Where to go week after Christmas?

[Anonymous]

We’ve done Turks, DR, and Aruba the last 3 years during that week and I have to tell you- I’m over it. The resorts are too crowded, and we’re at high end places. It’s also such a premium price. I’d only do a whole house rental with chef from now on but this year we’re staying home.

[Anonymous]

San Diego, Palm Springs and Joshua Tree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’ve done Turks, DR, and Aruba the last 3 years during that week and I have to tell you- I’m over it. The resorts are too crowded, and we’re at high end places. It’s also such a premium price. I’d only do a whole house rental with chef from now on but this year we’re staying home.

I'd like to buy a clue for $5,000

[Anonymous]

Go to Rio. Rio at NYE is a ball.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to Rio. Rio at NYE is a ball.

I was going to suggest Rio as well but there’s no nonstop. You could go to Sao Paolo nonstop though.

[Anonymous]

Technically the US, but Puerto Rico!

[Anonymous]

My strategy is in July to just do a Google flight search from DC (all three airports search) to general areas…Caribbean, South America, Latin America, Europe (Spain and Italy can be mild), Africa…and search non-stop only and see what comes up and prices.

We always seem to find a place where the flights are relatively cheap compared to other places.

Went to Costa Rica and Curaçao the last two years…one year directly over XMas, the other 12/26-1/1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’ve done Turks, DR, and Aruba the last 3 years during that week and I have to tell you- I’m over it. The resorts are too crowded, and we’re at high end places. It’s also such a premium price. I’d only do a whole house rental with chef from now on but this year we’re staying home.

I reached the same conclusion a few years back. I now enjoy staying home that week so much more. We travel about half as much as we used to (2 trips a year instead of 3-4) everything is just so crowded even at the high end places and prices have way outpaced inflation. And travelers are getting ruder and more entitled by the year.