-two/three weeks in NZ/Australia
-Week laying on the beach in the south pacificI'd also love to just roadtrip across the USA...would be cool with kids or without kids...
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@periwinklebee: well then you definitely need to try to plan a good trip! We spent three weeks on Maui while I was pregnant and we haven't had a good vacation since, so it was well worth the time and money.
I lived in Alaska for three years and traveled around the state a lot, so I have a lot of recommendations
My husband is actually going back in September and I am so jealous! -
Alaska completely lives up to the hype...I cant recommend it enough!!!
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@Mrs D: A road trip across the US is something I want to do when my daughter is a bit older! There are so many places I want to see.
And yes, Alaska is seriously amazing. Where did you go while you were there?
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I can't think of a dream one right now. This weekend, my husband and I talked about our 8th and 10th anniversary trips. For 8th this year, we're thinking of doing Key West. For our 10th, we're thinking of doing an all inclusive Mexico resort trip.
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@mrskansas: yeah, we really do need to do something.... I know I won't regret it later, just a matter of getting the logistics with leave and stuff to come together....
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A month in a little villa in wine country somewhere in Europe, like Italy or France
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I would love to go to Greece someday...
And Alaska is on the list for both dh and I -
@mrskansas: was the table made of ice? the chairs?
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@looch: Yes! Even the drink glasses were completely made of ice.
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@mrskansas: soooo cool!
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I have a bunch
West Africa tour
Kenya
South Africa
Europe tour
Hawaii -
My dream vacation is not so much about where, but time! I'd like to spend a whole month in my birth city with my family so we have so much time to visit ALL family plus anything else we wanted, take short local trips, etc. The very most I can go for is 10 days and with the 12 hr time difference and kids, it's just not enough!
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A cruise somewhere amazing. I'd love to go on a luxury transatlantic cruise. Amazing.
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- A safari at a luxury camp in South Africa - the plan for my 40th in a few years.
- A month long trip to the Greek Isles. I want to shop in the markets, eat local and go sailing.
- A horseback/camping trip to Machu Pichu, but I can't get DH on board that one...now I'm trying to talk my dad into it
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@lamariniere: I've been to a safari in Tanzania! I didn't plan it, my roommate from college was getting married (she is from Tanzania) and they planned it for all the guests who were interested. While it was definitely a life changing unforgettable bucket-list experience that I am so glad I went on, I was FILTHY the entire time, and it was sooooo cold and windy (and scary) the 2nd night. We were "glamping" the first and third night, and we were literally in the wild the 2nd night. The 2nd night we camped in these "luxury" camps that had luke warm "showers" inside the tent, which is basically cold dripping water that you do not even want to get in lol. The entire night was windy and cold, and there was some sort of animal (a BUNCH of hyenas, I believe, as it sounded like what I watched from National Geographic TV shows lol) howling/hunting/eating activities right outside throughout the night, so loud that you can not sleep in the midst of the strong wind. I wonder what they had outside to prevent the hyenas from coming into our tents and eat us lol. It was actually pretty scary.
@looch: Amen to ice hotel! That would be my bucket list trip as well.
Another "dream trip" would be to see the northern lights in Finland at the right time.
I would also love to see the Bolivia salt flats, but I highly doubt I'd be able to go in this lifetime. I heard it is another one of those extreme-hardships-to-get-through-but-life-changing-experience kind of trips, which I don't think I can go with DS any time soon... but when he actually grew up and we can take him (or leave him and go by ourselves), we'd be too old to go through such hardship.
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Moorea/Bora Bora
New Zealand
Maldives
Maybe seeing the northern lights in one of those cool hotels like they went to on the Bachelor?
We did a South Africa safari before baby, so hoping to cross off one of those of our list for a big anniversary in a few years. -
@irene: Interesting...one of my good friends is Kenyan and they took their LO to a Kenyan resort last year where they saw most of the "Big 5". She said it was paradise with giraffes ambling up to the villas, and she's very finicky about cleanliness and staying in nice places. Whenever we decide to go, we'll most likely try to organize to go with them (at least part of the trip) so we can have more of an "insider" experience. That said, her LO and DH both came down with malaria at the end of the trip, so not so good.
