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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Expedia????? LOL Seriously???? Is that your "to go" place for deals?????

That's why you're all stuck at that filthy beach house with your ILs! ROFLMAO

BTW, we don't celebrate Thanksgiving so that was an example. Just a tip if you want to visit Brazil.... July and August is expensive, also December, January, February and sometimes March is too depending on when Carnival is.

And to the lady saying that's when she heard is the time to go I'd say: pelase reconsider your sources! Would you like to go that far to see a whole country like New Orleans during Mardi Gras? No, I didn't think so...[/quote]

Sorry I didn't feel like spending several hours on 10 travel sites, in order to prove your silly example wrong.  (And are all Brazilians as rude as you?  Never been, although I've traveled overseas a LOT, but you're not a good advertisement for the place.)

You forgot several things in your silly comparison:
(1) You get to stay with your Brazilian family.  The rest of us would have to include hotels in the price.
(2) Thanksgiving is a time Americans spend with their families.  You travel abroad to see your family over Thanksgiving.  But the rest of us would have to sacrifice Thanksgiving dinner with our extended families.
(3) Brazil is a helluva long trip - I've done Bolivia, which is similar.  You need at least a day for travel at each end, what with transferring at Miami airport and all.  
(4) So you'd need to take your kids out of school to do a Thanksgiving trip, during the period you say is cheaper, in order to spend more than a few days there.  In theory I'd take my kids out of school to see my family overseas (I do have family in Britain), but I've never done this.  However, it's hard to justify taking your kids out of school, even for a fabulous learning experience abroad -- most parents wouldn't do this, and most schools wouldn't excuse it.  
(5) So families that want to go to Brazil (or other places where the trip is long and the tickets are $1K plus) need to go in July or August, or over breaks in December or spring.  Which, as you admit, is expensive.

OK, is it clear now?

In conclusion: a $900/week beach house, four blocks and across a busy street from the beach, still makes a lot more sense for people on a budget than $2000 in airfare to Brazil (and don't forget the hotels that you don't need, but most of us would need).[/quote]

That's a "helluva" assumptions. Who said I have family there?[/quote]

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