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[quote=Anonymous]We do 3 holiday each year - 2 teens. We are based in VA and are in private school which means a very long summer and our beginning of June.

We focus on summer travel and used to do Xmas but now more spring as we have 12 days for break.  Dec travel is so $$.

I budget roughly $30k annually. We do a summer $13-15k and a spring 8-10k and then do maybe a short jaunt over holidays to see family or a domestic flight for maybe just 3-4 nights to break things up.

I try to get airline tix 8-9 mo in advance actually / they always say it's not ideal but let me tell ya you need the long planning range to find what you want in accommodations and I do use cc points at least every other yr or annually.

We do a mix of international and a lot of W coast. Also Mexico and Central America.  We used to do more Canada and islands but we've seen a lot there.

We typically target Airbnb since that takes out need for 2 hotel rooms.

Our best holidays are places that offer a blend of activities so not just camping/outdoors but not just to a city aka Paris or London.  We do resorts but not long stays.  Example is summer Aug trip incl resort in Bend, Airbnb up the Portland coast and 2 days in a  cabin in a forest :) so we save and spend so it balances the budget.  As a general rule we don't drive but train internationally and fly domestically.  We stay at $800-1000/night resort rooms but also $250 airbnbs so it's just a blend.

I mean it's a lot of research and you want to pick places where you have options.  Or maybe I should say, we like options :) hahaha.

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