Where do upper middle class families go on vacation?
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Anonymous
| What are some go-to places for UMC? |
Anonymous
| They go to the same places, only they stay at nicer hotels and eat better food. |
Anonymous
| All over the place. Could be Europe, could be an RV trip to national parks, could be Disney. The difference is the budget is much bigger. |
Anonymous
| The Outer Banks. Especially if they're white. |
Anonymous
| We definitely haven’t talked about this in at least a week. |
Anonymous
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Safari trips to Africa
I’ve known people to do helicopter excursions and go out to explore jungles |
Anonymous
| Typically one week overseas (we've been to Argentina, Italy, Morocco recently), a week in Orlando with 3-4 days Disney (my kids are 6 and under), one week driving to visit relatives, and 8 3 day weekend trips. |
Anonymous
Where do you go on weekend trips? |
Anonymous
Within 4 hours driving distance usually. NYC, Lancaster, Philadelphia, visiting grandparents, Charlottesville, Richmond. We hate the beach, the crummy old beach condos and the cold water, so we rarely go there. We go to the beach when we're in Florida. |
Anonymous
Those are some long flights for just a week. Why wouldn't you cut a few of the weekend trips and spend 10-14 days in your overseas destination? You've probably barely recovered from jetlag in Morocco before you'd be turning around. |
Anonymous
OMG! Yes, this is like the holy land for them! |
Anonymous
Sounds like you're from the Mid-Atlantic. We don't care what you think. 
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Anonymous
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Beach trip - outer banks, Maine, Rehoboth, cape cod, Kiawah, Hilton head
Winter break - ski or somewhere tropical Spring break - Florida, Mexico, Caribbean Summer - maybe Europe, national parks We just stay at nicer places when our income increased. |
Anonymous
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The beach
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Anonymous
+1, who flies with kids under 6 to Argentina only to spend 4-5 days? Seems ridiculous. We generally schedule our overseas travel for June or August so that we can spend 10-14 days without disrupting school schedules. We also prefer destinations with shorter flights from the East Coast, at least until our kids are older -- Western Europe mostly, where we can get direct flights fairly easily and the time difference won't be egregious. When we only have a week, we will either do something in North America. Some fun trips have included NoLa (surprisingly little kid friendly), LA or SF, Pacific Northwest, Mexico City, Jamaica, Montreal/Quebec City, the Yucatan, a bunch of different Caribbean islands. For weekends we do NYC, Chicago, Charleston, or Maine. We like destinations with a beach so we can do a beach day and a city day during a 3-4 day weekend (love Charleston for this). I hate Florida. Never taken the kids to Disney and they've never asked. |