Are people canceling summer vacations or not really that concerned yet?
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Anonymous
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Assuming your are fed/fed adjacent/somehow affected by all this?
Or are people keeping their existing books, which I assume right now would be through summer, and then just not planning anything else in 2025, wait and see for 2026? |
Anonymous
| We’ve cancelled spring break. Just can’t justify high costs of travel anywhere when my job is about to be trashed for no reason other than a fake one. And I’m not interested in buying anything either. The mood just isn’t there. |
Anonymous
| job not under threat, but I paid an extra 1K in order to make our flights refundable for our trip this summer. Everything just feels very uncertain. |
Anonymous
Books? |
Anonymous
Bookings |
Anonymous
| We saw the writing on the wall before election day and decided to defer any vacations for this year. Just road trips to visit family. |
Anonymous
| Keeping our bookings. My spouse works, and I am there long enough that worst-case scenario I can get early retirement and look for another job if necessary. |
Anonymous
| Still traveling. With the caveat that we really did not travel AT ALL from 2020-23 - not even local beach vacations, hiking, driving trips etc. So there was zero spent from the budget those years. We feel like we're making up for lost time a bit. |
Anonymous
| We are traveling. But it's all booked and not refundable. |
Anonymous
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We're not feds and don't always travel in the summer. I think we're due for a vacation, but we usually book last minute, due to scheduling issues.
I think the people who are afraid of losing their jobs but who need camps for their children if they don't are in trouble, unless they can get camps to refund last minute. A lot of camps are booked up in Jan/Feb. |
Anonymous
| Yes. We were going to go abroad, but I'm not going to pursue it now. Thankfully, we had not purchased tickets yet. |
Anonymous
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I'm more worried about th stock market crashing / inflation / dollar losing value. The cost of our vacations isn't what's going to be make or break.
We are one fed & one non-fed family. |
Anonymous
| Canceling. Nothing is secure in the Trump and Musk economy. |
Anonymous
| Yes. |
Anonymous
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We've got a trip to England planned for next fall. Already purchased first-class plane tickets (don't come for me on that -- I have a medical condition that causes huge problems if I don't sleep and I can't sleep sitting up). If it weren't for the significant investment in those tickets, we would not be planning a trip for this year. But given that we bought them, we are still planning on going. Will be paying the refundable rate at hotels and what not though. DH is SES, so we are bracing ourselves.
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