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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Spring break is a better time to travel if you are picking one time of year to travel.  Spring breaks vary pretty widely across the country, so while it might be crowded that week it's not as bad as the week after Christmas.  The week following Christmas is the most expensive and the busiest and can be the hardest to book things.[/quote]

This.  The week after Christmas is a disaster and so expensive.  If you're in FCPS and get the week before Christmas off, that could be much better and cheaper.

Spring break is really great for Southern Arizona and similar.  One year we did Southern Arizona (based in Tucson with day trips) and did horseback riding, a mine tour, the Bisbee 1000 step challenge, Kartchner Caverns, Sonoran Desert Museum, Old Tucson (old movie studios but they do stuntman shows and have various kitchy tourist attractions in a beautiful setting), hiking, Pima Air & Space Museum.  Didn't get to the Titan Missal Museum which was also on the list.  This will be waaay cheaper than Europe.  There are probably other places in the southwest that would work for this.  New Orleans is another place where you can really build a great spring break trip, with the WW2 museum, mardi gras museum, French Quarter, swamp tour, historic plantation tour, aquarium, etc.

Another idea is to go to someplace like Spain and do the smaller cities -- Madrid is expensive so get out of Madrid as fast as possible, but Spain is filled with small cities that have tremendous history from the Roman years or medieval, and the hotels are much, much cheaper.  Train tickets also pretty cheap in Spain and my kids adore the ease and novelty of European train travel.  And Spain also has really developed hiking and biking trails, so you can figure out some active places to go as well.   But the plane tickets will be expensive (especially if you don't want to fly a red-eye in economy).  And Spain over spring break you could probably get some soccer tickets.

I might also look at Panama or Belize, where the weather will be warm for spring break and there is great snorkeling and other active water activities, along with some interesting historical stuff.  The flghts are pretty cheap and there is a whole range of price points for lodging.  I was just looking at some of the "luxury" resorts in Belize and was surprised how much cheaper they are than the luxury resorts in Mexico or Costa Rica or Puerto Rico.  [/quote]

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