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@irene: I've been to the Bolivian salt flats, and they are awesome! It was nearly 15 years ago, and I don't know how much it has changed since then.
I definitely wouldn't characterize it as anything close to extreme hardship, but I've traveled and lived a lot in the developing world, so maybe I'm just accustomed to it
Getting to the flats from the Atacama side in Chile if I remember right wasn't bad at all. Getting to wherever I was going next in Bolivia I do remember being a bit insane because there are no paved roads and we would just keep hitting these giant rocks in the road. They bring a mechanic along on the bus to fix it when it inevitably breaks along the way. There probably wasn't hot water but I don't mind that part. It's at high elevation - so bad for people with heart problems - but I don't think older but otherwise healthy people would have any issues.
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@irene: I couldn't resist looking up these photos - it is seriously the awesomest place ever
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My dream vacation is 3 weeks in Europe - France, Italy, Greece, Ireland, England, etc. hitting major cities with nough time to be touristy and just explore countryside.
DH would not be about that, we would love to do Australia for a week and then + a week in Bora Bora or Fiji being reclusive in a water bungalow over water! ha
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-Sailing/island hopping around French Polynesia.
-Taking my husband and kids back to Australia (I've been 2x and think it's something they need to experience).
-I'd also seriously love a week in NYC to see all the shows and eat all the food. Sans kids. Maybe even sans Hubs. -
We went to Hawaii for our honeymoon- Oahu and Maui. We would love to go to Kauai and the Big Island soon though- but it's pretty expensive. Next up on our list will be a road trip to Yellowstone I think.
We also just got back from Alaska- it was amazing!! I would highly recommend Alaska to anyone who is thinking about it.
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@lamariniere: Don't get me wrong, I actually am very glad of that scary night sleeping in a tent with all that hunting/howling activity outside. Once in a lifetime experience
We walked out to the most beautiful sunrise. Elephants and zebras were just chilling as if nothing happened. Before we visited Tanzania we had to get yellow fever (or whatever shots), and were prescribed malaria pills and we had to take it prior and during the trip. I thought that was a requirement to travel to Kenya / Tanzania? Or did they get it even though they were on the meds?
@periwinklebee: Ahhhh! I am so jealous!!!
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I'd love to do a few weeks in Asia - Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore. I'd like to wait until our baby is older, though, especially for mainland China.
Another trip that has been on my mind for a while but we're less likely to actually do is the trans-Siberian railway, traveling across Russia. We toyed with doing this as our honeymoon, but decided that being cooped up in a train car wasn't particularly romantic!
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@irene: they didn't take meds since they are locals and normally follow the "rules" like wearing appropriate clothing and going inside at sundown and whatnot. They aren't sure how they got it but they got good medical care after and are fine now.
@Beehive: I really like the idea of the Transiberian railroad, but same, I don't like the idea of being cooped up in a train for days on end. I've always been fascinated with the idea that you can basically drive from Paris to Beijing. These days there are too many hotspots along the road, but it would be incredible to be able to do it.
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I've been to New Zealand - IT WAS AWESOME. I would do it again.
If money was no object I would LOVE to do one of those luxury safari's through Africa and over to Mozambique and stay in those amazing glamorous tents with chefs, etc... I think those are like $20k per person. BUT IT LOOKS AWESOME... I would also settle for just a regular safari
While I'm over there I would also love to check out India then relax in the Seychelles....
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We actually went on our dream vacation for our honeymoon - Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand was amazing. We started looking at how much it would cost to buy a house there since we really never wanted to leave.
I'm dying to go back, but it's such a long trip and so expensive I'm not sure when we will have the chance to go again. I know we will at some point, but probably not for a while.
I'd like to go to Germany at some point as well. I'm German and have family there, but have never been.
Getting to the flats from the Atacama side in Chile if I remember right wasn't bad at all. Getting to wherever I was going next in Bolivia I do remember being a bit insane because there are no paved roads and we would just keep hitting these giant rocks in the road. They bring a mechanic along on the bus to fix it when it inevitably breaks along the way. There probably wasn't hot water but I don't mind that part. It's at high elevation - so bad for people with heart problems - but I don't think older but otherwise healthy people would have any issues.
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